Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP World Literature

Subject : clep
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






2. The 'shrew' of the title






3. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady






4. Written by Emily Bronte - the name of a farmhouse - the all-encompassing and passionate - yet thwarted - love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.






5. One of the earliest English history plays - telescopes most of Edward II's reign into a single narrative - beginning with the recall of his favourite - Piers Gaveston - from exile - and ending with his son Edward III's execution of Mortimer Junior fo






6. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?






7. This story is made up of 108 sonnets and 11 songs - 'aster' (star) Greek 'Stella' (star) Latin - 'Phil' (lover) - Thus Astrophel is the star lover - and Stella is his star.






8. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)






9. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who






10. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?






11. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power






12. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus






13. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)


14. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






15. 'Tis better to have loved and lost - Than never to have loved at all. is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period.






16. 17th century authors






17. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?






18. The founder of gothic literature - Wrote The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Gaston de Blondeville - The Italian - The Mysteries of Udolpho - The Romance of the Forest and A Sicilian Romance.






19. Is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work - although generally - unlike the stanza - each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit.






20. Works by Jonathon Swift


21. If the daughters don't marry and the father dies - the girls and their mom will be left without a home. Main characters: Elizabeth Bennett and Darcy






22. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?






23. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors






24. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet






25. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?






26. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?






27. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.






28. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe






29. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge






30. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


31. Heroine thinks she is good at matchmaking and thinks that she will never find love for herself - ends up with Knightley after a long time






32. Written by William Blake - the Lily - the Cloud - the Worm - the Clod of Clay...characters - asks the question 'why does the springtime of life inevitably fade so that all things must end?'






33. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain






34. Deals with man's relationship with time - the universe - and the divine - only through realizing Christ's sacrifice for mankind is an individual capable of being saved.






35. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






36. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.






37. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?






38. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.






39. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?






40. Book of poems






41. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters






42. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet






43. Criseyde becomes the object of affection for Troilus (a man who had scoffed at love) - There is an exchange of prisoners between the Trojans and the Greeks. Criseyde has to escape - but promises she will return to Troilus in 10 days. Who wrote this s






44. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






45. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when






46. 'Money - money - money - and what money can make of life' - a rich man dies - the will says that John Harmon will get the estate if he marries a woman named Bella whom he has never met -






47. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers






48. Wrote 'Troilus and Criseyde' - 'The Knight's Tale' - 'Canterbury Tales' - known as the 'Father of English Literature' - considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages - first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey






49. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...






50. 18th Century authors