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Category: Ages, era, period
Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
A. ignominy
B. unwarranted abuse
C. odium
D. love
What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
A. Augustan
B. Metaphysical
C. Romantic
D. Neo-Romantic
Who is the author of Blessed Damozel ?
A. Robert Browning
B. D.G Rossetti
C. Tennyson
D. Christina Rossetti
Which of th following novels is called a “Novel without a hero” ?
A. Vanity Fair
B. Mill on the Floss
C. Northanger Abbey
D. Pickwick Papers
Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance ?
A. emphasis on individuality
B. confidence in human rationality
C. the emergence of merchant oligarchies
D. the development of social insurance programs
Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
A. All knowledge is derived from experience.
B. Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.
C. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
D. The sensory world is an illusion.
What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins ?”
A. The Rape of the Lock
B. Solitude: An Ode
C. The Dunciad
D. Eloisa to Abelard
Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?
A. Skipping church on Sunday
B. A woman screaming at her husband in public
C. Stealing a horse
D. Public drunkenness
Which of the following describes the chief system by which writers received financial rewards for their literary production ?
A. charity
B. patronage
C. censorship
D. subscription
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