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