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Category: Ages, era, period
Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin ?
A. Space used to mean “outer space”
B. Unaccountable
C. Pandemonium
D. Blatant
Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?
A. Jane Austen’s Emma
B. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
D. Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley
What was vellum ?
A. parchment made of animal skin
B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants (villeins)
C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
D. a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious manuscripts
Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to____________________?
A. the royal family and upper orders of the nobility
B. the lower orders of the nobility
C. agricultural laborers
D. the clergy
Who is the author of Piers Plowman ?
A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Margery Kempe
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. William Langland
What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
A. the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
B. the Toleration Act
C. the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada
D. the Act of Union
One of Marlowe’s earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem ’Pharsalia’, written by which Roman poet ?
A. Ovid
B. Lucan
C. Virgil
D. Horace
Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
A. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
B. wireless communication across the Atlantic
C. the creation of the internet
D. the invention of the airplane
Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
A. Anthony Trollope
B. Charles Dickens
C. John Ruskin
D. Friedrich Engels
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