END OF 1st TERM TEST OF English Literature

Time allowance: 60 minutes

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Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by

five suggested answers or completions. Choose the best answer: A, B, C or D
1. _________is achieved when the audience is made aware of a disparity between
the facts of a situation and the characters' understanding of it. Which of the
following will correctly complete line 1?
(A) Aesthetic distance
(B) Dramatic irony
(C) Comic relief
(D) The pathetic fallacy
Questions 2-5 are based on the following passage.
I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability
of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many
times we reopen "King Lear,” never shall we find the good king banging his tankard
in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughters and their
lapdogs. Never will Emma rally, revived by the sympathetic salts in Flaubert's father’s
timely tear. Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through
between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our
friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fined for them...
Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but
unethical. We would prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog
stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest hook of poetry his age
has seen.
2. The passage argues that
(A) "stability of type" is more common in real life than in literature
(B) it is a waste of time to reread works of literature
(C) people never really betray each other the way that fictional characters do
(D) we expect humans to act as consistently as fictional characters do
3. The passage calls into question the concept of
(A) mimesis
(B) catharsis
(C) hamartia
(D) in medias res
4. The passage refers explicitly to
(A) Crime and Punishment
(B) Don Quixote
(C) Madame Bovary
(D) Anna Kumnina
5. The passage appears in a work in which a
(A) man falsely believes himself to be a medieval knight
(B) woman is made to wear a red letter on her bodice
(C) man remains youthful while a portrait of him ages
(D) man becomes obsessed with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter
Questions 6-11 are based on the following passage.
Let others better mound the running mass
Of metals, and inform the breathing brass.
And soften into flesh a marble face;
Plead better at the bar; describe the skies,
And when the stars descend, and when they rise.
But. Rome! ‘this tine alone, with awful sway.
To rule mankind, and make the world obey.
Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way;
To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free
These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
6. Which of the following most accurately describes the passage?
(A) The speaker argues that the fate of empires can be discovered by interpreting
celestial events.
(B) The speaker defends himself as a loyal citizen but expresses regret over the state
of the arts in Rome.
 (C) The speaker compliments Greek culture for its achievements in art and science,
and singles out administration as a Roman art.
(D) The speaker deplores the widespread use of slaves in the ancient world.
7. As used in line 6, “sway” most nearly means
(A) power
(B)resolve
(C) wisdom
(D) tact
8. Line 9 presents an example of
(A) anaphora
(B)apostrophe
(C) chiasmus
(D) periphrasis
9. Which of the following words or phrases has been omitted as understood after “worthy”
(line 10)?
(A) of
(B) before
(C) beside
(D) according to
10. Which line of the translated passage is an Alexandrine?
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 5
(D) 8
11. The passage is from
(A) Chapman’s translation of Homer
(B)Dryden’s translation of Virgil
(C) Sandys’ translation of Ovid
(D) Longfellow’s translation of Dante
Question 12-18 are based on the following passage
When ELeanor laid her head on her pillow that night, her mind was anxiously intent
on same plan by which she might extricate her father from his misery; and, in her warm-
hearted enthusiasm, self-sacrifice was decided on as the means to be adapted. Was not to
good an Agamemnon worthy of an Iphigenia? She would herself personally implore John
Bold to desist from his undertaking; she would explain to him her father's sorrows, the cruel
misery of his position; she would tell him how her father would die if he was thus dragged
before the public and exposed to such unmerited ignominy; she would appeal to his old
friendship, to his generosity, to his manliness. to his mercy; if need were, she would knee to
