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Category: Ages, era, period
Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?
A. troubadour
B. skald
C. chorister
D. bard
What is meant by ’Wessex’ ?
A. The region where Bronte sisters lived
B. The region in which Hardy’s novels are set
C. The home town of George Eliot
D. A county in Ireland
The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?
A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
C. Their readers’ primary language was English.
D. a and c only
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
Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with_______________?
A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
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
chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for_______________________?
A. beating a friar in a London street
B. for writing poetry against the church
C. for crossing the border of Great Britain
D. none of the above
Who began the tradition of revenge play ?
A. Goorge peele
B. Samuel daniel
C. Phineas fletcher
D. Thomas kyd
Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
A. All knowledge is derived from experience.
B. Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.
C. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
D. The sensory world is an illusion.
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