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Category: Ages, era, period
Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?
A. French
B. Norwegian
C. Spanish
D. Danish
Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ?
A. Tudor
B. Windsor
C. York
D. Lancaster
In which work do you read: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ” ?
A. The Canturbury Tales
B. The Dark Angel
C. The Wild Swans of Coole
D. The Second Coming
Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
A. shepherd and shepherdesses who fall in love and engage in singing contests
B. heroic stories in epic form
C. a celebration of the humility, contentment, and simplicity of living in the country
D. A and C only
Which country believed it had an “Invincible Armada” before 1588 ?
A. France
B. England
C. Spain
D. The Netherlands
Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
A. Henry Fielding
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Samuel Richardson
D. Tobias Smollett
John Dryden wrote “Absalom and Achitophel.” Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?
A. King David’s son
B. A Judge of Israel
C. Bathsheba’s first husband
D. Absalom’s advisor
Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?
A. opium
B. dreams
C. childhood
D. A, Band C
In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
A. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein
B. William Worsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
C. John Keats’s “To Autumn”
D. all but C
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