English Literature Quiz 59
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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University Wits were those who ?
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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane?s poem ?Voyages? is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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Hardy is a__________________?
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Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time?. Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare ?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person?s pursuit of their personal interests ?
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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Who was villain in Othello ?
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Which British philosopher believed that monarchs repressed citizens and that revolution is proper when a government does not protect its people ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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Which of the following does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry ?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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