English Literature Quiz 59
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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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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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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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Who was villain in Othello ?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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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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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 is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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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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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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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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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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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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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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Hardy is a__________________?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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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 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 plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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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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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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University Wits were those who ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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