English Literature Quiz 59
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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 of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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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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Who was villain in Othello ?
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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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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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University Wits were those who ?
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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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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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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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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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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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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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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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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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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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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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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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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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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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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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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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American Civil War was fought 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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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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