ETS Major Field Test English Literature
(British) UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Anglo Saxon Poetry - CORRECT ANSWER - Caedmon's "Hymn", The Dream of the
Rood, Beowulf, Judith, The Wanderer, The Wife's Lament
Geoffrey Chaucer - CORRECT ANSWER - The Canterbury Tales
Sir Thomas Malory - CORRECT ANSWER - Morte Darthur
Sir Thomas More - CORRECT ANSWER - Utopia
William Tyndale - CORRECT ANSWER - Created the first English translation of the
Bible
Edmund Spenser - CORRECT ANSWER - The Faerie Queen, Amoretti, Epithalamion
Sir Walter Ralegh - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, The Defense of
Poesy
, Mary (Sidney) Herbert - CORRECT ANSWER - Sir Philip Sidney's sister, known for
religious poetry.
Christopher Marlowe - CORRECT ANSWER - Doctor Faustus, Hero and Leander, The
Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare - CORRECT ANSWER - Sonnets, King Lear, Hamlet
John Donne - CORRECT ANSWER - The Canonization; The Flea; Holy Sonnets; Elegy
To His Mistress Going to Bed; Hymn to My God, in My Sickness
Ben Jonson - CORRECT ANSWER - Volpone; Epigrams (On my First Daughter, To John
Donne); To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
Sir Francis Bacon - CORRECT ANSWER - Essays, Novum Organum, The New Atlantis
George Herbert - CORRECT ANSWER - The Altar, Easter Wings, Church Monuments
Robert Herrick - CORRECT ANSWER - The Vine; The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home;
Upon the Loss of His Mistress
Andrew Marvell - CORRECT ANSWER - To His Coy Mistress, A Dialogue Between Soul
and Body
John Milton - CORRECT ANSWER - Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, When I Consider How
My Light Is Spent
John Dryden - CORRECT ANSWER - Mac Flecknoe, Alexander's Feast, literary criticism
(British) UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Anglo Saxon Poetry - CORRECT ANSWER - Caedmon's "Hymn", The Dream of the
Rood, Beowulf, Judith, The Wanderer, The Wife's Lament
Geoffrey Chaucer - CORRECT ANSWER - The Canterbury Tales
Sir Thomas Malory - CORRECT ANSWER - Morte Darthur
Sir Thomas More - CORRECT ANSWER - Utopia
William Tyndale - CORRECT ANSWER - Created the first English translation of the
Bible
Edmund Spenser - CORRECT ANSWER - The Faerie Queen, Amoretti, Epithalamion
Sir Walter Ralegh - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, The Defense of
Poesy
, Mary (Sidney) Herbert - CORRECT ANSWER - Sir Philip Sidney's sister, known for
religious poetry.
Christopher Marlowe - CORRECT ANSWER - Doctor Faustus, Hero and Leander, The
Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare - CORRECT ANSWER - Sonnets, King Lear, Hamlet
John Donne - CORRECT ANSWER - The Canonization; The Flea; Holy Sonnets; Elegy
To His Mistress Going to Bed; Hymn to My God, in My Sickness
Ben Jonson - CORRECT ANSWER - Volpone; Epigrams (On my First Daughter, To John
Donne); To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
Sir Francis Bacon - CORRECT ANSWER - Essays, Novum Organum, The New Atlantis
George Herbert - CORRECT ANSWER - The Altar, Easter Wings, Church Monuments
Robert Herrick - CORRECT ANSWER - The Vine; The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home;
Upon the Loss of His Mistress
Andrew Marvell - CORRECT ANSWER - To His Coy Mistress, A Dialogue Between Soul
and Body
John Milton - CORRECT ANSWER - Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, When I Consider How
My Light Is Spent
John Dryden - CORRECT ANSWER - Mac Flecknoe, Alexander's Feast, literary criticism
