English Literature Quiz 65
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Who introduced in linguistics the concept of Langue and Parole ?
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Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s ?
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The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as___________________?
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Which of the following artists was NOT influenced by Surrealism ?
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What promise did Augustine?s sudden death prevent him from fulfilling ?
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Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
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Who says, ?Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.? ?
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Who is the author of the novel ?The Golden Age? ?
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What does gynocriticism recommend as an approach to literature ?
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Which Poem caused Milton?s stature as a poet to be recognized ?
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Which of the following was one of the major health consequences for soldiers who survived the traumas of trench warfare in World War One ?
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_________ is the process by which one speech sound gets changed to another under the influence of another ?
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What was one of the first acts of Parliament after the outbreak of hostilities in the First Civil War ?
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man thematizes which of the following ?
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Who was Le Corbusier ?
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What doctrine significantly influenced Sir Thomas More?s ?Utopia? ?
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Complete the following sentence. We can best understand the medieval setting of Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto as______________?
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At what age did Christopher Marlow die ?
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Complete the following sentence. The Romantic movement is least closely related to______________?
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In the play, ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? where is Helena from ?
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How did the New Critics view literature ?
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When was Paradise Lost published ?
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Othello gave Desdemona _____________as a token of love?
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Which of the following features of Robert Browning?s ?My Last Duchess? make it classifiable as a Victorian poem ?
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Which year William Shakespeare was born ?
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Who does Milton name as his heavenly muse ?
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Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin?s interest in social economy ?
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Which of the following authors was not of mixed race heritage ?
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Who is the author of the novel Passing ?
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Alice Walker?s story, ?Everyday Use,? includes which ?Womanist? concern ?
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Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?
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Hamlet?s famous speech ?To be,or not to be; that is the question? occurs in ?
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Which one is Gaskell?s first novel ?
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Keats was most famous for__________________?
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Which poet could be described as part of ?The Movement? of the 1950s ?
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Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an_______________?
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Who is the writer of ?Lorna Doone? ?
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Who wrote: ?Things fall apart; the center cannot hold ? ?
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In what way does Radcliffe depart from Walpole?s earlier tradition ?
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Which of these female writers is most closely associated with tears ?
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The system of communication within a community.
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Unmoved ? she notes the Chariots ? pausing ? At her low Gate ? Unmoved ? an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat ? I?ve known her ? from an ample nation ? Then ? close the Valves of her attention ? Like Stone ? What does ample mean ?
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In John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost,? Satan assumes the character and form of what creature in order to tempt Eve to eat at the Tree of Knowledge ?
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Which of the following best describes the significance of the following line from Julian of Norwich?s ?Revelations of Divine Love?: ?all manner of things shall be well? ?
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At what age of did William Shakespeare marry Anne Hathaway ?
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Who is the writer of The Augustan Period ?
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Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species ?
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The reason for Satan?s fall might best be described as ?
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Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ?
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Who was sent to Earth to warn Man of the dangers he was facing ?
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