English Literature Quiz 30
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Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought good luck charms. What ?science? did they utilize in trying to predict and control the future ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip?s composition ?
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The concept of ?prose? refers to which of the following ?
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How did the fall of Roman imperialism affect Britain ?
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?He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine?. The pronoun ?He? refers to_______________?
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Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature ?
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Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ?Cockney School of Poetry? ?
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Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
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How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
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What is dialogism ?
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Who called Chaucer the father of English literature?
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In what year was the First Folio published ?
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In ?Leda and the Swan?, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?
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The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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Which of the following terms is traditionally associated with the male Gothic ?
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Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
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____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ?
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Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker?s linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?
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Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?
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Ezra Pound?s ?Cantos? may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound?s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?
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What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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Sir Thomas More held which of the following positions in the English court ?
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What type of myth is the tale ?The Jealous Uncle? ?
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Having emerg?d from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro? Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be imitated ?
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Who was King Henry VIII?s first wife ?
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What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?
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Bret Harte?s ?The Outcasts of Poker Flat? took place in_______________?
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Who is the narrator in Melville?s Moby Dick ?
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What were ?conduct books? ?
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Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical methodin place of the old narrative methodand demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
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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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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is the importance of music ?
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Plato has a positive view of art, in so far as_______________?
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Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
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With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain?s Man was renamed ?
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Who is the writer of ?The Ring of the Book? ?
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Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts ?
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With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?
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In Jean Toomer?s ?Her Lips Are Copper Wires,? a kiss is compared to_______________?
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?In Memoriam? is _______________?
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In which year the play of Christopher Marlow The Jew of Malta first performed ?
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Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
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?Love and Friendship? is written by___________________?
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Pre-colonial theme ?
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Which of the following descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism ?
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According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?
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Roughly speaking, how long was the English Civil War ?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is the mother of Prince Edward ?
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