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. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?






2. 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.






3. 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






4. '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 -






5. Falls into a stream after going crazy






6. Written by Sir Walter Scott - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disliked by his father because he loves a girl and is friends with some of the Normans -there is a tournament - and Ivanhoe is injured and the daughter wants to take him to get help - -battles e






7. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






10. Book of poems






11. 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






12. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth






13. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


14. The first tale from Canterbury Tales - this story was written in iambic pentameter - about courtly love and ethical dilemmas - Arcite and Palamon are imprisoned. They both fall for a woman named Emily which causes tension and hate.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






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






18. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






19. The Comedians was written by who






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






21. Mary Shelley was his second wife






22. 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






23. '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.






24. 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






25. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






27. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king






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






29. Written by Christopher Marlowe - story about a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge - allotted twenty-four years of life on Earth - during which time he will have Mephistophilis as his personal servant. Then - he must repay with ti






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






31. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?






32. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


34. 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






35. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...






36. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems






37. 17th century authors






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21






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






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






45. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'






46. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?






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






48. 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.






49. Men and Women - a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes - all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators - some identified and some not - was written by...






50. Works by Jonathon Swift

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183