English Literature Quiz 52
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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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With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ?s Hospital, also called The Bluecoat School ?
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Who is the writer of the poem ?Andrea Del Sarto? ?
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John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ?
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How did the New Critics view literature ?
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Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?
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Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ?Unreal City? in the first and third sections from ?
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Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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What was the ?Woman Question? in the Victorian Period ?
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What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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The ?father of humanism? was_______________?
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In the Middle Ages, which class of people was most likely to be literate ?
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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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What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth?s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
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Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy ?
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Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
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Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city ?
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Edmund Burke?s ?Reflections on the French Revolution? ______________?
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Fill in the blank. The plot of ?Venus and Adonis? is based on passages from_____________?
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Which of the following descriptions best describes the character of Hamlet ?
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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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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
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This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
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E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?
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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 is a ?lay? in medieval literature ?
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The reason for Eve?s fall might best be described as_______________?
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Which text(s) is/are associated with mysticism ?
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What was the licensing system ?
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Who is the writer of ?The Two Voices? ?
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The Freudian concept of ?the uncanny? refers to_________________?
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What was ?courtly love? ?
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In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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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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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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The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
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?Samson Agonistes? differs from its source material, the Biblical book of ?Judges,? in what way(s) ?
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Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?
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Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?
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A diary of someone?s day by day account of events_______________?
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/s/, /z/ are called ____________?
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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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Why was the ?drop of blood? rule developed ?
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Who accuses Arnold of ?high pamphleteering ??
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?I count religion but a childish toy? is a line from Marlowe?s play______________?
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