English Literature Quiz 31
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In what year did the Easter Rising occur ?
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What did the novelists of the first wave of Gothic literature think of religion ?
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Horace was a friend of_______________?
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What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?
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?Preface to the Lyrical Ballads? was published in______________?
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Apess claims that Native Americans in New England are the ?most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world.? Which of the following is NOT a reason he offers as an explanation for their misery ?
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_____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?
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To whom is the concept of the uncanny attributed ?
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Shakespeare died on ?
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Who is ?till wand?ring o?er the earth? ?
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The /k/ sound in ?act?and ?picture? is a____________?
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The final /n/ in the words ?sudden? and ?mutton? are __________________?
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In the Middle Ages, nuns also performed which of the following roles ?
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The phrase ?willing suspension of disbelief? applies to which poet/critic ?
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When did William Wordsworth die ?
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Who was Fuseli ?
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Which statement below best defined Whitman?s idea of Oversoul ?
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In ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner,? who is the ?he? referred to in the lines ?A sadder and a wiser manHe rose the morrow morn.? ?
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Which of Upton Sinclair?s books is about the meat-packing industry ?
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Who is the heroin of The Tempest ?
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The literary work ?Kubla khan? is_______________?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emerson ?
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The foundation story of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? derives from what text ?
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An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
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Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
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Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as ordinary statements ?
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What is Quinzaine ?
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According to Randy Hofbauer, what is/are the purpose(s) of the epiphany ?
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?Your? uses an upper case because ?
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How many times do the word Katharsis appear in the Poetics________________?
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The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
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Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth conceives of himself as a ?chosen son? primarily because_____________?
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John Dryden wrote ?Absalom and Achitophel.? Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?
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Complete the following sentence. Yeats?s ?Sailing to Byzantium? is a good example of High Modernism, because it_____________?
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Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus? character at the beginning of the play ?
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In his lectures on Shakespeare?s tragedies, A.C. Bradley states that he will not do which of the following ?
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What is Milton?s stated purpose in Paradise Lost ?
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How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil ?
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Which of the following is the theme of Dante?s Vita Nuova ?
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Why does Horace Walpole make use of elaborate machines in ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Name the author of The New Criticism ?
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Chaucer became a member of Parliament in_______________?
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Which action served to ignite the French Revolution ?
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How are Julia Kristeva?s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?
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Tracts for the Times relates to ?
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Which work was published first ?
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Which of the following most accurately explains the Bretons influence on medieval literature ?
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________are articulated by raising the back of the tongue towards the soft palate?
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Which of the following assertions would William Wordsworth most likely agree with ?
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Which language did young Elizabeth learn in secret ?
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