A. Only sixteen
B. Only seventeen
C. Only eighteen
D. Only nineteen
Related Mcqs:
- 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. - 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. - With which important literary figure(s) was Joyce in contact in his lifetime ?
A. Arthur Symons
B. Harriet Weaver
C. W.B. Yeats
D. All of the Above - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book ?
A. He was a native New Yorker who did not travel much but who was keenly aware of New York’s complexity and diversity.
B. He moved to New York from Alabama and the stark contrast between these places deeply influenced his writing.
C. He was born in Missouri and traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world before he moved to New York City.
D. He spent most of his life in Washington, DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained literary fame. - Even in John Milton’s lifetime, “Paradise Regained” was considered in literary quality as largely to “Paradise Lost.” ?
A. superior
B. inferior
C. equal
D. irrelevant in comparison - Which of the following historical events occurred in Dante’s lifetime ?
A. The Italian Renaissance
B. The Black Death
C. The Crusades
D. The Enlightenment - Which one of the following plays of Christopher Marlow tells the story of the disposition of a king by his barons and the Queen ?
A. Doctor Faustus
B. Edward the Second
C. The Massacre at Paris
D. The Jew of Malta - Usher can only stand types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of impromptus that Usher plays for him on which instrument ?
A. The harp
B. The guitar
C. The ukulele
D. The violin - What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
A. regional dialect and political critique
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
