Literary Knowledge Quiz

Who is the main hero of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf?

• Robin Hood

• Lancelot

• Hrothgar

• Sir Gawain

• Beowulf

Which language influenced English after the Norman Conquest?

• Latin

• French

• German

• Norse

• Dutch

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is written in which form?

• Frame narrative

• Rhyming couplets

• Prose

• Haiku

• Free verse

Which authors are part of the Romantic Period?

• T.S. Eliot

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Lord Byron

• Virginia Woolf

• William Wordsworth

What genre best fits Shakespeare's Hamlet?

• Tragedy

• Drama

• Romance

• Comedy

• Satire

Who among the following was a Victorian novelist?

• Charles Dickens

• George Eliot

• Daniel Defoe

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• T.S. Eliot

Which two poets are associated with Lyrical Ballads?

• William Wordsworth

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Alexander Pope

• Robert Burns

• George Byron

Which themes are found in George Eliot's works?

• Epic heroism

• Social criticism

• Morality and realism

• Mythology

• Abstract symbolism

The Neoclassical Period emphasized which characteristics?

• Romanticism

• Stream of consciousness

• Gothic horror

• Classical inspiration

• Order and reason

What literary techniques are used in Virginia Woolf's works?

• Interior monologue

• Stream of consciousness

• Sonnets

• Heroic couplets

• Allegorical verse