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Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the …..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?
A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
D. hearth; needle; heart; obey
Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
A. formal diplomatic relations with China
B. the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade
C. the American and French revolutions
D. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
Horace’s doctrine ut pictura poesiswas interpreted to mean______________?
A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
A. partition
B. segregation
C. enclosure
D. division
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
Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
A. W. B. Yeats
B. James Joyce
C. Seamus Heaney
D. none of the above
In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the floweringof Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chr´tien de Troyes
Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?
A. William Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning Political Justice
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s England in 1819
C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
D. all of the above
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.
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