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