English Literature Quiz 19
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From which institution did Christopher Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584 ?
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?The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.? The above lines have been taken from ?
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On liberty was written by_______________?
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John Milton?s ?Lycidas? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?
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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
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Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the last two stanzas of Charles Baudelaire?s symbolist poem ?Correspondences? ?
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According to Anthony DiMatteo?s ?Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ?Reason of State? in ?Hamlet??, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?
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Which Welsh poet wrote ?Under Milk Wood ? ?
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What is the central theme of Keith Douglas?s ?How to Kill? ?
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The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism ? and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven. What is ?antinomianism? ?
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Which of the following is not a major category of the romance genre ?
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Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
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Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
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What did Henry James describe as ?loose baggy monsters? ?
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What writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen ?
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The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________?
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Which of the following statements is a proper example of what Aristotle termed a syllogism ?
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Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid ?
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What poet was famous for his ?Eclogues? ?
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The University Wits were_______________?
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There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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When was John Milton born ?
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What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
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In which work do you read: ?That?s my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.? ?
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Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud?s poem ?Eternity? undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?
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Who wrote about the idyllic ?Isle of Innisfree? ?
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Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
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What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
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In what way is Jane Toomer?s Cane an example of Modernism ?
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In what form did Dylan Thomas?s ?Under Milk Wood? first become known ?
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In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun ?
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Greville was biographer of ?
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Who is the author of ?A Brief History of Time? ?
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Why is the Battle of Hastings relevant to the development of Middle English ?
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With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often identified ?
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Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
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Which of the following British monarchs was executed during the English Civil War ?
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All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
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Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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Oedipus Complex is________________?
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In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
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What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes?s defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
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How did Henry II, the first of England?s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
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A person who has the ability to use only one language is called__________?
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Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?
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Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
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