English Literature Quiz 4
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Why is the concept of feudalism important in medieval literature ?
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Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold?s poem ?Dover Beach? is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?
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Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth?s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ?
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In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that country, there is a small district of country, thily populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn-out, sandy, deserts-like appearance of its soil, the general dilapidation of its farms and fences, the indigent and spiritless character of its inhabitants, and the prevalence of ague and fever. What does dilapidation mean ?
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The turbulent years of the 14th century witnessed a blending of language and culture that led to the rise of Middle English. Which of the following events led to the nickname ?the era of catastrophes? ?
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David Walker?s ?Appeal in Four Articles? argues that_________________?
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Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare ?
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Who is the author of Piers Plowman ?
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World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event ?
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The Battle of the Ants is an excerpt from______________?
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Who is the Author of the Book ?As u Like it??
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Who is the writer of ?Hamlet and Oedipus? (1949) ?
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He wrote a journal about his expedition in northern Florida _____________?
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Who called ?The Waste Land ?a music of ideas? ?
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Wines Burg Ohio______________?
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Which of the following couples exemplify/ exemplifies courtly love ?
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Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England?s large-scale imperialism ?
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According to Samuel Johnson, No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
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What does hermeneutic theory suggest about how readers view literature ?
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Why is Caedmon?s Hymn important in the history of Old English literature ?
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The development of the novel is associated with all of the following EXCEPT__________________?
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The Song of the Lotus is a poem by____________?
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Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship between Darwin?s On the Origin of Species and Victorian society and its ideals ?
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In Book Three of ?Paradise Lost,? God the Father alludes to what theological principle in the following quotation: ?I made him [Adam] just and right, / Sufficient to have stood though free to fall.?
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In The Purgatorio, the opening of the text resembles which type of poem ?
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What is NOT Gothic about the room to which the female protagonist of ?The Yellow Wallpaper? is confined ?
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The ?s in ?boys? is ______________?
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Who kills Macbeth at the end of the play, ?Macbeth? ?
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__________are articulated by raising the front of the tongue towards the hard palate ?
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The black language holds great importance for the_____________?
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All of the following are labyrinthine in ?The Mysteries of Udolpho? EXCEPT______________?
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Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
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According to many British Romantic poets, who is the protagonist of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? ?
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Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. Throughout the Middle Ages, English drama, like that of other European countries, was mainly ______________ and ______________?
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What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?
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In the play, ?Twelfth Night,? who rescues Sebastian after his shipwreck ?
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How is ?Jane Eyre? different from the novels of the first wave of English Gothic novels ?
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S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of__________________?
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John Milton was inspired by the previous works of what authors ?
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Which devil is Satan?s second-incommand ?
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Which of the following is not found in Hell ?
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According to trauma theorists, a testifying subject needs which of the following to deliver a successful testimony ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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Which of the following events occur(s) in the first book of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? ?
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The play, ?Richard III,? takes place in what country ?
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Who is the famous woman novelist in Victorian Age ________?
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According to most critics, Vita Nuova is an example of which of the following genres ?
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What is meant by the ?Haussmannization? of Paris ?
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In which country is Macbeth set ?
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Who might be considered the friendliest and most sociable of all God?s angels ?
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