LET Reviewer - General Education (ENGLISH - World Literature)

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Direction: Select the letter of the best answer.

1. The following excerpt is from what epic poem?

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”

a. The Iliad

b. The Odyssey

c. Paradise Lost

d. Mahabharata

Answer: a. The Iliad

2. The poem Acquainted With the Night which was written by Robert Frost is about ________.

a. his definition of ideal love

b. the eternal beauty of his beloved

c. his relationship with loneliness

d. the comparison of death to rest and sleep

Answer: c. his relationship with loneliness

3. The first great heroic narrative of world literature is _______.

a. Code of Urukagina

b. Lament for Ur

c. Epic of Gilgamesh

d. Curse of Agade

Answer: c. Epic of Gilgamesh

4. The ________ is a type of poetry that emerged in Ancient Egyptian culture and deals with the pleasures of simple rural life or that treats the longings and desires of simple people.

a. Pastoral Poetry

b. Couplet

c. Narrative

d. Elegy

Answer: a. Pastoral Poetry

5. A Question of Dowry and Everything’s Arranged was written by ________, a Malaysian poet, dramatis, teacher and linguist.

a. Siew Yue Killingley

b. Pablo Neruda

c. Pramoedya Ananta Toer

d. Ee Tiang Hong

Answer: a. Siew Yue Killingley

6. All of the following describes One Thousand and One Nights EXCEPT:

a. It was used to praise their own tribe or make fun of others.

b. It is also called The Arabian Nights.

c. Stories were compiled during the Islamic Golden Age.

d. It is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales.

Answer: a. It was used to praise their own tribe or make fun of others.

7. Tao Te Ching is the principal literary work of Taoism which was written by ________.

a. Lao Tzu

b. Confucius

c. Gautama Buddha

d. Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: a. Lao Tzu

8. The following haiku entitled On A Leafless Branch written by Basho is about ________.

            On a leafless branch

            A crow comes to rest –

            Autumn nightfall

a. acceptance of our common humanity

b. personal struggle with pain, lost and suffering

c. a state of silence and oneness with nature

d. not enjoying the moment by worrying too much about the past or future

Answer: d. not enjoying the moment by worrying too much about the past or future

9. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the best example of medieval romance. Which of the following best describes medieval romance?

a. It is a long narrative poem written about the exploits of a supernatural hero.

b. It is a long narrative poem idealizing knight errantry.

c. It is a narrative poem characterized by repetition and often by a repeated refrain.

d. It is a literary style usually portrayed fantastic tales dealing with horror, despair, the grotesque and other dark subjects.

Answer: b. It is a long narrative poem idealizing knight errantry.

10. Which of the following is NOT an example of Shakespearean play?

a. Antony and Cleopatra

b. As you Like It

c. Macbeth

d. Oedipus Rex

Answer: d. Oedipus Rex

11. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travel is a satire on human ________.

a. pettiness or crudity

b. power hunger

c. selfishness and gullibility

d. dishonesty

Answer: a. pettiness or crudity

12. Robert Browning is best remembered for the following dramatic monologues EXCEPT:

a. My Last Duchess

b. Fra Lippo Lippi

c. Idylls of the King

d. Andrea del Sarto

Answer: c. Idylls of the King

13. He is considered as England’s best novelist by writing Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol.

a. Charles Dickens

b. Mark Twain

c. Hans Christian Andersen

d. Lewis Caroll

Answer: a. Charles Dickens

14. ________ is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative

a. Metonymy

b. Parody

c. Satire

d. Allegory

Answer: d. Allegory

15. These lines are taken from the poem _______ by ________.

                     To see the world in a grain of sand

                     And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour

a. For Once Then Something – Robert Frost

b. Auguries of Innocence – William Blake

c. The Wild Honeysuckle – Philip Freneau

d. Psalm of Life – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Answer: b. Auguries of Innocence – William Blake

16. The characters of Kriemhild and Siegfried are found in the epic _______.

a. The Aeneid

b. The Nibelungenlied

c. The Shah-nama

d. El Cid

Answer: b. The Nibelungenlied

17. Which of the following is NOT a Japanese poetic form?

a. choka

b. tanka

c. haiku

d. kabuki

Answer: d. kabuki

18. Identify the figure of speech use in this line: My love is like a red, red rose.

a. Simile

b. Metaphor

c. Personification

d. Synecdoche

Answer: a. Simile

19. These are all written by Leo Tolstoy EXCEPT ________.

a. War and Peace

b. Anna Karenina

c. The Cossacks

d. Great Expectations

Answer: d. Great Expectations

20. Which is not a lyric poem?

a. ballad

b. sonnet

c. elegy

d. ode

Answer: a. ballad

21. The overriding issue tackled in the epic The Song of Roland is _______.

a. good versus evil

b. God is powerful

c. loyalty to God and King

d. man’s place in this world

Answer: c. loyalty to God and King

22. All are Nobel Prize winners except _______.

a. William Faulkner

b. Rabindranath Tagore

c. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

d. Chinua Achebe

Answer: d. Chinua Achebe

23. One outstanding and distinct feature of Latin America literature is the use of _______.

a. the stream of consciousness technique

b. local color

c. magic realism

d. flashback and flashforward

Answer: c. magic realism

24. All of the following writers belong to contemporary world (1946 to present) EXCEPT:

a. William Faulkner

b. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

c. Luigi Pirandello

d. Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Answer: c. Luigi Pirandello

25. The Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem written by _______.

a. Geoffrey Chaucer

b. Percy Bysshe Shelley

c. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar

d. Dante Alighieri

Answer: d. Dante Alighieri

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