This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature > British Literature – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 22 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is an example of a motif in the novel? A) Telegrams. B) Churches. C) Letters. D) Treasure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Letters. 2. The main characters of The Nightingale and the Rose are: A) Student and nightingale. B) Student and his girlfriend called Rose. C) Student and his mother. D) 2 nightingales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Student and nightingale. 3. Recklessness; a foolish disregard of danger A) Ardor. B) Proclivity. C) Rote. D) Temerity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temerity. 4. In this period of British Literature all genres are represented. A) Romantic Period. B) Victorian Period. C) Modern Period. D) Contemporary Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contemporary Period. 5. Who was the philosopher who FIRST suggested dividing the government into separate powers? A) Thomas Hobbs. B) John Locke. C) Baron de Montesquieu. D) Voltaire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Locke. 6. To clear of quilt, to declare innocent A) Exculpate. B) Salubrious. C) Arcane. D) Sine Qua Non. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exculpate. 7. Strong feelings and attachment to the poet's love are conveyed in the poem. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one A) Monosyllabic. B) Spondee. C) Iamb. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trochee. 9. The language was highly inflected. A) Anglo Saxon Period. B) Medieval Period. C) Renaissance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anglo Saxon Period. 10. Which version of English did Shakespeare write in? A) Old English. B) Middle English. C) Early Modern English. D) Modern English. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Early Modern English. 11. A lyric poem in which a single character engages in conversation with a silent listener, revealing a dramatic situation A) Dramatic monologue. B) Elegiac poem. C) An example. D) Epigram. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic monologue. 12. Sound similarities that occur between words but which are not true rhymes. A) Approximate Rhyme. B) End Rhyme. C) Feminine Rhyme. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Approximate Rhyme. 13. Lydia and Wickham ran off together and spent the night together, but only married after Darcy hunted them down in London and ..... Wickham to marry her. A) Asked. B) Forced. C) Persuaded. D) Threatened. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuaded. 14. The period starts with French as the official language. A) Anglo Saxon Period. B) Medieval Period. C) Renaissance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medieval Period. 15. What do you call a two-line stanza that often concludes a Shakespearean sonnet with a rhyming pair? A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Octave. D) Tercet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 16. One of the most remarkable characteristics of ..... is its ability to change over time. A) Speaking. B) Writing. C) Language. D) History. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language. 17. There are ..... types of people in the Canterbury Tales. A) Many. B) Few. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Many. 18. The suffix ..... ? ..... means tending to, having the quality of. A) -ar, -ary1. B) -ar, ary2. C) -ive1. D) -ive2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ive1. 19. The root word ..... ? ..... means to rule, to keep straight. A) PLAC. B) SENS, SENT. C) VOL, VOL. D) REG, RECT. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) REG, RECT. 20. It was this philosopher, through his study of government, who first devised the idea of a separation of powers A) John Locke. B) Thomas Hobbes. C) Voltaire. D) Baron de Montesquieu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baron de Montesquieu. ← 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