Review of Historical & Literary Background to English Literature (Early Times to 19th century)

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT correct about Elizabethan Drama?

Accepted Answer

Acting was a respectable occupation.

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT correct about Middle English?

Accepted Answer

King Arthur was named the father of English Literature.

Question 3

Who is the first King that was executed?

Accepted Answer

Charles I

Question 4

Gunpowder Plot is a failed attempt to assassinate King James I during the Opening of Parliament in November 5, 1605.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Who ruled the country after Charles I's execution?

Accepted Answer

Oliver Cromwell

Question 6

Which of the following established the Glorious Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Bill of Rights

Question 7

Which of the following are the keywords to describe romanticism?

Accepted Answer

emotion / individualism / nature

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT correct about Restoration Drama & Theaters?

Accepted Answer

Lower class activity

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a theme Shakespeare employs in his sonnets?

Accepted Answer

Superiority of humans over nature

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a name given to the Augustan Age

Accepted Answer

Romantic Age

Question 11

Why did Henry VIII break away from the Roman Catholic Church?

Accepted Answer

Economic crisis

Question 12

Which of the following describes realism?

Accepted Answer

Deliberate preference for the average and everyday aspects of life

Question 13

Which of the following is correct about the Vikings?

Accepted Answer

raided Europe during 8-9th centuries

Question 14

The Church of England broke away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. This is called __________.

Accepted Answer

Reformation

Question 15

Which of the following classes were at the bottom of the feudal system?

Accepted Answer

Slaves

Question 16

The first record of who owned how much land is called ________.

Accepted Answer

The Domesday Book

Question 17

Which church was founded as a result of Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Anglican Church

Question 18

Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

Accepted Answer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 19

Why was Mary I named "Bloody Mary"?

Accepted Answer

She burned Protestants.

Question 20

Where did the Celts go when Anglo-Saxons invaded England?

Accepted Answer

Wales & Scotland

Question 21

While Neoclassics favored religion of comfortable deism, romantics favored a religion of men and their options.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

Which of the following is NOT a factor that contributed to the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Conflicts between Catholics and Protestants

Question 23

Which literary genre dominated Victorian literature?

Accepted Answer

Novel

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Victorian Period?

Accepted Answer

The inequality between classes began to diminish.

Question 25

Which of the two following sources determines human condition according to determinism?

Accepted Answer

Heredity & environment

Question 26

The Tudor Dynasty was formed as a result of __________.

Accepted Answer

The War of Roses

Question 27

Which of the following did not conquer or invade England?

Accepted Answer

Ottomans

Question 28

_______ is the return of Charles II as king following the period of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth.

Accepted Answer

Restoration

Question 29

Which of the following is NOT correct about Beowulf?

Accepted Answer

Setting-England

Question 30

Which type of liturgical drama focuses on the staging of Biblical stories?

Accepted Answer

Mystery Plays

Question 31

Which of the following is NOT correct about Elizabeth I & her period?

Accepted Answer

Society became fully Protestant.

Question 32

Which of the following is NOT correct about Oliver Cromwell?

Accepted Answer

He ruled the country democratically.

Question 33

Which of the following is NOT an outcome of the defeat of the Spanish Armada?

Accepted Answer

It made Elizabeth I an empress.

Question 34

Which of the following best describes the intellectual climate of the Elizabethan period?

Accepted Answer

Renaissance

Question 35

Which of the following is NOT correct about Charles II?

Accepted Answer

was against scientific developments

Question 36

Charles I was executed because he was constantly in conflict with the parliament.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

Which type of liturgical drama presents the dramatization of the lives of Christian saints?

Accepted Answer

Miracle plays

Question 38

Norman Invasion introduced French and & Latin culture.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

Which of the following is NOT a consequence of Hundred Years Wars (1337-1443)?

Accepted Answer

Colonial expansion started.

Question 40

Which of the following is NOT a measure that was taken in Bill of Rights?

Accepted Answer

Only a Protestant can inherit the crown.

Question 41

Which of the following is NOT correct about Henry VII?

Accepted Answer

Engaged in quarrels with Scotland and France

Question 42

Which of the following is NOT correct about Magna Carta?

Accepted Answer

Recognised the rights of slaves

Question 43

_____________ defined the right of Henry VIII to be supreme head on earth of the Church of England.

Accepted Answer

Act of Supremacy

Question 44

Which of the following is not among the revolutions that impacted the Romantics?

Accepted Answer

Glorious Revolution

Question 45

Which of the following is NOT correct about Anglo-Saxons?

Accepted Answer

Were of Christian origin

Question 46

Which of the following CANNOT be found in Arthurian Legends?

Accepted Answer

Biblical stories & allegory

Question 47

The Gunpowder Plot was organized by Protestants.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 48

While the romantics favored urban life, neo-classics favored country life.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 49

___________is fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, with a specific rhyme scheme.

Accepted Answer

Sonnet

Question 50

Which of the following best describes Neo-classicism?

Accepted Answer

reason / order / structure

Question 51

Which of the following is a characteristic of Shakespeare's Beauty's Youth Sonnets?

Accepted Answer

Praising the beauty of the fair youth

Question 52

What was the most dominant dramatic genre in Restoration Drama?

Accepted Answer

Comedy of Manners

Question 53

Which of the following is correct for both realism and naturalism?

Accepted Answer

Unromanticized view of society

Question 54

Which philosophical ideal dominated the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Humanism

Question 55

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Chivalric Knight?

Accepted Answer

Meanness

Question 56

Which of the following is NOT correct about "The Canterbury Tales"?

Accepted Answer

Satire of Arthurian Legends

Question 57

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an Anglo Saxon hero?

Accepted Answer

Arrogant

Question 58

Which of the following is NOT. acharacteristic of Romanticism?

Accepted Answer

Collectivism

Question 59

Which of the following is NOT correct about the Elizabethan literature?

Accepted Answer

Aristocracy was the main audience of literature.

Question 60

Which of the following is NOT among the trading companies that helped colonial expansion?

Accepted Answer

Limon Company

Question 61

Who started Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII

Question 62

Which of the following is NOT a contribution of the Roman invasion on England?

Accepted Answer

Modern architecture

Question 63

Which of the following CANNOT be found in Anglo-Saxon Literature?

Accepted Answer

Liturgical emphasis

Question 64

Allegorical representation of ordinary Christian lives in liturgical drama is ______________.

Accepted Answer

Morality plays

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