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Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called ?
A. The Way of the World
B. The Foundational Ladder
C. The Order of Angels
D. The Great Chain of Being
What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women surplusor redundant ?
A. They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.
B. Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.
C. They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.
D. They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn’t provide extensive job opportunities to women.
Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?
A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
C. The Dream of the Rood
D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
A. supernatural phenomenon
B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
D. all of the above
The word “Jacobean” is derived from the ___________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James?
A. Samaritan Hebrew language
B. Biblical Hebrew
C. Mishnaic Hebrew
D. Hebrew language
In the late seventeenth century, a “battle of the books” erupted between which two groups ?
A. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
B. round-earthers and flat-earthers
C. the Welsh and the Scots
D. champions of ancient and modern learning
Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
A. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men
B. Paine’s Rights of Man
C. Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
D. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?
A. Izaak Walton
B. Katherine Philips
C. John Skelton
D. Isabella Whitney
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