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English Literature: Britain's Lite History

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was NOT a typical Anglo-Saxon literature?


a)

song

b)

heroic poem

c)

chronicle novel

d)

war tale

2.

Who is the leader during the Renaissance period at its height?

a)

Queen Victoria

b)

Henry VII

c)

Queen Elizabeth I

d)

King George

3.

What is the period of the rise of William Shakespeare?

a)

Renaissance

b)

Modern Period

c)

Middle English

d)

Old English

4.

Who is one of the authors whose fame rose in the Late Modernism?

a)

Thomas Hardy

b)

J.K.Rowling

c)

Christopher Marlowe

d)

Virginia Woolf

5.

Why is it that John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and Abraham Colley called the Metaphysical Poets?

- Their works are characterized by the use of ...

a)

humor

b)

conceit

c)

puns

d)

physics

6.

Which period of English literature starts from 1950’s?

a)

Old English

b)

Modern English

c)

Postmodern English

d)

Middle English

7.

  Who among the English writers was NOT from Romantic Period? 

a)

Robert Burns

b)

Lord Byron

c)

William Wordsworth

d)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

8.

Which literary period points outs refinement, clarity, elegance, and balance of judgement?

a)

Jacobean Age

b)

Elizabethan Age

c)

Restoration

d)

Augustan Age

9.

What country was the literary form of sonnet English writers adopted from?

a)

Italy

b)

France

c)

Spain

d)

Germany

10.

What is the most noticeable feature of Old English poetry?

a)

Structural alliteration

b)

Lyrical ballads

c)

Metaphysical ideas

d)

Various aspects of love

11.

Why did the number of people interested in English literature increase during the Renaissance period?

a)

The introduction of money economy

b)

The development of education

c)

The introduction of printing press

d)

The introduction of judicial system

12.

What did Romantics show more than the previous eras?

a)

spirituality

b)

love

c)

emotion

d)

loyalty

13.

What were the moral virtues of literature in Victorian age?

a)

love for the country and faithfulness and conjugal love in the family

b)

conflict between those in power and the common masses of laborers and the poor

c)

heroines in physical danger

d)

an accurate and detailed portrayal of ordinary contemporary life

14.

The war of roses in Britain refer to _____.

a)

religious wars

b)

civil wars

c)

resistance wars

d)

wars over roses

15.

What is contemporary literature concerned with?

a)

the ease of communication

b)

the inner thoughts of people

c)

the human potential

d)

the connection between people

16.

What is another name of the Old English period?

a)

Anglo-Saxon period

b)

Enlightenment period

c)

The Age of Reason

d)

Medieval period

17.

Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?

a)

Geoffrey Chaucer

b)

Sir Thomas Malory

c)

Bede

d)

Caedmon

18.

The Renaissance Period is also called …

a)

The Elizabethan Age

b)

Neoclassical period

c)

The Victorian Age

d)

Mediaval period

19.

What literary period did William Wordsworth belong to?

a)

Romantic period

b)

Old English period

c)

Enlightenment period

d)

Victorian Age

20.

Which incident is considered as the beginning of the Renaissance in England?

a)

the death of Chaucer

b)

the end of War of Roses

c)

the crusade

d)

the birth of Shakespeare

21.

What does the Restoration period concern about?

a)

romance

b)

reason and logic

c)

patriotism

d)

individualism

22.

Romanticism emphasized …

a)

Romanticism emphasized …

b)

Individual’s imagination and emotion

c)

Innermost struggle

d)

The influence of media

23.

Which is a popular form of literature of the Medieval period?

a)

folk ballads

b)

essays

c)

poetry

d)

drama

24.

What influenced writers' ways of thinking in the 20th century?

a)

Individualism

b)

gender equality

c)

the demand of independence

d)

the growth of science and technology

25.

When did literature begin to reach the masses?

a)

during the Renaissance period

b)

during the Victorian period

c)

during the Restoration period

d)

during the Modern period