English Literature Quiz 59
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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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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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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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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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Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane?s poem ?Voyages? is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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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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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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Who was villain in Othello ?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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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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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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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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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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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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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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University Wits were those who ?
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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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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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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 literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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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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Which of the following does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry ?
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Hardy is a__________________?
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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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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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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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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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