Martin Luther’s translation of what text helped to develop a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Fill in the blank. Martin Luther nailed his _____________ to a church door in Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic Church of heresy upon heresy?

   A. Paradise Lost
   B. 95 Theses
   C. The Bible
   D. Piers Plowman

2. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King advocates_______________?

   A. Breaking the law.
   B. Using violence when necessary.
   C. Waiting for times to get better.
   D. Disobeying unjust laws.

3. The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?

   A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
   B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
   C. Avoid all forms of prose
   D. Make art profitable above all else

4. The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?

   A. Sexuality
   B. Criticism of the queen
   C. Murder
   D. Witchcraft

5. According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?

   A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
   B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
   C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
   D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans.

6. The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by ?

   A. Wyclif
   B. Thomas more
   C. John Lyly
   D. Robert Greene

7. 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.

8. This critical approach assumes that language does not refer to any external reality. It can assert several, contradictory interpretations of one text ?

   A. Deconstructionism
   B. Formalist Criticism
   C. Structuralism
   D. Mimetic Criticism

9. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?

   A. The Bahagavad Gita
   B. The Odyssey
   C. The Illiad
   D. The Aeneid

10. One of Marlowe’s earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem ’Pharsalia’, written by which Roman poet ?

    A. Ovid
    B. Lucan
    C. Virgil
    D. Horace