B. The term represents the comitatus ethic.

C. The term is an allusion to Beowulfs golden torque.

D. The term is an example of caesura.

A. The line suggests that the speaker is comfortably settled.

B. The line describes the optimistic attitude of the speaker.

C. The Wanderer is a poem about fatal endings.

A. Its use of the sublime

B. Its use of a medieval setting to reflect on rational progress

C. Its ambivalent treatment of its leading villain

A. blank slate or tabula rasa.

B. social contract theory of government.

D. natural political rights.

A. The shift from agriculturally-based to industrial societies in the West

B. The decline of traditional religious beliefs in Europe

C. The rise of traditional social identities and the decline of personal identity

A. To the Lighthouse

C. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

D. The Sun Also Rises

A. The term Vorticism was coined in 1914 by the avant-gardist Ezra Pound.

C. Practitioners of Vorticism often saw themselves just as much as educators as artists as they taught the public a new, more graphic language.

D. The periodical and manifesto named BLAST attempted to expound Vorticisms principal tenets.

A. Dux bellorum

B. Pax romana

D. Veni, vidi, vici

A. The separation between humanity and divinity

B. The human souls tendency towards intimate union with the divine

D. The dream connection between the two sexes

A. As an omniscient narrative of love and loss

B. A and B only

C. As a third-person narrative of the Great Depression

A. Raymond Williams

C. Fredric Jameson

D. Both A and B

A. Charles Baudelaire

B. Napoleon III

C. William Butler Yeats

A. The Norman Conquest increased the French influence.

B. The Norman Conquest ended cultural interaction with Norway and Denmark.

D. The Norman Conquest marked the last attempt for a Scandinavian nation to overtake England.

A. The utter rejection of youthful folly in favor of mature rationality

C. The falsity of human art as opposed to the immediate truth of nature

D. The failure of the poet when a youth to imagine his future

A. The prioress

B. The knight

D. The plowman

A. The library is analogous to the universe.

B. The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.

C. It is obsessed with the descriptions of an endless and ultimately incomprehensible library.

A. Pablo Picasso

B. Man Ray

C. Juan Mir

A. The phrase is considered one of the positive effects of prayer.

B. The phrase refers to anchoresses responsibility to defend other Christians.

D. The phrase involves becoming a nunin order to escape the bad influence of men.

B. Sutton Hoo gives more information about the society that created Beowulf.

C. Sutton Hoo provides insight into the conversion from paganism to Christianity.

D. Sutton Hoo provides architectural evidence from a virtually unexplored period of history.

A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body

B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty

D. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting

A. Magical realism often accepts both a materialist and a supernatural view of the real.

B. Magical realism differs from fantasy and science fiction in that it considers the impossible as normal.

C. The term magical realism was first coined by Franz Roh, a German art critic.

A. Feudalism

B. Monasticism

D. Guildhouses

B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.

C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.

D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

B. Women should make sure to receive an education in order to secure their own futures.

C. Women should be given the right to vote immediately.

D. Women should wear more makeup in order to attract husbands.

A. Feudal loyalty

B. The knightly ideal

C. Sexual purity

A. The title suggests that faith-based issues are individual to each Christian.

B. The title suggests a long history of conflict between the government and the individual.

C. The title alludes to other plays in the same cycle.

A. Allegory

C. Dream vision

D. Social satire

B. It was necessary for kings to fight in order to keep their power.

C. The ability to attract fellow warriors was a necessary attribute of power.

D. Kings often used generous gifts to recruit their followers.

A. A modern social hierarchy developed.

B. Landlords had growing problems with their tenants.

C. The lack of guilds led to a decline in available civic services.

A. The sense of hope that death will come soon

B. An identical rhyme structure

C. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages

B. Jorge Luis Borges

C. Charles Baudelaire

D. Mario Vargas Llosa

A. Naturalism depicts the more animalistic tendencies of humans.

B. Naturalism considers the author or artist to be like a scientist.

C. Naturalism is a search for scientific certainty.

A. The feudal system

C. The relationships between knights and ladies

D. The conduct of wars and tournaments

A. In English literature, we cannot refer to the tradition or to a tradition; at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is traditional or even too traditional.

B. All of the above

C. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.

A. Woolfs A Haunted House

B. Joyces The Dead

D. Hemingways My Old Man

A. it is a union supported by the Church

C. it is a union between anchorites

D. it is a mystical union between two people

A. He was the first to discuss the Knights of the Round Table.

C. He separated Arthurian legend from tales of courtly love.

D. He dropped the supernatural theme found in Arthurian legend.

A. Salman Rushdie

C. Arundhati Roy

D. Homi Bhaba

A. It destroys notions of high and low culture and replaces it with mass culture.

B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.

C. It is a radical rethinking of mass culture in that it promotes the values of high culture and attempts to eradicate more popular forms of expression.

A. His Promethean striving to exceed human limitations as explored by Byron and Percy Shelley

B. Its suggestion that the natural order has laws beyond human control

C. His desire to create a political revolution

B. Darwins work was almost universally accepted from its first appearance.

C. Darwins work had little initial influence on Victorian society and culture.

D. Almost all religious authorities rejected Darwins work completely.

A. Symbolism

C. Dadaism

D. Surrealism

A. Most of Chaucers poetry was for a secular court audience, whereas Langlands was didactic, teaching a moral lesson.

C. Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

D. Langland wrote only about aristocratic characters that were similar to Arthurian legends, whereas Chaucer wrote about lower social classes.

A. Marxism

B. Feminism

C. Deconstruction

B. An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

C. A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

D. A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A. The Canterbury Tales

B. The Dream of the Rood

D. Caedmons Hymn

A. Viktor Shklovsky

B. Roland Barthes

D. Claude Lvi-Strauss

A. Euphues

C. Utopia

D. Paradise Regained

B. The government

C. Organized religion

D. Marriage

A. refer to the speakers heart.

B. are an example of antithesis to suggest the falcons contradictory nature.

D. indicate the speakers lack of faith.