Exam 3 Review British Literature

Who wrote this?

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people’s happiness were in his guardianship!---How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow!--How much of good or evil must be done by him!​ (a)  

• Jane Austen
• Robert Browning
• Christina Rossetti
• Alfred Tennyson
• Matthew Arnold
• Thomas Hardy
• William Butler Yeats
• T.S. Eliot
• Alfred Hitchcock

Who wrote this?

Fix his own time, accept too his own price,

And shut the money into this small hand

When next it takes mine. Will it? tenderly?

Oh, I'll content him,—but to-morrow, Love!

I often am much wearier than you think​ (a)  

• Robert Browning
• Christina Rossetti
• Alfred Tennyson
• Matthew Arnold
• Thomas Hardy
• William Butler Yeats
• T.S. Eliot
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Jane Austen

Who wrote this?

How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?​ ​ (a)  

• Christina Rossetti
• Alfred Tennyson
• Matthew Arnold
• Thomas Hardy
• William Butler Yeats
• T.S. Eliot
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Jane Austen

Who wrote this?

The pleasant whining of a mandoline

And a clatter and a chatter from within

Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls

Of Magnus Martyr hold

Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.​ (a)  

• Christina Rossetti
• Alfred Tennyson
• Matthew Arnold
• Thomas Hardy
• T.S. Eliot
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Jane Austen

Who wrote this?

 Twilight and evening bell,

      And after that the dark!

And may there be no sadness of farewell,

      When I embark;​ (a)  

• Christina Rossetti
• Alfred Tennyson
• Matthew Arnold
• Thomas Hardy
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Jane Austen
• T.S. Eliot

What is this poem called?

Fix his own time, accept too his own price,

And shut the money into this small hand

When next it takes mine. Will it? tenderly?

Oh, I'll content him,—but to-morrow, Love!

I often am much wearier than you think​

What is the poem called?

How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

What is the poem called?

 Twilight and evening bell,

      And after that the dark!

And may there be no sadness of farewell,

      When I embark;

Who is the poet that excels in the dramatic monologue?

• T.S. Eliot

• Rossetti

• Tennyson

• Browning

Who assumes a false identity to protect herself while working as a foreign freelance spy for the British government?

• Laura

• The Sheriff

• Ms Smith

• Crofter