English Literature MCQs

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Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
A. Nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. Bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. Admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. Bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
A. Its intellectual complexity
B. Its union of thought and passion
C. Its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and b
Who exemplified the role of the “peasant poet” ?
A. John clare
B. John keats
C. Robert burns
D. A and c only
Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during_______________?
A. 1374 to 1385
B. 1350 to 1360
C. 1360 to 1400
D. None of the above
What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?
A. Capulet and montague
B. Breslow and felsher
C. Fuech and goodside
D. Dawson and hurley
In which work do you read: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ?
A. Adonais
B. Bright star
C. Ode on a grecian urn
D. La bell dame sans merci
Who exemplified the role of the \peasant poet\ ?
A. John clare
B. John keats
C. Robert burns
D. A and c only