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Category: Ages, era, period
Who was the mother of Elizabeth I ?
A. Catherine of Aragon
B. Jane Seymour
C. Catherine Howard
D. Anne Boleyn
Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?
A. Byron’s Manfred
B. Coleridge’s Remorse
C. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
D. Shelley’s The Cenci
The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by________________?
A. D.G Rossetti
B. Leigh Hunt
C. Tennyson
D. Arnold
Elizabethan England was largely rural, with the majority of its population living in the verdant countryside. Towns and cities, however, were growing–and the most prominent of all was London. While Londoners were considered wealthy and arrogant, the city was begrimed, filthy, and infested with vermin. Where did people primarily dispose of their trash and wastes ?
A. Dump sites in the nearby country
B. The streets
C. The underground drains
D. Designated “trash” areas
In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance ?
A. banishment to Asia
B. everlasting shame
C. conversion to Christianity
D. mild melancholia
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
Who wrote: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold ” ?
A. William Butler Yeats
B. James Joyce
C. Thomas Moore
D. Edgar Allan Poe
What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572 ?
A. The Massacre at Berlin
B. The Massacre at Rome
C. The Massacre at Copenhagen
D. The Massacre at Paris
What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
A. regional dialect and political critique
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
What was the general subject of theWelsh poet Katherine Philips’s work ?
A. celebrations of the transience of all life and beauty
B. celebrations of lesbian sexuality in terms that did not imply a male readership
C. celebrations of religious ecstasy and divine inspiration
D. celebrations of female friendship in Platonic terms normally reserved for male Friendships
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