ENG 160: SURVEY OF ENGLISH & AMERICAN LITERATURE

DIRECTION: Choose the best correct answer for each item.

1. Which of the following is a useful writing during 17th century American literary period?
a. Accounts of voyages
b. Biographies
c. Treatises
d. All of the above

2. Which of the following literary works of T.S. Eliot expresses great power of disillusionment?
a. Casual Vacancy
b. Four Quartets
c. The Waste Land
d. Whispers of Immortality

3. How many sections are there in the poem The Waste Land?
a. 5
b. 10
c. 15
d. 20

4. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about William Faulkner? He was a/an:
a. American novelist
b. Short-story writer
c. Nobel Prize awardee in Literature
d. Returned missionary

5. Which of the following is a movement in the arts defined first and foremost as a radical break from the past?
This break was an act of destruction, and it caused a loss of faith in traditional structures and beliefs.
a. Modernism
b. Naturalism
c. Realism
d. Romanticism

6. Which Bronte writer authored “Jane Eyre”?

a. Charlotte
b. Emily
c. Cristina
d. Anne

7. Which of the following is a poem with 1,321 lines, an account of the finding of the True Cross by St. Helena?
a. Beowulf
b. Caedmon’s Hymn
c. Elene

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 d. The Canterbury Tales

8. Which of the following literary works is a heroic poem of old English literature and the earliest European
vernacular epic?
a. Beowulf
b. Caedmon’s Hymn
c. Elene
d. The Canterbury Tales

9. Paradise Lost is considered among the greatest epics in English. Which of the following was the basis for
this epic poem?
a. Fall from God’s grace
b. Sinning of Adam and Eve
c. Passion of Christ
d. Treachery of Judas Iscariot

10. Which of the following is NOT an example of Gothic literature?

a. Dracula
b. Frankenstein
c. Lord of the Rings
d. Tell Tale Heart

11. Which of the following writers of the Victorian era was widely recognized as a master of dramatic
monologue and psychological portraiture?
A. Oscar Wilde
B. George Eliot
C. Lewis Carroll
D. Robert Browning

12. Which of the following refers to the desire to create art for art’s sake, and to exalt taste, the pursuit of
beauty, and self-expression over moral expectations and restrictive conformity?
A. aestheticism
B. decadence
C. ellipsis
D. anonymity

13. In A Rose for Emily, who thought that the poison is for Emily’s suicide attempt?
A. townspeople
B. Homer Baron
C. Emily Grierson
D. William Faulkner

14. Who was prophesized that will be made thane (a rank of Scottish nobility) of Cawdor and eventually King of
Scotland?
A. Banquo
B. Duncan
C. Macbeth
D. Lady Macbeth

15. Which of the following literary works of T.S. Eliot expresses great power of disillusionment?

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A. a. Whispers of Immortality
B. b. The Waste Land
C. c. Four Quartets
D. d. The Tyger

16. Who is the author of The Sound and the Fury?

a. Don DeLillo
b. Edgar Allan Poe
c. William Faulkner
d. William Wells Brown

17. Who is the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

a. Edgar Allan Poe
b. Mark Twain
c. T.S. Eliot
d. William Wells Brown

18. Who is the author of The Raven?

a. Edgar Allan Poe
b. Mark Twain
c. T.S. Eliot
d. William Wells Brown

19. History of the Plymouth Plantation

a. Henry David Thoreau
b. James Baldwin
c. Samuel Clemens
d. William Bradford

20. The Innocents Abroad

a. Henry David Thoreau
b. James Baldwin
c. Samuel Clemens
d. William Bradford

21. What is the tone of the following lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason!
How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable!

a. Amazement
b. Mockery
c. Sadness
d. Veneration

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands

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 Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will't please you sit and look at her?
- Lines from Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess

22. What poetic strategy was exemplified in those lines from Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess?
a. Aside
b. Dialogue
c. Monologue
d. Soliloquy

23. From what perspective is the following story told?

I could picture it. I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends. We went out to the
Café Napolitain to have an aperitif and watch the evening crowd on the Boulevard.

a. First person
b. Second person
c. Third person limited
d. Third person omniscient

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
- Excerpt from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

24. What type of irony does Shakespeare use in Anthony’s speech?

a. Causal
b. Dramatic
c. Irony of situation
d. Verbal

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
- Fragments from Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

25. What do the lines from William Blake exhort?

a. Appreciate even the smallest of things
b. Be extremely imaginative and creative
c. Believe in fantasy like a child
d. Be strong and faithful to God

26. What poetic device is exemplified in the following lines from Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery”?
Make me, O Lord, thy Spinning Wheel complete,
Thy Holy Word my Distaff make for me.
Make mine Affections thy Swift Flyers neat
And make my Soul thy holy Spool to be.

