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2021-11-11 17:47:11 783. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928.
a) 1930
b) 1945
c) 1960
d) 2000
e) The ban has not yet been formally lifted.

784. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre?
a) the Irish National Theatre
b) the Globe Theatre
c) the Independent Theatre
d) the Abbey Theatre
e) both a and d

785. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party?
a) regional dialect and political critique
b) religious symbolism and society comedy
c) iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
d) witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
e) all of the above

786. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?
a) "nothing happens-twice"
b) "political correctness gone mad"
c) "kitchen sink drama"
d) "angry young men
e) "better than Cats"

787. What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear of censorship?
a) the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain's office in 1968
b) the illegal performance of work by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond
c) the collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s
d) the foundation of the Field Day Theater Company in 1980
e) the establishment of the Abbey Theater

788. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968?
a) the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
b) the emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists
c) the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
d) the death of the musical
e) all but d

789. What did Henry James describe as "loose baggy monsters"?

a) novels
b) plays
c) the English
d) publishers
e) his trousers Open / Comment

2021-11-11 17:47:10 a) the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
b) a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays
c) a popular thirst for the "classics," driving contemporary writers to the margins
d) a, b and c
e) none of the above

768. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?

a) Eminent Victorians
b) Jungle Books
c) Philistine Victorians
d) The Way of All Flesh
e) both a and d

769. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund Freud associated?

a) eugenics
b) psychoanalysis
c) phrenology
d) anarchism
e) all of the above

770. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways?

a) Sigmund Freud
b) Sir James Frazer
c) Immanuel Kant
d) Friedrich Nietzsche
e) all but c

771. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century?

a) Albert Einstein's theory of relativity
b) wireless communication across the Atlantic
c) the creation of the internet
d) the invention of the airplane
e) the mass production of cars

772. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound?

a) a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
b) an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
c) an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
d) the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility
e) a neo-platonic poetics that stresses the importance of poetry aiming to achieve its ideal "form"

773. What characteristics of seventeenth-century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics?

a) its intellectual complexity
b) its union of thought and passion
c) its uncompromising engagement with politics
d) a and b
e) a,b, and c


774. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more ___ but less ___ than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.

a) popular; reverenced
b) brash; confident
c) radical; inventive
d) anxious; haunting
e) spiritual; orthodox

775. Which poet could be described as part of "The Movement" of the 1950s?

a) Thom Gunn
b) Dylan Thomas
c) Pablo Picasso
d) Philip Larkin
e) both a and d


776. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916?

a) the southern counties of Ireland
b) Canada
c) Ulster
d) India
e) Ghana

777. Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland?

a) W. B. Yeats
b) James Joyce
c) Seamus Heaney
d) Oscar Wilde
e) none of the above; all came from Ireland

778. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature?

a) automatic writing
b) confused daze
c) total recall
d) stream of consciousness
e) free association

779. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel?

a) stream of consciousness
b) free indirect style
c) irresolute open endings
d) the "mythical method"
e) narrative realism

780. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new "mythical method" in place of the old "narrative method" and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about "making the modern world possible for art"?
a) Virginia Woolf's The Waves
b) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
c) James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake
d) E. M. Forster's A Passage to India
e) James Joyce's Ulysses

781. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist writers?
a) George Orwell
b) Virginia Woolf
c) Evelyn Waugh
d) Orson Wells
e) Aldous Huxley

782. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory?
a) E. M. Forster's A Passage to India
b) Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
c) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
d) Paul Scott's Staying On
e) c and d Open / Comment

2021-11-11 17:47:10 a) Thomas Carlyle
b) Matthew Arnold
c) Charles Dickens
d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
e) all of the above: (In addition to short fiction, most Victorian novels appeared serialized in periodicals.)


758. What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels?

a) the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail
b) a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness
c) a mythic dream world
d) the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society
e) a and d


759. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women?

a) It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
b) It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
c) It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn't make serious statements about society.
d) It often concerned the domestic world with which women were familiar.
e) all but c

760. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics?

a) The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
b) The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
c) The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi-barbarous age.
d) The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.
e) The Victorians were aware of no distinction between themselves and the Romantics; the distinction was only created by critics in the twentieth century.

761. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way?

a) the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
b) sound as a means to express meaning
c) perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
d) all of the above
e) none of the above: Victorians were not experimental in their poetry.

762. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as "the special and opportune art of the modern world"?

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a) the novel
b) nonfiction prose
c) the lyric
d) comic drama
e) transcripts of Parliamentary debates

763. What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose?

a) a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
b) a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia
c) the forbiddingly high cost of three-volume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
d) the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value
e) c and d

764. For what do Matthew Arnold's moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater's aesthetic investment together pave the way?

a) a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
b) modern literary criticism
c) late–nineteenth-century and early–twentieth-century satirical drama
d) the surrealist movement
e) none of the above: Victorian prose was mostly forgotten until recently and had little impact on literature of or after its time.


765. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions?

a) W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
b) Oscar Wilde
c) George Bernard Shaw
d) Robert Corrigan
e) all but d

20th Century

766. 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?

a) art for intellect's sake
b) art for God's sake
c) art for the masses
d) art for art's sake
e) art for sale

767. What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory? Open / Comment

2021-11-11 17:47:09 746. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period's contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change?

a) Anthony Trollope
b) Charles Dickens
c) John Ruskin
d) Friedrich Engels
e) Oscar Wilde

747. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria?

a) Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.
b) In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India.
c) To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
d) From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from £300 billion to £800 billion.
e) In 1867 the Canadian provinces were unified into the Dominion of Canada.

748. What does the phrase "White Man's Burden," coined by Kipling, refer to?

a) Britain's manifest destiny to colonize the world
b) the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
c) the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
d) the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world's problems
e) a Chartist sentiment


749. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism?

a) a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
b) a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
c) a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
d) a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
e) a form of nonconformism


750. Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated?

a) geology
b) evolution
c) discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
d) all of the above
e) tractarianism


751. Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire?

a) the India Mutiny in 1857
b) the Boer War in the south of Africa
c) the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
d) the Irish Question
e) all of the above

752. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism?

a) William Morris
b) John Ruskin
c) Edward FitzGerald
d) Karl Marx
e) all but c

753. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era?

a) studied melancholy and aestheticism
b) sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
c) raucous celebration mixed with self-congratulatory sophistication
d) paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent
e) all of the above

754. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era?

a) a series of Factory Acts
b) the Custody Act
c) the Women's Suffrage Act
d) the Married Women's Property Rights Acts
e) the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act

755. Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The Princess address?

a) the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
b) the debate on women's suffrage
c) the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women's college in London
d) the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power
e) the establishment of a civil divorce court

756. 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 _.

a) crop; scabbard; foot; agree
b) throne; scepter; soul; decree
c) school; scalpel; pen; set free
d) hearth; needle; heart; obey
e) field; sword; head; command

757. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals? Open / Comment

2021-11-11 17:47:09 729. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?

a) William Blake
b) Alfred Lord Tennyson
c) Samuel Johnson
d) William Wordsworth
e) Mary Wollstonecraft

730. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
a) opium
b) dreams
c) childhood
d) a and b
e) a, b and c

731. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?

a) Aristotle
b) Duns Scotus
c) David Hume
d) Immanuel Kant
e) Bertrand Russell

732. Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary?

a) Prometheus
b) Satan
c) Cain
d) Napoleon
e) George III

733. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832?

a) about half of middle class men
b) almost all working class men

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c) all women
d) b and c
e) a, b and c

734. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era?

a) Too many of its readers were women.
b) It required less skill than other genres.
c) It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.
d) Too many of its authors were women.
e) all of the above

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

a) Jane Austen's Emma
b) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
c) William Godwin's Caleb Williams
d) Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
e) Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto

736. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form?

a) the fractal
b) the figment
c) the fragment
d) the aubade
e) the comedy of manners

737. Who exemplified the role of the "peasant poet"?

a) John Clare
b) John Keats
c) Robert Burns
d) a and c only
e) b and c only

738. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux?

a) Maria Edgeworth
b) Sir Walter Scott
c) Thomas De Quincey
d) Joanna Baillie
e) Jane Austen

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Victorian Age

739. Which ruler's reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era?

a) King Henry VIII
b) Queen Elizabeth I
c) Queen Victoria
d) King John
e) all of the above, in that order, with Victoria's reign marking the most pivotal period for England's colonial efforts in India, Africa, and the West Indies


740. Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century?
a) Paris
b) Tokyo
c) London
d) Amsterdam
e) New York

741. By 1890, what percentage of the earth's population was subject to Queen Victoria?

a) 1%
b) 10%
c) 15%
d) 25%
e) 95%


742. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by "Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe"?

a) Britain's preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
b) Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
c) Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
d) In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.
e) Leave England and emigrate to Germany.


743. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation?

a) the working classes
b) women
c) the lower middle classes
d) slaves
e) conservative landowners


744. Elizabeth Barrett's poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s?

a) women's rights and suffrage
b) child labor
c) Chartism
d) the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians
e) insurrection in the colonies


745. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?

a) the rich and the poor
b) Anglicans and Methodists
c) England and Ireland
d) Britain and Germany
e) the industrial north and the agrarian south Open / Comment

2021-11-11 17:47:08 a) Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public.
b) Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.
c) A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.
d) People had more leisure time to read and more disposable income to spend on reading materials.
e) all of the above

717. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era?
a) London Magazine
b) The Spectator
c) The Edinburgh Review
d) The Tatler
e) a and c only

718. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by "legitimate" drama?
a) The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.
b) All of the actors were male.
c) All of the actors were British.
d) The play was spoken.
e) The play had to be a full musical or produced in full pantomime.

719. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements?
a) supernatural phenomenon
b) perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden's persecution
c) plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
d) secret passages, decaying mansions, gloomy castles, and dark dungeons
e) all of the above

720. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era?
a) Fanny Burney
b) Mary Wollstonecraft
c) Anna Letitia Barbauld
d) Jane Austen
e) Mary Shelley

721. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
a) Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
b) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
d) Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
e) none of the above: Romantic novelists never wrote historical novels.

722. Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality?
a) William Godwin's Inquiry Concerning Political Justice
b) Percy Bysshe Shelley's England in 1819
c) William Godwin's Caleb Williams
d) Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian
e) all of the above


723. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry?
a) Percy Bysshe Shelley
b) William Wordsworth
c) George Gordon, Lord Byron
d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
e) all of the above

724. Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text?
a) a French revolutionary
b) a Greek or Roman mythological figure
c) a monster fabricated in a laboratory
d) a vagrant, gypsy, or any other itinerant social outcast
e) All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.

725. In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed?

a) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein
b) William Worsworth's Lyrical Ballads
c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
d) John Keats's "To Autumn"
e) all but d

726. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the

a) troubadour
b) skald
c) chorister
d) minstrel
e) bard

727. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to "'Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and 'Wagons'!"?

a) the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden
b) the clumsiness of Shakespeare's plots
c) the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
d) Wordsworth's devotion to the ordinary and everyday
e) Blake's apocalyptic visions


728. Wordsworth described all good poetry as

a) the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
b) the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
c) the polite patter of a corrupted age
d) the divine gift of grace
e) the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. Open / Comment

2021-11-11 17:47:08 707. How would "Natural Supernaturalism" be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle?
a) a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits
b) a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being
c) a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
d) the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium
e) an oxymoron that nobody understood and that cannot be explained in the context of a discussion of Romantic literature

708. Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing?
a) a field of daffodils
b) the "Orient"
c) a graveyard
d) a medieval castle
e) All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.

709. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?
a) William Blake
b) Alfred Lord Tennyson
c) Samuel Johnson
d) William Wordsworth
e) Mary Wollstonecraft

710. What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called "mesmerism," one of the "occult" practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness?
a) smoking opium
b) hypnotism
c) psychoanalysis
d) dream interpretation
e) Satanism

711. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted?
a) Goethe's Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
b) Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence
c) Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods
d) all of the above
e) a and c only: Romantics were more interested in representations of humans as they were able to exceed their human limitations.

712. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution?
a) snide indifference
b) biblical reverence
c) condemning censure
d) satirical derision
e) none of the above: Romantic writers had no interest in the French Revolution.

713. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text?
a) a spiritual autobiography written in an epic style
b) a lyric poem written in the first person
c) a comedy of manners
d) a political tract demanding labor reform
e) a novel written about the intellectual and emotional development of a monster created by a scientist

714. Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind?
a) Coleridge's Dejection: An Ode
b) Blake's "Prophetic Books"
c) Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
d) Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman
e) all but d

715. Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period?

a) Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of the working classes
b) Labor reform, improving working conditions for industrial laborers
c) Voting reform, extending suffrage to men and women
d) Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase in literacy
e) a and d only: Significant labor and voting reform would have to wait for the Victorian era and later.

716. Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business? Open / Comment

2021-11-11 17:47:07 690)Who is termed as "The Morning Star of Renaissance"?
a)Spenser
b)John Gower
c)Chaucer
d)Langland

691)Who began the tradition of revenge play ?
a)Goorge peele
b)Samuel daniel
c)Phineas fletcher
d)Thomas kyd

692)How many lines are there in a Sonnet?
a)10
b)16
c)14
d)22

693)What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet?
a)Capulet And Montague
b)Breslow and Felsher
c)Fuech and Goodside
d)Dawson and Hurley
694)Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?
a)Seagull
b)Albatross
c)Humming Bird
d)Crow

695)What was the name of the Bronte sister’s only brother?
a)Anderson
b)Branwell
c)Richard
d)Pearson

696)In which county was Jane Austin born?
a)Sussex
b)Hampshire
c)Yorkshire
d)Norfolk

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697)In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
a)Bleak House
b)Great Expectations
c)A Tale of Two Cities
d)The Pickwick Papers

698. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years?
a) Tories
b) Republicans
c) Liberals
d) Radicals
e) both c and d

699. Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true?
a) Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.
b) Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.
c) Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.
d) The invention of textile processing machines marked the end of the Industrial Revolution.
e) both a and c

700. What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings?
a) partition
b) segregation
c) enclosure
d) division
e) subtraction

701. Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person's pursuit of their personal interests?
a) economic independence
b) the Rights of Man
c) laissez-faire
d) enclosure
e) lazy government

702. What served as the inspiration for P. B. Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song: "Men of England" and England in 1819?
a) the organization of a working class men's choral group in Southern England
b) the Battle of Waterloo
c) the Peterloo Massacre
d) the storming of the Bastille
e) the first Reform Bill, passed in 1832, which aimed to bring greater Parliamentary representation to the working classes

703. Who applied the term "Romantic" to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830?
a) Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien régime, especially satire
b) English historians half a century after the period ended
c) "The Satanic School" of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
d) Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)
e) Harold Bloom

704. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the "spirit of the age," which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination?
a) Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
b) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
c) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
e) Dorothy Wordsworth and Sally Ashburner

705. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"?
a) the lyric poem written in the first person
b) the sonnet
c) doggerel rhyme
d) the political tract
e) the ode

706. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _____.
a) for their own sake; to merely describe natural phenomenon
b) to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans
c) as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking
d) symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner, spiritual world
e) b, c, and d Open / Comment

2021-11-11 17:47:07 663:Who wrote: "Reader, I married him."?
a)Jane Austen
b)Charlotte Bronte
c)Edith Wharton
d)Emily Bronte

664.Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."?
a)William Butler Yeats
b)James Joyce
c)Thomas Moore
d)Edgar Allan Poe

665.In which work do you read: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."?
a)The Canturbury Tales
b)The Dark Angel
c)The Wild Swans of Coole
d)The Second Coming

666.Who wrote: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?
a)John Keats
b)William Shakespeare
c)Samuel Butler
d)Samuel Taylor Coleridge

667.In which work do you read: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?
a)Adonais
b)Bright Star
c)Ode on a Grecian Urn
d)La Bell Dame Sans Merci

668.Who wrote: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree..."?
a)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b)Robert Browning
c)John Keats
d)Walt Whitman

669.In which work do you read: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree..."?
a)Kubla Khan
b)Hellas
c)The Phoenix and the Turtle
d)The Castaway

670.A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
a)Heroine
b)Cocaine
c)Alcohol
d)Opium

671.Who wrote: "I would prefer not to."?
a)Edgar Allan Poe
b)Herman Melville
c)Thomas Gray
d)Henry David Thoreau
672.Who wrote: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt."?
a)Henry David Thoreau
b)Benjamin Franklin
c)Robert Browning
d)Henrik Ibsen

673.In which work do you read: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt."?
a)A Doll's House
b)Riders to the Sea
c)A Handful of Dust
d)The Fatal Curiosity

674.Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!"?
a)Lord Byron
b)Percy Bysshe Shelley
c)William Woodsworth
d)Emily Dickinson

