This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature > British Literature – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 30 (17 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The restoration of the Stuart monarchy to the throne with the return of Charles II from France in 1660; the literary period of the later part of the century of which the leading figure was John Dryden. A) Restoration. B) English Renaissance. C) Romantic Age. D) Medieval Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Restoration. 2. The repetition of the accented vowel sound, and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry. A) End Rhyme. B) Feminine Rhyme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Masculine Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End Rhyme. 3. A form of literature written in prose or poetry or a combination of the two which relies on action to portray life and character A) Drama. B) Elegy. C) Essay. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drama. 4. A play, novel, or other narrative depicting serious and important events, in which the main character comes to an unhappy end. A) Archetype. B) Comedy. C) Tragedy. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 5. Satire is often meant to be funny, but not always. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Who introduced the sonnet to English literature? A) James Wyatt. B) Theodore Wyatt. C) Thomas Wyatt. D) Jake Wyatt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Wyatt. 7. Who are some of the prominent Romantic poets in British literature? A) Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe. B) William Shakespeare, John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, T.S. Eliot. C) William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. D) Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. 8. One unaccented syllable followed by an accented one A) Monosyllabic. B) Dactyl. C) Iamb. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iamb. 9. Poetry having no metrical pattern A) Free verse. B) Blank verse. C) Theory. D) Madrigal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 10. 3 feet A) Hexameter. B) Pentameter. C) Tetrameter. D) Trimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trimeter. 11. ..... poetry mourns the dead A) Homily. B) Epic. C) Elegiac. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elegiac. 12. Easily excused or forgiven A) Venial. B) Goad. C) Superfluous. D) Lithe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venial. 13. Arrogant and stubborn about one's beliefs A) Insipid. B) Dogmatic. C) Jaundiced. D) Extraneous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dogmatic. 14. Shakespeare played ..... in "Hamlet" . A) Horatio. B) The Ghost. C) Gertrude. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Ghost. 15. A poem of mourning. A) Ballad. B) Didactic poem. C) Elegy. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elegy. 16. Which book contains a lot of stories about sex, love, politics, war, the Church, etc.? A) Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. B) The Sonnets by William Shakespeare. C) Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. 17. Who had a diplomatic career? A) Joseph Addison. B) Sir Richard Steele. C) Daniel Defoe. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joseph Addison. ← PreviousRelated 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