Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?

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1. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?

   A. Beowulf
   B. Arthur
   C. Augustine of Canterbury
   D. Alfred

2. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’ ?

   A. Johnson
   B. Cromwell
   C. Shakespeare
   D. Luther

3. ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by______________?

   A. Ruskin
   B. Carlyle
   C. Mill
   D. None of these

4. The ambitious spirits of his brother chieftain Sassacus, had ever aspired to dominion over the allied tribes – and immediately after the appearance of the English, the same temper was manifest in a jealousy of their encroachments. He employed all his art and influence and authority, to unite the tribes for the extirpation of the dangerous invaders. Mononotto, on the contrary, averse to all hostility, and foreseeing no danger from them, was the advocate of a hospitable reception, and pacific conduct. What does “extirpation” mean ?

   A. Execution
   B. Going to extremes
   C. Extermination
   D. Expatriating

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. Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?

   A. Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public
   B. Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.
   C. A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.
   D. all of the above

8. “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

9. In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ?

   A. 1798
   B. 1779
   C. 1795
   D. 1789

10. The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?

    A. FR Leavis
    B. Harold Bloom
    C. William Empson
    D. Mariella Frostrup