Literature Test 11

Question 1

In “David Copperfield” about what do they argue about?

Answer 1

The guy she is gonna marry (Mr. Murdstone)

Question 2

Why does Peggotty takes David away for a season?

Answer 2

So that his mom and Mr.Murdstone can get marry

Question 3

Where did Peggotty took David?

Answer 3

To her brother’s house

Question 4

What are the names of the ladies that Tony Kytes picks up on his wagon as he drives home from the market

Answer 4

Unity
Milly
Hanna

Question 5

Which of the three ladies did Tony ended up marring

Answer 5

Milly

Question 6

What poem by Thomas Hardy is about the Titanic

Answer 6

The Convergence of the Twain

Question 7

What poem has the theme that even when wars come and go but man still go on by their business.

Answer 7

In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”

Question 8

What work is a commentary on Psalm 8

Answer 8

The Treasury of David

Question 9

Who wrote “London Coffee Houses”

Answer 9

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Question 10

Who is known as the first popular and best known English novelist of the Victorian Era

Answer 10

Charles Dickens

Question 11

Who wrote “Tony Kytes, the Arch-deceiver”

Answer 11

Thomas Hardy

Question 12

Who wrote “The Treasury of David”

Answer 12

Charles Spurgeon

Question 14

Who wrote “Great Verses through the Bible”

Answer 14

F.B. Meyer

Question 15

Who wrote “Sun of My Soul”

Answer 15

John Keble

Question 16

Hannah

Answer 16

Tony Kytes the Arch-deceiver

Question 17

Mr. Murdstone

Answer 17

David Copperfield

Question 18

Milly Richards

Answer 18

Tony Kytes the Arch-deceiver

Question 19

Mrs. Pearce

Answer 19

Pygmalion

Question 20

Em’ly

Answer 20

David Copperfield

Question 21

Pickering

Answer 21

Pygmalion

Question 22

In the Victorian Era it was known as the great age of what kind of literature?

Answer 22

Prose

Question 23

The most significant novel form of the Victorian Era

Answer 23

Novel of Purpose

Question 24

(Character from David Copperfield) Who is Mrs. Peggotty orphan nephew who is now a young fisherman himself.

Answer 24

Ham

Question 25

Name of the widow of Mrs. Peggotty diseased business partner who lived with peggotty

Answer 25

Mrs. Gummidge

Question 26

“My old dear bedroom was changed, and I was to lie a long way off. I rambled down stairs to find anything that was like itself, so altered it all seemed; and roamed into the yard.”

Answer 26

David Copperfield Charles Dickens

Question 27

What was the significance of this quotation “My old dear bedroom was changed, and I was to lie a long way off. I rambled down stairs to find anything that was like itself, so altered it all seemed; and roamed into the yard.”

Answer 27

His life was totally changed

Question 28

"In age the thrush... upon the glowing gloom"

Answer 28

The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy

Question 29

“Till the Spinner of the Years Said ‘Now!’ And each one hears, And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres"

Answer 29

The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy

Question 30

Significance of this quotation “Till the Spinner of the Years Said ‘Now!’ And each one hears, And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres"

Answer 30

The Spinner of the Years is the Titanic and it sank because of the pride of the people inside

Question 31

Why did Eliza comes with professor Higgin

Answer 31

To learn how to speak properly

Question 31

What was Eliza's occupation on "Pygmalion"?

Answer 31

Flower girl

Question 32

What is the theme of "To an Athlete Dying Young"

Answer 32

The irony of fame and glory

Question 33

What wage does Higgan mades with Pickering?

Answer 33

Change the girl into a lady and make her pass into a Dutches

Question 34

In the work "Adam's Curse" talks about what that looks like is not a lot of work but it is actually a lot of work

Answer 34

Poetry

Question 35

Which poem by William Butler Yeats describes a beast destroying Betlehem

Answer 35

The Second Coming

Question 36

In what poem does the author offers advice to future Irish poets

Answer 36

Under Ben Bulben

Question 37

Who wrote "Under Ben Bulben"

Answer 37

William Butler Yeats

Question 38

Who wrote "The Hollow Man"?

Answer 38

T.S Eliot

Question 39

What poem is a tribute to the average modern man

Answer 39

The Unknown Citizen

Question 40

Who wrote "The Unknown Citizen"?

Answer 40

W.H. Auden

Question 41

What poem expresses the weakness of modern man?

Answer 41

The Hollow Man

Question 42

How does the poet advices the dying father to approach death in the work "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night "

Answer 42

To fight it

Question 43

What author wrote "Pygmalion"?

Answer 43

Bernard Shaw

Question 44

Bernard Shaw helped found what society?

Answer 44

The Fabian Society of Socialist

Question 45

Who are the three leading poets of the twentieth century?

Answer 45

T.S. Eliot W.H. Auden William Butler Yeats

Question 46

What poet contributed poems about life and wales and wrote "In My Craft or Sullen Art"

Answer 46

Dylan Thomas

Question 47

Who is one of the greatest twentieth century poets who led the Irish Literary Renaissance

Answer 47

William Butler Yeats

Question 48

Who wrote "The Soldier"?

Answer 48

Rupert Brooke

Question 49

(From Pygmalion) who was the kind retired colonel who showed more consideration for Eliza feeling?

Answer 49

Pickering

Question 50

Name of Higgins house keeper

Answer 50

Mrs. Pearce

Question 51

Use of precise conquer images free verse and suggestion rather than complete statement

Answer 51

Imagism

Question 52

An attempt to portrait or interpret the works of the unconscious mind as manifested in *dreams*

Answer 52

Surrealism

Question 53

Name for the group of poets who idealize the beauties of nature

Answer 53

Georgians

Question 54

“To-day the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town.”

Answer 54

To an Athlete Dying Young A.E. Housman

Question 55

Where do they bring the runner on "To an Athlete Dying Young"

Answer 55

He was being buried

Question 56

In "To an Athlete Dying Young" what does the author wants?

Answer 56

To be forgot :(

Question 57

"To woman be born woman is to know... that we must labor to be beautiful"

Answer 57

Adams Curse William Butler Yeats

Question 58

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity”

Answer 58

The Second Coming William Butler Yeats

Question 59

“An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick”

Answer 59

Sailing to Byzantium William Butler Yeats

Question 60

"Irish poets learned new trade sing whatever new made... all out of shape from top to top."

Answer 60

Under Ben Bulben William Butler Yeats

Question 61

“But set down This set down This:were we led all that way for Birth and Death?”

Answer 61

Journey of the Magi T.S. Eliot

Question 62

What do they mean with this quotation? "This:were we led all that way for Birth and Death?”

Answer 62

The idea that Christ was being born to die.

Question 63

“Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd”

Answer 63

The Unknown Citizen W.H. Auden

Question 64

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light”

Answer 64

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Dylan Thomas