This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > Early British > Early British Literature – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Early British Literature Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What time period did the romantic era take place? A) Late 18th to early 19th. B) Early 18th to late 19th. C) Late 17th to early 18th. D) Late 19th to early 20th. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Late 18th to early 19th. 2. Repeated initial consonant sounds and repeated vowel sounds A) Consonance and dissonance. B) Alliteration and illiterate. C) Alliteration and assonance. D) Kennings and caesuras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration and assonance. 3. What was emphasized by the romantics? A) Rationalism. B) Collectivism. C) Individualism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Individualism. 4. In "Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " who rescues the Marinerafter his ship sinks? A) The Pilot. B) Life-in-Death. C) The polar spirits. D) The wedding guest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Pilot. 5. Why is there no endrhyme in Old English texts? A) They didn't know about it yet. B) It was difficult to remember. C) The stress is on the first syllable. D) The word order was free. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The stress is on the first syllable. 6. This quotation is from .....? ..... "Revenging a wrong is more goodly than grieving; Let us follow." A) Beowulf. B) Ecclesiastical History of the English People. C) "The Seafarer". D) "Bookworm". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beowulf. 7. A break or pause in a line of poetry A) Caesura. B) Accent. C) Kenning. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caesura. 8. What is the best restatement of the theme of Beowulf? A) The strongest always win. B) Evil can never be defeated. C) Good always triumphs in the end. D) Sometimes, everyone needs help. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Good always triumphs in the end. 9. Where was Southey Born? A) Ireland. B) Scotland. C) Wales. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) England. 10. The poem:I wandered lonely as a cloud, was written in the A) Renaissance. B) Victorian era. C) Middle Ages. D) Romantic era. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romantic era. 11. Historicalfiction is fiction that A) Is written in the form of a journal. B) Presents actual events from a historical figure's life. C) Was written long ago. D) Has an actual historical setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Has an actual historical setting. 12. Which of the following lines from Beowulf contains an example of Caesura? A) Hidden evil before hidden evil . B) Burns like a torch. No one knows its bottom . C) And golden cups and the glorious banner . D) And struck at the dragon's scaly hide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Burns like a torch. No one knows its bottom . 13. Many American writers lived in Europe during the Modernist era. Someone who settles abroad to live in a country other than their native country is called an ..... A) Anti-American. B) Uni-citizen. C) Expatriate. D) Extrapolator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expatriate. 14. "Toa Mouse" compares the wrecking of a mouse's burrow to the A) English domination of Scotland. B) Mistreatment of animals by humans. C) Damage done to the earth by humans. D) Ruin of even well-planned human efforts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ruin of even well-planned human efforts. 15. Which form of literature was common during the Anglo-Saxon period? A) Sonnet. B) Epic poems. C) Ballads. D) Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic poems. 16. Metaphorical, compound words or phrases that refer to persons, places, or things in Anglo-Saxon poetry A) Parallelism. B) Accent. C) Kenning. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kenning. 17. Daniel Defoe wrote A) Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Roxana. B) The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings. C) Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Lady of the Lake. D) The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Roxana. 18. Gulliver's Travels criticize ..... A) Differences. B) Height. C) Different societies. D) European society. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) European society. 19. Provoke A) Stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone. B) Strong dislike; bitter hostility. C) Causing hatred or disgust; repulsive. D) The quality of being honest or genuine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone. 20. In "Toa Mouse" the phrase "and forward though I canna see" is best stated in today'sStandard English as A) I cannot see the future. B) I'm blind to my own faults. C) Don't rush forward blindly. D) I cannot see what is in front of me. 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