him for the favour she would ask; —but before she did this, the idea of love must be
banished. . . . She could not be understood as saying. Make my father free and I am the
reward. There would be no sacrifice in that; —not so hard Jephthah's daughter saved her
father; —not so could she show to that kindest, dearest of parents how much she
was able to bear for his good
12. The passage indicates that Eleanor
(A) has no respect for John Bold
(B) fears that her father dislikes John Bold
(C) wants to be a heroine by saving her father
(D) secretly mistrusts her father
13. Eleanor is characterized by her propensity to
(A) see herself as the object of everyone’s romantic intentions
(B) excuse her father’s shortcomings as charming foibles
(C) see plots and schemes behind apparently chance circumstances
(D) compare herself to figures from the Bible and classical literature
14. According to Eleanor, "sacrifice" (lines 4 and 18) should involve
(A)eliminating the possibility of marriage so that her actions appear disinterested
(B)relinquishing her dowry to repay the money owed John Bold
(C)pretending to admire qualities in John Bold that he does not have
(D) risking death to secure her father's independence
15. The Style of the passage features
(A) apostrophe
(B) soliloquy
(C) stream of consciousness
(D) free indirect discourse
16. Which of the following verbs is used in a way that is no longer idiomatic?
(A) “laid” (line 1)
(B) “extricate” (line 3)
(C) “were'" (line 14)
(D) “appeal” (line 12)
17. The two characters mentioned in line 4 belong to the house of______
(A) Atreus
(B) David
(C) Thebes
(D) Athens
18. Jephthah and Agamemnon are associated because both of them
(A) murdered their daughters in an angry rage
(B) banished their daughters for insulting them
(C) abdicated in favor of their daughters
(D) had their daughters put to death to fulfill a religious vow
Questions 19-25 are based on the following passage
I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet,
Yet still thou runts' more hobbling than is meet;
In better dress to trim thee was my mind,
But naught save homespun cloth is’ the’ house I find.
In this array ’among vulgar may’s though roam.
In critic’s hands beware thou dost not come,
And take thy way where yet thou art not known;
If for thy father asked, say thou hardest none;
And for thy mother, she alas is poor,
Which caused her thus to send thee out of door.
19. The speaker is comparing
(A) a father's and a mother’s love
(B) disabled and able-bodied people
(C) homemade clothing and manufactured cloth
(D) a book and a child
20. The word “feet” in line 1 refers to
(A) a person’s height
(B) lengths of fabric
(C) metrical units of poetry
(D) arduous tasks
21. As used in line 5, “vulgar" refers to
(A) immoral people
(B) people of different races
(C) common people
(D) dead languages
22. In line 8, “If for thy father asked" is best understood to mean
(A) before your father asks
(B) if you are asked who your father is
(C) because your father asked
(D) if your father asks you
23. Lines 8-10 are best interpreted io mean that
(A) the author resents her parents for failing to provide for her
(B) the author acknowledges her mother's sacrifices in nearing her alone
(C) the author lacks the means to craft her work skillfully before publishing it
(D) embarrassment has motivated the author to hide her humble origins
24. The poem is written in
(A) heroic couplets
(B) terse rime
(C) ballad measure
(D) blank verse
25. The author is
(A) Mary Rowlandson
(B) Anne Bradstreet
(C) Phillis Wheatley
(D) Harriet Beecher Stowe
26. In which period of literature involves genres such as: epic poetry, hagiography,
sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles.
(A) Before colonel literature
(B) Old English literature
(C) Middle English literature
(D) English Renaissance
27. ______ was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15 th and
early 16th centuries.
(A) Post independence
(B) Middle English literature
(C) English Renaissance
(D) Colonial literature
28. Geoffrey Chaucer: (c. 1343-1400) an English poet. He is often called ‘the father of
English poetry’ . His best-known work is :
(A) The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest.
(B) The Canterbury Tales.
(C) Sense and Sensibility
(D) Hucker Burry Finn
29. Most of his poetry and his historical novels are based on the traditions and history of
Scotland, especially the border region. His most famous poems include The Lay of the Last
Minstrel and The Lady of the Lake, and his best-known novels include Waverley.
