English Literature Quiz 59
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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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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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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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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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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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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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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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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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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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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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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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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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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University Wits were those who ?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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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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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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Hardy is a__________________?
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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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