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 My Conversation make to be thy Reel
And reel the yarn thereon spun of thy Wheel.

a. Irony of statement
b. Literary conceit
c. Paradoxical line
d. Pathetic fallacy

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
- Excerpt from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116

27. Which statement about love is true based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116?
a. Love adapts to changing circumstances
b. Love dissipates when lovers live apart
c. Love grows even to the edge of doom
d. Love never wanes even in old age

For items 28-30, refer to this poem.

My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky.
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

28. What does the poem celebrate as shown in line 1-2?

a. Familial bonding
b. Sadness in death
c. Sense of foreboding
d. Reverence for nature

29. What does the persona wish in the last two lines? That he __________________.
a. ... be a child once again
b. ... continues to be connected to nature
c. ... continues to be pious
d. ... fulfills his duties and responsibilities

30. What figure of speech does Wordsworth use in line 7?

a. Allusion

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 b. Metonymy
c. Oxymoron
d. Paradox

31. What figure of speech is exemplified below?

“The wind stood up and gave a shout. He whistled on his two fingers.”
a. Allusion
b. Metaphor
c. Onomatopoeia
d. Personification

32. What type of sonnet is exemplified in the following lines?

When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent

a. Elizabethan
b. English
c. Petrarchan
d. Spenserian

33. Which of the following works of Oscar Wilde echoed too faithfully his discipleship to the poets Algernon
Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Keats?
A. Poems (1881)
B. Magdalen Walk
C. Intentions (1891)
D. The Picture of Dorian Gray

34. In “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time,” what is the persona’s main message?
a. Be wise in marriage to make life more worthwhile.
b. Choose only lovers who, like roses, are of the highest order.
c. Gather the rosebuds now, before the roses bloom.
d. Marry now, or you may never have another chance.

35. Which of the following works of Oscar Wilde consisted of previously published essays, restated his
aesthetic attitude toward art by borrowing ideas from the French poets Théophile Gautier and Charles
Baudelaire and the American painter James McNeill Whistler?
A. Poems (1881)
B. Magdalen Walk
C. Intentions (1891)
D. The Picture of Dorian Gray

36. To what sensory perception do the following lines from James Joyce’s Araby appeal?
“…we ran…to the dark dripping gardens to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odors arose
from the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or
shook music from the buckled harness.”

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 a. Auditory
b. Gustatory
c. Olfactory
d. Tactile

37. What does the lamb in “The Lamb” symbolize?

Little Lamb, who made thee?
Dost thou know who made thee?
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed,
By the stream and o'er the mead;

a. Faith and loyalty

b. Helplessness and dependence
c. Innocence and purity
d. Weakness and hopelessness

38. Which of the following best states the theme of Ozymandias?

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

a. Life is short and time is fleeting.

b. Power and arrogance are both destructive.
c. Powerful rulers and great civilizations perish.
d. Temples and statues are witnesses to history

39. What 17th Century philosophy does Browning assert in the following lines from Rabbi Ben Ezra?
Ay, note that Potter’s wheel,
That metaphor! and feel
Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,—
Thou, to whom fools propound,
When the wine makes its round,
“Since life fleets, all is change; the Past gone, seize to-day!”

a. Anagnorisis
b. Carpe diem
c. Peripeteia
d. Romanticism

40. “The little white clouds are racing over the sky, And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower of
March, The daffodil breaks under foot, and the tasseled larch Sways and swings as the thrush goes
hurrying by.” Such stanza describes a place which is ______________.
chaotic
peaceful
loving
busy

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41. How does Shelley regard the west wind in the following ode?
From Ode to the West Wind

Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill

(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill:

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;

Destroyer and Preserver; hear, oh, hear!

a. It can both wipe out and maintain life.

b. It is a wild spirit in nature that is very strong.
c. It is responsible for preserving life.
d. It is strong but weak since it is everywhere.

