752. Which rulers reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
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A. Queen Victoria

B. Queen Elizabeth I

C. King John

D. King Henry VIII

754. George Eliots novel Romola is a________________?
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A. Autobiographical novel

B. Picaresque novel

C. Historical novel

D. Gothic novel

755. What was Elizabeths close circle of advisers called ?
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A. Parliament

B. The Star Chamber

C. The Privy Council

D. The Cabinet

756. Who wrote: There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. ?
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A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Henrik Ibsen

C. Robert Browning

D. Henry David Thoreau

757. What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

B. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

C. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia

D. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London

758. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by \legitimate\ drama ?
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A. The play was spoken.

B. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.

C. All of the actors were British.

D. All of the actors were male.

759. Which school did Milton attend ?
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A. Westminster

B. St Pauls

C. Merchant Taylors

D. Christs Hospital

761. Who succeeded Elizabeth I ?
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A. Edward VI

B. Mary Queen of Scots

C. Charles I

D. James I
762. 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
763. What religion was Mary I ?
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A. Catholic

B. Anglican

C. Episcopalian

D. Presbyterian

764. Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period ?
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A. The notoriety of the \Lake School\

B. Innovations in retailing, such as the cut-price sale of remaindered books

C. Technological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press

D. Increased literacy, thanks in large part to Sunday schools

765. In which city was Milton ?
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A. London

B. Canterbury

C. Norwich

D. York

766. The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________?
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A. Utopia

B. Pilgrims Progress

C. Divine Comedy

D. Paradise Lost

767. Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
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A. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.

B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.

C. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.

D. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.

770. Elizabeth Barretts poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?
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A. womens rights and suffrage

B. child labor

C. Chartism

D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians

771. Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
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A. Paines Rights of Man

B. Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Men

C. Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France

D. Godwins Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

772. The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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A. Political Movement

B. Social Movement

C. Religious Movement

D. Literary Movement

773. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
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A. Thomas Carlyle

B. all of the above

C. Charles Dickens

D. Matthew Arnold

774. Which of the following best describes theidea of the symbol among French Symbolist poets ?
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A. A symbol is an emblem of the actual world endowed with supernatural meanings.

B. A symbol is a metaphor that allows the poet to capture complex social realities.

C. A symbol is a description of past realities.

D. A symbol is an image that conveys powerful emotional states.

776. What was common amongst D.G Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne ?
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A. They were all Victorian Novelists

B. They all belonged to the Oxford Movement

C. They were all painters

D. They all belonged to the Pre- Raphaelite School
777. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
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A. Alan Bennett

B. Caryl Churchill

C. Harold Pinter

D. Tom Stoppard
779. 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. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.

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

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

781. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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A. all but c

B. John Ruskin

C. Edward FitzGerald

D. William Morris

782. Which work did Edmund Spenser author ?
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A. The Double

B. The Metamorphoses

C. The Castle of Perseverance

D. The Faerie Queene
783. who lost the most power during the renaissance ?
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A. catholic church

B. Italian merchants

C. king and queen of Spain

D. black people

785. Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed ?
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A. Anne Boleyn

B. Mary, Queen of Scots

C. Catherine of Aragon

D. Mary I

786. The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War finds its reference in the poem__________?
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A. Ultima Ratio Regum

B. The Charge of the Light Bridge

C. 1st September

D. In Memorium

787. Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what royal family ?
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A. Plantagenet

B. Tudor

C. Windsor

D. Stuart

788. What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer ?
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A. The sonnet

B. Blank verse

C. Free-flow verse

D. Trochaic Heptameter

791. Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbauds poem Eternity undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?
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A. The image of satiny embers

B. The image of a quest for knowledge

C. The image of the sun reflected on the sea

D. The image of a sentinel

792. In what country did the Renaissance begin ?
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A. England

B. Italy

C. France

D. Germany

793. Who wrote: I would prefer not to. ?
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A. Thomas Gray

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Edgar Allan Poe

D. Herman Melville
794. Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
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A. English historians half a century after the period ended

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

C. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

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

795. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdlers edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?
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A. the expurgation of indelicate language

B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary

C. the insertion of bawdy songs

D. the misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and

797. When did John Milton die ?
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A. 8 November 1674

B. 4 February 1702

C. 2 June 1700

D. 17 April 1688

798. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
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A. Percy Bysshe Shelley

B. George Gordon, Lord Byron

C. William Wordsworth

D. all of the above
799. 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. abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts

C. mounting a revolution and executing the king

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