Early British Literature Quiz 10 (20 MCQs)

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1. This poet, claimed by both American and British literature enthusiasts, wrote a series of poems that inspired the 1980s musical Cats.

Correct Answer: A) T.S. Eliot.

2. Which does Shelley imply as the strongest

Correct Answer: C) Nature.

3. One of the well-known authors in the Middle English Period is

Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer.

4. Thetone of A Modest Proposal could bestbe described as

Correct Answer: B) Mock earnest.

5. Why was Southey expelled from school?

Correct Answer: A) Wrote against Corporal punishment in school paper.

6. What does Renaissance mean?

Correct Answer: C) Rebirth.

7. In A Journal of thePlague Year, he official requirement that bodies be buried under six feetof earth suggest a desire to

Correct Answer: C) Prevent the spread of the disease.

8. Coleridge believed in .....

Correct Answer: C) Form & content.

9. Who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral and pilgrimages were made in his honor?

Correct Answer: C) Thomas Beckett.

10. Descriptive words and imagery in "The Lamb" suggests thatthe lamb is a symbol of

Correct Answer: D) Innocence.

11. One famous literary work during Middle English period is .....

Correct Answer: C) Canterburry Tales.

12. What gift was Caedmon given in a dream?

Correct Answer: B) Poetry.

13. Anglo-Saxon poet who memorized and recited someone else's poetry?

Correct Answer: B) Gleeman.

14. Who is one of the authors whose fame rose in the Late Modernism?

Correct Answer: B) J.K. Rowling.

15. Which Era can be described as the Novel era?

Correct Answer: A) Victorian.

16. Stalked

Correct Answer: C) Followed hunted.

17. Below is the characteristic of literary work in the Modern period.

Correct Answer: B) Independence.

18. What is the lesson or moral to be learned from "Honey-mead" ?

Correct Answer: A) Avoid intoxicating drink.

19. What perspective did the poets write from?

Correct Answer: C) Children.

20. What were the pre-romantics?

Correct Answer: D) Predecessors to the romantics.