English Literature Quiz 24
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Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces, which of these was not in his charge ?
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In what way(s) did the events of the Easter Rising affect the work of writers ?
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What are the differences between conservative modernism and progressive modernism ?
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Who says ?history is like a nightmare from which I must awake? ?
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?Light in August? ?
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The term ?the Palliser Novels? is used to describe the political novels of ______________?
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What is hermeneutics ?
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On which of the following topics did Sir Thomas More focus in his ?Utopia? ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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The Archangel Michael might best be described as ?
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The Primary Narrator for Books Eleven and Twelve of ?Paradise Lost,? who relates future events is which of the following ?
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In The Inferno, where is hell physically situated ?
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Which of the following offers the best description of the concept of ethos ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes American World War II poems ?
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In De Vulgari Eloquentia, Dante writes primarily in which language ?
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?How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another.? ?
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Earth is described as being connected to heaven by a ?
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Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as God?s deputy ?
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how many children chaucer had ?
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What was vellum ?
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? I hear my being dance from ear to ear?. Here ear to ear refers to_____________?
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?All?s Well that Ends Well? is considered to be what kind of a play ?
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Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humours ?
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What literary convention is used pervasively in ?The Mysteries of Udolpho? ?
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What author fell in love with Anne Boleyn while she was married to King Henry VIII ?
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Which of the following is not a character in Paradise Lost ?
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The initial consonant in ?Young? is a __________ sound?
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In which city does the St.Clare live ?
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What is anthology ?
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Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?
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By______________ Shakespeare had established himself in London as an actor and dramatist?
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Which character in ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? directly opposes the Fugitive Slave Law ?
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What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth?s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
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What is the verse form of Marie de France?s Lanval ?
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Which literary theorist argues that ?there is nothing outside the text? ?
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Which of the following is a literary work of ?The Lost Generation ??
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In which city the play of Shakespeare ?Romeo and Juliet? is set in_________________?
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Harriet Jacob?s slave narrative Incidents in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher Stowe?s abolitionist novel Uncle Tom?s Cabin in what way ?
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About the Pima_______________?
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How does Wolfgang Iser envision the reader ?
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This approach provides a universalistic approach to literature and identifies a reason why certain literature may survive the test of time. It works well with works that are highly symbolic.What approach has this advantage ?
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In which circle would Dante place someone who committed suicide ?
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Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar______________?
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While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
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Following are the characters of: Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, Sempronius ?
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Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
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After they have both eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, the first thing Adam and Eve do is______________?
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Which of the following was a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry ?
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For what do Matthew Arnold?s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater?s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
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Why has Bertha been characterized as the ?madwoman in the attic? by literary scholars ?
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