5601. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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A. symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,

B. to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans

C. as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking

D. All the above
5602. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
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A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

C. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

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

5603. In the late seventeenth century, a battle of the books erupted between which two groups ?
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A. the Welsh and the Scots

B. champions of ancient and modern learning

C. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery

D. round-earthers and flat-earthers

5605. What was restored in 1660 ?
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A. the Book of Common Prayer

B. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II

C. toleration of religious dissidents

D. the dominance of the Tory Party
5606. Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
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A. hunting

B. gluttonous feasting

C. all of the above

D. hard drinking

5608. The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ?
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A. Mary Tudor

B. Elizabeth Tudor

C. James I

D. Henry VII

5609. What mock epic begins: What dire offence from amrous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things ?
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A. Popes The Rape of the Lock

B. Drydens Absalom and Achitophel

C. Popes The Dunciad

D. Drydens Mac Flecknoe

5610. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
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A. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.

B. It required less skill than other genres.

C. Too many of its readers were women.

D. all of the above
5611. What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
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A. its union of thought and passion

B. A and B

C. its uncompromising engagement with politics

D. its intellectual complexity

5612. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
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A. irresolute open endings

B. narrative realism

C. stream of consciousness

D. free indirect style

5614. Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled_______________?
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A. only a small area around London and Oxford.

B. with an absolute prerogative his father would have envied.

C. with deference to Parliaments legislative supremacy.

D. through a system of draconian military courts.

5618. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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A. the Norman Conquest of 1066.

B. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

D. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

5621. What was the licensing system ?
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A. All royalties from the sale of books went to the crown (hence the name).

B. All books had to be submitted for official approval before publication.

C. All books had to be dedicated to a noble or royal patron.

D. Poets were required to have a university diploma (the original \poetic license\).

5622. Who is termed as The Morning Star of Renaissance ?
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A. Spenser

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. John Gower

D. Langland

5624. what was chaucers profession ?
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A. a poet

B. a merchant

C. none of the above

D. a civil servant
5626. 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. Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea

D. E. M. Forsters A Passage to India

5628. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
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A. irresolute open endings

B. free indirect style

C. narrative realism

D. stream of consciousness

5629. 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 death of the musical

D. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

5630. Which of the following was not an expressed objective of the \Long Parliament\ when it convened in 1640 ?
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A. remaining in session until they themselves agreed to disband

B. mounting a revolution and executing the king

C. abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts

D. bringing to trial the kings hated ministers, Strafford and Laud

5631. Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period ?
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A. A and C only

B. Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of the working classes

C. Labor reform, improving working conditions for industrial laborers

D. Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase in literacy

5633. In which work do you read: Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive. ?
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A. Fra Lippo Lippi

B. Porphyrias Lover

C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

D. My Last Duchess
5634. Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?
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A. a monster fabricated in a laboratory

B. a Greek or Roman mythological figure

C. a French revolutionary

D. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.
5638. Who applied the term Romantic to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
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A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien rgime, especially satire

B. English historians half a century after the period ended

D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

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

5639. James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
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A. Richard Lionheart

B. Augustus Caesar

C. Pericles

D. Genghis Khan

5640. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
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A. George Gordon, Lord Byron

B. all of the above

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. William Wordsworth

5641. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?
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A. Boston, Massachusetts

B. Stanford, Connecticut

C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

D. New York City
5644. Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as Gods deputy ?
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A. constitutional monarchism

B. manifest destiny

C. royal absolutism

D. extreme unction

5645. Who introduced the art of printing into England ?
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A. Johannes Gutenberg

B. Henry VIII

C. William Caxton

D. Elizabeth Eisenstein

5646. In the late seventeenth century, a \battle of the books\erupted between which two groups ?
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A. the Welsh and the Scots

B. champions of ancient and modern learning

C. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery

D. round-earthers and flat-earthers

5647. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
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A. the figment

B. the aubade

C. the fractal

D. the fragment
5648. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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A. Popes The Rape of the Lock

B. Behns Oroonoko

C. Swifts Gullivers Travels

D. Defoes Robinson Crusoe

5649. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
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A. an instructional manual for manners

B. a book of model letters

C. a history of everyday life

D. a book of devotion

5650. Wordsworth described all good poetry as_______________?
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A. the divine gift of grace

B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C. the polite patter of a corrupted age

D. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition