English Literature Quiz 6
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John Milton?s ?Samson Agonistes? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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In the Medieval era, women most commonly worked as ______________?
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William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________?
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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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On the basis of the criterion of the state of the tension of the tongue, vowels can be classified into______________?
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What is terza rima ?
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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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Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ____________?
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The first part of American History dwells of the_________________?
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James Joyce?s narrative technique is known as______________________?
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chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?
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Which of the following does Joyce address thematically in The Dubliners ?
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Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
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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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?I wandered Lonely as a cloud? is an example of______________?
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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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Miniver Cheevy?s name satirically hints at his_________________?
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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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In ?The Castle of Otranto? which attitude does Walpole express towards primogeniture ?
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Who wrote the poem ?Requiem? ?
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The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria?s reign was celebrated in______________?
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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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The Sale of Goods Act, was enforced on________________?
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Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?
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Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930 ?
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Dante?s nine spheres of heaven are associated with which of the following religious concepts ?
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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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Which is not a poetry form ?
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Hawthorne?s ancestors are associated with what historical American event ?
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In which town was Shakespeare born ?
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The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?
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Which of the following animals seem to represent strength and courage for the Eskimos ?
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Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris ?
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On the Sublime is written in_________________?
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According to most scholars, what does the chariot in The Purgatorio symbolize ?
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Which poet would be least likely to write about the beauty of nature ?
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How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write ?
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?Vanity Fair? is a novel by_______________?
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Which work was completed last ?
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This character survived a massacre______________?
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What is Robert Frost famous Journal ?
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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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Jacques Derrida?s concept of diff?rance challenges us to think about language as a system that___________?
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According to Constitution of 1962, minimum age limit for President-ship was______________?
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Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ?
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In his introduction, Milton described the genre of ?Samson Agonistes? as_____________?
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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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Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________?
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What is the term Utopia ?
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