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Practice Set 21

December 29, 2025
Questionnaire

1. Amoretti is a sonnet sequence by:

A. Sidney

B. Shakespeare

C. Spenser

D. Wyatt

 

2. The poem Epithalamion celebrates:

A. The coronation of Elizabeth I

B. Spenser’s wedding

C. A pastoral festival

D. A royal victory

 

3. The Petrarchan sonnet is divided into:

A. Quatrains and couplet

B. Octave and sestet

C. Three quatrains

D. Seven couplets

 

4. The Volta in a Petrarchan sonnet usually occurs after the:

A. First quatrain

B. Octave

C. Second quatrain

D. Couplet

 

5. Elizabethan poetry often reflects the ideal of:

A. Realism

B. Courtly love

C. Naturalism

D. Absurdism

 

6. The “golden world” in Sidney’s criticism refers to:

A. Heaven

B. Ideal world created by poetry

C. Elizabethan court

D. Classical antiquity

 

7. Which poet idealized Queen Elizabeth as “Gloriana”?

A. Shakespeare

B. Sidney

C. Spenser

D. Wyatt

 

8. John Donne’s religious poems are called:

A. Holy Verses

B. Divine Songs

C. Holy Sonnets

D. Sacred Odes

 

9. Ben Jonson’s lyric “Drink to me only with thine eyes” is from:

A. Epigrams

B. The Forest

C. Underwoods

D. Volpone

 

10. Ben Jonson was appointed Poet Laureate under:

A. Elizabeth I

B. James I

C. Charles I

D. Cromwell

 

11. Which poet is considered a leading Cavalier poet?

A. George Herbert

B. Robert Herrick

C. John Donne

D. Andrew Marvell

 

12. Robert Herrick’s "Hesperides" was published in:

A. 1630

B. 1635

C. 1648

D. 1650

 

13. George Herbert’s poetry collection is titled:

A. Holy Sonnets

B. The Temple

C. Steps to the Temple

D. Religious Meditations

 

14. Andrew Marvell is often described as a poet of transition between:

A. Elizabethan and Jacobean

B. Jacobean and Restoration

C. Medieval and Renaissance

D. Romantic and Victorian

 

15. "To His Coy Mistress” combines metaphysical wit with:

A. Political satire

B. Pastoral romance

C. Carpe diem argument

D. Religious allegory

 

16. Which poet wrote "Steps to the Temple?"

A. George Herbert

B. Richard Crashaw

C. Henry Vaughan

D. Abraham Cowley

 

17. Henry Vaughan is often called the:

A. Poet of love

B. Poet of nature and mysticism

C. Poet of satire

D. Poet of politics

 

18. Metaphysical poetry is characterized by all EXCEPT:

A. Intellectual complexity

B. Conceits

C. Smooth musical flow

D. Argumentative structure

 

19. Which Jacobean poet wrote epigrams?

A. Donne

B. Ben Jonson

C. Herbert

D. Vaughan

 

20. Ben Jonson’s followers were known as:

A. The Tribe of Ben

B. The Sons of Apollo

C. The Metaphysicals

D. The Cavaliers

 

21. Who among the following was NOT a Cavalier poet?

A. Herrick

B. Carew

C. Lovelace

D. Herbert

 

22. Which of the following works is a philosophical tale by Samuel Johnson?

A. Rasselas

B. The Rambler

C. The Idler

D. London

 

23. Samuel Johnson’s poem London is an imitation of:

A. Horace

B. Juvenal

C. Homer

D. Dryden

 

24. Shelley was expelled from Oxford mainly for:

A. Writing radical poetry

B. Supporting the French Revolution

C. Publishing The Necessity of Atheism

D. Refusing compulsory chapel attendance

 

25. Who assisted Shelley in circulating "The Necessity of Atheism?"

A. Leigh Hunt

B. Thomas Love Peacock

C. Harriet Westbrook

D. Thomas Jefferson Hogg

 

26. Which event directly influenced Shelley’s poem "Adonais?"

A. French Revolution

B. Death of Byron

C. Death of John Keats

D. Death of Harriet Shelley

 

