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What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake?
Correct answer: the last sentence and first sentence are circular.
Which cultural event(s) led to the rise of Modernism?
Correct answer: All of the Above.
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as _______________-?
Correct answer: Prosody.
When was Christopher Marlowe baptized?
Correct answer: 26 February 1564.
In The Inferno, how is heresy defined?
Correct answer: As the denial of the soul"s immortality.
John Milton"s Areopagitica is best described by which of the following genres?
Correct answer: Prose polemic.
Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first encounters the Three Witches?
Correct answer: Banquo.
In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen's relationship with his Catholic faith?
Correct answer: he is torn between his desire for freedom and his desire to be moral.
By which physical affliction was Joyce affected?
Correct answer: blindness.
At the end of the play, Twelfth Night," who is discovered to have been secretly married?
Correct answer: Sir Toby and Maria.
What is the translation of the term dolce stil novo?
Correct answer: Sweet new style.
In the play, Henry V," what country does Henry wish to conquer?
Correct answer: France.
Who wrote Ten Little Niggers?"
Correct answer: Agatha Christie.
Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character?
Correct answer: Captain Robert Walton.
In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love?
Correct answer: he uses an allusion to Tristian and Iseult.
Who wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff?"
Correct answer: John Keats.
"I have no other but a woman's reason I think him so, because I think him so Which of Shakespeare's play contain above lines?
Correct answer: The two gentle men of Verona.
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Correct answer: Acrostic.
Which of the following poets does not belong to the Lake School?
Correct answer: Keats.
The play, Richard III," takes place in what country?
Correct answer: England.
What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost?
Correct answer: Adam and Eve's disobedience.
Shakespeare's Sonnet 153 is what kind of poem?
Correct answer: A poem about love.
Who said Keats was a Greek?
Correct answer: Shelley.
In Paradise Lost, which angel is ordered by God to drive Adam and Eve out of Paradise? Before he does so, he shows Adam a number of visions about the future of the human race, beginning with Cain murdering Abel and ending with the redemption of mankind through Christ. Who is this angel that has a large role in the finishing chapters of Paradise Lost?
Correct answer: Michael.
Astrophel and Stella is a?
Correct answer: Sonnet.
Who is second Prince of Arragon in Much ado about nothing?
Correct answer: Don Pedro.
The theme of Tennyson"s Poem The Princess is?
Correct answer: Women's Education and Rights.
In which of the following ways was Dante involved in the Italian politics of his time?
Correct answer: All of the above.
In Book Six of Paradise Lost," Adam is told of what major event?
Correct answer: The fall of the Rebel Angels.
Which of the following playwrights is thought to have had the greatest influence on Shakespeare?
Correct answer: Christopher Marlow.
In which location(s) did Joyce live while in exile?
Correct answer: All of the Above.
In his Letter to Can Grande, which topic does Dante attempt to explain?
Correct answer: His use of allegory.
Which famous work of John Milton"s was based on the fall of man?
Correct answer: Paradise Lost.
What does the term translatio studii mean?
Correct answer: The translation of culture from one civilization to another.
Which year William Shakespeare was born?
Correct answer: 1564 AD.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy. This line occurs in the poem?
Correct answer: Immortality Ode.
chaucer's franklin was guilty of which sin?
Correct answer: Gluttony.
The key-note of Browning"s philosophy of life is ________________?
Correct answer: optimism.
In which city the play of Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet is set in_________________?'
Correct answer: Verona.
Which of the following novels has the subtitle "A Novel Without a Hero?
Correct answer: Vanity Fair.
The subjugation of Women (1869) is an important text of:
Correct answer: John Mill.
Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?
Correct answer: Maud.
The line “she dwells with Beauty – Beauty that must be” occurs in Keats’
Correct answer: Ode on Melancholy.
Negative Capability to Keats, means
Correct answer: To empathize.
“Art for arts sake” found its true adherent in:
Correct answer: Wilde.
It as the best of times, it was the worst of time, it was the worst – the opening of Dickens’
Correct answer: A Tales of Two Cities.
The character of Little Neil is a creation of:
Correct answer: Dickens.
“Idylls of the King” is illustration of Tennyson’s deep interest in:
Correct answer: The role of the king.
Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?
Correct answer: Wordsworth.
Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous?
Correct answer: Wordsworth.
The image of the femme fatale dominates the poetry of:
Correct answer: Keats.
Little Time is a character in Hardy’s
Correct answer: Jude the Obscure.
Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley?
Correct answer: Adonis.
The moral choice is everything in the works of:
Correct answer: Dickens.
Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy?
Correct answer: Unto this Last.
Which one of the following poets named the Romantic poet as the “pond poets”?
Correct answer: Southey.
The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:
Correct answer: The Crimean War.
The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to write:
Correct answer: The Grecian Urn.
Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a:
Correct answer: Dramatic Lyrics.
Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?
Correct answer: Southey.
The abstract theory of utilitarianism is the theme of Dicken’s novel:
Correct answer: Hard Times.
The one remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadows fly; The above two lines occur in:
Correct answer: Shelley’s Adonis.
She cannot fade, though thou hast not the bliss, Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair! The above two lines have been taken from:
Correct answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn.
‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream world’, is the theme of Tennyson’s:
Correct answer: The Lotos – Eaters.
Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s novel:
Correct answer: The Mill on the Floss.
In Memoriam by Tennyson is:
Correct answer: an elegy.
The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was written by:
Correct answer: Blake.
Ernest Hemingway wrote:
Correct answer: Old Man and the Sea.
“Intellectual Beauty” is written by:
Correct answer: P.B.Shelley.
Who wrote “20th Century Views”?
Correct answer: Abrahams, M. H..
‘Desert Places’ is a:
Correct answer: Poem.
The University Wits were:
Correct answer: Playwrights.
William Shakespeare was Born in:
Correct answer: 1564.
Francis Bacon died in:
Correct answer: 1626.
The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:
Correct answer: The Restoration.
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