English Literature Quiz 52
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The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
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Fill in the blank. The plot of ?Venus and Adonis? is based on passages from_____________?
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The Freudian concept of ?the uncanny? refers to_________________?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
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Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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Who is the writer of ?The Two Voices? ?
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Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?
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What was the licensing system ?
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Which of the following descriptions best describes the character of Hamlet ?
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What does a prologue serve to do in a Greek tragedy or comedy ?
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In The Paradiso, Dante bases his structure of paradise on which of the following ?
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What was ?courtly love? ?
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John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ?
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What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth?s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
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Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?
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Which of the following statements accurately compares Rupert Brooke?s ?The Soldier? and Siegfried Sassoon?s ?The Rear Guard? ?
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In addition to driving the family coach, what other responsibility do the St. Clare assign Uncle Tom ?
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Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city ?
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Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
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This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
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What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ?Unreal City? in the first and third sections from ?
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With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ?s Hospital, also called The Bluecoat School ?
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How did the New Critics view literature ?
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Who accuses Arnold of ?high pamphleteering ??
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A diary of someone?s day by day account of events_______________?
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Elizabeth Barrett?s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?
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Which text(s) is/are associated with mysticism ?
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Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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The reason for Eve?s fall might best be described as_______________?
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____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?
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In the Middle Ages, which class of people was most likely to be literate ?
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What was the ?Woman Question? in the Victorian Period ?
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Edmund Burke?s ?Reflections on the French Revolution? ______________?
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Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?
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Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy ?
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The ?father of humanism? was_______________?
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Plato?s Republic is written in the form of______________?
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The voiced sound /z/ denoting the plural morpheme in the word ?dogs? is an instance of ________________assimilation?
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In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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?I count religion but a childish toy? is a line from Marlowe?s play______________?
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Why was the ?drop of blood? rule developed ?
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Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into a social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot: they were denied basic comforts, security, and even the chance to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes one could legally wear based on rank. Which of the following could the poor wear ?
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What is a ?lay? in medieval literature ?
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Which work of William Wordsworth, with the joint publication with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature ?
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Who is the writer of the poem ?Andrea Del Sarto? ?
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?Samson Agonistes? differs from its source material, the Biblical book of ?Judges,? in what way(s) ?
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/s/, /z/ are called ____________?
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