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Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ?
A. a field of daffodils
B. the “Orient”
C. a graveyard
D. All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
B. the Norman Conquest of 1066.
C. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
D. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
A. Beowulf
B. Arthur
C. Caedmon
D. Augustine of Canterbury
In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What’s the name of that masque ?
A. ’Il Penseroso’
B. ’Lycidas’
C. ’Comus’
D. ’The Masque of Blackness’
Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
A. Beowulf
B. Arthur
C. Augustine of Canterbury
D. Alfred
When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928?
A. 1930
B. 1945
C. 1960
D. 2000
How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
A. the Battle of Hastings
B. Saint Patrick’s mission
C. the Fourth Lateran Council
D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell’sHoratian Ode ?
A. praising Roman virtues whilst endorsing Christian beliefs
B. praising feminine virtue whilst mocking the fixation on chastity
C. celebrating Cromwell’s victories whilst inviting sympathy for the executed king
D. celebrating the Restoration whilst regretting the frivolity of the new regime
Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed ?
A. Anne Boleyn
B. Mary I
C. Mary, Queen of Scots
D. Catherine of Aragon
Who wrote: “Reader, I married him.” ?
A. Jane Austen
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Edith Wharton
D. Emily Bronte
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