Free Literary Movements and Periods MCQs with Answers
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- A. Christina Rossetti
- B. Gerard Manley Hopkins
- C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
- D. Ted Hughes
Explanation: Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote during the Victorian period, but most of his poetry was published posthumously in 1918, after his death.
Correct answer: Gerard Manley Hopkins- A. George Eliot
- B. Christopher Marlowe
- C. Howard, Earl of Surrey
- D. William Shakespeare
Explanation: The Earl of Surrey, born around 1517, wrote before Marlowe and Shakespeare, while George Eliot belonged to the nineteenth century.
Correct answer: Howard, Earl of Surrey- A. Blake's "Songs of Innocence"
- B. Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
- C. Lord Byron's "Don Juan"
- D. Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"
Explanation: Blake's Songs of Innocence was first published in 1789. Frankenstein appeared in 1818, while Don Juan and Ivanhoe were published in 1819.
Correct answer: Blake's "Songs of Innocence"- A. Regency
- B. Victorian
- C. Romantic
- D. Restoration
Explanation: The Restoration began in 1660, when the monarchy was restored under Charles II.
Correct answer: Restoration- A. Regency
- B. Restoration
- C. Romantic
- D. Victorian
Explanation: The Brontë sisters published their major novels in the Victorian period, which began in 1837.
Correct answer: Victorian- A. Restoration
- B. Victorian
- C. Middle English
- D. Regency
Explanation: Jane Austen's novels were written and published mainly during the Regency era, associated with the rule of the Prince Regent from 1811 to…
Correct answer: Regency- A. Epic Poetry
- B. Lyric Poetry
- C. The Essay
- D. The Novel
Explanation: The Victorian period’s greatest literary achievement is generally considered to be the novel, seen in the work of Dickens, George Eliot…
Correct answer: The Novel- A. Victorian poet
- B. a modern poet
- C. Both
- D. None of these
Explanation: Yeats began his literary career in the late Victorian period but became one of the major poets of literary modernism.
Correct answer: Both- A. Robert Herrick
- B. Caedmon
- C. Dante
- D. Cynewulf
Explanation: Robert Herrick is a leading poet of the Caroline Period, the age associated with Charles I.
Correct answer: Robert Herrick- A. Venice
- B. London
- C. Paris
- D. Florence
Explanation: The Renaissance is generally traced to Florence, where a revival of classical learning, art and humanism began before spreading across…
Correct answer: Florence- A. Robert Herrick
- B. Jeremy Taylor
- C. John Dryden
- D. Thomas Hobbes
Explanation: John Dryden is regarded as the leading writer of the Restoration period and became its major poet, critic, and dramatist.
Correct answer: John Dryden- A. Samuel Johnson
- B. John Donne
- C. Geoffrey Chaucer
- D. Robert Browning
Explanation: John Donne is the best-known representative of the metaphysical poets, whose work is marked by wit, intellectual argument, and striking…
Correct answer: John Donne33. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
- A. Victorian
- B. Elizabethan
- C. Romantic
- D. None of these
Explanation: The Romantic age is associated with powerful personal emotion, imagination, and vivid imagery, often drawn from nature.
Correct answer: Romantic- A. Lyrical Ballads
- B. My Last Duchess
- C. A Tale of Two Cities
- D. Canonization
Explanation: The Romantic Revival is conventionally dated from the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.
Correct answer: Lyrical Ballads- A. Imagination
- B. Modernism
- C. Post-modernism
- D. None of the above
Explanation: Romantic poetry places imagination, emotion, nature, and individual experience above strict classical rules.
Correct answer: Imagination- A. Roger Bacon
- B. Robert Browning
- C. Geoffrey Chaucer
- D. Cynewulf
Explanation: Geoffrey Chaucer is traditionally called the father of English literature because he established English as a major literary language…
Correct answer: Geoffrey Chaucer- A. Anglo-Norman
- B. Anglo-Saxon
- C. Chaucer's period
- D. Middle Age
Explanation: The Anglo-Saxon period is generally treated as the earliest period of English literature, beginning before the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Correct answer: Anglo-Saxon- A. 1340-1385
- B. 1240-1300
- C. 1340-1400
- D. 1340-1399
Explanation: The Age of Chaucer is conventionally dated from about 1340, Chaucer’s birth, to 1400, the year of his death.
Correct answer: 1340-1400- A. Byron
- B. Browning
- C. Shelley
- D. Keats
Explanation: Percy Bysshe Shelley was deeply influenced by William Godwin’s radical philosophical and political ideas.
Correct answer: Shelley- A. Five
- B. Four
- C. Six
- D. None of these
Explanation: The commonly recognised major English Romantic poets are six: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
Correct answer: Six