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Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode
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. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
D. a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert
Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for_______________?
A. courtiers entering the service of Richard II
B. translators of French romances
C. women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
D. knights preparing for their first tournament
“Milton, thou should’st be living at this hour. England hath need of thee.” Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost ?
A. Horatio Herbert Kitchener
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. John Keats
Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract
Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336 ?
A. Henry II
B. Henry V
C. Louis XIV
D. Edward III
To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ?
A. the working classes
B. women
C. the lower middle classes
D. slaves
the word renaissance means______________?
A. the rebirth of learning or knowledge
B. reading of books
C. the time of astronauts
D. the study of art
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