English Literature Quiz 59
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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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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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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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 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 among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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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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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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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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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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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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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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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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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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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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University Wits were those who ?
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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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Who was villain in Othello ?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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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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Hardy is a__________________?
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