English Literature Quiz 22
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Thoreau believed that if a government was unjust, people need to resist the government. This is called_____________?
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In the context of Medieval literature, what does ?outer rule? mean ?
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According to trauma theorists, a testifying subject needs which of the following to deliver a successful testimony ?
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Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
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What is an Epic ?
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Who was a friend of John Milton ?
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Who wrote Heritage ?
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In analyzing T.S. Eliot?s ?The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,? Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?
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Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance ?
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A person who can use two languages is called ________________________?
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In which establishment Coleridge enlisted himself in December 1793 by using the false name ?Silas Tomkyn Comberbache? ?
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Who wrote Canterbury Tales ?
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Who is called the Bird of Avon ?
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Which of the following was NOT considered a proper form of literary expression in the Neoclassical Period ?
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Fill in the blank. In 1585, _______________ sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina)?
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What is the significance of the ?bloody bedchamber? in Gothic fiction ?
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Arnold?s views on poetry and criticism are discussed in ?
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What is the first extended written specimen of Old English ?
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In which work of Edmund Spenser the Ape and the Fox serve to satirize the customs of the court ?
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As I lay die_________________?
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The two archangels who serve as generals in God?s army are ?
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Who tells Macbeth, ?The queen, my lord, is dead ? ?
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What does Percy Shelley mean when he refers to poets as being the ?unacknowledged legislators of the world? ?
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What was strange about Emily Dickinson ?
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Although Charles Johnson?s Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?
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Which one of Milton?s senses were lost during writing his works ?
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How many from his plays were published in his lifetime?
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Horace?s doctrine ut pictura poesiswas interpreted to mean______________?
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What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious ?
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Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem using the language of common, ordinary people ?
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The study of meaning is called________?
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The ?Reign of Terror? refers to_________________?
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In which story from The Dubliners is snow an important occurrence ?
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What is Epistolary Novel ?
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To justify which purpose that Milton wrote Paradise Lost ?
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Marlow died of ?
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Which of the following was responsible for Samuel Taylor Coleridge?s mental decline ?
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How did the printing press alter medieval culture ?
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In Ulysses, with which mythical character does Stephen best correspond ?
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Which of the following statements concerning ?Vorticism? is false ?
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In which section of The Divine Comedy does Saint Bernard appear ?
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According to Stephen, how is art represented in the lyrical form ?
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When did Samuel Taylor Coleridge die ?
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Which of the following is NOT among the 13 virtues Franklin struggles to master ?
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Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 153? is what kind of poem ?
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gave a hint of the rich culture that was forgotten________________?
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I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey?s], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. ? I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!? ?
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Jane Austen is the writer of__________________?
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Fill in the blank. Although Sir Philip Sidney is writing 200 years before the ?. revolution, he presents a very inward and self-absorbed narrator in ?Astrophil and Stella.? ?
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The Petrarchan sonnet is composed of how many lines ?
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