801. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?
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A. A, Band C

B. dreams

C. childhood

D. opium

802. According to Samuel Johnson, No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
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A. love.

B. his party.

C. money.

D. honor.

803. What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelleys poems to the working classes ?
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A. the storming of the Bastille

B. ong: Men of England and England in 1819?

C. the Battle of Waterloo

D. the organization of a working class mens choral group in Southern England

E. the Peterloo Massacre
804. Which was not among the \new\genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
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A. the Petrarchan sonnet

B. the country-house poem

C. the epigram

D. the classical satire

805. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical method in place of the old narrative method and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
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A. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

B. James Joyces Finnegans Wake

C. James Joyces Ulysses

D. Virginia Woolfs The Waves

806. 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. Boccaccios \Decameron

B. Dantes \Divine Comedy

C. Machiavellis \The Prince\

D. Castigliones \The Courtier

807. 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

808. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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A. abstract logical deductions

B. theoretical science

C. A, B, and C

D. metaphysics

809. Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?
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A. all of the above

B. Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public

C. Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.

D. A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.

810. Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet ?
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A. Henry Vaughan

B. John Dryden

C. Alexander Pope

D. Ben Jonson

811. 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. All knowledge is derived from experience.

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

D. The sensory world is an illusion.

812. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
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A. A and C only

B. The Spectator

C. The Edinburgh Review

D. London Magazine

813. To what subgenre did the Senecan influence give rise, as evidenced in the first English tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex ?
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A. heroic tragedy

B. poetic tragedy

C. revenge tragedy

D. villain tragedy

814. 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. all but C

B. Coleridges Dejection: An Ode

C. Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Woman

D. Blakes Prophetic Books

815. A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to ?
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A. Alcohol

B. Cocaine

C. Heroine

D. Opium
816. Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
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A. Cain

B. Prometheus

C. George III

D. Satan

817. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities ?
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A. Berlin and London

B. London and Rome

C. Paris and Rome

D. London and Paris
818. Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?
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A. Boccaccio

B. Cavalcanti

C. Castiglione

D. Pirandello

819. What was restored in 1660 ?
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A. the dominance of the Tory Party

B. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II

C. the Book of Common Prayer

D. toleration of religious dissidents

820. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
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A. the fragment

B. the figment

C. the fractal

D. the aubade

821. Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?
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A. a Greek or Roman mythological figure

B. a French revolutionary

C. a monster fabricated in a laboratory

D. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.
822. Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
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A. hard drinking

B. all of the above

C. gluttonous feasting

D. hunting

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

B. about half of middle class men

C. A, B and C

D. all women

824. What was \restored\in 1660 ?
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A. the dominance of the Tory Party

B. the \Book of Common Prayer

C. toleration of religious dissidents

D. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
825. Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press ?
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A. Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and Frances Burney

B. Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood

C. Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

D. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary

826. Who wrote: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree?
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A. Walt Whitman

B. John Keats

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Robert Browning

827. 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
828. What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called mesmerism, one of the occult practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?
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A. smoking opium

B. dream interpretation

C. psychoanalysis

D. hypnotism
829. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
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A. the death of the musical

B. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

C. all but C

D. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

830. In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
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A. John Keatss To Autumn

B. all but C

C. William Worsworths Lyrical Ballads

D. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein

831. In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry ?
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A. a defensive power whereby poetry and its figurative expressions allow the poet to avoid censorship

B. a magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader

C. a moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models

D. a divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader

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

B. Henry VIII

C. Elizabeth Eisenstein

D. William Caxton
833. 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. formal diplomatic relations with China

B. the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade

C. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity

D. the American and French revolutions

834. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry ?
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A. An effort to represent human nature

B. Use of the rhymed couplet

C. Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology

D. Fantastic comparisons

835. Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humours ?
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A. black bile

B. blood

C. choler

D. cholesterol
836. Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of Englands large-scale imperialism ?
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A. Rabindranath Tagore

B. Salman Rushdie

C. John Ruskin

D. Joseph Conrad

837. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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A. Metaphysical

B. Neo-Romantic

C. Romantic

D. Augustan
838. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
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A. Virginia Woolf

B. Orson Wells

C. Evelyn Waugh

D. George Orwell
839. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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A. Republicans

B. Liberals

C. Radicals

D. both B and C
840. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
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A. stream of consciousness

B. total recall

C. automatic writing

D. confused daze

841. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
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A. Butlers Hudibras

B. Gays Beggars Opera

C. Popes Dunciad

D. Fieldings Jonathan Wild

842. Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ?
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A. Windsor

B. Lancaster

C. York

D. Tudor
843. What was the tile of Thomas Hobbess defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
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A. Leviathan

B. The Litany in a Time of Plague

C. Utopia

D. The Advancement of Learning

844. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
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A. Wycherleys The Country Wife

B. Behns The Rover

C. Marlowes Doctor Faustus

D. Ethereges The Man of Mode

845. What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?
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A. Dawson and Hurley

B. Capulet And Montague

C. Fuech and Goodside

D. Breslow and Felsher

846. Who became the first prime minister of Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
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A. Henry St. John

B. John Churchill

C. Robert Walpole

D. Robert Harley

847. Which of the following statements accurately reflects the status of England, its people, and its language in the early sixteenth century ?
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A. Intending his Utopia for an international intellectual community, Thomas More wrote in Latin, since English had no prestige outside of England.

B. English was fast supplanting Latin as the second language of most European intellectuals.

C. English travelers were not obliged to learn French, Italian, or Spanish during their explorations of the Continent.

D. English travelers often returned from the Continent with foreign fashions, much to the delight of moralists.

848. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
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A. religious symbolism and society comedy

B. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo

D. regional dialect and political critique

849. Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: Who think too little, and who talk too __________ ?
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A. long

B. much

C. often

D. fast

850. 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