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Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb bowdlerize.What does it mean ?
A. the expurgation of indelicate language
B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary
C. the insertion of bawdy songs
D. the misspelling of simple words like theand and
While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
A. a history of everyday life
B. an instructional manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
D. a book of model letters
With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre ?
A. the revenge tragedy
B. the Gothic romance
C. the epistolary novel
D. the comedy of manners
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 ?
A. William Collins
B. William Laud
C. William Shakespeare
D. William Tyndale
Thomas More’s Utopia placed the blame for society’s problems on_______________?
A. human nature
B. God’s will
C. society itself
D. the Church
Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
A. the southern counties of Ireland
B. Canada
C. Ulster
D. India
From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?
A. Arabian Nights
B. Canterbury Tales
C. Shah Namah
D. Pilgrims Progress
what did Chaucer’s wife use to do ?
A. lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut
B. nurse of royal court
C. governess to Henry IV
D. none of the above
Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336 ?
A. Henry II
B. Henry III
C. Henry V
D. Edward III
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