Which of the following statements would Percy Shelley, author of “A Defense of Poetry”, agree with ?

What are the basic questions literary theory asks ?

A. What is literature?

B. Why do people write literature?

C. What are the effects of literature?

D. All of these.

A work of criticism that considers how English imperialism affected native Indian authors would be an example of_______________?

A. Marxist theory

B. psychoanalytic theory

C. postcolonial theory

D. deconstruction

In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?

A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.

B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.

C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.

D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed.

Which of the following offers the best definition of the theatrical concept of a chorus ?

A. Members of the audience who comment on the play’s actions

B. Characters who remind the audience that the play is fictional

C. A group of characters who comment on the actions of the play while participating in them

D. A group of characters who comment on the actions of the play while not participating in them

Which of the following poems can be described as a haiku ?

A. Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”

B. Bishop’s “One Art”

C. Auden’s “Paysage Moralisé”

D. William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”