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Which of the following refers to the small area of Ireland, extending north from Dublin, over which the English government could claim effective control ?
A. Ulster
B. the Protectorate
C. the Pale
D. West Britain
Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
A. William Blake
B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
C. Samuel Johnson
D. William Wordsworth
In which work do you read: “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” ?
A. Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock
B. Sonnets from the Portuguese
C. Prelude
D. The Last Decalogue
Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
A. Too many of its readers were women.
B. It required less skill than other genres.
C. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.
D. all of the above
Marlowe’s play ’Tamburlaine the Great’ was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler ?
A. Zhu Yuanzhang
B. Genghis Khan
C. Timur
D. Kublai Khan
To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
A. lead poisoning contracted from handling printer’s ink
B. the brutal punishment for printing without a license
C. the pre-Reformation ban on printing the Bible in English
D. the perception among court poets that printed verses were less exclusive
What was the only acknowledged religion in England during the early sixteenth century ?
A. Atheism
B. Protestantism
C. Catholicism
D. Ancestor-worship
Between 1520 and 1550, the population of London_______________?
A. remained constant.
B. fell from 375,00 to barely 100,000.
C. doubled from 60,000 to 120,000.
D. doubled from 600,000 to 1,200,000
What was one of the first acts of Parliament after the outbreak of hostilities in the First Civil War ?
A. the abolishment of public plays and sports
B. the conversion of the English church to Catholicism
C. the adoption of English as the official language
D. the consolidation of power in an absolute monarch
Who became the first “prime minister” of Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
A. Henry St. John
B. Robert Harley
C. John Churchill
D. Robert Walpole
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