1 - A "classic" book is usually one that possesses what quality ?
2 - A poem that deals in an idealized way with Shepherds and rustic life is known as____________?
3 - A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to ?
4 - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities ?
5 - According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by "legitimate" drama ?
6 - According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by \legitimate\ drama ?
7 - According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
8 - According to Samuel Johnson, \No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
9 - Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
10 - Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
11 - Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him ?
12 - An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
13 - Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for________________?
14 - Arnold's Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of_____________?
15 - Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?
16 - Between 1520 and 1550, the population of London_______________?
17 - By 1890, what percentage of the earth's population was subject to Queen Victoria ?
18 - Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during_______________?
19 - Chaucer became a member of Parliament in_______________?
20 - Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as______________?
21 - chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for_______________________?
22 - Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces, which of these was not in his charge ?
23 - Chaucer was released from legal action by____________in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction ?
24 - Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
25 - Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with_______________?
26 - Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst_____________?
27 - Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: "Who think too little, and who talk too __________" ?
28 - Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?
29 - Detractors argue that such an approach can be too "judgmental." Some believe literature should be judged primarily (if not solely) on its artistic merits. What approach possess this disadvantage ?
30 - Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?
31 - 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 ?
32 - Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what royal family ?
33 - 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 ?
34 - 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 ?
35 - 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 cit
36 - Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal
37 - Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought good luck charms. What "science" did they utilize in trying to predict and control the future ?
38 - Elizabeth's reign was longer than that of any other Tudor. When she died at the age of 69 in 1603, how many years had she reigned ?
39 - Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into a social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot: they were denied basic comforts, security, and even the chance to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes one could legally wear b
40 - Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
41 - Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
42 - Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
43 - Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by ?
44 - 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 _____________?
45 - For what do Matthew Arnold's moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater's aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
46 - For what do Matthew Arnold's moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater's aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
47 - From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?
48 - From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?
49 - George Eliot' was the pen-name of______________?
50 - George Eliot's novel Romola is a________________?
51 - 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 ?
52 - He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?
53 - Heathcliff is a character from_____________?
54 - His "To Penthurst" is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement ?
55 - Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?
56 - Horace's doctrine "ut pictura poesis" was interpreted to mean______________?
57 - Horace's doctrine \ut pictura poesis\was interpreted to mean______________?
58 - How did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
59 - How did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
60 - How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ?
61 - how many children chaucer had ?
62 - How many children were there in the Bronte family?
63 - How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
64 - How many times did Milton marry ?
65 - How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil ?
66 - How would "Natural Supernaturalism" be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?
67 - In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What's the name of that masque ?
68 - In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled abroad. In which country did he spend most of the time ?
69 - In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering"of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
70 - In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the \flowering\of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
71 - In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance ?
72 - In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance ?
73 - In 'In Memorium', Tennyson mourns the death of ________________?
74 - In literature, some of Shakespeare's most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ______________?
75 - In Marlowe's play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta ?
76 - In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more __________but less ___________ than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound?
77 - In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.
78 - In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry ?
79 - In the late seventeenth century, a "battle of the books" erupted between which two groups ?
80 - In the late seventeenth century, a \battle of the books\erupted between which two groups ?
81 - In the title of Marlowe's play, of where was Dido the Queen ?
82 - In what country did the Renaissance begin ?
83 - In what decade did the \angry young men\come to prominence on the theatrical scene ?
84 - In what year did England and Spain fight a famous sea battle ?
85 - In which city was Milton ?
86 - In which county was Jane Austin born ?
87 - In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
88 - In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
89 - In which work do you read: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." ?
90 - In which work do you read: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ?
91 - In which work do you read: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree…" ?
92 - In which work do you read: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" ?
93 - In which work do you read: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive." ?
94 - In which work do you read: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." ?
95 - In which work do you read: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. " ?
96 - in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French ?
97 - James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
98 - Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill are characters from the novel____________?
99 - John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the "founding" of neoclassical poetry ?
100 - John Dryden wrote "Absalom and Achitophel." Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?
101 - John Milton was 34 when he married Mary Powell. How old was she ?
102 - Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the….., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ?
103 - Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the____________?
104 - Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?
