English Literature MCQs

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one of Chaucer’s daughter was___________?
A. A musician
B. An astronomer
C. A nun
D. None of the above
Who served as Protector under England’s first written constitution ?
A. Gerrard winstanley
B. Oliver cromwell
C. Praisegod barebone
D. George monk
Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
A. Formal diplomatic relations with china
B. The exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade
C. The creation of the bourgeosi novel as a commodity
D. The union of england and wales with scotland
What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to \’Peddlers,’ and ’Boats,’ and ’Wagons’!\ ?
A. The neo-classical influence of pope and dryden
B. The clumsiness of shakespeare’s plots
C. The orientalist fantasies of coleridge
D. Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary and everyday
The “father of humanism” was_______________?
A. Petrarch
B. Dante
C. Boccaccio
D. Pico della mirandola