This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > Early British > Early British Literature – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Early British Literature Quiz 11 (13 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The following quote describes Beowulf. Read it then respond to the question below. "noble protector of all seamen" The quote is an example of which literary element? A) Caesura. B) Alliteration. C) Kenning. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epithet. 2. In one of the most famous sections of "Meditation 17, "Donne says that the individual is similar to A) An island. B) A country. C) A continent. D) A piece of a continent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A piece of a continent. 3. Demagogue A) A leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power. B) Causing hatred, repulsive. C) Stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone. D) Rotten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power. 4. This Invention changed the way information was distributed A) Gutenberg's Printing Press. B) The Wheel. C) The Crusades. D) St. Thomas a Becket. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gutenberg's Printing Press. 5. During the Middle Ages, William the conqueror implemented the social structure known as feudalism. In this structure who had the most power and who had the least power? A) King; middle class. B) King; peasants. C) Pope(church);king. D) Pope(church);peasants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pope(church);peasants. 6. Which of the following best describes Donne's attitudetoward death in "Meditation 17" ? A) Worried. B) Optimistic. C) Perplexed. D) Unconcerned. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unconcerned. 7. Of the following, who supports British policy in Ireland? A) Neither Swift nor the speaker. B) Both Swift and the speaker. C) Only Swift. D) Only the speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Only the speaker. 8. Which of the following Anglo-Saxon concepts most resembles today's idea of paying life insurance" A) Commitatus. B) Lineage Invocation. C) Weirgild. D) Flyting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weirgild. 9. The ..... Group consisted of intellectuals, writers, artists, and philosophers, including Virginia Woolf. A) Bloomsbury. B) Elysian. C) Expat. D) Virginian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bloomsbury. 10. What happens to the Lady of Shalott? A) She gets married. B) She dies. C) She stays in the castle. D) She moves towns. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She dies. 11. Most of The Canterbury Tales is a focus on ..... A) Characters. B) Plot. C) Setting. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characters. 12. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the "Monk's awkwardness at being outside of a religious building as being like a fish out of water." This description is an example of a ..... A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 13. Shakespearean sonnet has ..... A) Three quatrains and one couplet. B) One octave and one sestet. C) Seven couplet. D) Two tercet and two quatrains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Three quatrains and one couplet. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesRegions QuizzesEarly British Literature Quiz 1Early 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books