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Test for English Literature
I. Select from the lettered choices the one
which best completes the statement. (20%)
1. The most important feature of Beowulf is the use of _______.
A. metaphor
B. parallelism C. alliteration D.
antithesis
2. Chaucer has employed ________ in his poems.
A. heroic couplet
B. blank verse C. sonnet D. octet and
sestet
3. ________ takes its subject matter from the eastern history.
A. Hamlet
B. Macbeth C. Tamburlaine
D. Volpone
4. One of the following plays is not a Shakespearean comedy. It is _______.
A. A Midsummer
Night’s Dream B.
The Merchant of Venice
C. As You
Like It
D. Julius Caesar
5. All of the following writers are of Irish birth except________.
A. Goldsmith
B. Stern C. Swift
D. Joyce
6. One of the following is not a Puritan. He is ________.
A. Milton
B. Bunyan C. Dryden D.
Franklin
7. One of the following does not belong to the Lake Poets. He is ________.
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge C. Southey D. Burns
8. The best representative of Romanticism in the second half of the 19th
century is ________.
A. Byron
B. Shelley C.
Keats
D. Scott
9. “Fate” is the dominant theme of the author who wrote ________.
A. Sons and Lovers
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. The Dynasts
D. The Picture of Dorian Gray
10. The impetus of the Romanticism includes the Industrial Revolution and
______.
A. the French Revolution
B. the Spanish Civil War
C. the First World War
D. the American Independent War
11. _______ is famous for his humor in his essays.
A. Lamb
B. Stern C. Dryden
D. Addison
12. Jane Austin is best at her portrayal of ________.
A. the upper class
B. the middle class C. the farmers
D. the workers
13. One of the following novels is regarded as a record of Dickens’ personal
experiences. It is _______.
A. Oliver Twist
B. Martin Chuzzlewit C. David Copperfield
D. Great Expectations
14. One of the following novels shows the author’s pessimistic attitude to
the effects of modern science on man. It is _________.
A. Ulysses
B. A Handful of Dust
C. A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D. The Invisible Man
15. __________ is not a trend of Modernism.
A. Symbolism B. Aestheticism
C. Impressionism D. Imagism
16. The publication of ____________ declared the breakout of English
Romanticism.
A. Songs of Innocence B.
Lyrical Ballads C. Don
Juan D. Ode to the West Wind
17. Dylan Thomas belongs to ________.
A. the Auden Group
B. the Neo-Romanticism
C. the Movement Poets
D. the Angry young Man
18. The following are all modernist novelists except ________.
A. D. H. Lawrence
B. Virginia Woolf C. Thomas Hardy
D. E. M. Forster
19. Neo-classicism reached its summit in ________.
A. Dryden
B. Pope C.
Samuel Johnson D. Defoe
20. In Memoriam is ________.
A. a series of essays
B. a series of ballads
C. a
series of elegies D. a long poem
II. Match the authors in column A and the works in column B. (5%)
A
B
1. Spencer
a. Samson Agonistes
2. Marlowe
b. The Rape of the Lock
3. Ben Jonson
c. Kubla Khan
4. Milton
d. The Shepheardes Calender
5. Bunyan
e. The Jew of Malta
6. Pope
f. Mrs. Dalloway
7. Fielding
g. Pilgrim’s Progress
8. Blake
h. Songs of Innocence
9. Coleridge
i. Tom Jones
10. Woolf
j. The Alchemis
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