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51. What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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A. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia

C. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

D. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London

52. For what do Matthew Arnolds moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Paters aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
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A. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama

B. the surrealist movement

C. modern literary criticism

D. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

53. Which rulers reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
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A. Queen Victoria

B. King Henry VIII

C. King John

D. Queen Elizabeth I

54. Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend ?
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A. Christs College

B. Trinity College

C. St. Xaviers College

D. Pembroke College

55. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
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A. sound as a means to express meaning

B. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem

C. all of the above

D. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

56. What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeths court ?
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A. Jousting

B. Gambling

C. Backgammon

D. Swimming

57. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdlers edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?
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A. the expurgation of indelicate language

B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary

C. the insertion of bawdy songs

D. the misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and

58. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
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A. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature

B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number

C. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools

D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

59. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ?
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A. women

B. slaves

C. the working classes

D. the lower middle classes
60. Who was Edmund Spensers patron ?
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A. Francis Bacon

B. The Earl of Leicester

C. Elizabeth

D. Lord Burleigh

61. Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
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A. all of the above

B. the Boer War in the south of Africa

C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

D. the India Mutiny in 1857

62. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
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A. an instructional manual for manners

B. a history of everyday life

C. a book of model letters

D. a book of devotion

63. Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period ?
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A. Technological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press

B. The notoriety of the \Lake School\

C. Increased literacy, thanks in large part to Sunday schools

D. Innovations in retailing, such as the cut-price sale of remaindered books

64. What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer ?
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A. The sonnet

B. Trochaic Heptameter

C. Blank verse

D. Free-flow verse

65. Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed ?
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A. Mary I

B. Catherine of Aragon

C. Mary, Queen of Scots

D. Anne Boleyn

68. Who was the first Tudor King ?
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A. Henry VII

B. George III

C. James I

D. Henry VIII

69. How would Natural Supernaturalism be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?
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A. a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes

B. a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits

C. a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being

D. the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium

70. What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women \surplus\or \redundant\ ?
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A. They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.

B. They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.

C. Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.

D. They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didnt provide extensive job opportunities to women.

71. Which contemporary discussions on womens rights did Tennysons The Princess address ?
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A. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories

B. the debate on womens suffrage

C. the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first womens college in London

D. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power

73. Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin ?
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A. Blatant

B. Unaccountable

C. Pandemonium

D. Space used to mean outer space

74. What was the nickname of Mary I ?
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A. None of the Above

B. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

C. Bloody Mary

D. Mary, Queen of Scots

75. Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ?
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A. Lycidas

B. Il Penseroso

C. LAllegro

D. Absolom and Achitophel
77. In In Memorium, Tennyson mourns the death of ________________?
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A. Keats

B. Arthur Hallam

C. Lord Byron

D. Hugh Clough

78. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?
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A. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

C. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

D. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake

81. George Eliots novel Romola is a________________?
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A. Autobiographical novel

B. Historical novel

C. Picaresque novel

D. Gothic novel

84. What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

B. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

C. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia

D. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London

85. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
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A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem

B. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

C. sound as a means to express meaning

D. all of the above
88. Heathcliff is a character from_____________?
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A. Vanity Fair

B. Jane Eyre

C. Emma

D. Wuthering Heights
89. Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ?
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A. A group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldnt tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England.

B. Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.

C. They were part of the High Church or the \Catholic\side of the church.

D. They were devout \tractarians,\as described by John Henry Newman.

90. When did John Milton die ?
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A. 17 April 1688

B. 2 June 1700

C. 4 February 1702

D. 8 November 1674
91. Who was the leader of Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in England ?
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A. Swinburne

B. D.G Rossetti

C. Morris

D. Christina Rossetti

93. The term for the reaction against corruption in the Catholic Church was known as_____________?
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A. The Protestant Revolution

B. The Protestant Resolution

C. The Protestant Restoration

D. The Protestant Reformation
95. Which of th following novels is called a Novel without a hero ?
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A. Northanger Abbey

B. Mill on the Floss

C. Pickwick Papers

D. Vanity Fair
96. who lost the most power during the renaissance ?
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A. king and queen of Spain

B. catholic church

C. Italian merchants

D. black people

97. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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A. A, B, and C

B. abstract logical deductions

C. theoretical science

D. metaphysics

98. As well as poetry, Milton published extensively on politics, philosophy and religion. Which of the following was NOT one of his works ?
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A. Of Practical Exorcisme

B. Of Prelatical Episcopacy

C. Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

D. The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the Church

99. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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A. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

B. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.

C. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.

D. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.