5351. 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

5352. 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

5353. 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
5355. In In Memorium, Tennyson mourns the death of ________________?
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A. Keats

B. Arthur Hallam

C. Lord Byron

D. Hugh Clough

5356. 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

5359. George Eliots novel Romola is a________________?
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A. Autobiographical novel

B. Historical novel

C. Picaresque novel

D. Gothic novel

5362. 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

5363. 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
5366. Heathcliff is a character from_____________?
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A. Vanity Fair

B. Jane Eyre

C. Emma

D. Wuthering Heights
5367. 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.

5368. 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
5369. 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

5371. 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
5373. 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
5374. 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

5375. 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

5376. 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

5377. 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.

5381. Who translated the New Testament into German for the first time ?
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A. Martin Luther

B. Poliziano

C. Alexander VI

D. Cervantes

5382. A poem that deals in an idealized way with Shepherds and rustic life is known as____________?
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A. An extended metaphor

B. A pastoral poem

C. A Petrarchan Sonnet

D. A Protestant Poem

5385. From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?
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A. Canterbury Tales

B. Arabian Nights

C. Pilgrims Progress

D. Shah Namah
5387. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
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A. In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India

B. Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.

C. From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from 300 billion to 800 billion.

D. To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
5388. The father of humanism was_______________?
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A. Pico della Mirandola

B. Petrarch

C. Boccaccio

D. Dante

5389. What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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A. Victorian era

B. Elizabethan Era

C. Caroline era

D. Jacobean Era

5390. What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelleys poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?
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A. the Battle of Waterloo

B. the Peterloo Massacre

C. the organization of a working class mens choral group in Southern England

D. the storming of the Bastille

5393. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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A. the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada

B. the Act of Union

C. the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

D. the Toleration Act

5394. Who wrote: There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. ?
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A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Henrik Ibsen

D. Robert Browning

5395. Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance ?
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A. emphasis on individuality

B. the development of social insurance programs

C. the emergence of merchant oligarchies

D. confidence in human rationality

5396. Wordsworth described all good poetry as______________?
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A. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition

B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C. the polite patter of a corrupted age

D. the divine gift of grace

5397. What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in England during her reign ?
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A. Calvinism

B. The Lutheran Church

C. The Anglican Church

D. The Roman Catholic Church

5398. The foremost poet of Jacobean era was ?
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A. Herbert Spencer

B. John Donne

C. Charles Bacon

D. John Milton