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