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