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. 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






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






3. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






5. 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


6. 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






7. 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






8. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






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. 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






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






14. 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






15. A poem






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






17. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






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






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






22. Book of poems






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






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






25. 18th Century authors






26. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






28. 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






29. 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






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






31. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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


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






33. '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.






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






35. '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.'






36. 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






37. Falls into a stream after going crazy






38. 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.






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






40. Jane Austen wrote ...






41. 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...






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






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






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






45. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






46. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy






47. 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


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






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






50. 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.