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Category: Ages, era, period
Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
A. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
B. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
C. the death of the musical
D. all but C
Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him ?
A. To err is human, to forgive divine
B. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
C. A little learning is a dangerous thing
D. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Who became the first prime ministerof Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
A. Henry St. John
B. Robert Harley
C. John Churchill
D. Robert Walpole
The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft
For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
B. modern literary criticism
C. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama
D. the surrealist movement
Who wrote: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ?
A. John Keats
B. William Shakespeare
C. Samuel Butler
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the….., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Ben Jonson
C. Masque
D. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C
What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?
A. civilization
B. woman
C. God
D. nature
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