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What does the phrase “White Man’s Burden,” coined by Kipling, refer to ?
A. Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize the world
B. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
C. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
D. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world’s problems
Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?
A. lycidas
B. Paradise Lost
C. II penseroso
D. none of the above
Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Marie de France
C. Chrétien de Troyes
D. b and c only
Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
A. Thomas Carlyle
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Charles Dickens
D. all of the above.
Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue ?
A. Begging
B. Money lending
C. Fortune-telling
D. Wine bottling
The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?
A. Elizabethan era
B. English Reformation
C. England
D. Tudor period
The poem ’The Battle of Maldon’ celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who was it between______________?
A. Danes and English
B. Dutch and English
C. Normans and English
D. French and English
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