A. Graham Greene
B. D. H. Lawrence
C. Charles Dickens
D. Jane Austen
Related Mcqs:
- In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” who is the “he” referred to in the lines “A sadder and a wiser man\He rose the morrow morn.” ?
A. Life-in-Death
B. The Ancient Mariner
C. The Wedding Guest
D. The ship’s captain - The quote “women who have intellect of love” is from which text ?
A. Vita Nuova
B. De Monarchia
C. De Vulgari Eloquentia
D. The Divine Comedy - This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?
A. C.S. Lewis
B. T.S. Eliot
C. G.K. Chesterton
D. Matthew Arnold - I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey’s], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. … I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!” ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess - Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
A. Fanny Burney
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
D. Jane Austen - Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’ ?
A. Elliot
B. Kipling
C. Cummings
D. Brooke - Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long rope; and just as I was half out of the loft, he caught hold of my legs, and was about tying me. As soon as I found what he was up to, I gave a sudden spring, and as I did so, he holding to my legs, I was brought sprawling on the stable floor. Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he pleased; but at this moment—from whence came the spirit I don’t know—I resolved to fight; and, suiting my action the resolution, I seized Covey hard by the throat, and as I did so, I rose. He held on to me, and I to him. … He trembled like a leaf. …We were at it for nearly two hours. Covey at length let me go, puffing and blowing at a great rate, saying that if I had not resisted, he would not have whipped me half so much. The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him_____________?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Frankin
D. William Apess - Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ?
A. Siegfried Sassoon
B. Isaac Rosenberg
C. Wilfred Owen
D. All of these answers - This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
A. Alexander Pope
B. William Collins
C. Thomas Gray
D. Ben Jonson - Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
