English Literature Quiz 23
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Who of the following is a playwright ?
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What does Eve do when she first becomes conscious ?
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What is a kunstleroman ?
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?Don Juan? and ?Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage? are broken into sections called______________?
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Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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John Milton was fluent in which of the following languages ?
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Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub ?
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For many scholars, what distinguishes terror from horror in the Gothic novel ?
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The Professor was the first novel by________________?
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?learn by going where I have to go?. The poet learns of______________?
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Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?
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Who wrote the poems, ?On death? and ?Women, Wine, and Snuff ??
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In ?The Book of Martyrs,? John Foxe provides a record of all known Christian martyrs throughout history, focusing on the persecution of people practicing which religion ?
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What angel often speaks to Adam in Paradise ?
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What is the authorship controversy as it relates to Heloise and Abelard ?
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What mock epic begins: ?What dire offence from am?rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things? ?
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Which ruler?s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
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Who wrote ?The Colossus? in 1960?
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According to Dr. Taormina, Victorian novelists generally________________?
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The intellectual movement that believed that the observation of nature elevates the nature of humans, that deep truths can be grasped through intuition, and that God, Nature and humanity are united in a shared universe is______________?
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Who originated the term ?objective correlative,? which is often used in formalist criticism ?
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Which poet would be most likely to write about his time in revolutionary France ?
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Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet ?
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What type of writing did Walter Pater define as the special and opportune art of the modern world ?
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Which poet did Arthur Henry Hallum associate with ?the picturesque? ?
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What author defines the function of poetry with reference to the Horatian dictum of ?to teach and delight? ?
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Satan?s name before he fell from heaven was ?
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Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse ?
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The Chartist Movement sought ?
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Which character spoke following lines? ?What?s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, Nor arm nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man, O be some other name! What?s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet,? ?
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A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?
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Which is the first extant poem of John Keats, which is written in the year 1814 when when was 19 years of age ?
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In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ?
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From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains in ISBN (International Standard Book Number)?
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What story tells how Squanto taught the settler to grow corn, procure commodities and fish ?
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In which the following works Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry ?
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Which of the following characteristics are not essential to knightly chivalry as described by Chretien de Troyes ?
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Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work?s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?
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Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth?s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as ?the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings? ?
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Which angel tells Adam about the future in Books XI and XII ?
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A total of how many sonnets constitute the entirety of ?Astrophil and Stella? ?
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In which place of England Christopher Marlow born ?
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Who introduced the art of printing into England ?
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Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom ?
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Section 12, of the Sale of Goods Act deals with __________________?
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Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law ?
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A syllabic division is marked with______________?
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About Christopher Columbus_______________?
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Which of the following is a true statement about Romanticism ?
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Which of the following elements DOES NOT characterize epic poetry ?
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