A. The stories of King Arthur made all English people nostalgic.

B. Metrical poetry simply got boring.

C. Alliterative poetry was much easier to write.

A. Faith

C. Time spent in prayer

D. Donations made to the monastery

A. The novels experimental structure

B. The profound and often troubling relationships among characters

D. The novels radically unique narrative voice

A. More magazines on the market

B. The rise in serialized fiction

D. Lower prices for magazines

A. The court of Richard II

B. The military

D. The literary tradition

A. William the Conqueror

B. King Harold

D. King Arthur

A. The outcast figure

C. The common man

D. The movement of time

A. King Edward VII

B. King James II

D. The Suffragette Emmeline Pankhust

A. Chaucers Franklins Tale

C. Sir Launfal

D. Chaucers The Wife of Bath

A. Barley bread provides an example of medieval estates satire.

B. Barley bread signifies Chaucers use of alliterative verse.

C. Barley bread suggests the heroines state as a fallen woman.

A. The Black Plague

C. The Hundred Years War

D. The Great Schism

A. To pray

B. To preach

C. To serve the church

B. Make art profitable above all else

C. Avoid all forms of prose

D. Produce works of art that were meaningless

A. It was originally written in English.

C. It suggests that poetry is demonic in nature.

D. Both A and B

A. Trouthe represents the supernatural aspects of the medieval romance.

B. m paganism to Christianity.

C. Trouthe alludes to the British conversion

D. Trouthe suggests the imminent return to a pre-feudal social organization.

A. Giving inanimate objects human qualities

C. A metaphorical compound

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

A. It is a book that tells the story of the Sinai family.

B. It is an excellent example of Magical Realism.

C. It is concerned with the post-colonial situation of India before and after its partitioning into India and Pakistan.

A. The heroic epic

C. The lyric ballad

D. The mock epic

A. The poem could be easily sung in all churches and was widely accepted.

B. The poems theme of alienation becomes familiar to Anglo-Saxon poetry.

C. The poem illustrates Caedmons erudition and scholarship.

A. its scientific ethos and setting in London.

B. its references to Shakespeare.

D. its refusal to mention Shadwell directly.

A. Thegns were nobles who liked literature, and their patronage made poets popular.

C. Anchoresses recited poems to occupy their time alone in their cells.

D. Monks memorized many passages of scripture, preserving scriptures.

A. Brazil

C. Mexico

D. Britain

A. The Church moved away from using Latin.

B. England returned to its pre-feudal state.

D. The trend of educational reforms was reversed.

B. The translation of Latin religious and historical works in vernacular traditions

C. Efforts to revive learning

D. The shift away from individual petty kingdoms to central rule under King Alfred

A. A poem that features courtly love but denounces supernaturalism

B. The story of an English villages conversion to Christianity

D. A first-person story of the Norman invasion

A. Both use the comitatus ethic to explain their heros motivations.

B. Both include references toWilliam the Conqueror.

D. Both feature mentions of the conversion from paganism.

A. Conservative modernism supported the status quo, while progressive modernism was deeply engaged in political and social amelioration.

B. Conservative modernism celebrated aesthetic formalism, while progressive modernism celebrated innovation and attacked aesthetic formalism.

D. Conservative modernism came to look to the past for inspiration and hope, while progressive modernism looked to the future.

A. The work celebrates the young Jean and his Jesuit school education as a model for the best possible education of the young.

B. It ends with the famous line the horror, the horror.

D. All of the above

B. the Germanic tribes allowed relationships between family members, while the Church prohibited marriage between relatives

C. the Church outlawed marriages between children, while Germanic tribes tolerated them

D. the Germanic tribes tolerated polygamy, while the Church made monogamy the only acceptable type of union

B. The strong alliteration creates rhythm that accentuates the adventurous spirit.

C. The line seems to frame a story with plot complications.

D. The line alludes to a poem with religious undertones.

A. The knight is dedicated to his feudal lord.

B. The knight is religious.

D. The knight is submissive to his lad.

B. its absurd response to a real issue.

C. its mocking tone.

D. its attempt to shock readers into acting.

A. The comitatus ethic represents a culture in which rulers had no responsibilities to their citizens.

B. The comitatus ethic is evidence of a period in which behavior was guided by Christian ethics.

C. The comitatus ethic shows a historical return to older types of political organization.

A. Seamus Heaney

B. Arundhati Roy

D. Salman Rushdie

A. Pale Fire

C. Daniel Deronda

D. On the Road

A. The Seafarer

B. The Dream of the Rood

C. The Second Shepherds Play

A. The end of the novella depicts Marlows conversation with the Kurtzs Intended.

B. The work considers the dark side of European colonialism.

C. Marlow comes to understand the necessity of European leadership in Africa.

A. Rent prices increased because of the market boom.

B. Priests died in great numbers.

C. Chaucer wrote no direct descriptions.

A. As an interpretation of the Biblical Second Coming of Christ

B. As an attempt to support European colonialism in Africa

C. As a howl of despair concerning the current state of the world

A. The monarchs ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance

B. Parliaments ability to restrain the power of the King

D. The churchs potential to unify the populace after the English revolution

A. The Franco-Prussian War

B. The American Civil War

D. World War II

A. They established new standards for Victorian morality.

C. They allowed women to divorce their husbands.

D. They allowed new colonization and imperialism efforts.

A. Repetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with ones own mortality.

B. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again.

D. Talk therapy will not help cure ones psychological neuroses concerning past trauma.

A. Pastoral landscapes

B. Christianity

D. Nature

A. Arundhati Roy

C. Edward Said

D. Salman Rushdie

A. Familiar essays

B. Medievalism

C. Romanticism

A. The Bloomsbury group included E.M. Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf.

C. The Bloomsbury Group consists of a group of English writers, thinkers, and artists who met in the Bloomsbury district of London.

D. The group consisted of survivors of World War II.

A. Social contract

B. Enlightened monarchy

D. Checks and balances

A. they were never chaste or pious

B. they were examples of mystical unions

D. they always represented the evil side of love

A. rejection of Renaissance optimism.

B. rejection of traditional models.

C. emphasis on the corrupt nature of the aristocracy.