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The BIG FAT quiz of Literary Periods
The BIG FAT quiz of Literary Periods
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1
This is a/an _____________ painting and it shows ___________
Romantic / the beauty of childhood
Romantic / Jesus
Victorian / the beauty of childhood
Neoclassicism / the Enlightenment
2
What does the word 'renaissance' mean?
rebirth
reassurance
knowledge
remembrance
3
Which period preceded postmodernism?
The Renaissance
The Romantic Period
Modernism
The Victorian Period
4
the soliloquy "to be or not to be" is mostly about______
Hamlet seeing a dagger which isn't in fact there...
Hamlet contemplating suicide
the challenges of courtly love and life
Hamlet contemplating suicide and/or killing Claudius
5
Put in the correct chronological order
(OE), (ME), (Ren), (VA), (Rom), (Mod), (PMod)
(ME), (OE), (Ren), (Rom), (VA), (Mod), (PMod)
(OE), (Ren), (ME) (Rom), (VA), (Mod), (PMod)
(OE), (ME), (Ren), (Rom), (VA), (Mod), (PMod)
6
The British empire became the largest empire in history during______
the Romantic period
the Victorian Age
the Modernist era
the Old English period
7
The soliloquy "to be or not to be" appears in____
Shakespeare's sonnet nr. 18
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Hamlet
8
This is the beginning of_______
Beowulf (author unknown)
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
"I wandered lonely as a cloud" by Wordsworth
Hamlet by Shakespeare
9
This woman is____________
Queen Victoria
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth II
Virginia Woolf
10
To which literary period does the idea "Man is all measure of things" belong?
Postmodernism
The Renaissance
Modernism
The Romantic Period
11
What's the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?
3 stanzas (4 lines each)
3 stanzas (4 lines each) and a couplet (2 lines)
2 stanzas (4 lines each) and a couplet (2 lines)
there is no clear structure
12
In which literary period was drama the predominant genre?
The Romantic Period
Modernism
The Renaissance
Postmodernism
13
the following is the beginning of the prologue of__________
something we never looked at
Macbeth
The Canterbury Tales
Beowulf
14
"So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
with sonnet 18, nature will be preserved and 4ever cherished
provoking the question of "what is art?"
sonnet 18 will give its addressee eternal life
only poetry can save the world. especially sonnet 18
15
This painting shows_____
the knights gathering to discuss how to fight Beowulf
a bunch of unimportant fools
the pligrims of Chaucers The Canterbury Tales
a typical scene of the Renaissance. the painter is da Vinci.
16
When was Shakespeare born and when did he die?
1701-1765
1822-1876
1564-1655
1564-1616
17
In which literary period does the stream of consciousness arise?
The Romantic Period
Modernism
Postmodernism
The Renaissance
18
How is the following Middle English line pronounced: "Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote"
/chwan dat avril wid his schaures sute/
/chwan dat eipril with his showers soothe/
/chwan dat april wid his schures sote/
/When in April, with his sweet showers
19
The Brontë sisters wrote novels during which literary era? (e.g. Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights)
Romanticism
Middle English period
the Victorian Age
Renaissance
20
the idea "Poetry should be spontaneous and full of emotion, not planned and straightforward"...
...is a modernist idea. logical thought is unimportant!
..typically represents the Renaissance
...is characteristic of the Victorian age
..is typical for Romanticism
21
Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, William Blake, and Mary Shelley were represenatives of____
Romanticism
Postmodernism
Renaissance
Modernism
22
In the Romantic Period _______________ was considered a pure period in life to be celebrated
old age
adulthood
adolescence
childhood
23
Which literary period celebrates a fragmented and disoriented world?
Old English Period
The Romantic Period
The Renaissance
(Post)modernism
24
Shakespearean tragedies almost always end with:
all the main characters dying
all the main characters dying except for the protagonist
a wedding
Shakespeare commenting on the greatness of the play
25
Which literary period was strongly influenced by WW I and industrial society?
The Romantic Period
Modernism
Postmodernism
The Renaissance
26
Dadaism was part of the_____________
(Post)modern era
Renaissance
Victorian age
Romantic movement
27
This painting was most likely created during_______
the Modernist era
the Romantic period
the Victorian age
the Middle English period
28
________________ is one of the most famous authors of the Renaissance
William Blake
James Joyce
William Shakespeare
Edgar Alan Poe
29
Which literary movement tried to shock bourgeois values with its art?
Old English litearture
Renaissance
(Post)modernism
Victorian Age
30
Which literary period considered simple, rural life an ideal?
Modernism
Postmodernism
The Romantic Period
The Renaissance