501. Who wrote Kubla Khan ?
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A. Coleridge

B. Wordsworth

C. Shelley

D. Keats

502. Who is the author of the book Around the World in Eighty Days ?
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A. H. G. Wells

B. Jules Verne

C. Charles Dickens

D. Mark Twain

504. defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature ?
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A. Shakespeare

B. Coleridge

C. Dryden

D. Dr. Johnson

505. In Poem Daffodils Sprightly Dance means________________?
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A. lively dance

B. nice dance

C. ugly dance

D. nonsense dance

506. Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by_______________?
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A. T. S. Eliot

B. None of these

C. Shelley

D. Oscar Wilde

507. Who is the writer of The Caroline Period ?
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A. Cynewulf

B. Caedmon

C. Dante

D. Robert Herrick
508. Henry Higgins is a character in________________?
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A. saint joan

B. none of these

C. Candida

D. Pygmalion
509. In his essay The Symbolism of Poetry, William Butler Yeats argues that which of the following is the purpose of rhythm ?
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A. To amplify and clarify the indistinct emotions created by metaphorical symbols

B. To prolong the moment of contemplation

C. To make poetry new

D. To counteract the forces of dispersal inherent in metaphorical language

512. In analyzing T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?
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A. Implicit dialogue with the future

B. A meditation on contradictions

C. Overheard inner speech

D. Objective correlative

513. Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?
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A. Samuel Johnson

B. Robert Browning

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. John Donne
514. Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnolds poem Dover Beach is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?
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A. was composed between WW I and WW II.

B. employs free verse.

C. has an undertow of nihilism.

D. is chauvinistic about British exceptionalism.

515. This work was written before the other three choices ?
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A. Julian of Norwhichs Book of Showings

B. Chaucers Canterbury Tales

C. Sir Thomas Mores Utopia

D. Bedes An Ecclesiastical History of the English People
516. Modern age is an age of______________?
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A. All of the above

B. Conflicts and Controversies

C. Subjectivity

D. Pessimism and Cynicism

518. He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. William Shakespeare

C. Sir Thomas Malory

D. Sir Philip Sidney

519. Who have written the book The Godfather
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A. Francis Ford Coppola

B. Mark Winegardner

C. Marlon Brando

D. Mario Puzo
521. Which work was published first ?
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A. Blakes Songs of Innocence

B. Lord Byrons Don Juan

C. Sir Walter Scotts Ivanhoe

D. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

522. Andrea Del Sarto is a poem written by_________________?
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A. Browning

B. Tennyson

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Keats

523. We find Subjective Elements in ?
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A. Wordsworth

B. Shelley

C. Keats

D. All
525. Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry_______________?
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A. John Milton

B. William Wordsworth

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. William Shakespeare

526. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?
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A. John Greenleaf Whittier

B. William Carlos Williams

C. George Herbert

D. Robert Browning

527. Macbeth and Oedipus is by_________________?
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A. W. H. Auden

B. Nicoll

C. Earnest Jones

D. Freud

528. Adam Bede is a______________?
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A. Poem

B. none of these

C. Play

D. Novel
530. What did Robert Frosts father do ?
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A. teacher

B. farmer

C. black-smith

D. journalist
531. Violet Cristoforo was honored for collecting what kind of poetry in her anthology May Sky ?
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A. American G.I. poetry from German prisoner of war camps

B. Jewish dissident poetry from the gulags in Siberia

C. Haiku poetry from the Japanese internment camps in the US

D. Love sonnets from the Nazi death camps

532. Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?
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A. Dramatic Lyrics

B. None of these

C. Dramatic Monologue

D. Tragic Drama

533. The period of English literature from 1660to the end of the century is called_____________?
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A. Restoration Period

B. Jacobean Period

C. Renaissance

D. Romantic Age

534. In Wallace Stevenss poem The Man on the Dump, one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?
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A. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context

B. The failed attempt of modern poetry

C. Old poetry

D. The broken dreams of the American migr community in Paris

535. Synecdoche refers to the term_____________?
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A. Self-contradictory speech

B. long speech

C. a thing stands for whole thing

D. pity and fear

536. The poem Wind is written by________________?
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A. Sylvia Plath

B. Shelley

C. John Ashbery

D. Ted Hughes
537. The poem Dulce et Decorum Est ends with the following lines: My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori. Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
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A. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.

B. distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.

C. Brookes inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize

D. These lines suggest the authors anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.

E. All of the above
538. Maggie is the central character in George Eliots________________?
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A. The Mill on the Floss

B. Silas Morner

C. Adam Bede

D. Middle March

539. Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists ?
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A. Striving for concentrated expression and imagery

B. Total freedom in choosing the subject

C. Reliance on the language of common speech

D. Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms
540. Which of the following best describes the reasons why World War I had a profound impact on modern poetry ?
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A. The devastation wrought by World War I was so enormous that it put Europes cultural and political norms and values into question.

B. The mechanized killing, which took place on a massive scale during World War I, made it necessary to reflect about the effects of technological progress.

C. World War I was the first global conflict where the distinction between combatants and civilians was erased, and this had a devastating effect on the European psyche.

D. Both A and B
542. Jane Austens other writings are______________?
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A. Persuasion

B. All of these

C. Emma

D. Sense and Sensibility

543. Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrells 1945 poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner ?
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A. The poem praises those technological achievements which protect human life in wartime.

B. The poem uses images of the apocalypse to criticize the cruelty of war.

C. The poem presents the war as a natural part of the perennial cycles of human history.

D. The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mothers womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.
544. Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans ?
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A. George Eliot

B. Jane Austen

C. Charlotte Bronte

D. Joseph Conrad

545. Written in March is a poem composed by_______________?
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A. William Blake

B. William Shakespeare

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Congreve

546. Which one of the following writers is not woman ?
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A. Jane Austen

B. Robert Browning

C. None of these

D. Emily Bronte

547. Spensers Epithalamion is____________?
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A. a wedding hymn

B. a narrative poem

C. an elegy

D. a sonnet

548. The father of humanism was_______________?
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A. Boccaccio

B. Pico della Mirandola

C. Petrarch

D. Dante

549. Which contemporary discussions on womens rights did Tennysons The Princess address ?
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A. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power

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

C. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories

D. the debate on womens suffrage

550. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
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A. A, B and C

B. almost all working class men

C. about half of middle class men

D. all women