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