A Beka English Literature Test 3

Question 1

Who is the greatest writer of all time?

Accepted Answer

William Shakespeare

Question 2

This quote is from what literary work?

Accepted Answer

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

Question 3

During which time period were poets referred to as "scops"?

Accepted Answer

Anglo-Saxon

Question 4

Who was England's first poet laureate?

Accepted Answer

Ben Jonson

Question 5

During which time period was "Bookworm" written?

Accepted Answer

Anglo-Saxon Period

Question 6

What was Macbeth's tragic flaw?

Accepted Answer

greed (lust for power)

Question 7

Who kills Macbeth?

Accepted Answer

Macduff

Question 8

During which time period did romances, such as King Arthur and Sir Gawain, become popular?

Accepted Answer

Medieval

Question 9

What is a short tale or anecdote told to teach a lesson?

Accepted Answer

exemplum

Question 10

During which time period was the Spenserian stanza invented?

Accepted Answer

Elizabethan Period

Question 11

Who was the first essayist in English literature?

Accepted Answer

Francis Bacon

Question 12

During which time period did the Pearl Poet live and write?

Accepted Answer

Medieval

Question 13

What selection teaches the important lesson that death comes for every man when least expected?

Accepted Answer

Everyman

Question 14

What is the oldest surviving epic?

Accepted Answer

Beowulf

Question 15

During which period did literature focus on love of freedom and strong religious convictions?

Accepted Answer

Anglo-Saxon

Question 16

William Shakespeare lived and wrote during which literary period?

Accepted Answer

Elizabethan

Question 17

What is based primarily on the adventures of knights, kings, or distressed ladies?

Accepted Answer

medieval romance

Question 18

What selection is a comparison of man's life to a play of passion?

Accepted Answer

On the Life of Man

Question 19

What literary genre reached its peak during the Elizabethan period?

Accepted Answer

drama

Question 20

During which period was "Bonny Barbara Allan" written?

Accepted Answer

Medieval

Question 21

What selection shows the speaker's response to God's chastening?

Accepted Answer

A Hymn to God the Father

Question 22

This quote is from what literary work?

Accepted Answer

"Sonnet 18"

Question 23

During which time period were mystery plays popular?

Accepted Answer

Medieval Period

Question 24

What poem shows the irony of a seaman longing for the sea despite the hardship of the sea?

Accepted Answer

The Seafarer

Question 25

What selection describes an imaginary ideal society?

Accepted Answer

Utopia

Question 26

What habit does Lady Macbeth develop as a result of her guilt?

Accepted Answer

sleepwalking

Question 27

In The Faerie Queene, what does the Red Cross Knight represent?

Accepted Answer

the virtue of Holiness

Question 28

Whom does King Duncan name to the throne after him?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm

Question 29

This quote is from what literary work?

Accepted Answer

The Faerie Queene

Question 30

This quote is from what literary work?

Accepted Answer

Beowulf

Question 31

This quote is from what literary work?

Accepted Answer

Bonny Barbara Allan

Question 32

What represented allegorically the battle which the vices and virtues wage for the human soul?

Accepted Answer

morality play

Question 33

Who was the ghost that haunted Macbeth at the banquet?

Accepted Answer

Banquo

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