27. Which William Godwin novel critiques 'social injustice and tyranny?'

A. St. Leon

B. Caleb Williams

C. Fleetwood

D. Thoughts on Man

 

28. William Godwin is MOST often paired with:

A. Rousseau

B. Wollstonecraft

C. Shelley

D. All of the above 

 

29. "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

A. Leviathan – Hobbes

B. The Social ContractRousseau

C. Political Justice – Godwin

D. Rights of Man – Paine

 

30. "The proper study of mankind is man.” --- The line comes from:

A. Essay on ManPope

B. An Essay on Criticism – Pope

C. Absalom and Achitophel – Dryden

D. London – Johnson

 

31. Who is presented as the 'chief hero/champion of Dulness' in the final version of "The Dunciad?"

A. Lewis Theobald

B. John Dennis

C. Colley Cibber

D. Richard Bentley

 

32. "The Dunciad" belongs to which literary genre?

A. Pastoral elegy

B. Mock-heroic epic

C. Didactic satire

D. Allegorical romance

 

33. The Aesthetic Movement is best summarized by the phrase:

A. Art for morality

B. Art for society

C. Art for art’s sake

D. Art for politics

 

34. Which writer is most closely associated with the theoretical foundation of the Aesthetic Movement in England?

A. John Ruskin

B. Walter Pater

C. Matthew Arnold

D. T. S. Eliot

 

35. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” --- The line comes from: 

A. Easter 1916 – Yeats

B. The Second ComingYeats

C. Sailing to Byzantium – Yeats

D. Among School Children – Yeats

 

36. "Prothalamion" by Edmund Spenser is best described as a:

A. Pastoral elegy

B. Sonnet sequence

C. A wedding poem written before the marriage

D. Mock-heroic poem

 

37. "Seven Types of Ambiguity" (1930) is a foundational work of literary criticism that is most closely associated with which critical approach?

A. Marxist criticism

B. New Criticism

C. Structuralism

D. Psychoanalytic criticism

 

38. Which critic most directly influenced Empson’s method of close reading?

A. T. S. Eliot

B. I. A. Richards

C. F. R. Leavis

D. Matthew Arnold

 

39. Which term best contrasts Empson with Cleanth Brooks?

A. Ambiguity vs Paradox

B. History vs Form

C. Emotion vs Structure

D. Meaning vs Intention

 

40. The rhetorical device in which a speaker asks a question not to elicit an answer but to make a point is:

A. Hypophora

B. Rhetorical question

C. Apostrophe

D. Anaphora

 

41. Stephen Dedalus appears in which work by James Joyce?

A. Ulysses

B. Dubliners

C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

D. Finnegans Wake

 

42. In "Doctor Faustus," Faustus sells his soul to:

A. Lucifer

B. Beelzebub

C. Mephistopheles

D. Satan

 

43. Which novel employs interior monologue extensively?

A. Hard Times

B. Ulysses

C. Middlemarch

D. Wuthering Heights

 

44. Which character is associated with "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett?

A. Hamm

B. Lucky

C. Moran

D. Clov

 

45. "Orlando: A Biography" is distinctive because its protagonist:

A. Ages rapidly in one day

B. Lives only in dreams

C. Changes sex and lives for centuries

D. Is modeled on no real person

 

46. "Orlando" is partly inspired by Virginia Woolf’s relationship with:

A. Katherine Mansfield

B. Vita Sackville-West

C. E. M. Forster

D. Lytton Strachey

 

47. Dorothea Brooke is a central character in:

A. Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Hardy

B. MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot

C. Pride and Prejudice – Austen

D. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

 

48. Which character belongs to "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare?

A. Malvolio

B. Shylock

C. Volpone

D. Barabas

 

49. A rhetorical appeal based on emotion is known as:

A. Logos

B. Ethos

C. Pathos

D. Kairos

 

50. The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses is known as:

A. Epistrophe

B. Anaphora

C. Chiasmus

D. Anadiplosis