A. “Toxophilus”
B. “Utopia”
C. “The Inferno”
D. “Paradise Lost”
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
A. courtly ideals of the good life
B. carpe diem
C. loyalty to the king
D. pious devotion to religious virtues - Edmund Spenser wrote what famous text ?
A. “Paradise Lost”
B. “The Faerie Queen”
C. “The Prelude”
D. “Canterbury Tales” - What doctrine significantly influenced Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia” ?
A. Marxism
B. Christian Humanism
C. Feminism
D. New Historicism - Sir Thomas More held which of the following positions in the English court ?
A. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
B. Speaker of the House of Commons
C. Master of Requests
D. All of the above - On which of the following topics did Sir Thomas More focus in his “Utopia” ?
A. Riches, jewels, and gold
B. Suicide
C. Marriage and divorce
D. All of the above - 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 - 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. - John Lyly became instantly famous with the publication of what text ?
A. “95 Theses”
B. “Utopia”
C. “Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit”
D. “Paradise Lost” - Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Thomas Kyd
C. John Dryden
D. John Donne - Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with “what happens to a dream deferred” ?
A. Alice Walker
B. Etheridge Knight
C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
D. Langston Hughes
