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Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
A. to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans
B. as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking
C. symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,
D. All the above
According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by legitimate drama ?
A. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.
B. All of the actors were male.
C. All of the actors were British.
D. The play was spoken.
Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
A. Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
B. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
C. Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
D. Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed
Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of_____________?
A. Religion
B. Civilization
C. Tehology
D. Education
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
Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?
A. interludes
B. spectacles
C. meditations
D. mysteries
Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
A. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
B. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
C. It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn’t make serious statements about society.
D. all but C
The foremost poet of Jacobean era was ?
A. John Milton
B. Charles Bacon
C. John Donne
D. Herbert Spencer
Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
A. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
B. The common people were still essentially pagan.
C. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
D. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.
Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
A. Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
B. Blake’s “Prophetic Books”
C. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman
D. all but C
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