English Literature Quiz 59
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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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 of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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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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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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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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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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Hardy is a__________________?
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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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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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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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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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University Wits were those who ?
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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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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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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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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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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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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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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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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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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 is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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