English Literature Quiz 50
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Who wrote The Rules of Courtly Love ?
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Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
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Which statement about the Earth is asserted as true in Paradise Lost ?
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The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?
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Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
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For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT ?
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What do you mean by Stanza ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?
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In T.S. Eliot?s essay called ?Tradition and Individual Talent,? he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following ?
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?And then hopped sidewise to the Wall?. Here the poet personifies the bird as a______________?
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Which of the following is NOT a feature or characteristics of Emily Dickinson?s poetry ?
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The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was______________?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the contrast between T.S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land? and the futurist aesthetic project ?
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As per section 4(2), of The Sale of Goods Act, a contract of sale may be _________________?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who speaks of ?the winter of our discontent? (I.i.1) ?
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Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ?
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With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?
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Which of the Marlowe?s plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash ?
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Who calls poetry ?the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge? ?
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Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacob?s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was____________?
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What is ?scholasticism? as it relates to the medieval era ?
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During the period of which king did Chaucer fight in the English Army for the Hundred Years? War between France and England ?
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Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
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Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic ?
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The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in ?
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Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?
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Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?
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The character named Comus is often seen by critics as a prototype of what character Milton later portrayed ?
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In The Paradiso, how does Dante?s journey through heaven end ?
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The play, ?Macbeth,? is set in what country ?
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What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is ?performed? ?
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?The Alchemist? is written by_______________?
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How was the priest?s son?s prayer answered ?
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According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by legitimate drama ?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a mentor for a number of early American writers, including_______________?
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Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue ?
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Some critics of literary theory argue that literary theory is problematic for which reason ?
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Section 58, of The Sale of Goods Act provide right of suit for Specific Performance of Contract on the part of ________________?
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In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown?s Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental novel is evident ?
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Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I ?
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Which among the following implies the underlying rules governing the combination and organization of the elements of language ?
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What led to the alliterative revival ?
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The importance of Lucy Terry?s ?Bars Fight? is______________?
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What was the first published title of Christopher Marlow?s play The Jew of Malta ?
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But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. What does ?mow? mean in this context ?
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Which writer spent more than twelve years imprisoned in the Tower of London ?
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A language come into existence when_____________?
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Which of the following women is widely considered the first feminist ?
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Whom did monster demand to Victor Frankenstein to create for him ?
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Following are the lines of: ?I?m your wife if you marry me If not, I?ll die your maid to be your fellow You may deny me, but I?ll be your servant Whether you deny or not? ?
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