A. Vita Nuova
B. De Monarchia
C. De Vulgari Eloquentia
D. The Divine Comedy
Related Mcqs:
- The quote “abandon all hope ye who enter here” is from which text ?
A. Vita Nuova
B. The Divine Comedy
C. De Vulgari Eloquentia
D. De Monarchia - The quote “take then henceforth thy pleasure for guide” comes from which text ?
A. Vita Nuova
B. The Convivio
C. De Vulgari Eloquentia
D. The Divine Comedy - “My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect.” Who wrote this ?
A. Graham Greene
B. D. H. Lawrence
C. Charles Dickens
D. Jane Austen - 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 - 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 - 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. - Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” come from ?
A. Cymbeline
B. Hamlet
C. Titus Andronicus
D. Pericles, Prince of Tyre - Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, “My salad days, when I was green in judgment.” come from ?
A. Antony and Cleopatra
B. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
C. The Winters Tale
D. The Merry Wives of Windsor - which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” come from ?
A. The Merry Wives of Windsor
B. Othello, the Moor of Venice
C. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
D. King Henry the Sixth, Part II - Which famous play does the quote,”When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” come from ?
A. The Taming of the Shrew
B. King Lear
C. The Tempest
D. Macbeth
