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