851. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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A. to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans

B. All the above

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

D. symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,

852. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
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A. the Pre-Raphaelites

B. the tattlers and spectators

C. the coteries of plenty

D. the bluestockings
853. Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ?
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A. the Orient

B. All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.

C. a graveyard

D. a field of daffodils

854. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?
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A. art for arts sake

B. art for Gods sake

C. art for intellects sake

D. art for the masses

855. In which work do you read: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree ?
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A. Hellas

B. The Castaway

C. Kubla Khan

D. The Phoenix and the Turtle

856. Who wrote: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ?
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A. Ernest Hemingway

B. T.S. Eliot

C. Hart Crane

D. William Carlos Williams

857. A classic book is usually one that possesses what quality ?
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A. It makes connections.

B. It has universal appeal.

C. It can stand the test of time.

D. All of the above.
858. What was one of the first acts of Parliament after the outbreak of hostilities in the First Civil War ?
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A. the consolidation of power in an absolute monarch

B. the conversion of the English church to Catholicism

C. the adoption of English as the official language

D. the abolishment of public plays and sports
859. Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
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A. A and C only

B. shepherd and shepherdesses who fall in love and engage in singing contests

C. heroic stories in epic form

D. a celebration of the humility, contentment, and simplicity of living in the country

860. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
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A. Jane Austen

B. Maria Edgeworth

C. Thomas De Quincey

D. Sir Walter Scott

861. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
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A. Bunyan

B. Crabbe

C. Dryden

D. Addison

862. What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?
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A. a popular thirst for the classics, driving contemporary writers to the margins

B. the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed

C. a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays

D. a, b and c

863. Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction ?
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A. The Arts Council designated many of its resources to supporting regional arts councils.

B. Regional radio and television stations appeared throughout the country.

C. Radio announcers were permitted to speak in regional dialects and multicultural accents.

D. all of the above
864. Who is termed as The Morning Star of Renaissance ?
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A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. John Gower

C. Langland

D. Spenser

865. What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
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A. Grub Street

B. Elephant and Castle

C. Covent Garden

D. Cheapside

866. John Dryden wrote Absalom and Achitophel. Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?
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A. Bathshebas first husband

B. King Davids son

C. A Judge of Israel

D. Absaloms advisor
867. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?
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A. nature

B. God

C. civilization

D. woman

868. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the____________?
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A. chorister

B. bard

C. skald

D. troubadour

869. Horaces doctrine ut pictura poesis was interpreted to mean______________?
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A. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.

B. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.

C. A picture is worth a thousand words.

D. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.

870. 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
871. What is the title to Miltons blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?
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A. Paradise Lost

B. LAllegro

C. Lycidas

D. The Divine Comedy

872. Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?
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A. mysteries

B. interludes

C. spectacles

D. meditations

873. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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A. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront

D. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
874. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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A. Popes The Rape of the Lock

B. Swifts Gullivers Travels

C. Defoes Robinson Crusoe

D. Behns Oroonoko

875. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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A. Duns Scotus

B. Immanuel Kant

C. David Hume

D. Aristotle

876. what was the duration of hundred years war ?
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A. 1302 to 1343

B. 1300 to 1350

C. 1337 to 1453

D. none of the above

877. When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was_____________?
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A. King Arthurs dead

B. King to exile

C. The return of the King.

D. The closing of theatres
878. What was the licensing system ?
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A. All books had to be submitted for official approval before publication.

B. All royalties from the sale of books went to the crown (hence the name).

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\).

879. 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 right of congregations to choose their own leaders

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

D. the elimination of bishops

880. His To Penthurst is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement ?
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A. John Dryden

B. Ben Jonson

C. Thomas Carew

D. Sir John Denham

881. Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?
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A. all of the above

B. The early versions were oval in shape.

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

D. They were located outside the city limits of London.

882. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill ?
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A. Crow

B. Albatross

C. Seagull

D. Humming Bird

883. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
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A. the creation of the internet

B. wireless communication across the Atlantic

C. the invention of the airplane

D. Albert Einsteins theory of relativity

884. In which work do you read: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair! ?
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A. Song to Aella

B. The Man of Feeling

C. Ozymandias

D. In Memoriam

885. Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?
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A. John Skelton

B. Izaak Walton

C. Isabella Whitney

D. Katherine Philips

886. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
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A. Elizabeth I

B. James II

C. William and Mary

D. George II

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

B. partition

C. division

D. enclosure
888. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the spirit of the age, which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
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A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake

B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley

C. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

D. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
889. 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. My Last Duchess

B. Fra Lippo Lippi

C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

D. Porphyrias Lover

890. The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ?
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A. Henry VII

B. Mary Tudor

C. James I

D. Elizabeth Tudor
891. 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

892. The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer ?
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A. Martin Luther

B. John Calvin

C. Arminius

D. Henry VIII

893. What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
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A. Grub Street

B. Elephant and Castle

C. Cheapside

D. Covent Garden

894. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
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A. narrative realism

B. irresolute open endings

C. free indirect style

D. stream of consciousness

895. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.
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A. brash; confident

B. radical; inventive

C. anxious; haunting

D. popular; reverenced

896. Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donnes conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
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A. The Indifferent

B. Air and Angels

C. \Satire 3\

D. The Apparition

897. Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as Gods deputy ?
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A. constitutional monarchism

B. extreme unction

C. manifest destiny

D. royal absolutism
898. What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era ?
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A. the sermon

B. the diary

C. the novel

D. the familiar essay
899. 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 creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity

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

D. the union of England and Wales with Scotland
900. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
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A. Ben Jonson

B. Alexander Pope

C. Thomas Gray

D. William Collins