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Who wrote: “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” ?
A. William Carlos Williams
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. Hart Crane
What mock epic begins: “What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things” ?
A. Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”
B. Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”
C. Pope’s “The Dunciad”
D. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”
Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
A. Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.
B. Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.
C. Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.
D. both A and C
Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry ?
A. Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology
B. An effort to represent human nature
C. Use of the rhymed couplet
D. Fantastic comparisons
Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
A. Too many of its readers were women.
B. It required less skill than other genres.
C. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.
D. all of the above
What is Shakespeare’s longest play ?
A. Taming of the Shrew
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
D. Hamlet
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 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
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