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Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s ?
A. the disestablishment of the church and the removal of bishops
B. the right of the people to dismiss and even execute their rulers
C. the free circulation of ideas without prior censorship
D. the restoration of the monarchy
What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
A. its intellectual complexity
B. its union of thought and passion
C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and B
Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned ?
A. Investiture
B. Invocation
C. Gala
D. Coronation
The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance__________________?
A. growth of religious activity among common people
B. earlier occurrence
C. greater appreciation of pagan writers
D. decline in the use of Latin
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 was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 ?
A. Westminster Abbey
B. Tower Bridge
C. the Houses of Parliament
D. Buckingham Palace
Who is the author of Piers Plowman ?
A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Margery Kempe
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. William Langland
Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
C. ironic understatement
D. stress on every third diphthong
Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
A. Etherege’s The Man of Mode
B. Wycherley’s The Country Wife
C. Behn’s The Rover
D. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
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
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