Quiz 35 By Asit

_________ by Thomas Pynchon is set in the final months of the II World War, and

the characters are ironically unaware of historical events such as the Holocaust.

• V

• the Crying of Lot 49

• Inherent Vice

• Gravity’s Rainbow

The Female Quixote, an imitation of Don Quixote, and a feminist commentary on

women’s estrangement from male society, was written by __________.

• Aphra Behn

• Fanny Burney

• Charlotte Lennox

• Elizabeth Gaskell

The first life in Johnson’s Lives of the Poets was that of ______________.

• John Donne

• Abraham Cowley

• Richard Savage

• John Milton

Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and Parliament of Fowles were written in the

metrical form __________.

• heroic couplet

• blank verse

• Poulter’s measure

• Chaucerian stanza

Answer explanation

Chaucerian stanza or Rime Royale

Which novel by Dickens is the story of an orphan writing about his life, finally

becoming a gentleman in London?

• Great Expectations

• David Copperfield

• Oliver Twist

• Hard Times

Who famously critiqued Jane Austen for rejecting “even a speaking acquaintance

with that stormy sisterhood” of the Bronte sisters”? (i.e., the Bronte sisters are

referred to as “that stormy sisterhood”)

• Charles Lamb

• William Hazlitt

• Charlotte Bronte

• Matthew Arnold

Who calls poetry “a speaking picture with the end to teach and delight”?

• Shelley

• Wordsworth

• Coleridge

• Sidney

Answer explanation

Sidney, in Apologie for Poetrie

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, // Are of imagination all compact”—These

are lines from _______.

• Twelfth Night

• Merchant of Venice

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• As You Like It

Where does Bacon say: “a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver,

which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it”?

• Of Marriage and Single Life

• Of Adversity

• Of Friendship

• Of Truth

Which fifteenth century English writer was imprisoned for fighting in the Wars of

the Roses in support of the Yorkists?

• Sir Thomas Malory

• John Lydgate

• Thomas Hoccleve

• John Fortescu