English Literature Quiz 33
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emily Dickinson ?
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Who is the central Figure in O Nell?s The Hairy Ape_____________?
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Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
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Who was the first Tudor King ?
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How many children did Shakespeare have ?
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Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
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Words such as ?black__leg? and ?flash__light? are instances of ____________?
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Who was the first English Christian king ?
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Bartolome de Las Casas wrote_____________?
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How many types of phonetic transcriptions are generally followed ?
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Who is the central heroine of the play, ?Twelfth Night? ?
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When was the first edition of the novel Frankenstein published ?
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He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_____________in______________?
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What was historically significant about Chretien de Troyes Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion ?
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When was Samuel Taylor Coleridge born ?
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John Locke is known for advocating all of the following ideas EXCEPT________________?
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Earnest Hemingway got Nobel Prize for_________?
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Black Boy is an autobiographical account of whose Southern boyhood ?
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Which of the following statements best describes Catherine Moreland in ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
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Complete the following sentence. John Dryden?s ?Mac Flecknoe? reflects a commitment to neoclassical aesthetics through_______________?
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In Shakespeare?s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by________________?
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Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ?Hero as King? ?
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Which theorist is associated with the idea that art is a copy of a copy ?
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Dante?s mention of the ?sound of the angelic trumpet? refers to which religious event ?
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In which text did Dante introduce the ?dolce stil novo? technique ?
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Hamlet consist of _____________acts?
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Which of the following sentences is the famous first line of Nabokov?s ?Lolita? ?
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William Shakespeare born in ?
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What is the name of the popular fiction genre in which the novel Frankenstein belongs to ?
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William Bradford?s Of Plymouth Plantation exemplifies what genre of early American writing ?
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what did Chaucer?s wife use to do ?
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Who is the author of ?The Rape of Bangladesh? ?
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According to Dante, which is the most serious sin in hell ?
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defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature ?
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With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
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Which of the following is the best example of a morality play ?
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In the Middle Ages, how did religious and secular concepts of virginity differ ?
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In which college Edmund Spenser study ?
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What literary genre is Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis? ?
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What is the primary focus of Bede?s Ecclesiastical History ?
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Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the firstof its kind to be published by an English woman ?
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How do historians say Joyce?s exile manifest itself in Finnegans Wake ?
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In Paul Laurence Dunbar?s ?A Cabin Tale,? which character is a trickster figure?
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How did Henry II, the first of England?s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
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Which one of Gaskell?s novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing ?
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In ?The Gothic Sublime? how does Mishra characterize the labyrinth motif ?
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In which year did Edmund Spenser publish his poem The Shepheardes Calender ?
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Which one of the following terms is often called for the England?s national poet, William Shakespeare ?
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According to Walter Benjamin in ?The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,? which of the following is true ?
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