English Literature Quiz 40
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What is the function of the Primum Mobile ?
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/p/, /b/, /m/ and /w/ are____________?
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What was the focus of Geoffrey of Monmouth?s Historia Regum Britanniae ?
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What animal is personified as Hare?s grandfather ?
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Which of the following statements is/are TRUE concerning Puritanism ?
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To whom was Joyce married ?
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Paul O?Brien?s essay on Shelley suggests that Shelley was______________?
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Duncan Wu rejects the assertion that Wordsworth?s Lucy poems were primarily about ______________?
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The type of study which focus on the analysis of the systematic interrelation of the elements of a single language at a particular time is called________________?
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______________________ is the device used in modern linguistics for grouping together words and phrases so as to remove ambiguity of construction?
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Which of the following statements accurately describes the theme of Wordsworth?s ?Tintern Abbey? ?
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All of the following are ways in which ?The Castle of Otranto? reflects the values of Enlightenment England EXCEPT_________________?
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Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period?s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
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Which one of the following dramas attributed to Christopher Marlow is believed to have been his first ?
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Which of the following would a neoclassical poet be most likely to use as a central theme in his or her poetry ?
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Which of the following epic themes are invoked in The Wanderer ?
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The final /t/ in walked is ____________?
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In the Oliver Cromwell ?Commonwealth? and ?Protectorate? administrations, Milton served as the British government?s chief ?
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What type of work is the work The Faerie Queene ?
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In ?Paradise Lost,? what is the relationship between Satan and Death ?
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In Gwendolyn Brooks? poem, ?kitchenette building,? what is most important to the building?s inhabitants ?
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Which of the following statements is TRUE concerning the Globe theater in Elizabethan England ?
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?Undo this Button? is a line from Shakespeare?s________________?
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The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?
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What does the character Dracula symbolize in the novel ?
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What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious?
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Wordsworth calls himself ?a Worshipper of Nature? in his poem___________________?
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In The Dubliners, which literary style is used ?
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Which of the following novelists was NOT associated with the rise of the novel as a literary form ?
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In The Book of the City of Ladies, what is the function of the character Reason ?
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Henry David Thoreau lived for a while_______________?
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Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?
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From what source is the title of Finnegans Wake taken ?
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With which literary form or movement is the Restoration most closely associated ?
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Which of the following statements would you most likely NOT see in a Romantic poem ?
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Which of the following genres applies to Langland?s ?Piers Plowman? ?
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On the second day of battle in heaven, what does Satan use that surprises God?s forces ?
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Who declared him as Britain?s greatest dramatist in 1598 ?
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Who have written the book ?The Godfather?
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the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?
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When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. The author of this passage was_______________?
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Who wrote Mending wall ?
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To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of romanceemerged, initially apply ?
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In Memoriam by Tennyson is________________?
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With whom is the concept of ?claritas? associated ?
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The following lines are an example of image. ?The river sweats Oil and tar? ?
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Words such as ?phone? and ?photo? are instances of ____________?
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Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
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What is the significance of the line: Fate is established! in The Wanderer ?
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Which of the angels is considered a hero for arguing against Satan ?
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