English Literature Quiz 6
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Miniver Cheevy?s name satirically hints at his_________________?
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Which is not a poetry form ?
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Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burke?s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?
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James Joyce?s narrative technique is known as______________________?
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I ask: Is it not the case that everybody that is not white is treated with contempt and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the word of God justifies the white man in so doing. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. This passage exemplifies________________?
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In ?The Castle of Otranto? which attitude does Walpole express towards primogeniture ?
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According to Constitution of 1962, minimum age limit for President-ship was______________?
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The first part of American History dwells of the_________________?
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What is terza rima ?
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A number of the British Romantic poets argue what character to be the protagonist (or ?hero?) of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? ?
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In the Medieval era, women most commonly worked as ______________?
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Dante?s nine spheres of heaven are associated with which of the following religious concepts ?
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Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with ?what happens to a dream deferred? ?
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Hawthorne?s ancestors are associated with what historical American event ?
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Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write ?
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On the basis of the criterion of the state of the tension of the tongue, vowels can be classified into______________?
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Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ____________?
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In Linton?s The Girl of the Period, what course of behavior does the author recommend for women ?
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Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?
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Which of the following does Joyce address thematically in The Dubliners ?
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In his introduction, Milton described the genre of ?Samson Agonistes? as_____________?
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chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?
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Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930 ?
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The Sale of Goods Act, was enforced on________________?
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?Vanity Fair? is a novel by_______________?
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William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________?
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Which poet would be least likely to write about the beauty of nature ?
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The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria?s reign was celebrated in______________?
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Jacques Derrida?s concept of diff?rance challenges us to think about language as a system that___________?
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Which work was completed last ?
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This character survived a massacre______________?
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The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?
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Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
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Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ?
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According to most scholars, what does the chariot in The Purgatorio symbolize ?
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What is the term Utopia ?
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What is Robert Frost famous Journal ?
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On the Sublime is written in_________________?
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Which of the following animals seem to represent strength and courage for the Eskimos ?
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Which of the following characters is NOT found in the dramatis personae ofWilliam Shakespeare?s ?Romeo and Juliet? ?
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Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris ?
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Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?
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Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________?
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John Milton?s ?Samson Agonistes? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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Who wrote the poem ?Requiem? ?
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In which town was Shakespeare born ?
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Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
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Who wrote: ?That?s my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive.? ?
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?I wandered Lonely as a cloud? is an example of______________?
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