English Literature Quiz 52
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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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Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?
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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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Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
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The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
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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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Why was the ?drop of blood? rule developed ?
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Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy ?
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Plato?s Republic is written in the form of______________?
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What was ?courtly love? ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
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The Freudian concept of ?the uncanny? refers to_________________?
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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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Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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What was the licensing system ?
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Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?
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What was the ?Woman Question? in the Victorian Period ?
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Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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The ?father of humanism? was_______________?
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How did the New Critics view literature ?
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What is a ?lay? in medieval literature ?
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John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ?
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Which text(s) is/are associated with mysticism ?
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What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth?s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
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Fill in the blank. The plot of ?Venus and Adonis? is based on passages from_____________?
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What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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?Samson Agonistes? differs from its source material, the Biblical book of ?Judges,? in what way(s) ?
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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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E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?
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In The Paradiso, Dante bases his structure of paradise on which of the following ?
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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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Who accuses Arnold of ?high pamphleteering ??
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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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The reason for Eve?s fall might best be described as_______________?
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Who is the writer of ?The Two Voices? ?
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/s/, /z/ are called ____________?
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____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?
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This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
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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 work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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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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Who is the writer of the poem ?Andrea Del Sarto? ?
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A diary of someone?s day by day account of events_______________?
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?I count religion but a childish toy? is a line from Marlowe?s play______________?
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In the Middle Ages, which class of people was most likely to be literate ?
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What does a prologue serve to do in a Greek tragedy or comedy ?
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Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city ?
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