5501. The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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A. Social Movement

B. Literary Movement

C. Religious Movement

D. Political Movement

5503. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I ?
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A. Anne Boleyn

B. Catherine of Aragon

C. Catherine Howard

D. Jane Seymour

5505. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by \legitimate\ drama ?
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A. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.

B. All of the actors were British.

C. All of the actors were male.

D. The play was spoken.
5506. For what do Matthew Arnolds moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Paters aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
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A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

B. the surrealist movement

C. late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century satirical drama

D. modern literary criticism
5507. George Eliot was the pen-name of______________?
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A. Clare Reeve

B. Mary Collins

C. Marian Evans

D. Lara Evans

5508. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
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A. blank verse

B. the ode

C. the heroic couplet

D. free verse

5509. What did Henry James describe as \loose baggy monsters\ ?
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A. plays

B. novels

C. publishers

D. the English

5510. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
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A. all but C

B. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

C. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

D. the death of the musical

5511. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
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A. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.

B. The sensory world is an illusion.

C. All knowledge is derived from experience.

D. Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.

5514. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Caedmon

C. Bede

D. Sir Thomas Malory

5517. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the spirit of the age, which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
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A. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley

C. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake

D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

5518. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
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A. Bleak House

B. A Tale of Two Cities

C. Great Expectations

D. The Pickwick Papers

5519. From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?
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A. Machiavellis \The Prince\

B. Castigliones \The Courtier

C. Boccaccios \Decameron

D. Dantes \Divine Comedy

5520. What was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 ?
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A. Buckingham Palace

B. the Houses of Parliament

C. Tower Bridge

D. Westminster Abbey

5522. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
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A. the invention of the airplane

B. wireless communication across the Atlantic

C. Albert Einsteins theory of relativity

D. the creation of the internet
5523. Who was the first English Christian king ?
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A. Alfred

B. Richard II

C. Richard III

D. Ethelbert
5524. What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era ?
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A. the familiar essay

B. the sermon

C. the diary

D. the novel

5526. In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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A. Hampshire

B. Norfolk

C. Yorkshire

D. Sussex

5527. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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A. Ann Radcliffes The Italian

B. William Beckfords Vathek

C. Tobias Smolletts Roderick Randsom

D. Matthew Lewiss The Monk

5528. Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was not a courtier ?
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A. Thomas Wyatt

B. George Puttenham

C. Walter Ralegh

D. Philip Sidney

5529. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
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A. almost all working class men

B. all women

C. about half of middle class men

D. A, B and C
5531. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
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A. the Irish National Theatre

B. the Independent Theatre

C. the Abbey Theatre

D. both A and C
5532. Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
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A. the founding of the Jamestown settlement

B. all of the above

C. Henry Hudsons fruitless search for the Northwest Passage

D. the founding of the Plymouth colony

5534. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
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A. the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade

B. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity

C. formal diplomatic relations with China

D. the American and French revolutions

5535. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill ?
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A. Humming Bird

B. Seagull

C. Crow

D. Albatross
5537. Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s ?
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A. the restoration of the monarchy

B. the free circulation of ideas without prior censorship

C. the right of the people to dismiss and even execute their rulers

D. the disestablishment of the church and the removal of bishops

5538. Who exemplified the role of the peasant poet ?
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A. John Keats

B. A and C only

C. Robert Burns

D. John Clare

5540. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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A. Swifts Gullivers Travels

B. Popes The Rape of the Lock

C. Defoes Robinson Crusoe

D. Behns Oroonoko

5541. Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
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A. A and C only

B. shepherd and shepherdesses who fall in love and engage in singing contests

C. heroic stories in epic form

D. a celebration of the humility, contentment, and simplicity of living in the country

5542. Who served as Protector under Englands first written constitution ?
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A. Praisegod Barebone

B. George Monk

C. Oliver Cromwell

D. Gerrard Winstanley

5544. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry ?
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A. Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology

B. An effort to represent human nature

C. Fantastic comparisons

D. Use of the rhymed couplet
5546. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?
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A. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods

B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence

C. A and C only

D. Goethes Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality

5547. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
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A. Paul Scotts Staying On

B. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

C. E. M. Forsters A Passage to India

D. Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea

5548. Who wrote: Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive. ?
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A. Oscar Wilde

B. Lord Byron

C. Robert Browning

D. William Wordsworth

5549. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
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A. Ben Jonson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Jonathan Swift

D. William Hogarth