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