English Professor MCQs

 

1–15: History of English Literature

1. Who is often called the “morning star of the Renaissance” in English literature?
   A) Geoffrey Chaucer
   B) John Gower
   C) Thomas More
   D) William Tyndale
2. Which battle marks the end of the Old English period?
   A) Battle of Agincourt
   B) Battle of Bosworth Field
   C) Battle of Hastings
   D) Battle of Naseby
3. The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet is:
   A) abba abba cde cde
   B) ababcdcdefefgg
   C) abab bcbc cdcd ee
   D) abab cdcd efef gg
4. “University Wits” were active during the:
   A) Early Tudor period
   B) Elizabethan age
   C) Restoration period
   D) Romantic age
5. Work inaugurating the English novel tradition:
   A) Robinson Crusoe
   B) Pamela
   C) Tom Jones
   D) Joseph Andrews
6. “Metaphysical poets” term popularized by:
   A) T. S. Eliot
   B) Samuel Johnson
   C) Matthew Arnold
   D) F. R. Leavis
7. Age associated with wit, satire, decorum:
   A) Romantic
   B) Victorian
   C) Neoclassical
   D) Modernist
8. “Stream of consciousness” emerged in:
   A) Augustan satire
   B) High Victorian fiction
   C) Modernist fiction
   D) Postmodern metafiction
9. “Angry Young Men” linked to decade:
   A) 1920s
   B) 1930s
   C) 1950s
   D) 1970s
10. “Make it new” slogan by:
    A) William Wordsworth
    B) Ezra Pound
    C) W. B. Yeats
    D) T. S. Eliot
11. “Kitchen sink drama” labels:
    A) Restoration comedies
    B) 1950s–60s social realist plays
    C) Irish Revival drama
    D) Theatre of the Absurd
12. Period of industrial novel, social problem fiction:
    A) Restoration
    B) Victorian
    C) Edwardian
    D) Georgian
13. “Aesthetic Movement” emphasized:
    A) Political propaganda
    B) Art for morality
    C) Art for art’s sake
    D) Religious reform
14. Group with rural nostalgia, early 20th century:
    A) Imagists
    B) War Poets
    C) Georgians
    D) The Movement
15. “The Movement” poets reacted against:
    A) Romanticism
    B) Victorian realism
    C) Modernist difficulty
    D) War poetry

16–30: Authors, Texts, Genres

16. “The Waste Land” published:
    A) 1919
    B) 1922
    C) 1925
    D) 1930
17. Middle English verse romance:
    A) Piers Plowman
    B) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    C) Canterbury Tales
    D) Everyman
18. “Rasselas” described as:
    B) Moral/philosophical romance
    A) Gothic romance
    C) Picaresque novel
    D) Historical chronicle
19. “The Rape of the Lock” is:
    A) Tragic ode
    B) Mock-epic
    C) Sentimental elegy
    D) Pastoral dialogue
20. “The Prelude” primarily:
    A) Dramatic monologue
    B) Epic of war
    C) Autobiographical epic
    D) Verse satire
21. In “Heart of Darkness”, Marlow’s tale aboard:
    A) Dover packet
    B) Nellie
    C) Pequod
    D) Hispaniola
22. “Waiting for Godot” originally in:
    A) English
    B) French
    C) German
    D) Irish Gaelic
23. “Wide Sargasso Sea” prequel to:
    A) Wuthering Heights
    B) Jane Eyre
    C) Great Expectations
    D) Tess
24. Eustacia Vye in:
    A) Return of the Native
    B) Jude the Obscure
    C) Mayor of Casterbridge
    D) Far from the Madding Crowd
25. “To the Lighthouse” uses:
    A) Epistolary
    B) Chronicle
    C) Free indirect discourse
    D) Dramatic dialogue
26. “Goblin Market” read as:
    A) Children’s verse
    B) Religious sermon
    C) Allegory of temptation
    D) Political pamphlet
27. “Dover Beach” reflects:
    A) Medieval code
    B) Reformation
    C) Victorian faith crisis
    D) Post-1918 disillusionment
28. “Sons and Lovers” influenced by:
    A) Psychoanalysis
    B) Marxism
    C) Postcolonialism
    D) Linguistics
29. “She Stoops to Conquer” classified as:
    A) Comedy of manners
    B) Sentimental
    C) Restoration tragedy
    D) Laughing comedy (Note: Often grouped with anti-sentimental)
30. “Turn of the Screw” interpreted as:
    A) Ghost story
    B) Empire allegory
    C) Psychological unreliable narrative
    D) Historical romance

