English Literature Quiz 59
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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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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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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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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Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane?s poem ?Voyages? is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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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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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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Who was villain in Othello ?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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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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What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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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 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 British philosopher believed that monarchs repressed citizens and that revolution is proper when a government does not protect its people ?
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Hardy is a__________________?
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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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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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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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