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