Question: Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?

• 1. Beowulf
• 2. Canterbury Tales
• 3. The Domesday Book
• 4. Sons and Lovers

Question: In what language did Shakespeare write ?

• 1. Middle English
• 2. German
• 3. Old English
• 4. Modern English

Question: Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?

• 1. The leading characteristic of the age
• 2. Monarchs or political events
• 3. The primary author of the age
• 4. The language of the age

Question: One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?

• 1. John Milton
• 2. Thomas Otway
• 3. Sir Walter Scott
• 4. John Dryden

Question: Who write the story “Story Teller” ?

• 1. William Wordsworth
• 2. William Shakespeare
• 3. Thomas Grey
• 4. Saki

Question: HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by_______________?

• 1. Thomas gray
• 2. Alexander Pope
• 3. Edward gibbon
• 4. William Blake

Question: Who wrote the poem “Requiem” ?

• 1. Robert Louis Stevenson
• 2. William Shakespeare
• 3. Samuel Johnson
• 4. John Milton

Question: Joyce’s novel ’Ulysses’ takes place over what period of time ?

• 1. A week
• 2. 24 hours
• 3. A lifetime
• 4. 6 months

Question: The 18th century work ’Tom Jones” was written by whom ?

• 1. Samuel Johnson
• 2. Henry Fielding
• 3. John Donne
• 4. Tobias Smollett

Question: In which century was Piers Plowman written ?

• 1. 14th
• 2. 12th
• 3. 10th
• 4. 11th