A. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
B. Caedmon’s Hymn
C. Chretien de Troyes Yvain, or le Chevalier au Lion
D. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?
A. “The Dream of the Rood”
B. “The Wanderer”
C. “The Seafarer”
D. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” - Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?
A. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
B. “Piers Plowman”
C. “The Canterbury Tales”
D. “The Book of Margery Kempe” - Which of the following texts provides the best example of the comitatus ethic ?
A. Caedmon’s Hymn
B. The Battle of Maldon
C. The Canterbury Tales
D. The Dream of the Rood - Marxist theory focuses on examining which of the following aspects of literary texts ?
A. The political and social meanings of literary texts
B. Characters who are sympathetic to issues facing the working classes
C. The relationship between economics and the production of literary texts
D. All of these - Feminist criticism focuses on exploring which of the following aspects of literary texts ?
A. How women are portrayed in literary texts
B. The psychologies of female writers
C. How women have been socially oppressed in literary texts
D. All of these - Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?
A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage … ”
C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
D. Edward Said’s Orientalism - Which of the following texts is an example of epic poetry ?
A. “Paradise Lost”
B. “The Odyssey”
C. “The Iliad”
D. All of the above - Which of the following texts is an example of a sentimental novel ?
A. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
B. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
C. Richardson’s Pamela
D. Lewis’s The Monk - Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?
A. William Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning Political Justice
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s England in 1819
C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
D. all of the above
