Exam on History of English Literature (Periods)

 

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1. The Old English period is known for which of the following works?

a) Paradise Lost b) The Canterbury Tales c) Beowulf d) Hamlet

2. Which literary period is known as the "Age of Chaucer"?

a) Middle English b) Renaissance c) Romantic Period d) Victorian Period

3. The Elizabethan Age is a part of which broader literary period?

a) Renaissance b) Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern

4. Who is considered the father of English poetry?

a) William Shakespeare b) Geoffrey Chaucer c) John Milton d) Edmund Spenser

5. The play "Hamlet" belongs to which period?

a) Old English b) Middle English c) Renaissance d) Neoclassical

6. Which period is also known as the "Augustan Age"?

a) Romantic b) Victorian c) Renaissance d) Neoclassical

7. The Industrial Revolution significantly influenced which literary period?

a) Renaissance b) Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern

8. The poem "The Faerie Queene" was written during which period?

a) Renaissance b) Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern

9. Which literary period is known for its emphasis on nature and individualism?

a) Renaissance b) Neoclassical c) Romantic d) Victorian

10. The Victorian novel often addressed which of the following issues?

a) Religious doubt b) Industrialization c) Social inequality d) All of the above

11. Who is known as the leading poet of the Romantic period?

a) T.S. Eliot b) William Wordsworth c) George Bernard Shaw d) Geoffrey Chaucer

12. "The Waste Land" is a notable work from which literary period?

a) Renaissance b) Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern

13. Which period saw the rise of modernist writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf?

a) Renaissance b) Neoclassical c) Victorian d) Modern

14. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Romantic period?

a) Emphasis on emotion b) Interest in nature c) Focus on classical ideals d) Individualism

15. Which period in English literature is often referred to as "The Age of Reason"?

a) Renaissance b) Neoclassical c) Romantic d) Victorian

16. The Restoration period is marked by the works of which of the following writers?

a) William Blake b) John Milton c) John Dryden d) George Orwell

17. "Paradise Lost" was written during which period?

a) Old English b) Middle English c) Renaissance d) Neoclassical

18. Which period is known for the development of the sonnet form in English literature?

a) Renaissance b) Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern

19. The term "stream of consciousness" is associated with which literary period?

a) Renaissance b) Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern

20. The Neoclassical period emphasized which of the following?

a) Imagination b) Reason and logic c) Nature d) Personal feelings

21. The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" was written during which period?

a) Old English b) Middle English c) Renaissance d) Neoclassical

22. Which period is associated with the rise of Gothic fiction?

a) Renaissance b) Romantic c) Victorian d) Neoclassical

23. "The Canterbury Tales" was written in which period?

a) Old English b) Middle English c) Renaissance d) Neoclassical

24. The modernist movement in literature was a reaction to which major event?

a) The Industrial Revolution b) The French Revolution c) World War I d) The American Civil War

25. Which period is known for the rise of the English novel?

a) Renaissance b) Neoclassical c) Victorian d) Modern

26. "Ulysses" by James Joyce is a key work of which literary period?

a) Renaissance b) Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern

27. Who is the most famous playwright of the Elizabethan Age?

a) Ben Jonson b) Christopher Marlowe c) William Shakespeare d) John Donne

28. The phrase "Restoration comedy" refers to which period?

a) Old English b) Renaissance c) Neoclassical d) Romantic

29. Which Victorian novelist is known for works like "Great Expectations" and "Oliver Twist"?

a) George Eliot b) Charles Dickens c) Thomas Hardy d) Jane Austen

30. The "Lost Generation" writers belong to which period?

a) Romantic b) Victorian c) Modern d) Renaissance

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