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Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
A. Elizabeth I
B. James II
C. George II
D. William and Mary
Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?
A. The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.
B. “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
C. In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
D. The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.
Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27
B. Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid
C. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending
D. He just wasn’t bright enough
In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.
A. popular; reverenced
B. brash; confident
C. radical; inventive
D. anxious; haunting
Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
A. stream of consciousness
B. free indirect style
C. irresolute open endings
D. narrative realism
what sparked the Renaissance ?
A. The Feudal system was collapsing
B. the “95 theses”
C. the Crusades
D. the Black Plague
Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ?
A. They caused excessive noise and traffic.
B. They charged too much.
C. They excited illicit sexual desires.
D. They drew young people away from work.
Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
C. ironic understatement
D. stress on every third diphthong
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