Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?

Related Mcqs:

1. Why is the Battle of Hastings relevant to the development of Middle English ?

   A. English as a language of the king’s court was replaced by Norman French.
   B. Eventually English was reestablished, deeply influenced by Norman French.
   C. For a time, England became a country with two languages.
   D. All of these answers

2. 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

3. Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most fundamentally emphasizes which theme from Johnson’s other works or other 18thcentury works ?

   A. The need for linguistic correctness as exemplified in his Dictionary
   B. The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the Encyclopédie
   C. The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
   D. The need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like Robinson Crusoe

4. Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?

   A. The House of Fame
   B. The Book of the Duchess
   C. Troilus and Criseyde
   D. The Legend of Good Women

5. Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ?

   A. ’L’Allegro’
   B. ’Lycidas’
   C. ’Il Penseroso’
   D. ’Absolom and Achitophel’

6. In literature, some of Shakespeare’s most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ______________?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Ben Jonson
   C. Ben Jonson folios
   D. English Renaissance theatre

7. One of Marlowe’s earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem ’Pharsalia’, written by which Roman poet ?

   A. Ovid
   B. Lucan
   C. Virgil
   D. Horace

8. Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book ?

   A. He was a native New Yorker who did not travel much but who was keenly aware of New York’s complexity and diversity.
   B. He moved to New York from Alabama and the stark contrast between these places deeply influenced his writing.
   C. He was born in Missouri and traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world before he moved to New York City.
   D. He spent most of his life in Washington, DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained literary fame.

9. This work was written before the other three choices ?

   A. Bede’s “An Ecclesiastical History of the English People”
   B. Julian of Norwhich’s “Book of Showings”
   C. Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
   D. Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia”

10. Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?

    A. So the author could get paid.
    B. In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.
    C. So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.
    D. So that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured.