1401. According to Tristan Tzaras Manifesto on Dadaism, which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ?
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A. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

B. Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity

C. A protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action

D. Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family

1402. In the first decades after the Norman Conquest, which of the following best describes the use of language in England ?
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A. The conquered English quickly studied French.

B. Most of the English population went on speaking English with French used mostly among the upper-ruling class.

C. The French conquerors learned English in order to be able to govern well.

D. Latin became a common language for interaction between the two groups.

1404. In The Wanderer, what is the speakers primary conflict ?
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A. The desire for a more advanced world with stagnant social progress

B. The speakers spiritual regression with the increasing trend of Christian conversions

C. The folly of earthly things with the wisdom of heaven

D. The desire to travel in search of wisdom with the social conventions

1405. What was the focus of Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniae ?
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A. The early years of William the Conqueror

B. The conversion of Britain from paganism

C. The tales of King Arthur

D. The life and poems of Caedmon

1406. Which of the following statements about Elizabeth Barrett Brownings sonnet 43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.) is false ?
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A. Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the same way Wordsworths Tintern Abbey is a romantic poem.

B. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence Sonnets from the Portuguese.

C. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like other sonnets.

D. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other sonnets in its focus on love.

1408. Which of the following sentences is the famous first line of Nabokovs Lolita ?
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A. Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.

B. Lolita, all at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other.

C. Lolita, a cluster of stars palely glowed above us.

D. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
1409. Which of the following advice is offered to women in Acrene Wisse ?
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A. Anchoresses should avoid gossip.

B. Anchoresses should live in a dwelling attached to a church.

C. All of these answers

D. Anchoresses should avoid men.

1410. What is the verse form of Marie de Frances Lanval ?
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A. Octosyllabic couplets

B. Dactylic pentameter

C. Heroic couplets

D. Clerihew

1411. Why were coffee-houses important in the Restoration ?
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A. They enabled discussion about important literary texts.

B. They created a space for the exchange of pamphlets.

C. They offered people a private place in which they could plan political revolts.

D. Both A and B
1412. What is the significance of the Green Knight ?
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A. He represents the link with Celtic mythology.

B. He alludes to an ancient Anglo-Saxon ruler.

C. He suggests a continued tie with paganism.

D. He suggests the lack of knightly themes in Middle English poetry.

1413. Which of the following is a literary work of The Lost Generation ?
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A. James Joyces Dubliners

B. Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises

C. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

D. Friedrich Nietzsches Twilight of the Idols

1414. Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?
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A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

B. The Dream of the Rood

C. The Seafarer

D. The Wanderer

1416. Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?
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A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

B. The Book of Margery Kempe

C. Piers Plowman

D. The Canterbury Tales
1417. Which of the following best describes stream of consciousness narrative in the modern period ?
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A. A and B only

B. Stream of consciousness often relies upon free association of ideas.

C. Stream of consciousness is the capturing of the interior monologue of the narrator.

D. Stream of consciousness attempts to accurately capture the external dialogue of various characters in a realistic setting by an objective observer.

1418. Which of the following best describes James Joyces Araby ?
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A. It begins with the famous line: North Richmond Street being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free.

B. It is a dramatization of the relationship between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

C. It speaks of the authors illicit relationship with a young girl.

D. It is an analysis of Exodus from The Holy Bible.

1420. Which of the following most accurately explains the Bretons influence on medieval literature ?
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A. The Bretons roots were in the Celtic cultural tradition.

B. The Bretons represented prominent forces in the Norman invasion.

C. Breton literature had a profound effect on medieval literature in England.

D. All of these answers
1421. What is the primary focus of Bedes Ecclesiastical History ?
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A. The conversion of Britain to Christianity

B. The life of everyday people in the 5th and 6th centuries

C. The spread of Christianity after the Norman Conquest

D. The history of Christianity before it reached Britain

1423. Which of the following artists was NOT influenced by Surrealism ?
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A. Paul Gauguin

B. Giorgio de Chirico

C. Marcel Duchamp

D. Salvador Dal

1425. What is Mimesis ?
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A. It is a philosophical term which means imitation or mimicry.

B. A and C only

C. It is a critical term, which describes the act of expression and the presentation of self-identity, theorized by academics, such as Erich Auerbach.

D. It is a philosophical and critical term meaning otherness.

1426. According to Theodor Adornos and Max Horkheimers The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, which of the following is true of the culture industry ?
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A. The culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.

B. The culture industry is a fundamental way to promote individuality.

C. The culture industry is the chief method by which technology brings true democracy to all.

D. The culture industry is chiefly intended to offer consumers the opportunity to classify wants and desires as well as corresponding production.

