A. The life of everyday people in the 5th and 6th centuries
B. The conversion of Britain to Christianity
C. The history of Christianity before it reached Britain
D. The spread of Christianity after the Norman Conquest
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following best describes how Bede was a typical Christian of his time ?
A. He combined zealous Christianity with English patriotism.
B. He did not believe that Christianity was an essential part of English culture.
C. He thought that England was a pagan wilderness.
D. He believed that English Christians needed to move to a New Israel. - Adam Bede is a______________?
A. Play
B. Novel
C. Poem
D. none of these - What was the focus of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae ?
A. The life and poems of Caedmon
B. The conversion of Britain from paganism
C. The early years of William the Conqueror
D. The tales of King Arthur - The main thematic focus of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is ____________________?
A. The nature of death
B. The French Revolution
C. The relationship between truth and beauty
D. The author’s childhood experience - In her essay “Wordsworth Balladry: Real Men Wanted,” Elizabeth Fey argues that the Romantics were interested in the medieval focus upon _______________?
A. Courtly love and modern-seeming emotion
B. Violence
C. Nature
D. Death and disease - The type of study which focus on the analysis of the systematic interrelation of the elements of a single language at a particular time is called________________?
A. Synchronic
B. Diachronic
C. Semiotic
D. Onomatopoeic - Psychoanalytic criticism during its earliest stages tended to focus on_____________?
A. the psychologies of individual authors.
B. the typographical structures of literary texts.
C. translation issues.
D. how children relate to their parents in terms of literary texts. - 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 - Important contemporary reviews of Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” tend to focus on which of the following aspects of the novel ?
A. The profound and often troubling relationships among characters
B. The novel’s experimental structure
C. The novel’s radically unique narrative voice
D. All of the above - Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction ?
A. Radio announcers were permitted to speak in regional dialects and multicultural accents.
B. The Arts Council designated many of its resources to supporting regional arts councils.
C. Regional radio and television stations appeared throughout the country.
D. all of the above
