English Literature Quiz 59
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer 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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Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane?s poem ?Voyages? is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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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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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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Hardy is a__________________?
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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 of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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Who was villain in Othello ?
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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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Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?
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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 periods of English literature came last ?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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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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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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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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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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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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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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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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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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