31–40: Theory, Criticism, Terms

31. “Intentional fallacy” by:
    A) New Historicism
    B) New Criticism
    C) Reader-Response
    D) Structuralism
32. “Discourse” for power/knowledge by:
    A) Abrams
    B) Foucault
    C) Saussure
    D) Derrida
33. Narratology “focalization”:
    A) Time order
    B) Perspective
    C) Moral stance
    D) Figurative language
34. “Mirror and lamp” contrasts:
    A) Realism/naturalism
    B) Classical/Romantic theories
    C) Form/content
    D) Allegory/symbol
35. Postcolonial “hybridity” by:
    A) Said
    B) Spivak
    C) Homi Bhabha
    D) Fanon
36. “Defamiliarization” by:
    A) Russian Formalism
    B) Structuralism
    C) Marxism
    D) Psychoanalysis
37. Text commenting on fictionality:
    A) Didactic
    B) Mimetic
    C) Metafictional
    D) Symbolist
38. Feminist “androcentric canon”:
    B) Male-centered traditions
    A) Nature-focused
    C) Religious
    D) Machine writing
39. “Close reading” typical of:
    A) Biographical
    B) New Criticism
    C) Cultural Materialism
    D) Deconstruction
40. “Intertextuality” emphasizes:
    A) Originality
    B) Fixed meaning
    C) Text relations
    D) Historical allusions

41–50: Language, Pedagogy

41. Phonology meaning-distinguishing unit:
    A) Morpheme
    B) Phoneme
    C) Grapheme
    D) Lexeme
42. Morphology minimal unit:
    A) Morpheme
    B) Phoneme
    C) Syllable
    D) Allophone
43. Krashen “affective filter”:
    B) Emotional barriers
    A) Articulation
    C) L1 interference
    D) Logic
44. CLT emphasizes:
    A) Grammar rules
    B) Translation
    C) Fluency/interaction
    D) Dictation
45. Test measuring claims:
    A) Reliability
    B) Validity
    C) Washback
    D) Norming
46. Stylistics “foregrounding”:
    A) Ordinary language
    B) Attention-attracting features
    C) Poetry figures only
    D) Grammar
47. “Dramatic monologue”:
    B) Single speaker to silent listener
    A) Poet on craft
    C) Debate
    D) Chorus
48. “Bildungsroman”:
    C) Protagonist’s formation
    A) Multiple narrators
    B) Saint autobiography
    D) War only
49. Metrics: unstressed-stressed:
    A) Trochee
    B) Iamb
    C) Spondee
    D) Anapest
50. “Objective correlative” by:
    B) T. S. Eliot
    A) Leavis
    C) Frye
    D) Brooks

1–15: Literary History & Periods

1. The "Pearl Poet" is best known for:
   A) Piers Plowman
   B) Pearl and Sir Gawain
   C) The Owl and the Nightingale
   D) Ancrene Wisse
2. The "Miracle Plays" were primarily performed on:
   A) Royal courts
   B) Corpus Christi day
   C) Easter Sunday
   D) May Day festivals
3. "The Faerie Queene" is an example of:
   A) Blank verse epic
   B) Spenserian stanza epic
   C) Alexandrine couplets
   D) Ottava rima
4. The "Metaphysical conceit" is characterized by:
   A) Simple pastoral imagery
   B) Elaborate, intellectual comparisons
   C) Classical allusions only
   D) Rhymed couplets
5. "The Grub Street Journal" satirized writers of the:
   A) Romantic era
   B) Augustan age
   C) Victorian period
   D) Elizabethan drama
6. "The Lake Poets" primarily included:
   A) Byron, Shelley, Keats
   B) Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey
   C) Tennyson, Browning, Arnold
   D) Hardy, Housman, Bridges
7. The "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" emphasized:
   A) Industrial themes
   B) Medievalism and vivid detail
   C) Social reform novels
   D) Psychological realism
8. "The Bloomsbury Group" included writers like:
   A) T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound
   B) Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster
   C) D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce
   D) W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory
9. "The Harlem Renaissance" peaked during:
   A) 1910s
   B) 1920s
   C) 1930s
   D) 1940s
10. "The Southern Agrarians" defended:
    A) Urban industrialization
    B) Southern agrarian traditions
    C) Communist revolution
    D) Free verse experimentation
11. "The Lost Generation" writers were associated with:
    A) Post-WWII Europe
    B) Post-WWI Paris expatriates
    C) Victorian moralism
    D) Elizabethan court life
12. "The Beat Generation" is exemplified by:
    A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
    B) Jack Kerouac
    C) Ernest Hemingway
    D) William Faulkner
13. "Magical realism" as a literary mode originated in:
    A) English Romantic poetry
    B) Latin American fiction
    C) French Symbolism
    D) Russian Formalism
14. "The Theatre of Cruelty" was developed by:
    A) Bertolt Brecht
    B) Antonin Artaud
    C) Samuel Beckett
    D) Harold Pinter
15. "Postmodernism" in literature is marked by:
    A) Linear narratives
    B) Metafiction and intertextuality
    C) Moral absolutes
    D) Heroic individualism