105 - Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' begins with the line "Come live with me and be my love"; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
106 - Marriage was a social obligation, and for many families a topic of obsession. Betrothals were often arranged by parents, especially for the high-class. What criterion was considered the least important in deciding upon a suitable match ?
107 - Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?
108 - Maud is a poem written by_________________?
109 - Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend ?
110 - Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour. England hath need of thee. Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost ?
111 - Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist ?
112 - Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called ?
113 - One archetype in literature is the scapegoat. Which of these literary characters serves that purpose ?
114 - one of Chaucer's daughter was___________?
115 - One of Marlowe's earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem 'Pharsalia', written by which Roman poet ?
116 - One of Marlowe's most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
117 - Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
118 - Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
119 - Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?
120 - Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to____________________?
121 - Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in_____________?
122 - Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________?
123 - Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the "supreme governor" of all thi
124 - Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled_______________?
125 - Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
126 - Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?
127 - Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?
128 - 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."
129 - Spenser's Epithalamion is____________?
130 - 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 wer
131 - The "father of humanism" was_______________?
132 - The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work "not serious poetry", but it was another critic who accused him of "callousness to the intrinsic nature of English". Who ?
133 - The basic theme of Arnold's Literature and Dogma is____________?
134 - The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War finds its reference in the poem__________?
135 - The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?
136 - The churchyard of St. Paul's Cathedral was well-known for its____________?
137 - The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as_______________?
138 - The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties ?
139 - The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ?
140 - The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Expl
141 - the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?
142 - The foremost poet of Jacobean era was ?
143 - The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign was celebrated in______________?
144 - 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 ?
145 - The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer ?
146 - The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as____________?
147 - The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic depression in 1620-1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of ____________in London in 1625 ?
148 - The Jacobean Era refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries ?
149 - The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?
150 - The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance__________________?
151 - The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
152 - The Oxford Movement was started by______________?
153 - The poem 'The Battle of Maldon' celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who was it between______________?
154 - The Prince was written to gain favor of the_______________?
155 - The Song of the Lotus is a poem by____________?
156 - The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?
157 - The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?
158 - The term for the reaction against corruption in the Catholic Church was known as_____________?
159 - The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________?
160 - The use of "whale-road"for sea and "lifehouse" for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?
161 - The use of \whale-road\for sea and \lifehouse\ for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?
162 - The word "Jacobean" is derived from the ___________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James?
163 - the word renaissance means______________?
164 - 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 ?
165 - Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler's edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?
166 - To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance"emerged, initially apply ?
167 - To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of \romance\emerged, initially apply ?
168 - To what does the phrase \the stigma of print\refer ?
169 - To what subgenre did the Senecan influence give rise, as evidenced in the first English tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex ?
170 - To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ?
171 - To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ?
172 - Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law ?
173 - What are the beginning and ending dates of the Elizabethan era ?
174 - What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I ?
175 - What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?
176 - What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels ?
177 - What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels?
178 - What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
179 - What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
180 - What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in England during her reign ?
181 - What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to "'Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and 'Wagons'!" ?
182 - What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to \'Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and 'Wagons'!\ ?
183 - what did Chaucer's wife use to do ?
184 - What did Henry James describe as "loose baggy monsters" ?
185 - What did Henry James describe as \loose baggy monsters\ ?
186 - What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
187 - What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
188 - What did Thomas Carlyle mean by "Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe" ?
189 - What did Thomas Carlyle mean by \Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe\ ?
190 - What does the phrase "White Man's Burden," coined by Kipling, refer to ?
191 - What does the phrase \White Man's Burden,\ coined by Kipling, refer to ?
192 - What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse ?
193 - What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear of censorship ?
194 - What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear of censorship ?
195 - What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?
196 - What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?
197 - What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
198 - What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
199 - What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
200 - What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
201 - What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism ?
202 - What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homer's lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
203 - What is blank verse ?
204 - What is common amongst Cardinal Newman, John Keble, Henry Newman and Stanley ?
205 - What is meant by 'Wessex' ?
206 - What is Shakespeare's longest play ?
207 - What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain ?
208 - What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain ?
209 - What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell's\Horatian Ode\ ?
210 - What is the first extended written specimen of Old English ?
211 - What is the first extended written specimen of Old English ?
