English Literature Quiz 70
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The poem ?The Patriot? is written by_______________?
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In The Purgatorio, whom does Dante cite as his example of temperance ?
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Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?
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Which famous play does the quote,?When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?? come from ?
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Which of the following characterizes Modernism ?
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What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in drama ?
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What does the phrase White Man?s Burden, coined by Kipling, refer to ?
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Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?
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Fill in the blank. _______ was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation?
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______________is concerned with the selection and organization of speech sounds in a language?
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T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written ?
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Which of the following statements best describes Cleanth Brooks?s attitude towards studying literature ?
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According to Dr. Frances Pritchett?s version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi?s ?The Historical Novel and the Historical Narrative?, which of the following offers the best definition of a ?history? ?
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Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of ?Modernism? ?
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Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
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Rupert Brooke?s ?The Soldier? opens with the following lines: ?If I should die, think only this of me:/That there?s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.? Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke?s poem as a whole ?
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Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
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In the poem ?Tintern Abbey?, ?dearest friend? refers to ?
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By which religious writer was Joyce most clearly influenced ?
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This person wrote about a island that he called Colba, now known as Cuba______________?
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The ode on which topic that Coleridge wrote while attending Jesus College, Cambridge won him the Browne Gold Medal ?
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Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India?s post-colonial situation ?
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______________________is a processes of word formation wherein one or more syllables are removed from an existing long words?
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Assimilation is mainly of ____________ types?
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Who was the first to eat the forbidden fruit ?
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Spirituals like ?Go Down Moses? were important to African Americans because_______________?
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Who is the author of the notorious book entitled The School of Abuse ?
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In ?Paradise Lost?, which angel is ordered by God to drive Adam and Eve out of Paradise? Before he does so, he shows Adam a number of visions about the future of the human race, beginning with Cain murdering Abel and ending with the redemption of mankind through Christ. Who is this angel that has a large role in the finishing chapters of ?Paradise Lost? ?
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Keats? widespread appeal is to the Reader?s interest in the supernatural ?
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Which of the following best describes James Joyce?s ?Araby? ?
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When was the ban finally lifted on H. Lawrence?s novel Lady Chatterley?s Lover, written in 1928?
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Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. Austin?s performativity theory ?
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Who wrote: ?Beauty is truth, truth beauty.? ?
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Which of the following is a common element of vision literature ?
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In ?Dracula? what does the death of Lucy suggest ?
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Which of the following statements best describes the ?British East India Company ??
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In The Wanderer, what is the speaker?s primary conflict ?
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__________is a method of word formation whereby on or more syllables are removed from longer words ?
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In what way is ?The Monk? a reaction to the French Revolution ?
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Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton?s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?
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About John Smith_______________?
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But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. This victim is killed because of_____________?
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What is purgatory ?
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Who wrote ?Kubla Khan? ?
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How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare ?
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Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism ?
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Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning ?
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The term semiotics was introduced by______________?
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What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
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