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. 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






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






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






4. 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


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






6. Taming of the Shrew was written by...






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. Modern English authors






13. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. William Yeats wrote...






19. 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






20. 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...






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






22. '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 -






23. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






24. 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?'






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






26. Works by Charles Dickens






27. 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






28. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso






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






30. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






36. 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






37. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who - disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry - looks for distraction in foreign lands.

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


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






39. 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






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






41. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.






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






43. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






44. 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






45. 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






46. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






47. 19th Century authors






48. 18th Century Irish Satirist






49. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life






50. 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.