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Category: Ages, era, period
Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
A. the Behnites
B. the bluestockings
C. the coteries of plenty
D. the Pre-Raphaelites
What is the first extended written specimen of Old English ?
A. Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy
B. Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible
C. Malory’s Morte Darthur
D. a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert
Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?
A. snide indifference
B. biblical reverence
C. condemning censure
D. satirical derision
Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
A. theoretical science
B. metaphysics
C. abstract logical deductions
D. A, B, and C
Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?
A. Julian of Norwich
B. Margery Kempe
C. William Langland
D. Sir Thomas Malory
Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
A. verdant mead
B. checkered shade
C. simian rivalry
D. shining sword
What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?
A. Capulet And Montague
B. Breslow and Felsher
C. Fuech and Goodside
D. Dawson and Hurley
What was the name of the Bronte sister’s only brother ?
A. Anderson
B. Branwell
C. Richard
D. Pearson
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