‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from ?

Related Mcqs:

1. In Book Three of “Paradise Lost,” God the Father alludes to what theological principle in the following quotation: “I made him [Adam] just and right, / Sufficient to have stood though free to fall.”

   A. Transubstantiation
   B. Free will
   C. Predestination
   D. Sufficience

2. How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?

   A. It focuses on a royal hero.
   B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
   C. It focuses on adventures.
   D. It connects to poetry.

3. How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?

   A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.
   B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.
   C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.
   D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

4. “A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EXCEPT_____________?

   A. The placement of the action in the past and in a foreign country
   B. The grandiose threatening setting that requires ingenious stagecraft
   C. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest level of authority
   D. The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play

5. Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?

   A. Curiosity about the past
   B. Deference to the past
   C. Violation of the past
   D. Paradoxically both B and C

6. “To be, or not to be, that is the question”- Where do you find this quotation ?

   A. Macbeth
   B. Hamlet
   C. As You like It
   D. Othello

7. Who says “forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race ?

   Who says “forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race?”
   A. Leopold Bloom
   B. Molly Bloom
   C. Gabriel Conroy
   D. Stephen Dedalus

8. I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey’s], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. … I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!” ?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. William Apess

9. Which speaker said that “God is more nearer to us than our own soul ?”

   A. Julian of Norwich
   B. Margery Kempe
   C. Catherine of Siena
   D. Catherine de Pizan

10. At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war with which country ?

    A. Norway
    B. Prussia
    C. Iceland
    D. Poland