A. The Elizabethan Age
B. The Commonwealth Period
C. The Jacobean Age
D. The Middle English Period
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?
A. Iliad
B. Odyssey
C. Beowulf
D. Canterbury Tales - “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 - Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?
A. The leading characteristic of the age
B. Monarchs or political events
C. The primary author of the age
D. The language of the age - This approach provides a universalistic approach to literature and identifies a reason why certain literature may survive the test of time. It works well with works that are highly symbolic.What approach has this advantage ?
A. Mimetic
B. Psychological
C. Historical/Biographical
D. Mythological/Archetypal - In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the \flowering\of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chr´tien de Troyes - In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the “flowering”of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chrétien de Troyes - Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
A. Anglo-Norman
B. Anglo-Saxon
C. Chaucer’s period
D. Middle Age - Who is the father of English Literature ?
A. Roger Bacon
B. Robert Browning
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Cynewulf - Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ?
A. Roger Bacon
B. Robert Browning
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Cynewulf
