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. 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






2. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






4. 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






5. 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.






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






7. 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


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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. 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






18. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






19. 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...






20. 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


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






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






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






24. Written by Christopher Marlowe - Barabas is the protagonist - who uses his daughter (Abigail) to make others mad - and when she finds out - she joins a nunnery. She is then poisoned.






25. 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.






26. Modern English authors






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






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






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






30. Works by Charles Dickens






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






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






33. 18th Century Irish Satirist






34. 19th Century authors






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






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






37. 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






38. 18th Century authors






39. 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






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






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






42. '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.'






43. Mary Shelley was his second wife






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






48. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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