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Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940 | Set 1

1. To whom did Hopkins dedicate 'The Windhover'?

Correct : D. christ

2. Hopkins read classics at which of these universities?

Correct : A. oxford

3. What event inspired Hopkins to return to writing poetry in 1875?

Correct : C. shipwreck

4. Hopkins coined which of these terms to describe the individual uniqueness of each creation?

Correct : A. inscape

5. Which language that Hopkins learned at St Beuno's seminary greatly influenced his poetry?

Correct : A. welsh

6. “Kingdom of day lights dauphin dapple dawn drawn falcon” Identify the figure of speech used.

Correct : D. alliteration

7. What shine “blue beak”?

Correct : C. embers

8. Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poems in 1918?

Correct : A. robert bridges

9. Which order did Gerard Manley Hopkins join?

Correct : B. jesuit

10. Identify the term that is not used by Hopkins to describe the Windhover?

Correct : D. beast

11. The title of Yeats' 'The Second Coming' is a reference to what event?

Correct : A. the return of jesus christ

12. Where is Byzantium located?

Correct : C. turkey

13. Name the ninth century Byzantine Emperor referred to in the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium

Correct : C. theophilus

14. What does gyre mean?

Correct : B. spiral

15. In what sense does Yeats use the term 'Spiritus Mundi'?

Correct : B. collective unconscious that all human beings share

16. What does "the centre cannot hold" mean?

Correct : C. the world\s core values and meanings are falling apart

17. Which month is the "cruellest"?

Correct : B. april

18. "By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept..."

Correct : D. leman

19. Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"?

Correct : D. vienna

20. Magnus Martyr is a:

Correct : B. church

21. The narrator is told that he should fear death by:

Correct : B. water

22. "When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to:

Correct : D. oliver goldsmith\s the vicar of wakefield

23. Who rapes Philomela?

Correct : A. tereus

24. Translate "Oed' und leer das Meer"

Correct : D. "desolate and empty is the sea"

25. In what city is Queen Victoria Street (in the poem)?

Correct : B. london

26. What does the Narrator know when confronted with the hyacinth girl?

Correct : B. nothing

27. What was Eliot's first working title for "The Waste Land"?

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?

Correct : A. pound

29. Where was the original (first intended) epigraph that Eliot had chosen for the poem from?

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?

Correct : C. burial of the dead

31. Eliot stated that his references to certain vegetation ceremonies were influences that came from which book?

Correct : C. the golden bough

32. Which of these works did Eliot NOT make a reference to in "The Waste Land"?

Correct : A. shakespeare\s "measure for measure"

33. Which Upanishad is part of the reference in the last section?

Correct : A. brhadaranyaka upanishad

34. “Hieronymo’s mad again.” What is the source of this quote?

Correct : C. spanish tragedy

35. What is the first line of the poem "Funeral Blues"?

Correct : A. stop all the clocks

36. How was the dog supposed to be prevented from barking?

Correct : B. a juicy bone

37. What message were the airplanes (or aeroplanes) going to write in the air?

Correct : B. he is dead

38. What color gloves were the traffic policemen to wear?

Correct : D. black cotton gloves

39. What does Auden want done with the sun?

Correct : D. dismantled

40. What is the last word of this poem?

Correct : B. good

41. Where does the soldier in "Strange Meeting" find himself?

Correct : A. in hell

42. In "Strange Meeting", what does the soldier see that leads him to believe he is in hell?

Correct : C. the dead man\s smile

43. The dead man in "Strange Meeting" says he used to possess

Correct : A. courage and wisdom

44. What does the dead man in "Strange Meeting" want to do at the very end?

Correct : D. sleep

45. What war does Owen write about?

Correct : C. wwi

46. Who is described as "an effective sergeant, an incompetent general, a deplorable dictator" in the play Caesar and Cleopatra?

Correct : B. belzanor

47. "Caesar; I come to warn you of a danger, and to make you an offer." Who says so?

Correct : C. pothinus

48. Who says, "Only as Caesar’s slave have I found real freedom."

Correct : D. ponthius

49. Caesar says "I will send you a beautiful present from Rome". Whom does he refer to?

Correct : B. antony

50. When was Caesar and Cleopatra written?

Correct : A. 1898

51. Who was King of England in Becket's time?

Correct : A. henry ii

52. What position does Thomas hold at the time of his murder?

Correct : B. archbishop

53. What position has Thomas held in the past?

Correct : D. chancellor

54. How long has Thomas been gone when he returns?

Correct : B. seven years

55. Why did Eliot write this play?

Correct : C. he was commissioned for a festival.

56. Why has the Chorus gathered at the top of the play?

Correct : D. they sense something bad is going to

57. What medieval image suggests patience?

Correct : A. wheel

58. Mary Boyle is an attractive young woman whose age is

Correct : B. 22

59. “A principle’s a principle”, who repeats this dialogue?

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?

Correct : C. juno

61. Ah, what can GOD do against the stupidity of O’man! Who says this?

Correct : B. jack boyle

62. Sean o Casey’s original name was_____________.

Correct : D. john casey

63. Sean O’ Casey’s “Juno and Paycock” is ____________ in a trilogy of plays.

Correct : C. third

64. The play “Juno and Paycock” is written on the background of _______ civil war.

Correct : D. irish

65. Joyce was an important pioneer of the narrative technique known as

Correct : D. stream of consciousness

66. The name "Dedalus" makes allusion to

Correct : B. the mythological figure who escaped from his island prison by constructing a pair of wings

67. Stephen's father is

Correct : C. financially inept

68. As a young boy, Stephen is

Correct : D. unathletic and shy

69. At Clongowes, Stephen is picked on by a bully named

Correct : C. wells

70. While in the clinic at Clongowes, Stephen has the paper read to him. He hears about the death of

Correct : C. charles parnell

71. James Joyce was raised in a family that was deeply

Correct : D. catholic

72. While in the clinic at Clongowes, Stephen is cared for by

Correct : C. brother michael

73. As a young boy, Stephen reads and is enraptured by

Correct : C. the count of monte cristo

74. Stephen's father manages to get Stephen back into private school. He is to attend

Correct : D. belvedere

75. Stephen falls in love with a girl named

Correct : A. emma clere

76. What is Walter Morel's job?

Correct : A. collier

77. Who is William's fiancée?

Correct : C. lily

78. What does William die of?

Correct : A. erysipelas

79. What language does Paul tutor Miriam in?

Correct : B. french

80. What is the name of Morels' coal-mining community?

Correct : A. the bottoms

81. In the eyes of Marlow, what does his journey down the river symbolize?

Correct : B. movement in the past

82. The Manager's main interests lie in

Correct : B. amassing wealth

83. Kurtz's frightening consumption with the Congo is a negative side effect of excessive

Correct : B. colonization