Twentieth Century British Literature Up To 1940 Set 1

Master of Arts in English (MA English)

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This set of Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Twentieth Century British Literature Up To 1940 Set 1

Q1 | To whom did Hopkins dedicate 'The Windhover'?
  • mary
  • peter
  • moses
  • christ
Answer: christ
Q2 | Hopkins read classics at which of these universities?
  • oxford
  • cambridge
  • dublin
  • leeds
Answer: oxford
Q3 | What event inspired Hopkins to return to writing poetry in 1875?
  • famine
  • earthquake
  • shipwreck
  • war
Answer: shipwreck
Q4 | Hopkins coined which of these terms to describe the individual uniqueness of each creation?
  • inscape
  • instress
  • signifier
  • sprung rhythm
Answer: inscape
Q5 | Which language that Hopkins learned at St Beuno's seminary greatly influenced his poetry?
  • welsh
  • gaelic
  • erse
  • cornish
Answer: welsh
Q6 | “Kingdom of day lights dauphin dapple dawn drawn falcon” Identify the figure of speech used.
  • simile
  • metaphor
  • assonance
  • alliteration
Answer: alliteration
Q7 | What shine “blue beak”?
  • sky
  • feathers
  • embers
  • eyes
Answer: embers
Q8 | Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poems in 1918?
  • robert bridges
  • stephen spender
  • richard dixon
  • coventry patmore
Answer: robert bridges
Q9 | Which order did Gerard Manley Hopkins join?
  • carmelite
  • jesuit
  • franciscan
  • benedictine
Answer: jesuit
Q10 | Identify the term that is not used by Hopkins to describe the Windhover?
  • minion,
  • dauphin
  • falcon
  • beast
Answer: beast
Q11 | The title of Yeats' 'The Second Coming' is a reference to what event?
  • the return of jesus christ
  • world war i
  • world war ii
  • the modernism era
Answer: the return of jesus christ
Q12 | Where is Byzantium located?
  • ireland
  • scotland
  • turkey
  • italy
Answer: turkey
Q13 | Name the ninth century Byzantine Emperor referred to in the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium
  • theodore
  • tiresias
  • theophilus
  • trescothick
Answer: theophilus
Q14 | What does gyre mean?
  • spirit
  • spiral
  • sphinx
  • stone image
Answer: spiral
Q15 | In what sense does Yeats use the term 'Spiritus Mundi'?
  • collective meaning of broken images
  • collective unconscious that all human beings share
  • collective myths that society believe
  • collective memory of trauma
Answer: collective unconscious that all human beings share
Q16 | What does "the centre cannot hold" mean?
  • jesus christ cannot save us
  • summer cannot last forever
  • the world\s core values and meanings are falling apart
  • the heart cannot sustain the mind
Answer: the world\s core values and meanings are falling apart
Q17 | Which month is the "cruellest"?
  • september
  • april
  • may
  • december
Answer: april
Q18 | By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept...
  • the seine
  • the nile
  • the thames
  • leman
Answer: leman
Q19 | Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"?
  • timbuktu
  • marseilles
  • novgorod
  • vienna
Answer: vienna
Q20 | Magnus Martyr is a:
  • ocean
  • church
  • epic poem
  • football stadium
Answer: church
Q21 | The narrator is told that he should fear death by:
  • fire
  • water
  • starvation
  • disease
Answer: water
Q22 | When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to:
  • spanish tragedy
  • ovid\s metamorphoses
  • hamlet
  • oliver goldsmith\s the vicar of wakefield
Answer: oliver goldsmith\s the vicar of wakefield
Q23 | Who rapes Philomela?
  • tereus
  • odysseus
  • the typist
  • zeus
Answer: tereus
Q24 | Translate "Oed' und leer das Meer
  • the ship has arrived, appearing on the horizon
  • a kiss is just a kiss
  • isolde is lost forever
  • desolate and empty is the sea
Answer: desolate and empty is the sea
Q25 | In what city is Queen Victoria Street (in the poem)?
  • new york
  • london
  • boston
  • gloucester
Answer: london
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