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What does the phrase White Man’s Burden, coined by Kipling, refer to ?
A. Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize the world
B. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
C. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
D. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world’s problems
Heathcliff is a character from_____________?
A. Emma
B. Jane Eyre
C. Vanity Fair
D. Wuthering Heights
Which English king had several of his wives killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir ?
A. Edward VI
B. Richard III
C. George III
D. Henry VIII
What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
A. the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
B. the Toleration Act
C. the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada
D. the Act of Union
The Oxford Movement was started by______________?
A. The people of the Oxford area
B. The Scholars of the Oxford University
C. The clergymen of Oxford
D. The University Wits
Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens____________?
A. Dombey and Son
B. Little Dorrit
C. Our Mutual Friend
D. Edwin Drood
Who were the Two Nationsreferred to in the subtitle of Disraeli’s Sybil (1845) ?
A. the rich and the poor
B. Anglicans and Methodists
C. England and Ireland
D. Britain and Germany
Who applied the term “Romantic” to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien régime, especially satire
B. English historians half a century after the period ended
C. “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)
Who were the “Two Nations” referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli’s Sybil (1845) ?
A. the rich and the poor
B. Anglicans and Methodists
C. England and Ireland
D. Britain and Germany
Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
A. William Beckford’s Vathek
B. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
C. Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Randsom
D. Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
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