English Literature Quiz 44
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Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557 ?
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Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: ?Who think too little, and who talk too __________? ?
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How many lines are in Spenserian stanza ?
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What is the significance of the title of ?Everyman? ?
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The type of study of the changes in language over a span of time is called________________?
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?The Crown of Wild Olive?, is written by__________________?
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According to Radcliffe, what is the difference between terror and horror ?
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Which best describes Cicero?s concept of heaven ?
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Literary critics who analyze the works of Salman Rushdie often engage which ?Post-Modern? school of criticism ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Frederick Douglass ?
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Geoffrey Chaucer is also known as_______________?
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A person who can use more than two languages_______________?
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Regarding the observance of the three Classical Unities in a play, Dr. Johnson?s view is that ?
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The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by ?
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Edmund Spenser wrote what famous text ?
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What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?
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________________refers to significant changes of pitch and stress pertaining to sentences?
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Which of Shakespeare?s play features Sir John Falstaff ?
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What is Faerie Queene ?
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What constitutes a ?monstrous Other? in ?The Yellow Wallpaper? ?
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What was the primary significance of ?The Book of American Negro Poetry? (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson ?
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A work of criticism that considers how the author?s childhood trauma influenced his characters would be an example of_____________?
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Shakespeare wrote ______________ plays?
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Which of the following was not an expressed objective of the Long Parliament when it convened in 1640 ?
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Many romantic poets regarded the natural world with a feeling of ________________?
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Which of the following descriptions of the ?Avant-Garde Movement? is false ?
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In which important medieval city was Dante born ?
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/t/. /d/, /n/, /l/, /s/ are __________________?
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what was the duration of hundred year?s war ?
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During which period London theaterrs remained closed on account of the plague ?
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In Ulysses, which character best exemplifies anti-Semitism ?
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Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
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Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by_______________?
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The ?Poet Laureate? is______________?
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What term describes Cassy?s racial heritage ?
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What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes Ezra Pound?s poem ?Hugh Selwyn Mauberley? ?
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This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
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When was Edmund Spenser born ?
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The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by ?
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Complete the following sentence. Keats?s ?Ode to a Nightingale? is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?
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In which work do you read: ?Beauty is truth, truth beauty.? ?
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Who wrote ?The waste land? ?
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What is the significance of the dreamer in The Dream of the Rood ?
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Tennyson was_____________?
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?not of an age, but for all time?-was told about Shakespeare by whom ?
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Lord Byron was born in________________?
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Which character says ?wasn?t she the downright villain to go and do a thing like that? ?
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Please identify the text from which ?then must any what you like in the power of empthoo? comes ?
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What are the best words to describe the Garden of Eden, the weather, and nature in general, before the Fall of Adam and Eve ?
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