English Literature Quiz 8

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English Literature Quiz 8

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In The Paradiso, who leads Dante on his tour of heaven ?

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Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers ?

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Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?

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Thackeray?s ?Esmond? is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of ____________?

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a description that appeals to one of the five senses____________?

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Abslom, Absalom is a novel written by______________?

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Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by ?

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Which of the following statements about the plot of Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet? is not true ?

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Who is the writer of ?Vision of Sin? ?

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Who succeeded Lyly ?

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How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett?s Waiting for Godot ?

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How do theorists suggest that the Gothic novel resembles queer and camp ?

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Marxist theory focuses on examining which of the following aspects of literary texts ?

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The consonants /j/ and /w/ are called__________?

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On which Biblical theme that Paradise lost is based ?

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Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create Plymouth Colony ?

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Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?

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?But God?s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.? In which poem do these lines appear ?

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What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in ?Appeal in Four Articles? ?

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Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?

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?The Day Duke Raised? by Quincy Troupe is a jazz poem because______________?

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/m/ is a ______________consonant?

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A picaresque novel dramatizes the life of what kind of person ?

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Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Robinson Crusoe?s and Oroonoko?s relationship to central features of the early English novel ?

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Find the Odd man out ?

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What lesson does Hare?s adventure involving a tall man with a cane attempt to teach the Winnebago people ?

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Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches ?

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Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist ?

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In the Middle Ages, how did society treat prostitution ?

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Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?

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Which of the following are tragedies of Shakespeare ?

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Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?

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The pastoral elegy often begins with which of the following poetic conventions ?

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Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?

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Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?

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The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?

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The theory which Is based upon the assumption that language has been formed from the words uttered by groups of persons engaged in joint burdensome labour ?

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The title of the poem ?The Second Coming? is taken from ?

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Which of the following themes IS NOT important to John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? ?

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What is affective piety ?

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What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowe?s father ?

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Complete the following statement. John Milton explains in the first 26 lines of ?Paradise Lost? that that goal of his epic poem will be ?

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In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term ?willing suspension of disbelief? in 1817 ?

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Fill in the blanks from Tennyson?s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the ?..: Man to command and woman to ____________?

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Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy ?

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What does George Harris? master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape ?

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The change TV brought into the society can be summed up as_________________?

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For Joyce, what are epiphanies ?

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Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?

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Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?

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