English Literature Quiz 55
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Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?
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Which of the following best defines Middle English ?
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Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ?
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Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
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?To be or not to be that is the question?, is famous line of which of Shakespeare?s plays ?
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According to Langston Hughes?s essay ?The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain? (his answer to George Schuyler?s essay ?Negro Art Hokum?), what is the ?mountain? that stands in the way of ?any true Negro art in America? ?
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Seven Ages of Man appears in ? As you like it?. Which character?s speech it is ?
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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?
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The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________?
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Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
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The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?
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?Post-Modernism? is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?
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As per Constitution of 1962, ___________ were held National Languages?
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Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ?
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Which of the following best represents Dante?s criticism of the medieval Church ?
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Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
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What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?
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What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?
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Is Dryden?s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of an epistolary novel ?
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Which of the following best defines the work of a deconstructionist critic ?
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George Bernard Shaw is_________________?
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The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?
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Which problem(s) shaped Joyce?s early home life?
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What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?
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What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ?
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How many stressed are generally marked_____________?
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What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?
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Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?
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Chaucer and Langland were contemporaries, but there were several differences between their writing styles. Which of the following best describes these differences ?
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Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?
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Themes in modern literature are_____________?
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Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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How does this quotation from Behn?s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: ?I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet?s pleasure.? ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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What the term Renaissance refers ?
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Who wrote: ?In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree???
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Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?
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Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
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What is the function of the Linati schema ?
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Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
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What is ?the gender fallacy? ?
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Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?
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Samuel Richardson?s Pamela and Daniel Defoe?s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?
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Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
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Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
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In drama, a ?soliloquy? refers to which of the following ?
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Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?
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