A. Macbeth
B. Hamlet
C. As You like It
D. Othello
Related Mcqs:
- In Book Three of “Paradise Lost,” God the Father alludes to what theological principle in the following quotation: “I made him [Adam] just and right, / Sufficient to have stood though free to fall.”
A. Transubstantiation
B. Free will
C. Predestination
D. Sufficience - ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from ?
A. Milton
B. William Shakespeare
C. T. S. Eliot
D. Ruskin - How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?
A. It focuses on a royal hero.
B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
C. It focuses on adventures.
D. It connects to poetry. - How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?
A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.
B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.
C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.
D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution. - “A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EXCEPT_____________?
A. The placement of the action in the past and in a foreign country
B. The grandiose threatening setting that requires ingenious stagecraft
C. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest level of authority
D. The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play - Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?
A. Curiosity about the past
B. Deference to the past
C. Violation of the past
D. Paradoxically both B and C - “To be or not to be that is the question”, is famous line of which of Shakespeare’s plays ?
A. Othello
B. Macbeth
C. Hamlet
D. King Lear - Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in ?
A. Act II, Scene I
B. Act III, Scene III
C. Act IV, Scene III
D. Act III, Scene I - What was the “Woman Question” in the Victorian Period ?
A. A debate about whether women should be able to vote
B. A discussion of women’s roles inside and outside the home
C. A conversation about women’s work as a product of the Industrial Revolution
D. All of these answers - According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land” ?
A. Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of World War I?
B. Given the diversity of the world’s poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism?
C. How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people?
D. Given that each person experiences trauma differently, is it possible for all to understand the modern world as a shared “waste land”?
