English Literature Quiz 59
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time?. Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare ?
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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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Which of the following does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry ?
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Which British philosopher believed that monarchs repressed citizens and that revolution is proper when a government does not protect its people ?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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Hardy is a__________________?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?
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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person?s pursuit of their personal interests ?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane?s poem ?Voyages? is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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Who was villain in Othello ?
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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University Wits were those who ?
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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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