0% 0 English Literature Quiz 62 1 / 50 What is double consciousness ? A concept developed by W.E.B Du Bois All of the above. An understanding of how double experiences create identity An attempt to explain dual identity 2 / 50 Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ? Imagism Methodist Oxford Movement Pre-Raphaelite 3 / 50 Who said that Keat?s love letters of a surgeon?s apprentice ? Hazlitt Shelley Byron Arnold 4 / 50 The group of four plays known as the ?major tetralogy? is ? King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI 5 / 50 Identify the work by Swinburne which begins ?when the hounds of spring are on winter?s traces..? ? Songs before Sunrise Atalanta in Calydon A Song of Italy Chastelard 6 / 50 In Acrene Wisse, the mission of the anchorite was justified through what purpose ? To pray To serve the church To preach To withdraw and meditate upon God 7 / 50 In general, what is Judith Butler?s concept of gender ? Women?s gender is artificial, while men?s gender is not. While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true. Gender is largely a cultural construct. Gender is a problematic, but essentially true, category. 8 / 50 In what language did Shakespeare write ? German Modern English Middle English Old English 9 / 50 Which of the following was NOT a primary cause of the Industrial Revolution ? The European economy shifting into a global economy The population increase in Europe Europe?s shift into being a manufacturing economy The popularity of Romantic poetry 10 / 50 How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ? Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history. Literary theory is detached from the reality of politics and the economy. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues. 11 / 50 Which of the following factors helped create a solidified British political identity ? Efforts to revive learning All of these answers The shift away from individual petty kingdoms to central rule under King Alfred The translation of Latin religious and historical works in vernacular traditions 12 / 50 Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ? all of the above They relied on admission charges, an innovation of the period. The early versions were oval in shape. They were located outside the city limits of London. 13 / 50 The Enlightenment in European history refers to which of the following ? The power given to absolute monarchs by God The revelation of religious truths through meditation A period in the 18th century that celebrated industry A period in which reason was celebrated as enabling human knowledge and possibly human perfection 14 / 50 Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas ? Celtic Arameic Hindu Arabic 15 / 50 Swinburne?s poems such as ?Hermaphroditus? are best known for which of the following ? Their conservative poetics Their frank depiction of sexuality Their nationalistic tone Their radical politics 16 / 50 In his poetry Tennyson is_______________? The best nature poet The representative poet of Romantic Age None of these The representative poet of Victorian Age 17 / 50 What was the age of William Shakespeare when he retired from active service to Stratford around 1613 ? 51 49 52 53 18 / 50 What was vellum ? unrhymed iambic pentameter the service owed to a lord by his peasants(?villeins?) parchment made of animal skin an unbreakable oath of fealty 19 / 50 According to the position of lips vowels can be divided into__________? Round vowels & unrounded vowels High vowels & low vowels Front vowels & back vowels Tense vowels &lax vowels 20 / 50 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 ? No, Lowell?s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind. Yes, Lowell?s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell?s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience. 21 / 50 How did ideas about the spread of the British Empire start to shift in the Victorian Period ? People found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority. All of these answers Colonizers were no longer necessarily interested in reforming indigenous populations. Competition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners. 22 / 50 In The Paradiso, what event does Dante allegorically represent ? The soul?s descent into hell The soul?s tour of purgatory The soul?s ascent to heaven The soul?s union with the body 23 / 50 The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________? Paradise Lost Pilgrims Progress Divine Comedy Utopia 24 / 50 ?On Heroes and Hero?worship is written by________________? Mill Ruskin Huxley Carlyle 25 / 50 Which of the following play was written in 1601 ? Macbeth King Lear Hamlet Othello 26 / 50 What is the craftsmen?s play at the end of ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? about ? Puck?s adventures The history of Athens Pyramus and Thisbe Summertime dreams 27 / 50 Which of the following terms is NOT closely associated with the Gothic novel ? Suspense Horror The sublime Picaresque 28 / 50 Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance ? confidence in human rationality the emergence of merchant oligarchies emphasis on individuality the development of social insurance programs 29 / 50 What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to ??Peddlers,? and ?Boats,? and ?Wagons?!? ? the clumsiness of Shakespeare?s plots Wordsworth?s devotion to the ordinary and everyday the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden 30 / 50 How many languages did chaucer know ? 2 5 4 1 31 / 50 When was John Milton born ? 22 April 1600 9 December 1608 6 June 1606 19 August 1604 32 / 50 Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________? 3000 years ago 1500 years ago 2000 years ago 1000 years ago 33 / 50 ?Ode on a Grecian Urn? Who is the poet of the poem ? Wordsworth Shakespeare Shelley Keats 34 / 50 Which American President reportedly referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as ?the little lady who made this big war? ? George Washington Abraham Lincoln John Adams John. F. Kennedy 35 / 50 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 ? Capitalism Humanism Humanitarianism Socialism 36 / 50 In the phrase, ?thy seed shall bruise our foe,? the ?seed? refers to______________? Cane and Abel Jesus Christ Adam The Tree of Knowledge 37 / 50 Why do scholars consider the first wave of the English Gothic novel an aspect of Romanticism ? The Gothic novel?s interest in the apocalyptic prophecies found in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures The ascendency of human reason in the Gothic novel The representation of contemporary life in the Gothic novel The use of poetic prose in the Gothic novel 38 / 50 What was a Lollard ? a hero in a courtly romance a female mystic an illiterate anchoress a member of a sect that was considered heretical 39 / 50 How would ?Natural Supernaturalism? be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ? a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium 40 / 50 In ?Characters of Shakespeare?s Plays?, how does William Hazlitt ultimately conceptualize the character of Hamlet ? As boyish and immature As a crazed fool As a brilliant warrior As a profound philosophical genius 41 / 50 Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the?.., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ? Ben Jonson Masque A Midsummer Night?s Dream William Shakespeare 42 / 50 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 ? Historical/Biographical Approach Moral/ Philosophical Approach Formalism Psychological Approach 43 / 50 In his reading of Shakespeare?s ?Fair Youth Sonnets,? who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ? Oxford Bacon Marlowe Swift 44 / 50 ?The Excursion? was written by________________? None of these Coleridge Shelley Blake 45 / 50 Why did ?Poetry Quarterly? cease publication in 1953 ? Rise in taxation on magazines Fall in Sales Shortage of paper Owner convicted of fraud 46 / 50 Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ? ?The Canterbury Tales? ?The Book of Margery Kempe? ?Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? ?Piers Plowman? 47 / 50 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.? John Dryden John Donne Abraham Cowley William Shakespeare 48 / 50 James Joyce?s famous novel_____________? Ulysses Roots Rebecca Tom Jones 49 / 50 Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical purpose of ?An Indian? Looking Glass for the White Man? ? both B and C Critic the way white people?s society treats people of color wrong. Making peace Working together 50 / 50 Section 31, of the Sale of Goods Act, duty bounds the buyer to______________? 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