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