212 - What is the name for a shift in tone or meaning of a sonnet______________?
213 - What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
214 - What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
215 - 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 ?
216 - What is the title to Milton's blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?
217 - What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
218 - What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
219 - What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
220 - What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
221 - What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era ?
222 - What mock epic begins: "What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things" ?
223 - What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
224 - What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
225 - 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 ?"
226 - What proceeded Jacobean era ?
227 - What religion was Mary I ?
228 - What religion was Mary Queen of Scots ?
229 - What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelley's poems to the working classes ?A Song: "Men of England" and England in 1819?
230 - What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?
231 - What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer ?
232 - What type of writing did Walter Pater define as \the special and opportune art of the modern world ?
233 - What was "restored" in 1660 ?
234 - What was \restored\in 1660 ?
235 - What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeth's court ?
236 - what was chaucer's profession ?
237 - What was Elizabeth's close circle of advisers called ?
238 - What was Elizabeth's nickname for Sir Walter Raleigh ?
239 - What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?
240 - What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?
241 - What was one of the first acts of Parliament after the outbreak of hostilities in the First Civil War ?
242 - what was the duration of hundred year's war ?
243 - What was the general subject of theWelsh poet Katherine Philips's work ?
244 - What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?
245 - What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?
246 - What was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 ?
247 - What was the licensing system ?
248 - What was the name of the Bronte sister's only brother ?
249 - What was the nickname of Mary I ?
250 - what was the occupation of Chaucer's father ?
251 - What was the only acknowledged religion in England during the early sixteenth century ?
252 - What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
253 - What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
254 - What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?
255 - What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes's defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
256 - What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572 ?
257 - What was vellum ?
258 - What was vellum ?
259 - What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
260 - What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
261 - When did John Milton die ?
262 - When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was_____________?
263 - When was John Milton born ?
264 - When was the ban finally lifted on D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928?
265 - When was the ban finally lifted on D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928?
266 - Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
267 - Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
268 - Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
269 - Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
270 - Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ?
271 - Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill ?
272 - Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
273 - Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
274 - Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
275 - Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ?
276 - Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?
277 - Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century?
278 - Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The Princess address ?
279 - Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The Princess address ?
280 - Which country believed it had an "Invincible Armada" before 1588 ?
281 - Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as God's deputy ?
282 - Which English king had several of his wives killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir ?
283 - Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
284 - Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
285 - Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction ?
286 - Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
287 - Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
288 - Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy ?
289 - Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
290 - Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
291 - Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s ?
292 - Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?
293 - Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?
294 - Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336 ?
295 - Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336 ?
296 - Which language did young Elizabeth learn in secret ?
297 - Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
298 - Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
299 - Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
300 - Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
301 - Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ?
302 - 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" ?
303 - 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\ ?
304 - Which of th following novels is called a "Novel without a hero" ?
305 - Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
306 - Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
307 - Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?
308 - Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
309 - Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
310 - 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" ?
311 - Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?
312 - Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
313 - Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
314 - Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
315 - Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
316 - Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
317 - Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
318 - Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?
319 - Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
320 - Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
321 - Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
322 - Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
323 - 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 ?
324 - Which of the following describes the chief system by which writers received financial rewards for their literary production ?
325 - Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?
326 - Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s ?
327 - Which of the following disciplines most fascinated Elizabeth ?
328 - 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 ?
329 - 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 ?
330 - Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
331 - Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
332 - Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?
333 - Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period ?
334 - Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the \first\of its kind to be published by an English woman ?
335 - Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
336 - Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
337 - Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned ?
338 - Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
339 - Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
340 - Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry ?
341 - Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
342 - Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
343 - Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
344 - Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
345 - Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet ?
346 - Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
347 - Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
348 - Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?
349 - Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?
350 - Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?
351 - Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
352 - 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 ?
353 - 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 ?
354 - Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
355 - Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
356 - Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
357 - Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
358 - 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 ?
359 - 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 ?
360 - Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?
361 - Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?
362 - 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 ?
363 - Which of the following refers to the small area of Ireland, extending north from Dublin, over which the English government could claim effective control ?
364 - Which of the following shifts began in the reign of Henry VII and continued under his Tudor successors ?
365 - Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was not a courtier ?
366 - Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?
367 - Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true ?
368 - Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true ?
369 - Which of the following statements accurately reflects the status of England, its people, and its language in the early sixteenth century ?
370 - Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
371 - Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
372 - Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance ?
