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