English Literature Quiz 59
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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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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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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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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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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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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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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University Wits were those who ?
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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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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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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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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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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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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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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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Hardy is a__________________?
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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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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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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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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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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order 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 does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry ?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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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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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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