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Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940 | Set 1
1. To whom did Hopkins dedicate 'The Windhover'?
A. mary
B. peter
C. moses
D. christ
Correct : D. christ
2. Hopkins read classics at which of these universities?
A. oxford
B. cambridge
C. dublin
D. leeds
Correct : A. oxford
3. What event inspired Hopkins to return to writing poetry in 1875?
A. famine
B. earthquake
C. shipwreck
D. war
Correct : C. shipwreck
4. Hopkins coined which of these terms to describe the individual uniqueness of each creation?
A. inscape
B. instress
C. signifier
D. sprung rhythm
Correct : A. inscape
5. Which language that Hopkins learned at St Beuno's seminary greatly influenced his poetry?
A. welsh
B. gaelic
C. erse
D. cornish
Correct : A. welsh
6. “Kingdom of day lights dauphin dapple dawn drawn falcon” Identify the figure of speech used.
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. assonance
D. alliteration
Correct : D. alliteration
7. What shine “blue beak”?
A. sky
B. feathers
C. embers
D. eyes
Correct : C. embers
8. Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poems in 1918?
A. robert bridges
B. stephen spender
C. richard dixon
D. coventry patmore
Correct : A. robert bridges
9. Which order did Gerard Manley Hopkins join?
A. carmelite
B. jesuit
C. franciscan
D. benedictine
Correct : B. jesuit
10. Identify the term that is not used by Hopkins to describe the Windhover?
A. minion,
B. dauphin
C. falcon
D. beast
Correct : D. beast
11. The title of Yeats' 'The Second Coming' is a reference to what event?
A. the return of jesus christ
B. world war i
C. world war ii
D. the modernism era
Correct : A. the return of jesus christ
12. Where is Byzantium located?
A. ireland
B. scotland
C. turkey
D. italy
Correct : C. turkey
13. Name the ninth century Byzantine Emperor referred to in the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium
A. theodore
B. tiresias
C. theophilus
D. trescothick
Correct : C. theophilus
14. What does gyre mean?
A. spirit
B. spiral
C. sphinx
D. stone image
Correct : B. spiral
15. In what sense does Yeats use the term 'Spiritus Mundi'?
A. collective meaning of broken images
B. collective unconscious that all human beings share
C. collective myths that society believe
D. collective memory of trauma
Correct : B. collective unconscious that all human beings share
16. What does "the centre cannot hold" mean?
A. jesus christ cannot save us
B. summer cannot last forever
C. the world\s core values and meanings are falling apart
D. the heart cannot sustain the mind
Correct : C. the world\s core values and meanings are falling apart
17. Which month is the "cruellest"?
A. september
B. april
C. may
D. december
Correct : B. april
18. "By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept..."
A. the seine
B. the nile
C. the thames
D. leman
Correct : D. leman
19. Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"?
A. timbuktu
B. marseilles
C. novgorod
D. vienna
Correct : D. vienna
20. Magnus Martyr is a:
A. ocean
B. church
C. epic poem
D. football stadium
Correct : B. church
21. The narrator is told that he should fear death by:
A. fire
B. water
C. starvation
D. disease
Correct : B. water
22. "When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to:
A. spanish tragedy
B. ovid\s metamorphoses
C. hamlet
D. oliver goldsmith\s the vicar of wakefield
Correct : D. oliver goldsmith\s the vicar of wakefield
23. Who rapes Philomela?
A. tereus
B. odysseus
C. the typist
D. zeus
Correct : A. tereus
24. Translate "Oed' und leer das Meer"
A. "the ship has arrived, appearing on the horizon"
B. "a kiss is just a kiss"
C. "isolde is lost forever"
D. "desolate and empty is the sea"
Correct : D. "desolate and empty is the sea"
25. In what city is Queen Victoria Street (in the poem)?
A. new york
B. london
C. boston
D. gloucester
Correct : B. london
26. What does the Narrator know when confronted with the hyacinth girl?
A. the way to restore fruitfulness to the wasteland
B. nothing
C. the meaning of life
D. the reason he is in love
Correct : B. nothing
27. What was Eliot's first working title for "The Waste Land"?
A. unreal city
B. he do the police in different voices
C. the land of the dead
D. voices in the desert
Correct : B. he do the police in different voices
28. Who helped Eliot edit the poem, and, in the process, suggested the deletion of large portions of the poem?
A. pound
B. yeats
C. frost
D. owen
Correct : A. pound
29. Where was the original (first intended) epigraph that Eliot had chosen for the poem from?
A. baudelaire\s "fleurs du mal"
B. pound\s "cantos"
C. conrad\s "heart of darkness"
D. milton\s "paradise lost"
Correct : C. conrad\s "heart of darkness"
30. Before it was deleted, the line "Get me a woman, I said; you're too drunk, she said" was part of which section of the poem?
