A. Bede’s “An Ecclesiastical History of the English People”
B. Julian of Norwhich’s “Book of Showings”
C. Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
D. Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia”
Related Mcqs:
- Everyday before the Fall Adam and Eve went out to work. What did their work consist of ?
A. Hunting and gathering food
B. Tending to the Garden of Eden
C. Building shelter to live in
D. Naming all God’s creatures and plants - Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue ?
A. Begging
B. Money lending
C. Fortune-telling
D. Wine bottling - Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
A. Beowulf
B. Canterbury Tales
C. The Domesday Book
D. Sons and Lovers - The 18th century work ’Tom Jones” was written by whom ?
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Henry Fielding
C. John Donne
D. Tobias Smollett - What type of work is the work The Faerie Queene ?
A. pastoral work
B. religious work
C. allegorical work
D. natural work - What approach is described by the paragraph? Users of this approach believe that all information essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work itself; there is no need to bring in outside information about the history, politics, or society of the time, or about the author’s life ?
A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
C. Formalism
D. Psychological Approach - 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 - Who said ‘Cowards die many times before their death’ ?
A. Shakespeare
B. Franklin
C. Carlyle
D. Alexander Pope - What poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ?
A. Virgil, Shakespeare, and Spenser
B. Homer, Virgil, and Spenser
C. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Spenser
D. Gilgamesh, Petrarch, and Dryden - What are the best words to describe the Garden of Eden, the weather, and nature in general, before the Fall of Adam and Eve ?
A. Ordered and rational
B. Chaotic
C. Wild and unmanageable
D. Comfortable
