701. 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
702. In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. Whats the name of that masque ?
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A. The Masque of Blackness

B. Il Penseroso

C. Lycidas

D. Comus
703. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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A. Edward FitzGerald

B. William Morris

C. John Ruskin

D. all but C
704. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I ?
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A. Catherine of Aragon

B. Anne Boleyn

C. Catherine Howard

D. Jane Seymour

705. A poem that deals in an idealized way with Shepherds and rustic life is known as____________?
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A. An extended metaphor

B. A pastoral poem

C. A Protestant Poem

D. A Petrarchan Sonnet

706. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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A. the Married Womens Property Rights Acts

B. the Womens Suffrage Act

C. a series of Factory Acts

D. the Custody Act

707. Who was the father of the Mary I_______________?
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A. Henry VI

B. William

C. George III

D. Henry VIII
708. Which of the following was the Tower of London used for in the Elizabethan age ?
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A. As a prison

B. As a school for the royal children

C. As an astronomical observation deck

D. As a storage place for grain

709. Marlowes poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love begins with the line Come live with me and be my love; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
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A. John Donne

B. William Shakespeare

C. John Dryden

D. Thomas Kyd

710. Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?
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A. Stealing a horse

B. A woman screaming at her husband in public

C. Public drunkenness

D. Skipping church on Sunday

711. What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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A. division

B. partition

C. segregation

D. enclosure
712. Which of the following statements best characterizes the form of Claude McKays poem The Harlem Dancer ?
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A. It is a Spenserian sonnet.

B. It is an English sonnet.

C. It is an Italian sonnet.

D. It is a free verse poem.

713. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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A. The Edinburgh Review

B. London Magazine

C. The Spectator

D. a and c only
714. Thomas Mores Utopia placed the blame for societys problems on_______________?
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A. the Church

B. human nature

C. society itself

D. Gods will

715. Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth ?
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A. Pope Gregory XIII

B. Pope Innocent III

C. Pope Boniface

D. Pope Pius V
716. In literature, some of Shakespeares most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ______________?
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A. Ben Jonson

B. Ben Jonson folios

C. William Shakespeare

D. English Renaissance theatre

717. Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst_____________?
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A. Hard Times

B. Ruth

C. Vanity Fair

D. Cranford

718. What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women \surplus\or \redundant\ ?
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A. They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.

B. They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.

C. They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didnt provide extensive job opportunities to women.

D. Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.

719. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by \Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe\ ?
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A. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.

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

C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

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

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

B. Anne

C. Victoria

D. Isabella

721. Heathcliff is a character from_____________?
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A. Emma

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Vanity Fair

D. Jane Eyre

722. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian periods contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
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A. John Ruskin

B. Charles Dickens

C. Anthony Trollope

D. Friedrich Engels

723. Yeatss Song of Wandering Aengus ends with the lines: And pluck till time and times are done/The silver apples of the moon/The golden apples of the sun. Which of the following is NOT a symbolic meaning of the apples ?
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A. They symbolize the coming apocalypse.

B. They symbolize a fulfilled longing.

C. They point to alchemical elements, which in turn symbolize the body and the soul.

D. They symbolize the return to a lost paradise.

724. Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________?
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A. George III

B. George IV

C. William IV

D. Edward VII

725. What Pope poem begins, In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heavnly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestals veins ?
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A. Solitude: An Ode

B. The Dunciad

C. The Rape of the Lock

D. Eloisa to Abelard
726. Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts ?
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A. Evelyn Waugh

B. Graham Greene

C. William Golding

D. Anthony Powell

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

B. Ben Johnson

C. Sir Walter Scot

D. Christopher Marlow

728. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
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A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools

B. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

C. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number

D. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature

729. Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
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A. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

B. the India Mutiny in 1857

C. all of the above

D. the Boer War in the south of Africa

730. Elizabethan England was largely rural, with the majority of its population living in the verdant countryside. Towns and cities, however, were growingand the most prominent of all was London. While Londoners were considered wealthy and arrogant, the city was begrimed, filthy, and infested with vermin. Where did people primarily dispose of their trash and wastes ?
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A. The streets

B. Designated trash areas

C. The underground drains

D. Dump sites in the nearby country

731. John Milton was 34 when he married Mary Powell. How old was she ?
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A. 34

B. 22

C. 48

D. 17
732. Who is the author of Blessed Damozel ?
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A. Christina Rossetti

B. Robert Browning

C. Tennyson

D. D.G Rossetti
733. Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ?
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A. All of these answers

B. Isaac Rosenberg

C. Siegfried Sassoon

D. Wilfred Owen

734. Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ?
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A. Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.

B. A group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldnt tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England.

C. They were part of the High Church or the \Catholic\side of the church.

D. They were devout \tractarians,\as described by John Henry Newman.

735. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
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A. Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.

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

C. In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India.

D. To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
736. Ezra Pounds poem In a Station of the Metro reads: The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough. Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?
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A. It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.

B. It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.

C. It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.

D. It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.
737. Which of the following disciplines most fascinated Elizabeth ?
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A. Alchemy

B. Astrology

C. Philology

D. Zoology

738. Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?
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A. There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.

B. WorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images.

C. The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.

D. The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.

739. By 1890, what percentage of the earths population was subject to Queen Victoria ?
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A. 1%

B. 25%

C. 10%

D. 15%

740. What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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A. Jacobean Era

B. Victorian era

C. Caroline era

D. Elizabethan Era

741. What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pounds In a Station at the Metro ?
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A. The use of synesthesia

B. The use of metaphor

C. The form of a villanelle

D. The use of simile

742. Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought good luck charms. What science did they utilize in trying to predict and control the future ?
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A. Alchemy

B. Metallurgy

C. Geocentricity

D. Astrology
743. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
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A. all of the above

B. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem

C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

D. sound as a means to express meaning

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

B. growth of religious activity among common people

C. earlier occurrence

D. decline in the use of Latin

745. Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century ?
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A. Tokyo

B. Amsterdam

C. Paris

D. London
746. For what do Matthew Arnolds moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Paters aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
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A. the surrealist movement

B. modern literary criticism

C. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama

D. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

747. Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliots concept of the objective correlative ?
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A. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poems formal structure and its meaning.

B. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poems theme and its objective historical context.

C. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poems formal structure and its rhetorical aim.

D. The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion.
748. Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin ?
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A. Pandemonium

B. Blatant

C. Space used to mean outer space

D. Unaccountable

749. The Jacobean Era refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries ?
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A. Tunisia

B. England

C. Malaysia

D. Jordan

750. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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A. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront

B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth