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Mock 19 – Mixed Practice (Part 1)

Unit 1: British Literature · 23 questions · about 27 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

Arrange the plays from which these lines come in chronological order:

A. 'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!'
B. 'All the world's a stage'
C. 'Come, violent death, serve for mandragora to make me sleep!'
D. 'The last temptation is the greatest treason'
E. 'Never speak disrespectfully of Society'

AB, C, E, D, A BB, E, D, A, C CC, B, E, A, D DE, C, B, D, A

Q2.

Which of the following works is NOT by William Cooper?

AScenes from Provincial Life BScenes from Married Life CThe Field Marshal's Memoirs DMemoirs of a New Man

Q3.

Which is NOT a novel by Jean Rhys?

AQuartet BGood Morning, Midnight CVoyage in the Dark DGolden Child

Q4.

Arrange the following Agatha Christie novels in chronological order:

A. Death on the Nile
B. Murder on the Orient Express
C. Sparkling Cyanide
D. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
E. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

AE, B, D, A, C BD, A, E, B, C CE, D, A, C, B DD, E, B, A, C

Q5.

Which of the following statements are true of liberal humanism?

A. Language is not constitutive of reality.
B. There is no fixed or absolute truth.
C. The mind is empty and inquiry into art is objective.
D. Language shapes reality.
E. Truth is not provisional.

A(D) and (E) only B(C) and (D) only C(C) and (E) only D(A) and (E) only

Q6.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Character	List II: Novel
A. Christophine	I. Wuthering Heights
B. Zillah	II. Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Estella	III. Things Fall Apart
D. Ekwefi	IV. Great Expectations

AA-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I BA-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV CA-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III DA-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

Q7.

Which of the following are fourteenth-century writers of secular prose?

A. John of Trevisa
B. Julian of Norwich
C. John Mandeville
D. Bernard of Clairvaux
E. Walter Hilton

AA and B only BB and D only CA and C only DD and E only

Q8.

Arrange the following novels in chronological order:

A. Jane Eyre
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Middlemarch
D. The Return of the Native
E. The Newcomes

AA, B, C, D, E BA, E, B, C, D CB, A, C, E, D DB, C, A, D, E

Q9.

Which is Beryl Bainbridge's first novel?

AThe Bottle Factory Outing BA Weekend with Claude CHarriet Said… DFilthy Lucre

Q10.

From which novel is the passage in which Pip leaves the ruined place hand in hand with a companion and 'saw no shadow of another parting' taken?

AGreat Expectations BDavid Copperfield CNicholas Nickleby DBleak House

Q11.

Arrange the following novels in chronological order:

A. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
B. Kim
C. The Old Wives' Tale
D. The Time Machine
E. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

AA, D, B, C, E BD, A, C, B, E CB, D, A, C, E DA, C, B, E, D

Q12.

Who wrote Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque?

AHerman Melville BNathaniel Hawthorne CMark Twain DEdgar Allan Poe

Q13.

Which of the following are works by William Faulkner?

A. Sanctuary
B. Color Struck
C. Jesus, the Son of Man
D. Light in August
E. Absalom, Absalom!

AA, B and C only BB, C and D only CA, D and E only DC, D and E only

Q14.

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Beat Generation?

AAllen Ginsberg BGregory Corso CJack Kerouac DRita Dove

Q15.

Which of the following are known as Cambridge critics?

A. Arthur Quiller-Couch
B. F. R. Leavis
C. George Saintsbury
D. I. A. Richards
E. William Empson

AB, C and D only BA, B and C only CA, C and E only DB, D and E only

Q16.

Which of the following facts about the Frankfurt School are correct?

A. It was founded in Frankfurt in 1925.
B. Adorno and Horkheimer were two of its members.
C. It established the term 'critical theory'.
D. It had strong ties with the Moscow Linguistic Circle.
E. Its members were forced into exile after the rise of Nazism.

AB, C and D only BA, B and C only CA, C and E only DB, C and E only

Q17.

Who wrote The Power of Love (1643), which advocates brotherly love as a route to radical social change?

AGeorge Saintsbury BWilliam Walwyn CF. R. Leavis DGerrard Winstanley

Q18.

In which year was Treasure Island published?

A1893 B1886 C1883 D1896

Q19.

Who founded the journal Scrutiny in 1932?

AI. A. Richards BF. R. Leavis CCleanth Brooks DJohn Crowe Ransom

Q20.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Play by Aristophanes	List II: Target / subject
A. Acharnians	I. Government by women
B. Clouds	II. Those engaged in the war
C. Lysistrata	III. The new philosophical inquiry
D. Wasps	IV. Demagogues

AA-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV BA-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III CA-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II DA-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

Q21.

Statement I: Theatre was more popular in eighteenth-century England than ever before. Statement II: Theatre around London enjoyed court patronage.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false CStatement I is true but Statement II is false DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

Q22.

Who is a major advocate of oral history?

ASylvia Plath BEsther Greenwood CPaul Thompson DCarolyn Steedman

Q23.

Statement I: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat is humorous and journalistic in form. Statement II: It narrates the holiday of three young men and their dog.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false CStatement I is true but Statement II is false DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

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