Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar ?

   A. M. H. Abrams
   B. Stephen Greenblatt
   C. Helen Vendler
   D. Wayne C. Booth

2. In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?

   A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.
   B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.
   C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.
   D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed.

3. What distinguishes morality plays from mystery plays ?

   A. Mystery plays involve Christian themes, whereas morality plays do not.
   B. Morality plays involve Christian themes, whereas mystery plays do not.
   C. Morality plays were written individually, whereas mystery plays are in cycles.
   D. Mystery plays were written individually, whereas morality plays are in cycles.

4. Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?

   A. always fighting for good against evil.
   B. fortunate in always coming out victorious.
   C. nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight.
   D. devoted to religion above all things

5. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?

   A. its focus on his lost love.
   B. its rejection of scientific progress.
   C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
   D. its development of elements from national folklore.

6. Complete the following sentence. In the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover,” the words “daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon” ?

   A. are an example of antithesis to suggest the falcon’s contradictory nature.
   B. use alliterative language to draw attention to the falcon’s importance as a symbol of Christ.
   C. refer to the speaker’s heart.
   D. indicate the speaker’s lack of faith.

7. Complete the following sentence. We can best understand the medieval setting of Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto as______________?

   A. revealing his interest in Chaucer.
   B. enabling his 18th-century readers access to a world they would see as less rational.
   C. promoting the rise of museums.
   D. commenting on the French and Indian War.

8. Complete the following sentence. John Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” reflects a commitment to neoclassical aesthetics through_______________?

   A. its references to Shakespeare.
   B. its commitment to an elevated taste, its use of classical imagery, and its evocation of classic forms.
   C. its scientific ethos and setting in London.
   D. its refusal to mention Shadwell directly.

9. Complete the following sentence. Neoclassicism most paralleled Enlightenment thought in its_______________?

   A. rejection of Renaissance optimism.
   B. rejection of traditional models.
   C. emphasis on order, logic, and universal truths.
   D. emphasis on the corrupt nature of the aristocracy.

10. Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?

    A. employs free verse.
    B. has an undertow of nihilism.
    C. is chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.”
    D. was composed between WW I and WW II.