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Category: Ages, era, period
The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________?
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A. Paradise Lost
B. Divine Comedy
C. Utopia
D. Pilgrims Progress
Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?
A. Latin
B. Dutch
C. French
D. Celtic
George Eliot’s novel Romola is a________________?
A. Gothic novel
B. Autobiographical novel
C. Historical novel
D. Picaresque novel
the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?
A. Iliad
B. Odyssey
C. Beowulf
D. Canterbury Tales
What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
A. the reign of King Arthur
B. the coronation of Henry II
C. King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
What are the beginning and ending dates of the Elizabethan era ?
A. 1558-1603
B. 1500-1520
C. 1560-1570
D. 1575-1600
Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?
A. Othello
B. Volpone
C. King Lear
D. Antony and Cleopatra
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
Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: “Who think too little, and who talk too __________” ?
A. often
B. long
C. much
D. fast
Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?
A. Arthur Hallam
B. Milton
C. Edward King
D. Hugh Clough
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