English Literature Quiz 50
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What was the first published title of Christopher Marlow?s play The Jew of Malta ?
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In The Paradiso, how does Dante?s journey through heaven end ?
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The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was______________?
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The play, ?Macbeth,? is set in what country ?
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Some critics of literary theory argue that literary theory is problematic for which reason ?
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Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue ?
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?And then hopped sidewise to the Wall?. Here the poet personifies the bird as a______________?
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The character named Comus is often seen by critics as a prototype of what character Milton later portrayed ?
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Whom did monster demand to Victor Frankenstein to create for him ?
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Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?
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Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I ?
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What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is ?performed? ?
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Which among the following implies the underlying rules governing the combination and organization of the elements of language ?
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According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by legitimate drama ?
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What do you mean by Stanza ?
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Which writer spent more than twelve years imprisoned in the Tower of London ?
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How was the priest?s son?s prayer answered ?
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A language come into existence when_____________?
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Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic ?
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But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. What does ?mow? mean in this context ?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who speaks of ?the winter of our discontent? (I.i.1) ?
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Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacob?s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was____________?
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Which of the following is NOT a feature or characteristics of Emily Dickinson?s poetry ?
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In T.S. Eliot?s essay called ?Tradition and Individual Talent,? he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following ?
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Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
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For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT ?
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Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
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The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in ?
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With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?
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Who wrote The Rules of Courtly Love ?
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The importance of Lucy Terry?s ?Bars Fight? is______________?
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What is ?scholasticism? as it relates to the medieval era ?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a mentor for a number of early American writers, including_______________?
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Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ?
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Section 58, of The Sale of Goods Act provide right of suit for Specific Performance of Contract on the part of ________________?
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As per section 4(2), of The Sale of Goods Act, a contract of sale may be _________________?
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Following are the lines of: ?I?m your wife if you marry me If not, I?ll die your maid to be your fellow You may deny me, but I?ll be your servant Whether you deny or not? ?
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Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?
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Who calls poetry ?the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge? ?
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?The Alchemist? is written by_______________?
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The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?
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During the period of which king did Chaucer fight in the English Army for the Hundred Years? War between France and England ?
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Which statement about the Earth is asserted as true in Paradise Lost ?
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Which of the following women is widely considered the first feminist ?
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Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
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Which of the Marlowe?s plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash ?
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What led to the alliterative revival ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the contrast between T.S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land? and the futurist aesthetic project ?
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In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown?s Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental novel is evident ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?
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