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