(A) Sir Walter Scott
(B) Sir Athur Conal Doyle
(C) Charles Dickens
(D) Oscar Wilde
30. The term______is used to describe certain tendencies in Post World War II literature
(A) Post World War II literature
(B) The 19th century literature
(C) Realism
(D) Post- modern literature
31. Who were the most ancient inhabitants on the British Isles?
(A) The Romans
(B) The Celts
(C) The Anglo-Saxons
(D) The Normans
32. Who came to the British Isles after the Romans had left Britain?
(A) The Anglo-Saxons
(B) The Norman
(C) The Britons
(D) The Danes
33. Who gave England its name “Angle land”?
(A) The Celts
(B) The Germanic tribes
(C) The Romans
(D) The Normans
34. The Anglo-Saxons were
(A) Celtic inhabitants.
(B). Roman invaders.
(C) Germanic tribes
(D) Scandinavian Vikings
35. The Normans conquered England in
(A) 55 B.C.
(B) 43 A.D.
(C) 410 A.D.
(D) 1066.
36. Who was the first king to be crowned in Westminster Abbey?
(A) King Arthur
(B) King Alfred
(C) Henry VIII
(D) William the Conqueror
37. Who were King Arthur’s companions?
(A) Merry men
(B) The Knights of the Round Table
(C) Legendary heroes
(D) Common warriors
38. Which of the names does not fit the list?
(A) William Blake
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) William Byrd
40. Which name is inappropriate for the list?
(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Oscar Wilde
(C) Benjamin Britten
(D) Daniel Defoe
41. Which of the names differs from the rest?
(A) Walter Scott
(B) Arthur Conan Doyle
(C) Robert Stevenson
(D) George Bernard Shaw
42. is considered “the father of the English poetry”.
(A) Geoffrey Chaucer
(B) George Gordon Byron
(C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
(D) Robert Burns
43. is not a Lake Poet.
(A) Samuel Coleridge
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) Thomas Moore
(D) Robert Southey
44. Which of the following writers did not belong to the Angry Young Men?
(A) Kinsley Amis
(B) John Braine
(C) John Wain
(D) John Osborne
45. is a Scottish writer.
(A) Archibald Cronin
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) Bram Stoker
(D) Joseph Conrad
46. Which of the following authors is an Irish writer?
(A) William Golding
(B) Arthur Conan Doyle
(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Walter Scott
47. The author of “An American Tragedy” is
(A) Mark Twain.
(B) Ernest Hemingway.
(C) Theodore Dreiser.
(D) John Steinbeck.
48. Which of the following writers is the Nobel Laureate for Literature in 1954?
(A) Mark Twain
(B) Ernest Hemingway
(C) John Steinbeck
(D) William Saroyan
49. Which novel is not written by Ernest Hemingway?
(A) “A Farewell to Arms”
(B) “The Fifth Column”
(C) “Cabbages and Kings”
(D) “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
50. ________is considered the creator of the classical detective story.
(A) Arthur Conan Doyle
 (B) Agatha Christie
(C) Edgar Alan Poe
(D) Each of them
51. Which of the following literary works is recognized as “the Great American
Novel”?
(A) Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick”
(B) Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
(C) F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”
(D) Each of them
52. Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage are
(A) composers.
(B)painters.
(C) architects.
(D) actors.
53. is the director and producer of the film “Titanic”.
(A) Steven Spielberg
(B) James Cameron
(C) Guy Ritchie
(D) Quentin Tarantino
54. Which of the following writers is an Australian classic?
(A) Henry Lawson
(B) Peter Carey
(C) Thomas Keneally
(D) K. Johnson
55. The author of “Say No to Death” is
(A) Henry Lawson.
(B)Katherine Prichard.
(C) Dimfna Cusack.
(D) A. Marshall.
56. is the famous Australian aboriginal poets.
(A) Katherine Prichard
 (B) Dimfna Cusack
(C) K. Worker
(D) Iris Murdoch
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57. ____is recognized as one of the great English-language writers of the 20 century.

(A) Patrick White

(B) Dimfna Cusack
(C) Katherine Prichard
(D) Henry Lawson
58. Edmund Hillary is
(A) a writer.
(B) a nuclear physicist.
(C) an actor.
(D) a traveller.
59. ______ worked no immediate transformation on either the language or the literature
of the English.
(A) The Celts
(B) The Norman Conquest
(C) The Romans
(D) The Germanic tribes
60. The most puzzling episode in the development of later Middle English literature is
the apparently sudden reappearance of unrhymed alliterative poetry in the__________ .
(A) mid-13th century
(B) mid-13th century
(C) mid-14th century
(D) mid-15th century