675.In which work do you read: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!"?
a)The Man of Feeling
b)In Memoriam
c)Song to Aella
d)Ozymandias

676.Who wrote: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive."?
a)Lord Byron
b)Oscar Wilde
c)Robert Browning
d)William Wordsworth

677.In which work do you read: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive."?
a)Porphyria's Lover
b)My Last Duchess
c)The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
d)Fra Lippo Lippi

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678.Who wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."?
a)William Carlos Williams
b)T.S. Eliot
c)Ernest Hemingway
d)Hart Crane

679.In which work do you read: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."?
a)Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock
b)Sonnets from the Portuguese
c)Prelude
d)The Last Decalogue

680.A "classic" book is usually one that possesses what quality?
a)It has universal appeal.
b)It can stand the test of time.
c)It makes connections.
d)All of the above.

681. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities?
a)London and Rome
b)Paris and Rome
c)London and Paris
d)Berlin and London

682.The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city?
a)New York City
b)Stanford, Connecticut
c)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d)Boston, Massachusetts

683.Which book was not written by Jane Austen?
a)Sense and Suspensibility
b)Emma
c)Pride and Prejudice
d)Mansfield Park

684.What is Shakespeare's longest play?
a)Taming of the Shrew
b)Romeo and Juliet
c)A Midsummer Night's Dream
d)Hamlet

685)The poem 'The Battle of Maldon' celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who was it between
a)Danes and English
b)Dutch and English
c)Normans and English
d)French and English
686)The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch?
a)James I
b)Mary Tudor
c)Elizabeth Tudor
d)Henry VII

687)Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel?
a)Vanity Fair
b)Sense and Sensibility
c)Pride and Prejudice
d)Mansfield Park

688) How many children were there in the Bronte family?
a)3
b)4
c)5
d)6

689)Who composed The Preludes?
a)S T Coleridge
b)William Wordsworth
c)William Shakespeare
d)William Blake Open / Comment

2021-11-11 17:47:06 644. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer?
a)Macpherson
b)Merlin
c)Decameron
d)Taliesin
e)Ossian

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645. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry?
a)William Wordsworth
b)Alexander Pope
c)Ben Jonson
d)George Herbert

646. Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet?
a)John Dryden
b)Henry Vaughan
c)Alexander Pope
d)Ben Jonson

647. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry?

a)Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology
b)An effort to represent human nature
c)Use of the rhymed couplet
d)Fantastic comparisons

648. Neoclassicists tended to view poetry as the result of genius overflowing from the mind out onto the page. They also considered poetry to be an expression of the individual, inner self.
a)True
b)False

649. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called?
a)The Way of the World
b)The Foundational Ladder
c)The Order of Angels
d)The Great Chain of Being

650. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time.
a)Ben Jonson
b)Alexander Pope
c)Robert Herrick
d)John Dryden

651. Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English university?
a)He lived in Italy until the age of 27
b)Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid
c)He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending
d)He just wasn’t bright enough

652. Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him?
a)To err is human, to forgive divine
b)Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
c)A little learning is a dangerous thing
d)Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

653. John Dryden wrote “Absalom and Achitophel.” Who was Achitophel, historically speaking?
a)King David’s son
b)A Judge of Israel
c)Bathsheba’s first husband
d)Absalom’s advisor

654. Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire “Absalom and Achitophel”?
a)The Duke of Monmouth
b)Charles II
c)The Earl of Shaftesbury
d)Cromwell

655. Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: “Who think too little, and who talk too ____”
a)often
b)long
c)much
d)fast

656. What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal's veins?”
a)The Rape of the Lock
b)Solitude: An Ode
c)The Dunciad
d)Eloisa to Abelard

657. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic.
a)The Bahagavad Gita
b)The Odyssey
c)The Illiad
d)The Aeneid

658. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes.
a)Alexander Pope
b)William Collins
c)Thomas Gray
d)Ben Jonson

659. His “To Penthurst” is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement.
a)Sir John Denham
b)Ben Jonson
c)Thomas Carew
d)John Dryden

660. Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”
a)William Shakespeare
b)John Donne
c)Abraham Cowley
d)John Dryden

661. What mock epic begins: “What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things”?
a)Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”
b)Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”
c)Pope’s “The Dunciad”
d)Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”

662.When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was

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a)The closing of theatres
b)The return of the King.
c)King Arthurs' dead
d)King to exile

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