5452. 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. From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from 300 billion to 800 billion.

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

D. To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
5454. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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A. George Bernard Shaw

B. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

C. all but C

D. Robert Corrigan

5455. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ?
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A. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

B. William Godwins Caleb Williams

C. Sir Walter Scotts Waverley

D. Jane Austens Emma

5457. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by \Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe\ ?
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A. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

B. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.

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

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

5460. Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by ?
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A. George Herbert

B. Sir Walter Scot

C. Christopher Marlow

D. Ben Johnson
5466. Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art ?
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A. realism

B. individualism

C. perspective

D. abstractioin
5468. the word renaissance means______________?
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A. reading of books

B. the time of astronauts

C. the rebirth of learning or knowledge

D. the study of art

5469. Who composed The Preludes ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. William Wordsworth

C. S T Coleridge

D. William Blake

5471. Maud is a poem written by_________________?
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A. Tennyson

B. Swineburne

C. Pope

D. Byron

5472. Thomas Mores Utopia placed the blame for societys problems on_______________?
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A. the Church

B. society itself

C. Gods will

D. human nature

5473. The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as_______________?
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A. The Great Order of Life

B. The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker

C. The Great Chain of Being

D. The Great System of Shakespeare

5476. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
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A. all but C

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

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

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

5477. Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ?
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A. Oxford Movement

B. Pre-Raphaelite

C. Methodist

D. Imagism

5478. Which one is Gaskells first novel ?
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A. Ruth

B. Mary Barton

C. North and South

D. Cranford

5480. Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
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A. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

B. The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers

C. English historians half a century after the period ended

D. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien rgime, especially satire

5482. Who was the sister of Mary I ?
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A. Elizabeth I

B. Anne

C. Victoria

D. Isabella

5483. The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance__________________?
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A. greater appreciation of pagan writers

B. decline in the use of Latin

C. earlier occurrence

D. growth of religious activity among common people
5484. What religion was Mary I ?
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A. Catholic

B. Episcopalian

C. Anglican

D. Presbyterian

5485. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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A. a series of Factory Acts

B. the Womens Suffrage Act

C. the Custody Act

D. the Married Womens Property Rights Acts

5486. what sparked the Renaissance ?
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A. the Crusades

B. the Black Plague

C. the 95 theses

D. The Feudal system was collapsing
5487. Renaissance thinkers argued that women should be educated______________?
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A. just the same as men

B. not at all

C. with emphasis on science and mathematics

D. confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting
5494. The Oxford Movement was started by______________?
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A. The University Wits

B. The Scholars of the Oxford University

C. The clergymen of Oxford

D. The people of the Oxford area

5495. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?
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A. The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its authors death.

B. The General Prologue is appended to The Canterbury Tales.

C. In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.

D. The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.

5496. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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A. the Custody Act

B. the Married Womens Property Rights Acts

C. a series of Factory Acts

D. the Womens Suffrage Act
5498. Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________?
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A. Dickens

B. Thackery

C. Jane Austin

D. Emily Bronte