16–30: Authors, Works & Analysis

16. Author of "Absalom, Absalom!":
    A) William Faulkner
    B) Ralph Ellison
    C) Toni Morrison
    D) Zora Neale Hurston
17. "Mrs. Dalloway" covers events over:
    A) One year
    B) One day
    C) Several months
    D) A decade
18. "The Importance of Being Earnest" satirizes:
    A) Political corruption
    B) Victorian social hypocrisy
    C) Industrial poverty
    D) Religious fanaticism
19. "Middlemarch" is subtitled:
    A) A Study of Provincial Life
    B) A Tale of Two Cities
    C) The Mill on the Floss
    D) Tess of the d'Urbervilles
20. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" ends with:
    A) "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
    B) "Heard melodies are sweet"
    C) "For ever wilt thou love"
    D) "Cold pastoral"
21. "Pride and Prejudice" opens with:
    A) "It is a truth universally acknowledged"
    B) "Call me Ishmael"
    C) "Happy families are all alike"
    D) "All children except one grow up"
22. "The Second Coming" contains the line:
    A) "Things fall apart"
    B) "The falcon cannot hear the falconer"
    C) "Blood-dimmed tide"
    D) Both B and C
23. "A Room of One's Own" argues women need:
    A) Political suffrage
    B) £500 a year and a room
    C) University education only
    D) Male mentors
24. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" author:
    A) Gabriel García Márquez
    B) Jorge Luis Borges
    C) Isabel Allende
    D) Mario Vargas Llosa
25. "The Waste Land" quotes in five languages because:
    A) Author's polyglot education
    B) Fragmentation of modern culture
    C) Classical education requirement
    D) Translation exercise
26. "Frankenstein" subtitle:
    A) The Modern Prometheus
    B) Or, the Modern Prometheus
    C) A Gothic Romance
    D) The Creature's Tale
27. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" fears:
    A) "Do I dare disturb the universe?"
    B) "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
    C) Both A and B
    D) "Let us go then, you and I"
28. "Brave New World" dystopia controls via:
    A) Military force
    B) Soma and conditioning
    C) Religious dogma
    D) Economic scarcity
29. "The Canterbury Tales" frame narrative features:
    A) Pilgrims telling stories
    B) Dream vision
    C) Courtly debate
    D) Allegorical journey
30. "Animal Farm" allegory represents:
    A) Capitalist exploitation
    B) Russian Revolution
    C) French Revolution
    D) American independence

31–45: Theory, Criticism & Terms

31. "Binary oppositions" central to:
    A) New Criticism
    B) Structuralism
    C) Phenomenology
    D) Existentialism
32. "Death of the author" essay by:
    A) Jacques Derrida
    B) Roland Barthes
    C) Michel Foucault
    D) Julia Kristeva
33. "Orientalism" critiques Western views of:
    A) Africa
    B) The East
    C) Latin America
    D) Indigenous cultures
34. "Anxiety of influence" by:
    A) Harold Bloom
    B) Northrop Frye
    C) Geoffrey Hartman
    D) J. Hillis Miller
35. "The uncanny" involves:
    A) Familiar made strange
    B) Supernatural horror
    C) Gothic architecture
    D) Dream analysis
36. "Mimesis" in Aristotle means:
    A) Original creation
    B) Imitation of nature
    C) Divine inspiration
    D) Emotional catharsis
37. "Polysemy" refers to:
    A) Single fixed meaning
    B) Multiple meanings
    C) Literal interpretation
    D) Historical context
38. "Subaltern" in postcolonial theory means:
    A) Colonial administrators
    B) Marginalized voices
    C) Elite intellectuals
    D) Native informants
39. "Catharsis" in tragedy produces:
    A) Fear and pity
    B) Emotional purification
    C) Moral instruction
    D) Comic relief
40. "Logocentrism" criticized by:
    A) Saussure
    B) Derrida
    C) Lacan
    D) Levi-Strauss
41. "Archetypes" key to:
    A) Myth criticism
    B) Jungian analysis
    C) Formalism
    D) Marxism
42. "Diegesis" refers to:
    A) Visual style
    B) Narrative content
    C) Mise-en-scène
    D) Montage
43. "Pathetic fallacy" attributes human emotions to:
    A) Characters only
    B) Nature
    C) Society
    D) History
44. "Ekphrasis" describes:
    A) Verbal representation of visual art
    B) Musical adaptation
    C) Theatrical performance
    D) Architectural criticism
45. "Hermeneutics" studies:
    A) Linguistic structures
    B) Interpretation
    C) Historical facts
    D) Scientific method

46–50: Linguistics & Pedagogy

46. Saussure distinguished between:
    A) Dialect and idiolect
    B) Langue and parole
    C) Competence and performance
    D) Prescriptive and descriptive
47. " fossilization" in SLA means:
    A) Perfect mastery
    B) Persistent errors
    C) Rapid progress
    D) Code-switching
48. Direct Method excludes:
    A) Oral practice
    B) Native language
    C) Grammar explanation
    D) Visual aids
49. "Interlanguage" is learner's:
    A) Target language
    B) Transitional system
    C) Native language
    D) Pidgin variety
50. Bloom's Taxonomy highest level:
    A) Analysis
    B) Synthesis/Creation
    C) Application
    D) Comprehension

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