What is the first extended written specimen of Old English ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What is the first extended written specimen of Old English ?

   A. Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy
   B. Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible
   C. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
   D. a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

2. “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

3. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Sir Thomas Malory
   B. Geoffrey Chaucer
   C. Caedmon
   D. John Gower

4. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Bede
   B. Sir Thomas Malory
   C. Geoffrey Chaucer
   D. Caedmon

5. 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

6. the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?

   A. Iliad
   B. Odyssey
   C. Beowulf
   D. Canterbury Tales

7. The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?

   A. Lacking in freshness and originality
   B. Saddened
   C. Double meaning
   D. Blue-eyed

8. According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War ?

   A. Patriotic imagery
   B. Irony
   C. Nihilism
   D. Apocalyptic imagery

9. Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term “Orientalism” ?

   A. Edward Said
   B. Arundhati Roy
   C. Salman Rushdie
   D. Homi Bhaba

10. 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