A. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world

B. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the worlds problems

C. Britains manifest destiny to colonize the world

A. shining sword

C. checkered shade

D. verdant mead

A. throne; scepter; soul; decree

B. school; scalpel; pen; set free

D. crop; scabbard; foot; agree

A. Il Penseroso

B. Lycidas

D. The Masque of Blackness

B. Public drunkenness

C. Skipping church on Sunday

D. A woman screaming at her husband in public

A. Tennyson

B. D. G. Rossetti

C. Christina Rossetti

B. a narrative poem

C. an elegy

D. a sonnet

A. raucous celebration mixed with selfcongratulatory sophistication

B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

C. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

A. Civilization

C. Religion

D. Tehology

A. Henry VI

B. George III

C. William

B. Maria Edgeworth

C. Sir Walter Scott

D. Thomas De Quincey

A. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.

C. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.

D. It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldnt make serious statements about society.

A. 20

B. 28

C. 16

A. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.

B. Britains preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.

D. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

B. raucous celebration mixed with self congratulatory sophistication

C. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

A. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront

B. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A. the aubade

B. the figment

C. the fractal

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Thomas Gray

D. Henry David Thoreau

A. 1575-1600

C. 1500-1520

D. 1560-1570

B. Byrons Manfred

C. Shelleys Prometheus Unbound

D. Shelleys The Cenci

A. Malaysia

C. Tunisia

D. Jordan

A. The Rape of the Lock

C. The Dunciad

D. Solitude: An Ode

A. Contemporary literary criticism

B. Art and Literature

C. Social changes in the Victorian Age

A. Duns Scotus

C. Aristotle

D. David Hume

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.

B. England and Ireland

C. Britain and Germany

D. Anglicans and Methodists

A. William Morris

B. Edward FitzGerald

C. John Ruskin

A. the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas

C. alchemy and magic

D. chivalry of the Middle Ages

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

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

A. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama

B. the surrealist movement

D. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

B. King Henry VIII

C. King John

D. Queen Elizabeth I

B. Trinity College

C. St. Xaviers College

D. Pembroke College

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

D. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

B. Gambling

C. Backgammon

D. Swimming

B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary

C. the insertion of bawdy songs

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

A. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature

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.

A. women

B. slaves

C. the working classes

A. Francis Bacon

C. Elizabeth

D. Lord Burleigh

B. the Boer War in the south of Africa

C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

D. the India Mutiny in 1857

A. an instructional manual for manners

B. a history of everyday life

D. a book of devotion

A. Technological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press

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

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

A. The sonnet

B. Trochaic Heptameter

D. Free-flow verse

A. Mary I

B. Catherine of Aragon

D. Anne Boleyn

B. Murder

C. Witchcraft

D. Sexuality

A. 1871

B. 1859

C. 1842

B. George III

C. James I

D. Henry VIII

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

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.

A. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories

B. the debate on womens suffrage

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

A. division

B. segregation

C. partition