42. William Blake did not really think of himself as a poet and a painter, he thought of himself as a _________.
A. writer
B. religious leader
C. craftsman
D. good friend and husband

43. What is on the angel's ankle in Blake's painting "The Good and the Evil Angels"?
A. tattoo
B. writings
C. chain
D. hand

44. Although not explicitly stated, what specific flower is referred as the “golden” flower in the poem Magdalen
Walks?
a. Rose
b. Daffodil
c. Sunflower
d. Tulip

45. Which of the following literary works is about an insular sailor’s lamentations that concluded with faith in
God?
a. The Battle of Maldon
b. The Wanderer
c. The Canterbury Tales
d. The Seafarer

46. Who's the author of the famous novel The Scarlet Letter (1850) which talked about adultery by such a
scarlet A must be worn by the female character to mark her shame?
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Herman Melville

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D. Nathaniel Hawthorne

47. What does that the speaker lament over in the following lines?
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". - (Romeo and
Juliet Act II, Scene II)

a. Changing names will help Romeo and Juliet.

b. Romeo and Juliet will always love one another.
c. Roses will always be roses despite their variety.
d. Their names keep Romeo and Juliet apart.

48. Which of the following is an example of novel of the soil?

a. Bread and Wine
b. Catcher in the Rye
c. Sound and the Fury
d. The Good Earth

49. In The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, what's the reason why Arthur’s court decrees that the knight
should be put to death by decapitation?

A. The knight raped a beautiful maiden

B. The knight was found to be a user of drugs
C. The knight was a drop out of college
D. The knight killed the Wife of Bath

50. In Beowulf, what caused Grendel's death?

A. Beowulf tore the monster’s arm off
B. Beowulf killed her with a sword forged for a giant
C. The fiery venom of the dragon who has bitten him in his neck
D. The gatekeeper of the treasure added poison to the drink

51. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Arthur in the book Le Morte D’Arthur?
A. He took his rightful place as a King when he was able to show his birthmark which proved he was the son of
the King Uther.
B. He was able to pull the sword Excalibur from a stone.
C. He married Genevere.
D. He has a sister.

52. Why did Macbeth hires a group of murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance?
A. because he hated them so much for no reason
B. because he was afraid Banquo would kill him on his sleep
C. because he was afraid that Banqou's heirs will get hold of the throne
D. because he doesn't like Banquo's son's attitude

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53. Who prophesied that Macbeth will be made thane of Cawdor and eventually King of Scotland?
A. His mother
B. Banquo
C. Scottish Kings
D. Witches

54. Who said this line "“I have very little of Mr. Blake’s company; he is always in Paradise.”?
A. William Blake
B. Blake's mother
C. Blake's bestfriend
D. Blake's wife

55. Which of the following authors whose literary works were either to create rebellious and destructive impulse
or expressed hope at the prospect of change?
A. Mark Twain
B. Harriet Wilson
C. Harriet Stowe
D. Ernest Hemingway

56. To whom dis the poet address his monologue in “London, 1802”?
A. Young man
B. Milton
C. Pilgrim
D. Pardoner

57. In Sonnet 18, in what way did the persona think he will be able to preserve the youth and beauty of the
young man?
A. through summer
B. through his poems

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C. through his love
D. through his reminders

58. Why is the persona not sad at the end of the poem Song to Celia?
A. His confession was accepted by Celia
B. He believed that the rosy wreath is not the same anymore since Celia was able to smell it already
C. He realized that Celia is not one who's actually destined for him
D. He saw the need to keep on loving Celia since she’s lonely

59. Who is known as the Bard of Avon and England’s “national poet” who is also considered as the most
famous playwright of all time?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Michelangelo
D. Leonardo da Vinci

60. In order to save his life, the knight was given a challenge by the Queen. What was the challenge about?
A. He needed to discover what women want most in the world within 1 year
B. He needed to discover what men want most in the world within 1 year
C. He needed to get married to a young and wealthy lady from the other royal court
D. He needed to get the best dress for the Queen in preparation for the coronation night

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