201. Who is the author of the novel The Golden Age ?
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A. Jane Austen

B. Tahmima Anam

C. Pearl S. Bark

D. Virginia Woolf

202. Sonia Sanchezs right on: white america is protesting________________?
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A. The extermination of Native Americans.

B. The fact that America still has a frontier mentality.

C. Black on black violence.

D. That there is a Black America and a White America.

203. Macbeth is a_____________?
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A. an essy

B. play

C. novel

D. poem

206. Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter is a line from_______________?
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A. The Prelude

B. None of these

C. Ode on a Grecian Urn

D. Ode to Autumn

207. The Revolt of Islam was written by________________?
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A. None of these

B. Wordsworth

C. Coleridge

D. Shelley
208. The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as___________________?
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A. The age of Milton

B. None of these

C. The Age of Classicism

D. The Restoration
209. Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with what happens to a dream deferred ?
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A. Alice Walker

B. Etheridge Knight

C. Langston Hughes

D. Martin Luther King, Jr.

210. Elegy is______________________?
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A. figurative story

B. Historical poem

C. short story

D. song of lamentation
213. ______________is the school of literary writings is a medical theory ?
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A. Comedy of Manners

B. Heroic Tragedy

C. Theater of the Absurd

D. Comedy of Humours
214. The importance of Lucy Terrys Bars Fight is______________?
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A. The poem is the first-known writing of an African American.

B. The poem is the first of many poems by Terry.

C. The poetry focuses on slave life in the 18th century.

D. The poem is better than the poems of the more famous Phillis Wheatley.

215. Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was____________?
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A. An anonymous narrative.

B. Based on a New England captivity narrative.

C. Fiction written by Lydia Maria Child.

D. Written by Jacobs son.

216. SARTOR RESARTUS is a prose work by________________?
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A. Carlyle

B. Lamb

C. Bacon

D. John Ruskin

217. Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?
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A. Harriet Beecher Stowe

B. Richard Wright

C. Phillis Wheatley

D. Frederick Douglass

218. What do you mean by Hyperbole ?
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A. an overstatement about something

B. a long verse

C. a long narrative poem

D. an overriding view

219. Who is the famous woman novelist in Victorian Age ________?
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A. E.B. Browning

B. Austen

C. George Eliot

D. T.S Eliot

220. Who wrote The Spanish Tragedy ?
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A. Thomas Kyd

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. John Lyly

D. Robert Green

221. Booker T. Washingtons message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
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A. African Americans will have to help themselves by becoming educated.

B. Whites should pay reparations to former slaves.

C. African Americans should acculturate to mainstream White culture.

D. White institutions should reform to meet African American needs.

222. The tragic mulatto myth_________________?
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A. Existed only in fiction by White authors.

B. Led to novels of passing.

C. Existed only in fiction by female authors.

D. Developed in the 20th century.

223. The theme of Phillis Wheatleys On Being Brought from Africa to America is_______________?
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A. Christians should free their slaves.

B. Slaves are capable of becoming good Christians.

C. Slaves are the children of Cain.

D. Slaves should rebel against the Christian religion.

224. What is the subject of Lucille Cliftons the lost baby poem ?
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A. Abortion.

B. A child dying of SIDS.

C. The stillborn death of a child.

D. A murdered child.

225. The Medal by John Dryden is a/an________________?
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A. play

B. satire

C. translation

D. prose

226. Who is the author of the famous book The Judgment is_______________?
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A. Kuldip Nayer

B. Amartya Sen

C. Anthony Mascarenhas

D. Nelson Mandela

227. George Bernard Shaw is_________________?
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A. a playwright

B. a modern painter

C. a film-maker

D. a historian

228. What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?
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A. She marries a Black man.

B. She lets a man help her out.

C. She washes clothes for White women.

D. She tries to pass as White.

229. Tennyson wrote____________?
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A. Dover Beach

B. My last Duchess

C. The Eve of St. Agnes

D. The Lotus Eaters
230. W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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A. A Christian.

B. A radical.

C. A coward.

D. An accomodationist.
231. The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism_____________?
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A. The impact of WWI and the 1918 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

B. The disassociated, anomic self.

C. Collectivism versus the authority of the individual.

D. The wearing away of traditional class structures.

232. Hellenism of Keats connotes______________?
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A. his love of poetry

B. his love of Greek culture and art

C. his love of ancient cultures

D. None of these

234. Who is the writer of The Ring of the Book ?
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A. Shelley

B. Robert Browning

C. William Shakespeare

D. Wordsworth

236. Which of the following authors was not of mixed race heritage ?
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A. Booker T. Washington

B. Charles Chesnutt

C. Jean Toomer

D. Frederick Douglass

237. During the early 20th century, a black persons purpose in passing might have been_________________?
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A. None of the above.

B. To obtain justice for black people.

C. To escape from slavery.

D. To get better accommodations on the train, better seats in the theatre.
238. In Gwendolyn Brooks poem, we real cool, the Golden Shovel is_______________?
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A. A metaphor for the pool players who are trying to dig out of their neighborhood.

B. A metaphor for colossal lies they have been buried with.

C. The name of a pool hall.

D. The name of a restaurant the pool players cannot enter.

239. The supportive network of female slaves led to_______________?
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A. Learning to be midwives.

B. Lower suicide rates.

C. Resistance against dehumanization.

D. Resistance to the overseers.

241. Phillis Wheatleys poetry is considered_____________?
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A. Typical of Colonial poetry.

B. Progressive and challenging.

C. Highly original.

D. Abolitionist in subject.

242. What was special about Zora Neale Hurstons home town of Eatonville, Florida ?
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A. It was home to the Harlem Renaissance.

B. It was destroyed after the Civil War.

C. Most of its inhabitants worked for White people.

D. It was primarily African American.
243. In which age is The Puritan Period included ?
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A. The Romantic

B. The Modern

C. The Renaissance

D. The Non-classical

245. Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare ?
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A. None of these

B. Merchant of Venice

C. Macbeth

D. Othello

246. Which of the following statements about slavery is true ?
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A. Slave owners did not allow their slaves to live as married couples.

B. Slaves were given limited civil rights.

C. Most slaves were not Christian.

D. Most slave children lived in two family homes.
247. Which is not a characteristic of Realism ?
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A. Presentation is objective.

B. Characters are not as important as plot.

C. Ordinary language is used.

D. Events are plausible.

248. Love and Friendship is written by___________________?
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A. Jonathan Swift

B. None

C. Jane Austen

D. Francis Bacon

249. Yahoos according to Gulliver were______________?
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A. None of these

B. Indians

C. American

D. European
250. Shaw died at the age of_______________?
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A. 95

B. none of these

C. 105

D. 75