John Lyly became instantly famous with the publication of what text ?

Related Mcqs:

1. John Lyly’s work significantly shaped the writing of which famous writer ?

   A. William Blake
   B. William Wordsworth
   C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   D. William Shakespeare

2. Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s style is best described as ___________________?

   A. Anachronistic
   B. Euphuistic
   C. Marxist
   D. Solipsistic

3. Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s ________ exercised considerable influence upon its author’s contemporaries?

   A. “Euphues”
   B. “Paradise Lost”
   C. “Utopia”
   D. “Zelauto”

4. was the companion in publication to John Milton’s “Paradise Regained.” ?

   A. “Paradise Lost”
   B. “Areopagitica”
   C. “On Christian Doctrine”
   D. “Samson Agonistes”

5. Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?

   A. Andre Breton’s “Surrealist Manifesto”
   B. James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
   C. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
   D. T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”

6. Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ?

   A. Shelley
   B. Browning
   C. Wordsworth
   D. Keats

7. Who succeeded Lyly ?

   A. Robert Greene
   B. John Milton
   C. Philip Sidney
   D. Christopher Marlowe

8. Fill in the blank. In the second edition of_________________, John Foxe promised that he would edit a collection of the works of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes?

   A. “Acts and Monuments”
   B. “Utopia”
   C. “Euphues”
   D. “Paradise Regained”

9. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

10. The foundation story of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” derives from what text ?

    A. The Book of “Genesis”
    B. The Book of “Revelations”
    C. “The Odyssey”
    D. “Canterbury Tales”