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What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
A. the reign of King Arthur
B. the coronation of Henry II
C. King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song: Men of Englandand England in 1819 ?
A. the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England
B. the Battle of Waterloo
C. the Peterloo Massacre
D. the storming of the Bastille
Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought good luck charms. What “science” did they utilize in trying to predict and control the future ?
A. Alchemy
B. Metallurgy
C. Geocentricity
D. Astrology
Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century?
A. Paris
B. Tokyo
C. London
D. Amsterdam
What type of writing did Walter Pater define as the special and opportune art of the modern world ?
A. the novel
B. nonfiction prose
C. the lyric
D. comic drama
Chaucer became a member of Parliament in_______________?
A. 1386
B. 1300
C. 1343
D. none of the above
Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
A. gluttonous feasting
B. hard drinking
C. hunting
D. all of the above
What mock epic begins: “What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things” ?
A. Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”
B. Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”
C. Pope’s “The Dunciad”
D. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”
The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?
A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
C. Their readers’ primary language was English.
D. A and C only
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