A. the political focus on individuals and their rights.

B. philosophical theories of sympathy and human emotions.

C. scientific emphasis on detailed observation.

A. Aristotle

C. Freud

D. Darwin

A. His ability to finally kill an enemy soldier

C. His death and escape from suffering.

D. The defeat of the Germans

A. childbirth.

B. unrequited love for John of Gaunt.

C. drowning in the Thames.

A. Lyme disease

B. Staph infections

C. A and C only

A. Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys

C. And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands

D. Mother died today

A. Julian of Norwich

B. Walter Hilton

D. Richard Rolle

A. Becketts work expresses a certain frustration with the inability of language to fully capture the human condition.

B. ires for a redemption that may or may not ever materialize.

C. Becketts play explores how language helps to form ones notion of self.

E. Becketts work captures an almost transcendent melancholy as it explores human

B. courtly love

C. peasant life

D. female literacy

A. To help him start a new revolutionary war

C. To help him hear natures music

D. To help him reach the afterlife

A. His career ended when he was jailed for criminal gross indecency.

B. He was notorious for his use of paradox.

C. He believed that art should be something more than the reproduction and appreciation of the natural world.

B. Ann Radcliffe

C. John Keats

D. Alfred Lord Tennyson

A. Competition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners.

B. People found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority.

C. Colonizers were no longer necessarily interested in reforming indigenous populations.

A. Giving inanimate objects human qualities

B. A metaphorical compound

C. The image used to share qualities in a metaphor or simile

A. Realism depicts the tension between harsh reality and ideals.

C. Realism strives to depict humans within a certain social context.

D. Realism explores ethical quandaries within a social context.

A. A conversation about womens work as a product of the Industrial Revolution

B. A debate about whether women should be able to vote

C. A discussion of womens roles inside and outside the home

A. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle presents an accurate description of the Second and Third Crusades.

C. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle offers a lay persons perspective on Anglo-Saxon history.

D. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle focuses on the courtly adventures of Anglo-Saxon English.

A. The Dream of the Rood

B. The Wife of Baths Tale

C. The Knights Tale

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Y.B. Yeats

D. James Joyce

A. his use of the heroic couplet.

C. an Enlightenment focus on useful knowledge.

D. a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and knowing limitations.

B. men who wrote only in the mystical tradition

C. heretics persecuted by the Church

D. the authors of conduct books

A. And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

B. Riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

D. Was it for this-

A. The First Crusade in the 11th-century

C. The Norman Conquest in 1066

D. The Second Crusade in the 12thcentury

A. A radical project of experimentation with literary and artistic form

C. The use of irony and parody

D. Both A and B

A. The avant-garde, a military term meaning advanced guard, was founded in France in the mid-19th century.

B. The term avant-garde itself means advanced guard, and the military role of the advanced guard and the role of the avantgarde art movement are much of the same.

D. Both A and B

A. they took on more important roles in the economy

B. they were able to acquire more political capital

C. they lost the ability to be anchoresses

B. The British East India Company first entered South Asia as importers of British Tea.

C. The British East India Company was essentially a covert British army.

D. Both A and B

A. By dismissing all knowledge from outside Europe

C. By rejecting the divine right of kings

D. By questioning the nature of scientific method

A. Because they began to purchase products as they walked the urbanscape

B. Because they were threatened by police with jail

D. Because of the advent of arcade projects

A. An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture

C. A literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity

D. A term used to describe contemporary cultural production

A. Hurnting

B. The golden torque

C. Kenning

A. The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.

C. A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.

D. Both A and B

A. Seamus Heaney

B. James Joyce

C. William Butler Yeats

A. It is a dramatic monologue.

B. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a natural setting as an occasion for philosophical reflection.

D. It has a melancholic tone.

B. As a mutually beneficial relationship between rulers and warriors

C. As an economic system of rewards used to ensure warriors reliability

D. As a pre-feudal power structure based on the distribution of economic and military resources

A. Mystical literature ended the trend of poems in which God was cast as a lover.

C. Mystical literature suggested the continued link between paganism and Christianity.

D. Mystical literature prohibited women from writing in the voice of God.

A. A fascination with the past but a past that is used out of its original context as pastiche

B. A reinforcement of master narratives

C. A rejection of master narratives

B. Denis Diderot

C. David Hume

D. John Locke

B. The Wasteland is an excellent example of modernist symbolism.

C. Eliots poem takes great pains to illustrate the breakdown of stable meaning in the modern world.

D. Some academic scholars suggest that TheWasteland is an extrapolation of the search for the Holy Grail.

A. The dreamer functions as an example of the comitatus ethic.

B. The dreamer is a relic from before the Christian conversion.

C. The dreamer is an example of the superstition of paganism.

A. An Orison to Almighty God

B. The Wooing of Our Lord

D. The Book of Margery Kempe

A. Personification

B. Caesura

C. Alliteration

A. A way of questioning Victorian moral conceptions

B. A musical invention of the modern age that allows for experimentation of form

D. An example of subjective artistic expression

B. He believed that English Christians needed to move to a New Israel.

C. He thought that England was a pagan wilderness.

D. He did not believe that Christianity was an essential part of English culture.

B. The importance of the irrational

C. Sexual mores

D. Bourgeois sensibility

B. A text that exposes serious flaws under the veil of comedy

C. Literature that relies on devices like irony, sarcasm, and humor

D. A work of literature that attempts to improve society

A. It includes elements of parody.

B. There is a spontaneous overflow of emotion.

C. It is written in common, ordinary language.

A. Dream poetry

B. Lai

D. Romance

A. Hrothgar believes it is important to stay focused on revenge.

B. Pride is one of the deadly sins.

C. Pride causes one to appear immodest.

B. A basic affirmation of everyday reality

C. An exact imitation of the material world

D. A stable referent to a knowable original cultural artifact