English Literature Quiz 59
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Who was villain in Othello ?
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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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 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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Hardy is a__________________?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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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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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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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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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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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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Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane?s poem ?Voyages? is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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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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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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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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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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University Wits were those who ?
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Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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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 poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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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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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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