ETS Major Field Test English Literature
(British) Questions and Answers
Anglo Saxon Poetry - Answer -Caedmon's "Hymn", The Dream of the Rood, Beowulf,
Judith, The Wanderer, The Wife's Lament
Geoffrey Chaucer - Answer -The Canterbury Tales
Sir Thomas Malory - Answer -Morte Darthur
Sir Thomas More - Answer -Utopia
William Tyndale - Answer -Created the first English translation of the Bible
Edmund Spenser - Answer -The Faerie Queen, Amoretti, Epithalamion
Sir Walter Ralegh - Answer -The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
"But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love."
Sir Philip Sidney - Answer -Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, The Defense of Poesy
Mary (Sidney) Herbert - Answer -Sir Philip Sidney's sister, known for religious poetry.
Christopher Marlowe - Answer -Doctor Faustus, Hero and Leander, The Passionate
Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare - Answer -Sonnets, King Lear, Hamlet
John Donne - Answer -The Canonization; The Flea; Holy Sonnets; Elegy To His
Mistress Going to Bed; Hymn to My God, in My Sickness
Ben Jonson - Answer -Volpone; Epigrams (On my First Daughter, To John Donne); To
the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
, Sir Francis Bacon - Answer -Essays, Novum Organum, The New Atlantis
George Herbert - Answer -The Altar, Easter Wings, Church Monuments
Robert Herrick - Answer -The Vine; The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home; Upon the Loss of
His Mistress
Andrew Marvell - Answer -To His Coy Mistress, A Dialogue Between Soul and Body
John Milton - Answer -Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, When I Consider How My Light Is
Spent
John Dryden - Answer -Mac Flecknoe, Alexander's Feast, literary criticism
John Bunyan - Answer -Pilgrim's Progress
John Locke - Answer -An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
William Congreve - Answer -The Way of the World
Daniel Defoe - Answer -Roxana, Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift - Answer -A Description of a City Shower, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest
Proposal, The Lady's Dressing Room
Alexander Pope - Answer -An Essay on Criticism, An Essay on Man, The Rape of the
Lock, The Dunciad
Eliza Haywood - Answer -Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze
Samuel Johnson - Answer -The Vanity of Human Wishes, A Dictionary of the English
Language, The Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the Poets (Cowley, Milton, Pope)
John Locke - Answer -Two Treatises of Government
Thomas Gray - Answer -Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard
Christopher Smart - Answer -Jubilate Agno
Anna Letitia Barbauld - Answer -The Mouse's Petition, An Inventory of the Furniture in
Dr. Priestly's Study, The Rights of Woman, To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected
Soon to Become Visible, Washing Day