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Category: Ages, era, period
The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?
A. New York City
B. Stanford, Connecticut
C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
D. Boston, Massachusetts
Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?
A. The Bahagavad Gita
B. The Odyssey
C. The Illiad
D. The Aeneid
Who wrote: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive.” ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Robert Browning
D. William Wordsworth
Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract
what was the occupation of Chaucer’s father ?
A. leather merchant
B. civil servant
C. a vintner
D. none of the above
What was the nickname of Mary I ?
A. Bloody Mary
B. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
C. Mary, Queen of Scots
D. None of the Above
What did Henry James describe as “loose baggy monsters” ?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers
How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ?
A. “nothing happens-twice”
B. “political correctness gone mad”
C. “kitchen sink drama”
D. “angry young men
Which poet could be described as part of “The Movement” of the 1950s ?
A. Thom Gunn
B. Dylan Thomas
C. Philip Larkin
D. both A and C
Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?
A. Salman Rushdie
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Rabindranath Tagore
D. John Ruskin
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