This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > Early British > Early British Literature – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Early British Literature Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. From what book do we get our facts about early English history? A) "The Seafarer". B) Beowulf. C) Ecclesiastical History of the English People. D) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecclesiastical History of the English People. 2. Thomas Hardy is known for his ..... A) Novels. B) Poems. C) Fairy tales. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Novels. 3. A unique writing style, new to the Modernists, involves the moment-by-moment flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, and observations. It is called ..... A) Train of thought. B) Subconscious writing. C) Flow writing. D) Stream-of-consciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stream-of-consciousness. 4. How old was Robert Burn when he died? A) 38. B) 37. C) 40. D) 35. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 37. 5. Which literary period points outs refinement, clarity, elegance, and balance of judgment? A) Jacobean Age. B) Augustan Age. C) Elizabethan Age. D) Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Augustan Age. 6. In the excerpt, when the hero, Beowulf says in the red lines below:"Give me leave, O king! Let me go to Hrothgar and free his land of this monster so wicked and fearsome." A) Commitatus. B) Wisdom. C) Courage. D) Flyting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flyting. 7. Who did Charlotte Lucas marry? A) Mr. Darcy. B) Mr. Collins. C) Mr. Wickham. D) Mr. Bingley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mr. Collins. 8. Old English period ended when ..... A) William the Conqueror invaded Britain. B) The printing press was invented. C) The King Charles I was defeated on the Civil War. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William the Conqueror invaded Britain. 9. ..... refers to the practice of making fun of a human weakness or character flaw. A) Humanism. B) Symbolism. C) Satire. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. 10. Where did Southey's aunt send him? A) Boarding school. B) Debtors prison. C) The Park. D) The Military. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boarding school. 11. Whose bodies does the narrator indicate were buried incoffins during this period in A Journalof the Plague Year. A) No one's. B) Only those of the clergy. C) Only those of the wealthy. D) Only those who died of causes other than the plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No one's. 12. The plague, or Black Death, ravaged the British Isles during which century? A) 13th. B) 14th. C) 15th. D) 16th. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14th. 13. The Old English period is also known as ..... A) The Renaissance Age. B) The Anglo-Saxon Period. C) The Caroline Age. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Anglo-Saxon Period. 14. Who is in this picture? A) T.S. Eliot. B) James Joyce. C) Eugene O'Neill. D) D.H. Lawrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Joyce. 15. What was the conclusion of the council King Edwin called together? A) Yes. B) Maybe. C) Individual choice. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 16. The emphasis of certain syllables or words A) Caesura. B) Accent. C) Kenning. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Accent. 17. In which period were philosophers important? A) Enlightenment. B) Victorian Era. C) Renaissance. D) Old English Era. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enlightenment. 18. Which of the following is NOT a Scandinavian Country? A) Norway. B) Ireland. C) Finland. D) Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ireland. 19. Who among the English writers was NOT from Romantic Period? A) Samuel Coleridge. B) Alfred Lord Tennyson. C) Lord Byron. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alfred Lord Tennyson. 20. Where was Shelley Born? A) Wales. B) England. C) Ireland. D) Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesEarly British Literature Quiz 1Early British Literature Quiz 2Early 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