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