A. what the thunder said
B. a game of chess
C. burial of the dead
D. the fire sermon
Correct : C. burial of the dead
31. Eliot stated that his references to certain vegetation ceremonies were influences that came from which book?
A. the tain
B. from ritual to romance
C. the golden bough
D. the mabinogeon
Correct : C. the golden bough
32. Which of these works did Eliot NOT make a reference to in "The Waste Land"?
A. shakespeare\s "measure for measure"
B. goldsmith\s "the vicar of wakefield"
C. kyd\s "spanish tragedy"
D. spenser\s "prothalamion"
Correct : A. shakespeare\s "measure for measure"
33. Which Upanishad is part of the reference in the last section?
A. brhadaranyaka upanishad
B. chandogya upanishad.
C. taittiriya upanishad. d. aitereya upanisha
Correct : A. brhadaranyaka upanishad
34. “Hieronymo’s mad again.” What is the source of this quote?
A. hamlet
B. measure for measure
C. spanish tragedy
D. dward ii
Correct : C. spanish tragedy
35. What is the first line of the poem "Funeral Blues"?
A. stop all the clocks
B. he was my north
C. cut off the telephone
D. pour away the ocean
Correct : A. stop all the clocks
36. How was the dog supposed to be prevented from barking?
A. by putting him outside
B. a juicy bone
C. with a muzzle
D. by giving him away
Correct : B. a juicy bone
37. What message were the airplanes (or aeroplanes) going to write in the air?
A. directions to the funeral
B. he is dead
C. the deceased\s name
D. he was my north
Correct : B. he is dead
38. What color gloves were the traffic policemen to wear?
A. white satin gloves
B. red satin gloves
C. gray wool gloves
D. black cotton gloves
Correct : D. black cotton gloves
39. What does Auden want done with the sun?
A. packed up
B. silenced
C. scribbled out
D. dismantled
Correct : D. dismantled
40. What is the last word of this poem?
A. nothing
B. good
C. dead
D. blues
Correct : B. good
41. Where does the soldier in "Strange Meeting" find himself?
A. in hell
B. in heaven
C. in purgatory
D. at home
Correct : A. in hell
42. In "Strange Meeting", what does the soldier see that leads him to believe he is in hell?
A. the dead man\s arms
B. the dead man\s legs
C. the dead man\s smile
D. the dead man\s eyes
Correct : C. the dead man\s smile
43. The dead man in "Strange Meeting" says he used to possess
A. courage and wisdom
B. money
C. good looks
D. religion
Correct : A. courage and wisdom
44. What does the dead man in "Strange Meeting" want to do at the very end?
A. return to earth
B. kill the soldier
C. talk more
D. sleep
Correct : D. sleep
45. What war does Owen write about?
A. the vietnam war
B. the civil war
C. wwi
D. wwii
Correct : C. wwi
46. Who is described as "an effective sergeant, an incompetent general, a deplorable dictator" in the play Caesar and Cleopatra?
A. caesar
B. belzanor
C. pothinus
D. rufio
Correct : B. belzanor
47. "Caesar; I come to warn you of a danger, and to make you an offer." Who says so?
A. apollodorus
B. belzanor
C. pothinus
D. rufio
Correct : C. pothinus
48. Who says, "Only as Caesar’s slave have I found real freedom."
A. apollodorus
B. rufio
C. brtiannus
D. ponthius
Correct : D. ponthius
49. Caesar says "I will send you a beautiful present from Rome". Whom does he refer to?
A. octavius
B. antony
C. musical instrument
D. wine
Correct : B. antony
50. When was Caesar and Cleopatra written?
A. 1898
B. 1897
C. 1868
D. 1902
Correct : A. 1898
51. Who was King of England in Becket's time?
A. henry ii
B. henry i
C. reginald fitz urse
D. theobald
Correct : A. henry ii
52. What position does Thomas hold at the time of his murder?
A. chancellor
B. archbishop
C. king
D. exchequer
Correct : B. archbishop
53. What position has Thomas held in the past?
A. jester
B. exchequer
C. king
D. chancellor
Correct : D. chancellor
54. How long has Thomas been gone when he returns?
A. fifteen years
B. seven years
C. three years
D. sixteen months
Correct : B. seven years
55. Why did Eliot write this play?
A. becket\s family asked him to.
B. he wanted to impress his priest.
C. he was commissioned for a festival.
D. he read a book about becket.
Correct : C. he was commissioned for a festival.
