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. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural






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






3. 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.






4. Book of poems






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






6. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






7. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






8. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?






9. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment - and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice.






10. Explores new thoughts on death by comparing/contrasting the mortal human with the immortal nightingale - ends with accepting the idea that pleasure must end and that death in not escapable






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






12. 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.






13. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






14. Jane Austen wrote ...






15. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work






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






17. The first of 4 stanzas discusses concerns about lost vision - the second of 4 stanzas describes how age causes man to lose sight of the divine - and the third of 3 stanzas is hopeful in that the memory of the divine allows us to sympathise with our f






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






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






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






21. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment






22. Works by Charles Dickens






23. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'






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






25. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






26. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






27. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn






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






29. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost






30. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)






31. The 'shrew' of the title






32. Falls into a stream after going crazy






33. Major italian poet - known as the 'Supreme Poet' - 'Father of the Italian Language' - Wrote Divine Comedy - a masterpiece of the world and very well known






34. 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.






35. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






36. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians






37. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier






38. The Comedians was written by who






39. This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character - a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela - encountering Native Americans - captives and mutineers before being rescued.






40. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality






41. 18th Century Irish Satirist






42. 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






43. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing






44. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'






45. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy






46. 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.






47. A poem






48. 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






49. The poem satirises a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods - Pope keeps a sense that beauty is fragile - and that the loss of a lock of hair touches Belinda deeply.






50. Leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it - employs a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed - at least in part - for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests



Major Subjects

Tests & Exams


AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests