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