373 - Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art ?
374 - Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?
375 - Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?
376 - Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
377 - Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
378 - Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
379 - Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
380 - Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
381 - Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
382 - Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?
383 - Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
384 - Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
385 - Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?
386 - Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists) ?
387 - Which of the following was not an expressed objective of the \Long Parliament\ when it convened in 1640 ?
388 - Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
389 - Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
390 - Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humours ?
391 - Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
392 - Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
393 - Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
394 - Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
395 - Which of the following was the Tower of London used for in the Elizabethan age ?
396 - Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press ?
397 - Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England's large-scale imperialism ?
398 - Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?
399 - Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
400 - which of these is not certain about Chaucer ?
401 - which of these kings was not served by Chaucer ?
402 - Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe ?
403 - Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin ?
404 - Which one is Gaskell's first novel ?
405 - Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens____________?
406 - Which one of Gaskell's novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing ?
407 - Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?
408 - Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?
409 - Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
410 - Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
411 - Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
412 - Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
413 - Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ?
414 - Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne's conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
415 - 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 ge
416 - 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 ge
417 - Which poet could be described as part of "The Movement" of the 1950s ?
418 - Which poet could be described as part of \The Movement\of the 1950s ?
419 - Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
420 - Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
421 - Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
422 - Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?
423 - 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 ?
424 - Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed ?
425 - Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam ?
426 - Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
427 - Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ?
428 - Which ruler's reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
429 - Which ruler's reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
430 - Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
431 - Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
432 - Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ?
433 - 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 ?
434 - 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 ?
435 - Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period ?
436 - Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
437 - Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
438 - Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
439 - Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
440 - Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?
441 - Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?
442 - Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?
443 - Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?
444 - Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
445 - Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
446 - Which was not among the \new\genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
447 - Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ?
448 - Which work did Edmund Spenser author ?
449 - Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
450 - Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
451 - Which writer was not active under both Elizabeth I and James I ?
452 - While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
453 - While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
454 - Who applied the term "Romantic" to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
455 - Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
456 - Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?
457 - Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?
458 - Who became the first "prime minister" of Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
459 - Who became the first \prime minister\of Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
460 - Who began the tradition of revenge play ?
461 - 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 ?
462 - Who composed The Preludes ?
463 - Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire "Absalom and Achitophel" ?
464 - Who exemplified the role of the "peasant poet" ?
465 - Who exemplified the role of the \peasant poet\ ?
466 - Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
467 - Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
468 - Who introduced the art of printing into England ?
469 - who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance ?
470 - Who is termed as "The Morning Star of Renaissance" ?
471 - Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
472 - Who is the author of Blessed Damozel ?
473 - Who is the author of Piers Plowman ?
474 - Who is the author of Piers Plowman ?
475 - Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth ?
476 - who lost the most power during the renaissance ?
477 - Who owned the rights to a theatrical script ?
478 - Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
479 - Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
480 - Who served as Protector under England's first written constitution ?
481 - Who succeeded Elizabeth I ?
482 - Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, establishing the Stuart dynasty ?
483 - Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne of England ?
484 - Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after William Wordsworth ?
485 - Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
486 - Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
487 - Who was Edmund Spenser's patron ?
488 - Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?
489 - Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?
490 - Who was the father of the Mary I_______________?
491 - Who was the first English Christian king ?
492 - Who was the first English Christian king ?
493 - Who was the first Tudor King ?
494 - Who was the leader of Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in England ?
495 - Who was the mother of Elizabeth I ?
496 - Who was the sister of Mary I ?
497 - Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845) ?
498 - Who were the \Two Nations\referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845) ?
499 - Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
500 - Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
501 - Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
502 - Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
503 - Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
504 - Who wrote: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." ?
505 - Who wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ?
506 - Who wrote: "I would prefer not to." ?
507 - Who wrote: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree…"?
508 - Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" ?
509 - Who wrote: "Reader, I married him." ?
510 - Who wrote: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive." ?
511 - Who wrote: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." ?
512 - Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold " ?
513 - Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts ?
514 - Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
515 - Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
516 - Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
517 - Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
518 - Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
519 - Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
520 - Why didn't Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
521 - Wild's drama Woman of No Importance appared in __________?
522 - With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre ?
523 - With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre ?
524 - With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
525 - With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
526 - Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?
527 - Wordsworth described all good poetry as______________?
528 - Wordsworth described all good poetry as_______________?
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