English Literature Quiz 72
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The American Renaissance overlapped the time period, in which American writers were trying to____________?
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How does St. Clare die ?
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Arnold?s Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of_____________?
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What is the title of the prose pamphlet Edmund Spenser wrote in the year 1596 ?
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In Charles Chesnutt?s ?The Goophered Grape Vine,? why does Uncle Julius tell the Northern visitors the story of the spell put on the grapes ?
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In Chaucer?s ?The Miller?s Tale,? why would the miller?s determination to speak following the knight appear unsettling to the 14th century audience ?
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Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during_______________?
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African American dialects grew out of_______________?
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Renaissance first came to the ?
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Both Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow are thought to have been born in what year ?
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Who defined language as ?a set or (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements? ?
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Elizabethan England was largely rural, with the majority of its population living in the verdant countryside. Towns and cities, however, were growing?and the most prominent of all was London. While Londoners were considered wealthy and arrogant, the city was begrimed, filthy, and infested with vermin. Where did people primarily dispose of their trash and wastes ?
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What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?
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Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it. It is known, also, that it still remains in his possession. What is the meaning of the verb to purloin ?
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What literary term is suggested by thequote steadfast companions will stand by him from Beowulf ?
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Which poem ends ?I shall but love thee better after death? ?
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According to Robert Hollander, what are the two types of allegory used by Dante ?
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By 1890, what percentage of the earth?s population was subject to Queen Victoria ?
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Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, ?Neither a borrower nor a lender be? come from ?
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Which of the following statements best represents the main theme of Beckett?s ?Waiting for Godot? ?
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Who is the representative figure of the ?Jazz Age? ?
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?Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind.?-Example of ?
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Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
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Which is called the Golden Period of English Literature?
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In which year Globe theater got fire and destroyed ?
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Maggie is the central character in George Eliot?s________________?
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Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336 ?
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Who began to ignite the embers of dissent against the Catholic church in November 1517 in a movement that came to be known as the Reformation ?
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What is an Effigy ?
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The fall of the prison of Bacille, that marks the begining of French Revolution occurred on______________?
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Who is the author of ?The Origin of Species? ?
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My present business,? continued he, speaking with lofty confidence, ?is merely to inquire my way to the dwelling of my [relative].? ? There was a sudden and general movement in the room, which Robin interpreted as expressing the eagerness of each individual to become his guide. This passage exemplifies____________?
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Staying alive was a difficult task for Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, and occupational accidents could all result in one?s untimely demise. Most people never reached the age of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom ?
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In The Inferno, Cerberus is the protector of which circle of hell ?
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Slavery in the United States was officially abolished in ______________?
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Which of the following best describes epic theater as defined by Berthold Brecht ?
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Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned ?
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Who does NOT represent the ?new woman? ?
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Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance ?
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Byron?s journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem_______________?
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Who is the author of the book ?Around the World in Eighty Days? ?
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Fill in the blank. A ____________ was a spectacle performed at court or at the manor of a member of the nobility and was staged to glorify the court or the particular aristocrat?
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Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew?s Day Massacre in 1572 ?
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Which literary theory would most directly explore questions of the role of spatial setting in a poem ?
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Complete the following sentence. Tennyson?s In Memoriam and Browning?s dramatic monologues can best be seen as combining neoclassicism with romanticism through their ?
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Why is the couple in Arna Bontemps?s ?A Summer Tragedy? getting dressed up ?
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Harold Nicholson described which poet as ?Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners? ?
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Biographia Literaria was written by_________________?
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Who wrote ?Hard Times? and ?A tale of two Cities? ?
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