English Literature Quiz 56
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Which of the following statements best exemplifies the main idea put forward by John Milton in book 9 of Paradise Lost ?
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Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem ?
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Why were coffee-houses important in the Restoration ?
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What Biblical story acts as a springboard for John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? ?
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What is the subject of Lucille Clifton?s ?the lost baby poem? ?
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The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 is based on ______________?
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Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
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Which one of the following plays of Christopher Marlow tells the story of the disposition of a king by his barons and the Queen ?
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Which of the following does NOT accurately characterize Jane Eyre?s relationship to other literary works ?
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Which roles have played by Shakespeare in Hamlet and As you like it ?
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In The Inferno, which three characters are located in the deepest circle of hell ?
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Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?
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Which river is associated with Shakespeare?s birth place ?
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Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with____________?
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The poet of ?Romantic Age? is_______________?
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Which is the best example of the ?double standard? that exists in tales of courtly love ?
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Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
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Who wrote ?Emperor Ice cream? ?
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What does the term ?passing? mean ?
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According to Dr. Dino Felluga?s ?General Introduction to Postmodernism,? what is the meaning of the term ?simulacra? ?
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Who wrote poem about Lucy ?
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How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare?s plays ?
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Who became the first ?prime minister? of Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
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Sir Thomas More wrote what famous text ?
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In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes which of the following social institutions ?
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Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological ?transference? helps to understand the nature of ________________?
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Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth ?
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Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
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Joe Gargery is Pip?s ?
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Who became the first prime ministerof Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
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To which theater was Christopher Marlow associated with ?
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When was the ban finally lifted on H. Lawrence?s novel Lady Chatterley?s Lover, written in 1928?
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Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. Austin?s performativity theory ?
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What is the significance of the ?Green Knight? ?
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Who is the author of the famous book ?The Judgment? is_______________?
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Which of the following is true of symbolism ?
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The primary subject of ?Ode to Psyche? is ___________________?
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Which of the following events was NOT associated with the Victorian period ?
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Coleridge?s Ancient Mariner could be said to be suffering from an overwhelming feeling of ___________?
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The statements below are parts of the steps on ?How to Write an Analytical Essay about Short Fiction?. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the writing an essay about short fiction ?
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How do historians explain the increase in the number of troubadours in the Middle Ages ?
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?Milton, thou should?st be living at this hour. England hath need of thee.? Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost ?
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Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
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What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?
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Desdemona was _____________?
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How did increased lay participation in religious life impact monasteries ?
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The novel The Power and the Glory is set in ?
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The quote ?women who have intellect of love? is from which text ?
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In literature, some of Shakespeare?s most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ______________?
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Which of the following lines provides an example of a poetic apostrophe ?
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