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Category: Ages, era, period
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
Which one of Gaskell’s novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing ?
A. Cranford
B. North and South
C. Ruth
D. Mary Barton
What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?
A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.
What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer ?
A. Blank verse
B. The sonnet
C. Trochaic Heptameter
D. Free-flow verse
From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?
A. Castiglione’s The Courtier
B. Dante’s Divine Comedy
C. Boccaccio’s Decameron
D. Machiavelli’s The Prince
What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the “occult” practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?
A. smoking opium
B. hypnotism
C. psychoanalysis
D. dream interpretation
What is blank verse ?
A. iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
B. the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet
C. free verse, without rhyme or regular meter
D. unrhymed iambic pentameter
Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode
Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C
Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
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