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What type of writing did Walter Pater define as “the special and opportune art of the modern world” ?
A. the novel
B. nonfiction proseB.
C. the lyric
D. comic drama
Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?
A. Macpherson
B. Merlin
C. Decameron
D. Ossian
Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy ?
A. the Fifth Monarchists
B. the Roarers
C. the Diggers
D. the Ranters
Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Thomas Kyd
C. John Dryden
D. John Donne
What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels? A. the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail_____________?
B. a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness
C. the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society
D. A and C
Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
A. Etherege’s The Man of Mode
B. Wycherley’s The Country Wife
C. Behn’s The Rover
D. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth ?
A. Pope Pius V
B. Pope Innocent III
C. Pope Gregory XIII
D. Pope Boniface
What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?
A. L’Allegro
B. Lycidas
C. Paradise Lost
D. The Divine Comedy
The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ?
A. James I
B. Mary Tudor
C. Elizabeth Tudor
D. Henry VII
The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War finds its reference in the poem__________?
A. In Memorium
B. 1st September
C. Ultima Ratio Regum
D. The Charge of the Light Bridge
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