English Literature Quiz 30
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Who was King Henry VIII?s first wife ?
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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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Bret Harte?s ?The Outcasts of Poker Flat? took place in_______________?
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With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?
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Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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The concept of ?prose? refers to which of the following ?
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?Love and Friendship? is written by___________________?
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Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
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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 the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature ?
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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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Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
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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 the play, ?Richard III,? who is the mother of Prince Edward ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?
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Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
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What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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In which year the play of Christopher Marlow The Jew of Malta first performed ?
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?In Memoriam? is _______________?
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What type of myth is the tale ?The Jealous Uncle? ?
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Pre-colonial theme ?
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Roughly speaking, how long was the English Civil War ?
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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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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is the importance of music ?
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The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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How did the fall of Roman imperialism affect Britain ?
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In ?Leda and the Swan?, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?
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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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Plato has a positive view of art, in so far as_______________?
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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 terms is traditionally associated with the male Gothic ?
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In what year was the First Folio published ?
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Who is the writer of ?The Ring of the Book? ?
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What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?
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Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
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Who called Chaucer the father of English literature?
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Sir Thomas More held which of the following positions in the English court ?
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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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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 were ?conduct books? ?
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Who is the narrator in Melville?s Moby Dick ?
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In Jean Toomer?s ?Her Lips Are Copper Wires,? a kiss is compared to_______________?
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According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?
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With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain?s Man was renamed ?
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Which of the following descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism ?
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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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How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
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What is dialogism ?
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