English Literature Quiz 73
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Marlowe?s play ?Tamburlaine the Great? was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler ?
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Thoreau through this essay tries to portray_______________?
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?The tragic-comedy which is the product of the English theatre is one the most monstrous inventions that ever entered into a poet?s thought.? Whose view is this ?
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Which event(s) caused the Easter Rising ?
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Section ____________, of The Sale of Goods Act deal with seller?s lien ?
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In what way is Dracula NOT an ?Other? figure ?
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The elegy began as an ancient metrical form ?
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In whose reign Morality plays began ?
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Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century?
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In the demonic council of Book Two of ?Paradise Regained,? who proposes that Satan should tempt Jesus with lust for a beautiful woman the way Solomon was tempted ?
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This governor was re-elected 30 times_________________?
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What is limbo ?
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Which of the following statements best describes the behavior of the upper-class characters in Congreve?s The Way of the World ?
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This group of Native Americans believed that corn was crucial to creation ?
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One of Marlowe?s earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem ?Pharsalia?, written by which Roman poet ?
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Brer Rabbit is an example of what kind of character ?
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A critic examining Pope?s ?An Essay on Man? asks herself: How well does this poem accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a critic?
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In ?125th Street and Abomey,? Audre Lorde references images from ________________?
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Who was Edmund Spenser?s patron ?
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A tortured, dark-spirited, wry, and intellectual protagonist would most likely be found in a poem by______________?
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Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend ?
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Complete the following sentence. According to Edmund Burke, the French Revolution was________________?
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Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country ?
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Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory ?
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The Battle of Maldon describes which historical event ?
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Childe Harold was written by_______________?
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What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
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Which of the following historical events occurred in Dante?s lifetime ?
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Which of the following lines of poetry is written in iambic pentameter ?
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Napoleon?s decision to__________________can be understood as representative of the French Revolutionary spirit because this decision served to radically reposition France in contemporary European political affairs ?
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What form of verse is usually sung and details a dramatic or exciting episode ?
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In his essay ?What Is an Author?? what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
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How does Hare outsmart Sharp-elbow to retrieve his stolen arrow ?
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Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
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Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?
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In which work do you read: ?My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!? ?
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Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry ?
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In Beckett?s ?Waiting for Godot?, which of the following statements best describes the play?s setting ?
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Fill in the blank. In the play, ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? Puck is also known as_____________?
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Kempe?s acts of devotion included_________________?
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Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?
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Which of the following lines provides an example of alliterative verse ?
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New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?
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Fill in the blank. John Foxe was extremely sensitive to the_______________?
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who lost the most power during the renaissance ?
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Who was considered to be England?s first literary celebrity ?
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Race relations in the North are attacked in_______________?
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A Romantic poet would be LEAST likely to celebrate __________________?
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How does VirginiaWoolf?s essay ?A Room of One?s Own? contribute to feminist theory ?
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According to Dr. Dino Felluga?s ?General Introduction to Postmodernism,? Roland Barthes, in his work ?The Death of the Author,? argues which of the following points ?
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