Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?

   A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
   B. Joel Chandler Harris
   C. Richard Wright
   D. Charles Chesnutt

2. In Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grape Vine,” why does Uncle Julius tell the Northern visitors the story of the spell put on the grapes ?

   A. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.
   B. To explain his religious views.
   C. To amuse the narrator’s sickly wife.
   D. So they won’t interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.

3. “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

4. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?

   A. Augustan
   B. Metaphysical
   C. Romantic
   D. Neo-Romantic

5. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?

   A. Augustan
   B. Metaphysical
   C. Romantic
   D. Neo-Romantic

6. James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?

   A. Pericles
   B. Genghis Khan
   C. Richard Lionheart
   D. Augustus Caesar

7. Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?

   A. King Henry VIII
   B. Queen Elizabeth I
   C. Queen Victoria
   D. King John

8. Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?

   A. King Henry VIII
   B. Queen Elizabeth I
   C. Queen Victoria
   D. King John

9. Marlowe’s play ’Tamburlaine the Great’ was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler ?

   A. Zhu Yuanzhang
   B. Genghis Khan
   C. Timur
   D. Kublai Khan

10. Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period ?

    A. Charles II was restored to the throne
    B. The French Revolution
    C. The Great Fire of London
    D. The Exclusion Bill Crisis