Literary Knowledge Quiz

Who is the main hero of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf?

• Beowulf

• Hrothgar

• Lancelot

• Sir Gawain

• Robin Hood

Which language influenced English after the Norman Conquest?

• Norse

• Dutch

• German

• Latin

• French

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is written in which form?

• Frame narrative

• Haiku

• Free verse

• Prose

• Rhyming couplets

Which authors are part of the Romantic Period?

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Lord Byron

• T.S. Eliot

• William Wordsworth

• Virginia Woolf

What genre best fits Shakespeare's Hamlet?

• Tragedy

• Drama

• Satire

• Comedy

• Romance

Who among the following was a Victorian novelist?

• Daniel Defoe

• George Eliot

• T.S. Eliot

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Charles Dickens

Which two poets are associated with Lyrical Ballads?

• William Wordsworth

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• George Byron

• Robert Burns

• Alexander Pope

Which themes are found in George Eliot’s works?

• Mythology

• Morality and realism

• Abstract symbolism

• Epic heroism

• Social criticism

The Neoclassical Period emphasized which characteristics?

• Romanticism

• Stream of consciousness

• Classical inspiration

• Gothic horror

• Order and reason

What literary techniques are used in Virginia Woolf’s works?

• Allegorical verse

• Sonnets

• Stream of consciousness

• Interior monologue

• Heroic couplets