English Literature Quiz 61
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In Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet?, what does Hamlet mean when he states that, ?there is more in heaven and earth ? than are dreamt of in your philosophy? ?
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Which English king had several of his wives killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir ?
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What is the first extended written specimen of Old English ?
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Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in _______________?
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When, is it estimated, was ?Dr Faustus? first performed ?
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Which one is the world?s longest running play______________?
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Which of the following statements best describes the ?Great Depression? ?
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Who was more under the influence of Godwin?s philosophy of life ?
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When did Edmund Spenser die ?
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Words such as ?UNESCO? and ?RADAR? are instances of ____________?
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Which of the following statements is TRUE concerning John Milton?s poetry ?
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In ?The Gothic Sublime? how does Mishra characterize the Gothic novel ?
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Which one of the following is an unfinished work of Edmund Spenser ?
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Noam Chomsky was born in _________?
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Who was the most illustrious pupil of Plato ?
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Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
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William Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet? is an example of what dramatic genre ?
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In the play, ?A Midsummer?s Night?s Dream,? who is the queen of the Amazons ?
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Which was a common metaphor used by Irish writers in their depictions of the nation ?
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To where Walton?s expedition was headed when he meets the gigantic figure and the emaciated Victor ?
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In ?the tragic history of Doctor Faustus?. Faustus was a ?
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Which period of literature came first ?
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?The Second Shepherds? Play? is part of which play cycle ?
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What was the first name of the playing company King?s Men that William Shakespeare partly-owned ?
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Which text is an example of a poem structured as a vision to convey the theme of salvation ?
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Spenser?s Epithalamion is____________?
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When did Geoffrey Chaucer start working on The Canterbury Tales ?
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Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
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Native Son was written by___________________?
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Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in_____________?
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?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? was written by______________?
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Which literary theorist argues that ?there is nothing outside the text? ?
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The systematic study of signs is called __________?
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What was one theme in the period of independence ____________?
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Human language is structured at the levels of phonemes and morphemes and at the level of words. This property of language is called_______________?
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?Picture of Dorian Gray ? was written by__________________?
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What animal is personified as the trickster in the Winnebago tale ?
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Who wrote Uncle Tom?s Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?
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Maud is a poem written by_________________?
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Which of the following poems was authored by Shakespeare ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of William Bradford ?
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Fill in the blank. The novel ?Things Fall Apart? explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is manipulated into marrying Richard ?
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Who said ?theatre is not a hospital? ?
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?The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.? This line occurs in ?
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Who is famous for representing London in his novels ?
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What was Elizabeth?s close circle of advisers called ?
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What do structuralist and formalist critics have in common ?
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In Dr. R. Allen Shoaf?s article, ??Hamlet?: Like Mother, Like Son?, Shoaf argues which of the following points about the relationship between Hamlet and his mother ?
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In 1534, King Henry VIII was declared head of what church ?
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