1428. Which of the following are characteristics of a medieval romance ?
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A. Resemblance to an epic

B. Supernatural themes involving dragons and monsters

C. Episodic French and German poetry

D. All of these answers
1429. Who was Le Corbusier ?
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A. He was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.

B. He was an architect who designed The Chandigarh Legislative Assembly building in Punjab, India.

C. He was the architect who designed The Robie House in Chicago, Illinois.

D. Both A and B
1431. What is a lai ?
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A. A short lyrical poem

B. A poem with courtly love as its central theme

C. All of these answers

D. A poem that is usually in octosyllabic couplets

1432. According to Max Simon Nordau in his work Degeneration, which of the following best describes the term Fin de Sicle ?
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A. The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever

B. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user

C. A confession and a complaint

D. All of the above
1433. In The Way of the World, Congreve satirizes which of the following ?
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A. Ideas about chastity

B. All of these answers

C. The institution of marriage

D. The aristocracy

1434. What is Imagism ?
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A. An attempt to use the exact word instead of flowery, excessive descriptive language in poetry

B. B and C only

C. A poetic movement which hoped to offer clear expression of ideas and feelings through the use of specific visual images

D. A and B only
1435. According to Walter Benjamin in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, which of the following is true ?
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A. Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

B. The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before ones own image in the mirror.

C. All art work, even mass produced art, clearly links to an original referent that has a stable and knowable meaning.

D. Both A and B
1436. Which of the following is true of symbolism ?
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A. Symbolism began as a French literary movement in the late 19th century.

B. Paul Gauguin is an example of symbolism in painting.

C. Symbolism adheres to an objective view of reality and a rational and realistic depiction of the natural world.

D. Both A and B
1437. Which of the following is NOT a tenet of F.T. Marinettis Futurist Manifesto ?
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A. We want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.

B. We want to sing the man who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.

C. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.

D. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.

1438. In Beowulf, what is the significance of the term wyrd ?
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A. Wyrd is related to the folly of earthly possessions.

B. Wyrd suggests the idea of fate.

C. Wyrd is an allusion to the impending conversion to Christianity

D. Wyrd has to do with reparational payments exacted from people guilty of homicide.

1439. The development of cubism, with its geometric and abstract concerns, can be attributed largely to which of the following two artists ?
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A. Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet

B. Claude Monet and douard Manet

C. George Braque and Pablo Picasso

D. T.S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis

1440. What is problematic about calling Beowulf part of Old English literature ?
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A. There is no firm concept of when English literature began.

B. Danish and German scholars first claimed the poem.

C. There are no English characters in the poem.

D. The epic poem is written in a language that is unrecognizable to many English speakers.

1441. Which of the following statements best characterizes Romanticisms relationship to the Enlightenment ?
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A. Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism deemed the natural world unimportant

B. Romanticism continued the Enlightenments focus on a universal order best apprehended through reason.

C. ightenments hope in progressive political change.

D. Romanticism largely abandoned the

E. Romanticism challenged the Enlightenments emphasis on objectivity as the basis of truth.
1442. How does The Cross, as speaker, portray Jesus in The Dream of the Rood ?
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A. As the ransom God demands for the sins of humanity

B. As the heroic noble warrior

C. As the suffering Christ

D. As a special Jewish teacher

1443. In which of the following ways does Radcliffes The Mysteries of Udolpho combine the features of the Gothic and the sentimental ?
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A. All of these answers

B. It has a didactic moral focus.

C. There is a focus on a central love story.

D. It emphasizes emotion over reason.

1444. Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
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A. Maurice Tabard

B. Ansel Adams

C. Hans Bellmer

D. Man Ray

1445. How did French become the dominant language of England ?
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A. Edward the Confessors wife was French, and she had great influence at court.

B. After the successful invasion of England, the language of William of Normandy became the language of the elite.

C. Many English nobles preferred French because of the cultures superior poetry.

D. King Alfred wanted all educated people to speak French.

1446. Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar______________?
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A. devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.

B. defense of violent emotions as natural.

C. emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration.

D. reliance on classical scholarship.

1447. Which of the following events was NOT associated with the Victorian period ?
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A. Opium Wars

B. Repeal of the corn laws

C. Great Exhibition

D. French Revolution
1448. Which of the following is true of Ezra Pounds Canto XIV ?
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A. It deeply identifies with Dantes Inferno in terms of tone and thick description.

B. All of the above

C. It contains almost hellish imagery, such as: Melting like dirty wax,/decayed candles, the bums sinking lower,/faces submerged under hams.

D. It explores the theme of the perversion of language.

1450. Why was Acrene Wisse written in the vernacular language ?
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A. The audience was partially lay-women with little knowledge of Latin.

B. Women were more educated, so they knew more languages.

C. English was a more commonly used language in the Church.

D. The audience was likely unable to read French.