English Literature Quiz 18
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In Matthew Arnold?s poem ?Dover Beach,? the speaker refers to the ?melancholy, long, withdrawing roar? of ?The Sea of Faith.? This reference alludes to which of the following ?
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In his ?Poetics?, Aristotle suggests that tragic literary works should be ?
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Which of Chaucer?s works is associated with Valentine?s Day ?
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In The Purgatorio, where does Dante physically set purgatory ?
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Shakespeare was the author of which of the following plays ?
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In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more __________but less ___________ than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound?
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Why does one scholar suggest that ?The Monk? represents literary transvestism ?
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In ?Paradise regained? who regained the paradise ?
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This literary critic coined the term ?fancy.? ?
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Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?
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Who wrote the collection of poems entitled ?The Wind Among the Reeds ??
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Who wrote: ?I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.? ?
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?Your goodness must have some edge to it?else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.? In this work the author argues in favour of____________?
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In The Inferno, how are the wrathful punished ?
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Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation ?
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Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?
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A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to ?
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This quote comes from what writing: ?God holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider over the fire________________??
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Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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Between what time period did William Shakespeare begin a successful career in London as an actor ?
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Plato said that art is an imperfect reflection of the real world because______________?
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According to Paradise Lost, which of the following does God not create ?
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What religion was Mary I ?
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One of Marlowe?s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
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________________is the totality of the speech habits of an individual?
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In Chapter 11 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, how does Malcolm X survive prison ?
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Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel ?Great Expectations? ?
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What is New Historicism ?
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Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
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Which of the following would probably NOT occur in a William Wordsworth poem ?
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What is the name of Shakespeare?s son ?
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Who is second Prince of Arragon in ?Much ado about nothing? ?
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How does the following representative quotation from Bront??s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? ?You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his prot?g?e, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands? ?
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In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry ?
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Who is Bertram?s main companion throughout much of the play, ?All?s Well that Ends Well? ?
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Which of the following authors is NOT an important Irish writer ?
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In general, what is Judith Butler?s concept of gender ?
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Who wrote ?Orlando Furioso? ?
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Who wrote the book ?Lord Jim: A Tale ?
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All of the following are ways Dracula represents the ?monstrous Other? EXCEPT_______________?
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What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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To whom were The Lais of Marie de France dedicated ?
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When was Paradise Lost published ?
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According to Dante, what place is at the top of his purgatory ?
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In the play, ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who is the queen of the fairies ?
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John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? focuses attention on the relationship between which opposing entities ?
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About the Navajo____________?
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What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?
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Which of the following writers wrote historical novels ?
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Hamlet is_________________?
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