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