English Literature Quiz 6
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William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________?
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Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?
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According to Constitution of 1962, minimum age limit for President-ship was______________?
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Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
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In Linton?s The Girl of the Period, what course of behavior does the author recommend for women ?
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?Vanity Fair? is a novel by_______________?
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The Sale of Goods Act, was enforced on________________?
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What is Robert Frost famous Journal ?
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Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
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Which work was completed last ?
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Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with ?what happens to a dream deferred? ?
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The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria?s reign was celebrated in______________?
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I ask: Is it not the case that everybody that is not white is treated with contempt and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the word of God justifies the white man in so doing. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. This passage exemplifies________________?
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Miniver Cheevy?s name satirically hints at his_________________?
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The first part of American History dwells of the_________________?
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Who wrote: ?That?s my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive.? ?
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John Milton?s ?Samson Agonistes? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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In his introduction, Milton described the genre of ?Samson Agonistes? as_____________?
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Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?
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On the Sublime is written in_________________?
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?I wandered Lonely as a cloud? is an example of______________?
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Hawthorne?s ancestors are associated with what historical American event ?
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In the Medieval era, women most commonly worked as ______________?
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Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________?
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Which is not a poetry form ?
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Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930 ?
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Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burke?s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?
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This character survived a massacre______________?
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In ?The Castle of Otranto? which attitude does Walpole express towards primogeniture ?
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The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?
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Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris ?
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What is terza rima ?
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Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ____________?
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What is the term Utopia ?
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According to most scholars, what does the chariot in The Purgatorio symbolize ?
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Jacques Derrida?s concept of diff?rance challenges us to think about language as a system that___________?
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Dante?s nine spheres of heaven are associated with which of the following religious concepts ?
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Which of the following animals seem to represent strength and courage for the Eskimos ?
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On the basis of the criterion of the state of the tension of the tongue, vowels can be classified into______________?
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Which of the following characters is NOT found in the dramatis personae ofWilliam Shakespeare?s ?Romeo and Juliet? ?
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James Joyce?s narrative technique is known as______________________?
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Which of the following does Joyce address thematically in The Dubliners ?
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Which poet would be least likely to write about the beauty of nature ?
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Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ?
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How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write ?
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chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?
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Who wrote the poem ?Requiem? ?
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Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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In which town was Shakespeare born ?
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A number of the British Romantic poets argue what character to be the protagonist (or ?hero?) of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? ?
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