This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature > British Literature – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one A) Anapest. B) Dactyl. C) Iamb. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anapest. 2. Bombast, declamation, oration, and tirade are ..... ? ..... of harangue. A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonyms. 3. What are the characteristics of an archetypal hero? A) Cowardice, selfishness, staying at home, no special power/ability, no moral code, no transformation/growth. B) Bravery, selflessness, journey/quest, special power/ability, moral code, transformation/growth. C) Intelligence, greed, staying in one place, no special power/ability, lack of moral code, no transformation/growth. D) Fearlessness, self-centeredness, no journey/quest, no special power/ability, lack of moral code, no transformation/growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bravery, selflessness, journey/quest, special power/ability, moral code, transformation/growth. 4. Which Colombian author wrote the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" ? A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. B) Mario Vargas Llosa. C) Julio Cortazar. D) Pablo Neruda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 5. What describes one thing as if it were something else. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. Why did the Roman legions come back to Rome in 410? A) They got homesick. B) They ha to defend their homeland. C) They were afraid of the Jutes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They ha to defend their homeland. 7. Are these lines in iambic pentameter? If we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 8. Who was brash, outgoing, and always in debt? A) Joseph Addison. B) Sir Richard Steele. C) Daniel Defoe. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Richard Steele. 9. 6 line stanza A) Octave. B) Quatrain. C) Sestet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sestet. 10. Noun:rapidity of motion or action A) Discreet. B) Celerity. C) Fractiousness. D) Eminent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Celerity. 11. In which year, Chaucer was born? A) 1330. B) 1340. C) 1350. D) 1360. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1340. 12. This philosopher separated government into three branches and argued for separation of powers. A) Voltaire. B) Montesquieu. C) Locke. D) Hobbes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Montesquieu. 13. Causing death, destruction, or ruin; very harmful A) Baneful. B) Flighty. C) Burly. D) Maudlin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baneful. 14. The prefix ..... ? ..... means away from, from. A) Apo-. B) Eu-. C) For-. D) Retro-. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apo-. 15. Below were the social background of The Period of Enlightenment and Classicism, except: A) A progressive intellectual movement. B) The clash between the King and Parliament. C) Enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic idea. D) To celebrate reason, equality and science. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The clash between the King and Parliament. 16. The root word ..... ? ..... means to use. A) PORT. B) SENS, SENT. C) TANG, TACT, TING. D) US, UT. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) US, UT. 17. The root word ..... ? ..... means time. A) CHRON. B) PHOTO, PHOS. C) VOL, VOL. D) REG, RECT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CHRON. 18. The Romans ..... A) Built the Globe Theatre. B) Built the first roads in the country. C) Built the Stonehenge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Built the first roads in the country. 19. Antonym:jaundiced A) Challenging. B) Essential. C) Sloppy. D) Trusting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trusting. 20. Which of these is not a difficulty when adapting a book to a film? A) Showing the passing of time. B) Showing a character's point of view. C) Designing the conversations. D) Translating action to convey the plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Designing the conversations. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesBritish Literature Quiz 1British Literature Quiz 2British Literature Quiz 3British Literature Quiz 4British Literature Quiz 5British Literature Quiz 6British Literature Quiz 7British Literature Quiz 8British Literature Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books