English Literature Quiz 18
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In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry ?
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Who wrote ?Orlando Furioso? ?
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One of Marlowe?s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
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All of the following are ways Dracula represents the ?monstrous Other? EXCEPT_______________?
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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 writers wrote historical novels ?
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In The Purgatorio, where does Dante physically set purgatory ?
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Plato said that art is an imperfect reflection of the real world because______________?
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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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When was Paradise Lost published ?
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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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Which of Chaucer?s works is associated with Valentine?s Day ?
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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 texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
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To whom were The Lais of Marie de France dedicated ?
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Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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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 the play, ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who is the queen of the fairies ?
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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 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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What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?
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In Chapter 11 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, how does Malcolm X survive prison ?
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In general, what is Judith Butler?s concept of gender ?
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Who wrote the book ?Lord Jim: A Tale ?
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Between what time period did William Shakespeare begin a successful career in London as an actor ?
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Why does one scholar suggest that ?The Monk? represents literary transvestism ?
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Hamlet is_________________?
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Which of the following would probably NOT occur in a William Wordsworth poem ?
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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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What is New Historicism ?
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Who is second Prince of Arragon in ?Much ado about nothing? ?
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Shakespeare was the author of which of the following plays ?
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In his ?Poetics?, Aristotle suggests that tragic literary works should be ?
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According to Dante, what place is at the top of his purgatory ?
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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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About the Navajo____________?
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In ?Paradise regained? who regained the paradise ?
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Who wrote the collection of poems entitled ?The Wind Among the Reeds ??
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________________is the totality of the speech habits of an individual?
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A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to ?
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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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Who wrote: ?I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.? ?
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What is the name of Shakespeare?s son ?
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This literary critic coined the term ?fancy.? ?
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In The Inferno, how are the wrathful punished ?
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John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? focuses attention on the relationship between which opposing entities ?
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Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel ?Great Expectations? ?
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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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