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Category: Ages, era, period
Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of romanceemerged, initially apply ?
A. a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
B. a story about love and adventure
C. a Roman official
D. a work written in the French vernacular
Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during_______________?
A. 1374 to 1385
B. 1350 to 1360
C. 1360 to 1400
D. none of the above
Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?
A. Vanity Fair
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Mansfield Park
Who wrote: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree…”?
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. Robert Browning
C. John Keats
D. Walt Whitman
In the title of Marlowe’s play, of where was Dido the Queen ?
A. Troy
B. Carthage
C. Sparta
D. Persia
Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces, which of these was not in his charge ?
A. Westminster Palace
B. Tower of London
C. St. George’s chapel at Windsor
D. Buckingham Palace
What was vellum ?
A. parchment made of animal skin
B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants(“villeins”)
C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
D. an unbreakable oath of fealty
Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
A. Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.
B. In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India.
C. To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
D. From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from £300 billion to £800 billion.
What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in England during her reign ?
A. The Anglican Church
B. The Roman Catholic Church
C. Calvinism
D. The Lutheran Church
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