56. Why has the Chorus gathered at the top of the play?
A. They have been summoned by Thom
B. they want to murder thomas.
C. their crops have dried up and they need mercy.
D. they sense something bad is going to
Correct : D. they sense something bad is going to
57. What medieval image suggests patience?
A. wheel
B. cathedral
C. mountain
D. seasons
Correct : A. wheel
58. Mary Boyle is an attractive young woman whose age is
A. 21
B. 22
C. 25
D. 20
Correct : B. 22
59. “A principle’s a principle”, who repeats this dialogue?
A. mary boyle
B. jack boyle
C. joxer delay
D. johnny boyle
Correct : A. mary boyle
60. “There isn’t a GOD,there isn’t a GOD; if there is HE wouldn’t let these things happen”. Who utters this?
A. mary boyle
B. jack boyle
C. juno
D. johnny boyle
Correct : C. juno
61. Ah, what can GOD do against the stupidity of O’man! Who says this?
A. mary boyle
B. jack boyle
C. juno
D. johnnyboyle
Correct : B. jack boyle
62. Sean o Casey’s original name was_____________.
A. sean casey
B. addison casey
C. abbott casey
D. john casey
Correct : D. john casey
63. Sean O’ Casey’s “Juno and Paycock” is ____________ in a trilogy of plays.
A. first
B. second
C. third
D. fourth
Correct : C. third
64. The play “Juno and Paycock” is written on the background of _______ civil war.
A. american
B. scottish
C. british
D. irish
Correct : D. irish
65. Joyce was an important pioneer of the narrative technique known as
A. stream of tension
B. dramatic montage
C. conditioned genesis
D. stream of consciousness
Correct : D. stream of consciousness
66. The name "Dedalus" makes allusion to
A. the mythological figure who flew too close to the sun and drowned in the ocean
B. the mythological figure who escaped from his island prison by constructing a pair of wings
C. the mythological figure who solved the riddle of the sphinx
D. the mythological figure who devoured his own daughter to prolong his life
Correct : B. the mythological figure who escaped from his island prison by constructing a pair of wings
67. Stephen's father is
A. both financially inept and a painter
B. a painter
C. financially inept
D. a financial genius
Correct : C. financially inept
68. As a young boy, Stephen is
A. erudite and cocky
B. insensitive and rambunctious
C. athletic and confident
D. unathletic and shy
Correct : D. unathletic and shy
69. At Clongowes, Stephen is picked on by a bully named
A. cranly
B. icarus
C. wells
D. parnell
Correct : C. wells
70. While in the clinic at Clongowes, Stephen has the paper read to him. He hears about the death of
A. lord roxborough
B. winston churchill
C. charles parnell
D. the pope
Correct : C. charles parnell
71. James Joyce was raised in a family that was deeply
A. atheistic
B. protestant
C. buddhist
D. catholic
Correct : D. catholic
72. While in the clinic at Clongowes, Stephen is cared for by
A. his mother
B. father arnall
C. brother michael
D. dante
Correct : C. brother michael
73. As a young boy, Stephen reads and is enraptured by
A. the adventures of huckleberry finn
B. pilgrim\s progress
C. the count of monte cristo
D. the canterbury tales
Correct : C. the count of monte cristo
74. Stephen's father manages to get Stephen back into private school. He is to attend
A. clongowes
B. dublin boy\s academy
C. eaton
D. belvedere
Correct : D. belvedere
75. Stephen falls in love with a girl named
A. emma clere
B. vanessa o\keer
C. josie o\veer
D. amanda deere
Correct : A. emma clere
76. What is Walter Morel's job?
A. collier
B. surgeon
C. writer
D. painter
Correct : A. collier
77. Who is William's fiancée?
A. annie
B. clara
C. lily
D. miriam
Correct : C. lily
78. What does William die of?
A. erysipelas
B. pneumonia
C. heart disease
D. tuberculosis
Correct : A. erysipelas
79. What language does Paul tutor Miriam in?
A. russian
B. french
C. spanish
D. latin
Correct : B. french
80. What is the name of Morels' coal-mining community?
A. the bottoms
B. the tops
C. the sides
D. hell\s row
Correct : A. the bottoms
81. In the eyes of Marlow, what does his journey down the river symbolize?
A. movement in the present
B. movement in the past
C. lack of movement
D. movement into the future
Correct : B. movement in the past
82. The Manager's main interests lie in
A. saving kurtz from the natives
B. amassing wealth
C. stopping slavery
D. expelling marlow from the congo
Correct : B. amassing wealth
83. Kurtz's frightening consumption with the Congo is a negative side effect of excessive
A. greed
B. colonization
C. slavery
D. curiosity
Correct : B. colonization