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