A. The Rape of the Lock
B. Solitude: An Ode
C. The Dunciad
D. Eloisa to Abelard
Related Mcqs:
- I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be–while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! Awful injustice! ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess - In Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach,” the speaker refers to the “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar” of “The Sea of Faith.” This reference alludes to which of the following ?
A. The Protestant Reformation
B. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans
C. The decline of religion’s importance in the modern West
D. His lover’s betrayal - 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 - A critic examining Pope’s “An Essay on Man” asks herself: How well does this poem accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a critic?
A. Feminist
B. Reader Response
C. Formalist
D. Mimetic - Who “headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heav’n” ?
A. Adam and Eve
B. Noah and the elephant
C. Rebel angels
D. Benjamin and Joseph - The first part of American History dwells of the_________________?
A. Discovery of America by Columbus
B. Discovery and settlement of the Western continent
C. early English settlers
D. missionaries settled in America - What is the title of the poem that begins thus – ’What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare’ ?
A. Comfort
B. Leisure
C. Relaxation
D. Tranquility - Dumas, whose father was a General in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulie, a Quadroon. He went from New-Orleans, where, though to the eye a white man, yet, as known to have African blood in his veins, he could never have enjoyed the privileges due to a human being. A Mulatto is a person who has one white parent and one black parent; what, then, is a Quadroon ?
A. A person who has two black parents.
B. A person who has one Meranto parent and one black.
C. A person who has two Delfigo parents.
D. A person who has one white parent and one parent who is a Mulatto - Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27
B. Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid
C. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending
D. He just wasn’t bright enough - Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode
