English Literature Quiz 62

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English Literature Quiz 62

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Which of the following play was written in 1601 ?

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Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?

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Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance ?

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The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________?

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Which American President reportedly referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as ?the little lady who made this big war? ?

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How many languages did chaucer know ?

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Section 31, of the Sale of Goods Act, duty bounds the buyer to______________?

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What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?

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What was vellum ?

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Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?

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In what language did Shakespeare write ?

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What is the craftsmen?s play at the end of ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? about ?

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In The Paradiso, what event does Dante allegorically represent ?

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What was the age of William Shakespeare when he retired from active service to Stratford around 1613 ?

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What was a Lollard ?

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In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?

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Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?

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How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?

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Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas ?

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How would ?Natural Supernaturalism? be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?

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Fill in the blank. The intellectual and social movement which historians call ?___________? is what lies at the base of the period we call the Renaissance ?

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According to the position of lips vowels can be divided into__________?

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James Joyce?s famous novel_____________?

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Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as ?Old Chaucer? who, ?like the morning star?, descends ?to the shades,? so that ?Darkness again the Age invades.?

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In his reading of Shakespeare?s ?Fair Youth Sonnets,? who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?

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Identify the work by Swinburne which begins ?when the hounds of spring are on winter?s traces..? ?

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?On Heroes and Hero?worship is written by________________?

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Which of the following factors helped create a solidified British political identity ?

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Which of the following terms is NOT closely associated with the Gothic novel ?

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Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ?

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In general, what is Judith Butler?s concept of gender ?

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When was John Milton born ?

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?The Excursion? was written by________________?

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Swinburne?s poems such as ?Hermaphroditus? are best known for which of the following ?

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Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the?.., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ?

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Why did ?Poetry Quarterly? cease publication in 1953 ?

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How did ideas about the spread of the British Empire start to shift in the Victorian Period ?

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Which of the following was NOT a primary cause of the Industrial Revolution ?

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The group of four plays known as the ?major tetralogy? is ?

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In the phrase, ?thy seed shall bruise our foe,? the ?seed? refers to______________?

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What is double consciousness ?

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Why do scholars consider the first wave of the English Gothic novel an aspect of Romanticism ?

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What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to ??Peddlers,? and ?Boats,? and ?Wagons?!? ?

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The Enlightenment in European history refers to which of the following ?

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?Ode on a Grecian Urn? Who is the poet of the poem ?

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Who said that Keat?s love letters of a surgeon?s apprentice ?

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In ?Characters of Shakespeare?s Plays?, how does William Hazlitt ultimately conceptualize the character of Hamlet ?

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Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical purpose of ?An Indian? Looking Glass for the White Man? ?

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In Amy Lowell?s imagist poem, ?This Green Bowl,? a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound?s ?Cantos,? this poem?s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?

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In Acrene Wisse, the mission of the anchorite was justified through what purpose ?

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