This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > Early British > Early British Literature – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Early British Literature Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which element is a feature of an epic poem? A) It is short. B) It rhymes. C) It's about a hero. D) Everyone dies at the end. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's about a hero. 2. Which poem includes the irony:in spite of the many hardships of life at sea, the speaker still longs for it? A) "Honey-mead". B) "Bookworm". C) "The Seafarer". D) "Caedmon's Hymn". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The Seafarer". 3. In "The Tyger" , the speaker questions A) If the Tyger should be chained up. B) Why the Tyger was made. C) Whether the Lamb and Tyger had the same creator. D) What the Tyger will do when free. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Whether the Lamb and Tyger had the same creator. 4. How did Geoffrey Chaucer choose to structure The Canterbury Tales? A) As a poem. B) As a ballad. C) As a frame story. D) There is no structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) As a frame story. 5. Which list puts 3 literary movements in the correct order? A) Post-Modernism, Modernism, The Medieval Period. B) Victorianism, Modernism, The Enlightenment. C) Modernism, Victorianism, Romanticism. D) Renaissance, The Enlightenment, Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Renaissance, The Enlightenment, Romanticism. 6. Age of Reason is also the name of ..... A) The Renaissance period. B) The Victorian period. C) The Neo-classical period. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Neo-classical period. 7. The creature compares himself to Adam in ..... because of his loneliness. A) The Myth of Prometheus. B) The Bible. C) Sorrows of Werter. D) Paradise Lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradise Lost. 8. Which period has the theme "deconstruction" ? A) Victorianism. B) Post Modernism. C) Modernism. D) Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Post Modernism. 9. Which is an example of an kenning? A) Ring Giver. B) Edgetho's son. C) He would weep, wise with many winters. D) Blade bathed in blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ring Giver. 10. The earliest invaders to the British Isles were ..... A) Romans. B) Celts. C) Anglo-Saxons. D) Normans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Celts. 11. Who or what was at the top of the pyramid in feudalism? A) Merchants/Farmers/Craftsmen. B) Monarch (king/queen). C) Nobles. D) Knights/Vassals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monarch (king/queen). 12. Why do we not know who wrote Beowulf? A) The story was not written down, it was sang or told orally. B) They could not find the author. C) The author wanted to stay anonymous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The story was not written down, it was sang or told orally. 13. William Shakespeare had ..... anniversary in 2016. A) 300th. B) 400th. C) 500th. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 400th. 14. Which words describes the Englightenment best? A) Bookprint. B) Knowledge. C) Nature. D) Epic hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Knowledge. 15. Which period of English literature starts from 1950's? A) Old English. B) Middle English. C) Modern English. D) Postmodern English. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modern English. 16. The greatest flaw in the "modest proposal" is that itignores A) Logic. B) Political reality. C) Human values. D) The consequences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human values. 17. Who is the leader during the Renaissance period? A) Queen Elizabeth. B) King George. C) Queen Victoria. D) Henry VII. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Queen Elizabeth. 18. What is the greatest Anglo-Saxon poem and oldest Germanic Epic? A) Beowulf. B) "The Seafarer". C) "Bookworm". D) "Honey-mead". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beowulf. 19. In "The Tyger" , Blake creates a metaphor that comparesthe stars to A) Warriors. B) Blacksmiths. C) Fears and terrors. D) Hammers and anvils. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Warriors. 20. Which famous poet was friends with the Shelleys? A) Lord Byron. B) Edgar Allan Poe. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Byron. Next →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesEarly British Literature Quiz 2Early British Literature Quiz 3Early British Literature Quiz 4Early British Literature Quiz 5Early British Literature Quiz 6Early British Literature Quiz 7Early British Literature Quiz 8Early British Literature Quiz 9Early British Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books