English Literature Quiz 6
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Miniver Cheevy?s name satirically hints at his_________________?
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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 figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
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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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What is terza rima ?
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Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
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John Milton?s ?Samson Agonistes? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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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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In which town was Shakespeare born ?
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Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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The Sale of Goods Act, was enforced on________________?
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Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ____________?
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Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ?
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Which poet would be least likely to write about the beauty of nature ?
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The first part of American History dwells of the_________________?
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Which of the following animals seem to represent strength and courage for the Eskimos ?
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Which work was completed last ?
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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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In the Medieval era, women most commonly worked as ______________?
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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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?I wandered Lonely as a cloud? is an example of______________?
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Hawthorne?s ancestors are associated with what historical American event ?
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According to most scholars, what does the chariot in The Purgatorio symbolize ?
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Which is not a poetry form ?
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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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Which of the following does Joyce address thematically in The Dubliners ?
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How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write ?
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Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris ?
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Dante?s nine spheres of heaven are associated with which of the following religious concepts ?
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?Vanity Fair? is a novel by_______________?
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On the Sublime is written 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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The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria?s reign was celebrated in______________?
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Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________?
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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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Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?
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This character survived a massacre______________?
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James Joyce?s narrative technique is known as______________________?
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William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________?
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Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930 ?
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chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?
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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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In his introduction, Milton described the genre of ?Samson Agonistes? as_____________?
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According to Constitution of 1962, minimum age limit for President-ship was______________?
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Who wrote the poem ?Requiem? ?
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The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?
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In ?The Castle of Otranto? which attitude does Walpole express towards primogeniture ?
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What is Robert Frost famous Journal ?
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What is the term Utopia ?
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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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