A. Nelson Mandela
B. Winston Churchill
C. Alexander Pope
D. None of these
Submitted by: M AQIB ZAI
Related Mcqs:
- In what way does the Gothic novel of the 18th century differ from the modern English novel that began to emerge in the 17th century and flourished in the 18th century ?
A. The focus on the middle and working classes
B. The consideration of the sensibilities of the protagonists
C. Plots taken from everyday life
D. The exploration of cultural taboos - Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?
A. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
B. William Shakespeare’s King Lear
C. Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III
D. Thomas More’s Utopia - In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes which of the following social institutions ?
A. The government
B. Marriage
C. Organized religion
D. All of these answers - Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?
A. demonstrate the importance of the topic.
B. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.
C. reveal the learnedness of the characters.
D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers - The Rape of the Lock is a_______________?
A. Parody
B. Elegy
C. Romance
D. Sonnet - dominated English literature from the Restoration until the end of the 18th century with the emergence of Romanticism ?
A. Medievalism
B. Modernism
C. Victorianism
D. Neoclassicism - What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homer’s lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
A. human reverence for the classics
B. the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks
C. pride for the vernacular language
D. a and c only - Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the …..: Man to command and woman to ____________?
A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
D. hearth; needle; heart; obey - Pope’s comment that “Know, then, thyself, presume God not to scan;/The proper study of mankind is man” in his “Essay on Man” is indicative of all of the following EXCEPT______________?
A. his use of the heroic couplet.
B. an Enlightenment focus on useful knowledge.
C. a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and knowing limitations.
D. a radical questioning of revealed religion - “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?
A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact
