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What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?
A. the Battle of Agincourt
B. the Battle of Hastings
C. the Norman Conquest
D. the War of the Roses
Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?
A. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
B. William Shakespeare’s King Lear
C. Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III
D. Thomas More’s Utopia
What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to “’Peddlers,’ and ’Boats,’ and ’Wagons’!” ?
A. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden
B. the clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots
C. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
D. Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary and everyday
“The Jacobean Era” refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries ?
A. Jordan
B. England
C. Malaysia
D. Tunisia
What was restoredin 1660 ?
A. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
B. the dominance of the Tory Party
C. the Book of Common Prayer
D. toleration of religious dissidents
What was “restored” in 1660 ?
A. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
B. the dominance of the Tory Party
C. the “Book of Common Prayer”
D. toleration of religious dissidents
Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
A. Anthony Trollope
B. Charles Dickens
C. John Ruskin
D. Friedrich Engels
What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia
C. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value
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