English Literature Quiz 52
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What is a ?lay? in medieval literature ?
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?I count religion but a childish toy? is a line from Marlowe?s play______________?
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Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city ?
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Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?
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Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
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Which of the following statements accurately compares Rupert Brooke?s ?The Soldier? and Siegfried Sassoon?s ?The Rear Guard? ?
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In addition to driving the family coach, what other responsibility do the St. Clare assign Uncle Tom ?
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How did the New Critics view literature ?
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The reason for Eve?s fall might best be described as_______________?
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In The Paradiso, Dante bases his structure of paradise on which of the following ?
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Plato?s Republic is written in the form of______________?
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?Samson Agonistes? differs from its source material, the Biblical book of ?Judges,? in what way(s) ?
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This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
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Which work of William Wordsworth, with the joint publication with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature ?
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The ?father of humanism? was_______________?
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In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ?s Hospital, also called The Bluecoat School ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
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Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?
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____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?
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The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
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What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth?s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
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A diary of someone?s day by day account of events_______________?
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Elizabeth Barrett?s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?
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Who is the writer of ?The Two Voices? ?
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John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ?
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Who accuses Arnold of ?high pamphleteering ??
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What was the ?Woman Question? in the Victorian Period ?
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The voiced sound /z/ denoting the plural morpheme in the word ?dogs? is an instance of ________________assimilation?
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Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into a social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot: they were denied basic comforts, security, and even the chance to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes one could legally wear based on rank. Which of the following could the poor wear ?
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What was ?courtly love? ?
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Why was the ?drop of blood? rule developed ?
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Which text(s) is/are associated with mysticism ?
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Fill in the blank. The plot of ?Venus and Adonis? is based on passages from_____________?
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What was the licensing system ?
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T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ?Unreal City? in the first and third sections from ?
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Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?
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Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy ?
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In the Middle Ages, which class of people was most likely to be literate ?
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/s/, /z/ are called ____________?
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The Freudian concept of ?the uncanny? refers to_________________?
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Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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Edmund Burke?s ?Reflections on the French Revolution? ______________?
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Which of the following descriptions best describes the character of Hamlet ?
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Who is the writer of the poem ?Andrea Del Sarto? ?
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What does a prologue serve to do in a Greek tragedy or comedy ?
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