5551. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
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A. Samuel Johnson

B. Ben Jonson

C. William Hogarth

D. Jonathan Swift

5552. Which writer was not active under both Elizabeth I and James I ?
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A. Ben Jonson

B. William Shakespeare

C. John Milton

D. John Donne

5553. Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists) ?
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A. the wider use of religious images in churches

B. the elimination of bishops

C. the pursuit of a more confrontational policy towards Catholic powers

D. the right of congregations to choose their own leaders

5554. Horaces doctrine ut pictura poesis was interpreted to mean______________?
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A. A picture is worth a thousand words.

B. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.

C. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.

D. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.

5555. Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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A. Eminent Victorians

B. Jungle Books

C. The Way of All Flesh

D. both A and C
5557. Which poet could be described as part of The Movement of the 1950s ?
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A. Thom Gunn

B. Dylan Thomas

C. Philip Larkin

D. both A and C
5558. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
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A. Behns The Rover

B. Marlowes Doctor Faustus

C. Ethereges The Man of Mode

D. Wycherleys The Country Wife

5559. John Dryden wrote Absalom and Achitophel. Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?
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A. King Davids son

B. A Judge of Israel

C. Bathshebas first husband

D. Absaloms advisor
5560. What was the tile of Thomas Hobbess defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
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A. The Litany in a Time of Plague

B. The Advancement of Learning

C. Utopia

D. Leviathan
5561. Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?
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A. They were located outside the city limits of London.

B. The early versions were oval in shape.

C. all of the above

D. They relied on admission charges, an innovation of the period.

5562. Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy ?
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A. the Fifth Monarchists

B. the Ranters

C. the Roarers

D. the Diggers

5570. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
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A. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

B. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

C. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

D. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery

5571. What is Shakespeares longest play ?
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A. A Midsummer Nights Dream

B. Hamlet

C. Taming of the Shrew

D. Romeo and Juliet

5572. Who wrote: Beauty is truth, truth beauty. ?
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A. Samuel Butler

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. John Keats

D. William Shakespeare

5574. Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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A. Eminent Victorians

B. Jungle Books

C. The Way of All Flesh

D. both A and C
5575. Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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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.

D. both A and C
5577. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
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A. admiration and elegiac sympathy.

B. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

C. bewilderment and visceral loathing.

D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

5578. A classic book is usually one that possesses what quality ?
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A. All of the above.

B. It makes connections.

C. It has universal appeal.

D. It can stand the test of time.

5581. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
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A. all of the above

B. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes

C. supernatural phenomenon

D. perversion and sadism, often involving a maidens persecution

5584. Who wrote: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ?
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A. Hart Crane

B. T.S. Eliot

C. William Carlos Williams

D. Ernest Hemingway

5586. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
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A. The common people were still essentially pagan.

B. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.

C. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

D. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic

5588. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?
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A. William Godwins Caleb Williams

B. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

C. Jane Austens Emma

D. Sir Walter Scotts Waverley

5589. In which work do you read: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ?
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A. Sonnets from the Portuguese

B. Prelude

C. The Last Decalogue

D. Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock
5590. In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
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A. William Worsworths Lyrical Ballads

B. all but C

C. John Keatss To Autumn

D. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein

5591. Which was not among the \new\genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
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A. the classical satire

B. the epigram

C. the country-house poem

D. the Petrarchan sonnet
5592. The churchyard of St. Pauls Cathedral was well-known for its____________?
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A. ruinous condition.

B. performing bears.

C. graffiti.

D. bookshops.
5594. Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
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A. Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Woman

B. Coleridges Dejection: An Ode

C. Blakes Prophetic Books

D. all but C
5596. Which poet could be described as part of \The Movement\of the 1950s ?
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A. Thom Gunn

B. Dylan Thomas

C. Philip Larkin

D. both A and C
5597. Why didnt Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
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A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27

B. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

C. Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

D. He just wasnt bright enough

5598. What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homers lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
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A. a and c only

B. human reverence for the classics

C. the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks

D. pride for the vernacular language

5600. What is blank verse ?
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A. iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets

B. unrhymed iambic pentameter

C. free verse, without rhyme or regular meter

D. the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet