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