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