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Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
A. Alan Bennett
B. Caryl Churchill
C. Tom Stoppard
D. Harold Pinter
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 selfcongratulatory sophistication
D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent
In what decade did the angry young mencome to prominence on the theatrical scene ?
A. 1910s
B. 1930s
C. 1950s
D. 1970s
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 were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom ?
A. Long processionals
B. Mourning clothes
C. Strict simplicity
D. Tolling of church bells
What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes’s defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
A. The Litany in a Time of Plague
B. Utopia
C. Leviathan
D. The Advancement of Learning
The “father of humanism” was_______________?
A. Petrarch
B. Dante
C. Boccaccio
D. Pico della Mirandola
Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists) ?
A. the pursuit of a more confrontational policy towards Catholic powers
B. the elimination of bishops
C. the right of congregations to choose their own leaders
D. the wider use of religious images in churches
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?
A. New Criticism
B. Critical Inquiry
C. Scientific Bibliology
D. Higher Criticism
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
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