English Literature Quiz 52
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Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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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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____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?
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Who is the writer of ?The Two Voices? ?
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The reason for Eve?s fall might best be described as_______________?
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Fill in the blank. The plot of ?Venus and Adonis? is based on passages from_____________?
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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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What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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Who accuses Arnold of ?high pamphleteering ??
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Why was the ?drop of blood? rule developed ?
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Who is the writer of the poem ?Andrea Del Sarto? ?
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What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth?s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
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Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy ?
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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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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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?Samson Agonistes? differs from its source material, the Biblical book of ?Judges,? in what way(s) ?
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In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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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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This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
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John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ?
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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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E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?
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T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ?Unreal City? in the first and third sections from ?
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Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?
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Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
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Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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How did the New Critics view literature ?
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The Freudian concept of ?the uncanny? refers to_________________?
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The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
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Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?
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Edmund Burke?s ?Reflections on the French Revolution? ______________?
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What was ?courtly love? ?
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Which of the following descriptions best describes the character of Hamlet ?
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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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What was the ?Woman Question? in the Victorian Period ?
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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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Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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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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What was the licensing system ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
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What does a prologue serve to do in a Greek tragedy or comedy ?
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What is a ?lay? in medieval literature ?
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A diary of someone?s day by day account of events_______________?
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Which text(s) is/are associated with mysticism ?
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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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