English Literature Quiz 31
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In what year did the Easter Rising occur ?
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What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?
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Name the author of The New Criticism ?
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Which action served to ignite the French Revolution ?
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?Preface to the Lyrical Ballads? was published in______________?
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An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
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Tracts for the Times relates to ?
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John Dryden wrote ?Absalom and Achitophel.? Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?
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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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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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?Your? uses an upper case because ?
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The literary work ?Kubla khan? is_______________?
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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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How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil ?
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Shakespeare died on ?
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Which work was published first ?
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Which language did young Elizabeth learn in secret ?
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In the Middle Ages, nuns also performed which of the following roles ?
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Which of the following most accurately explains the Bretons influence on medieval literature ?
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Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth conceives of himself as a ?chosen son? primarily because_____________?
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Chaucer became a member of Parliament in_______________?
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The phrase ?willing suspension of disbelief? applies to which poet/critic ?
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How are Julia Kristeva?s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?
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Which of Upton Sinclair?s books is about the meat-packing industry ?
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________are articulated by raising the back of the tongue towards the soft palate?
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Which statement below best defined Whitman?s idea of Oversoul ?
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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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The /k/ sound in ?act?and ?picture? is a____________?
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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 the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus? character at the beginning of the play ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emerson ?
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What is Milton?s stated purpose in Paradise Lost ?
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Horace was a friend of_______________?
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To whom is the concept of the uncanny attributed ?
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Why does Horace Walpole make use of elaborate machines in ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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The foundation story of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? derives from what text ?
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When did William Wordsworth die ?
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Which of the following assertions would William Wordsworth most likely agree with ?
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What is Quinzaine ?
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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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Who is ?till wand?ring o?er the earth? ?
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Who is the heroin of The Tempest ?
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Which of the following is the theme of Dante?s Vita Nuova ?
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The final /n/ in the words ?sudden? and ?mutton? are __________________?
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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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According to Randy Hofbauer, what is/are the purpose(s) of the epiphany ?
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How many times do the word Katharsis appear in the Poetics________________?
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What did the novelists of the first wave of Gothic literature think of religion ?
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Who was Fuseli ?
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