401. Ode on a Grecian Urn Who is the poet of the poem ?
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A. Shelley

B. Wordsworth

C. Shakespeare

D. Keats
402. Who is the hero of Paradise Regained_______________?
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A. Christ

B. The Paritan Church

C. None of these

D. Satan

403. The Poet Laureate is______________?
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A. the best poet of the country

B. a classical poet

C. the Court Port England

D. a winner of the Noble Prize in poetry

404. What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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A. a short story

B. a fictional story of animal characters

C. a soft style epic

D. a long narrative prose

405. April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliots__________________?
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A. Prufrock

B. The Wasteland

C. East Coker

D. The Hollow men

406. Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughess poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers ?
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A. Similar to Hart Crane and Whitman, Hughes uses a personal and universal I to address issues of history, race, and identity.

B. The poem is an indictment of racial prejudice in Harlem.

C. The poem is an analytical exploration of racial differences in the United States.

D. Hughes uses a universal speaker for an exploration of a profound racial divide between blacks and whites.

407. Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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A. Ezra Pound

B. none of these

C. Hardy

D. Shaw

408. Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughess poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers ?
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A. It is a meditation on the alienation of the modern person from nature.

B. It is a meditation on the communal and historical aspects of individual identity.

C. It is a meditation on the cultural isolation of African Americans in New England.

D. It is a meditation on the poets personal experience of assimilation.

409. What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frosts poem Out, Out and John Greenleaf Whittiers poem Telling the Bees ?
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A. They both address the theme of death.

B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.

C. They are both set in rural New England.

D. All of these answers
410. Who was American poet ?
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A. John Keats

B. Robert Frost

C. Robert Herrick

D. John Milton

411. Which of the following was an important influence on Charles Reznikoffs shift away from romantic rhetoric ?
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A. His study of ancient history

B. His study of medicine

C. His study of law

D. His study of Sanskrit

412. Romanticism is mainly connected with______________?
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A. job and tiredness

B. excitement and sensation

C. expectation and depression

D. love and beauty

414. Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 Futurist Manifesto ?
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A. Vladimir Mayakovsky

B. Aleksander Wat

C. Umberto Boccioni

D. Filippo Marinetti
415. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?
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A. Monarchs or political events

B. The leading characteristic of the age

C. The language of the age

D. The primary author of the age

416. Which of the following poets did NOTwrite about his experiences in World War II ?
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A. Keith Douglas

B. Wilfred Owen

C. Karl Shapiro

D. Randall Jarrell

417. Who of the following is a playwright ?
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A. G.B. Shaw

B. Frost

C. Dickens

D. W.B. Yeats

418. Who is called the father of English Poetry ?
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A. Milton

B. G. Chaucer

C. Wordsworth

D. Charles Dickens

419. What is Parable ?
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A. an allegorical story usually containing

B. none of the above

C. a sense of distress

D. the basic unit of a composition

E. oral lesson

420. One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
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A. John Milton

B. Thomas Otway

C. Sir Walter Scott

D. John Dryden

421. James Joyces narrative technique is known as______________?
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A. Objective Co-relative

B. psycho-analysis

C. Symbolism and Mysticism

D. stream of consciousness
422. Browning is famous for his______________?
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A. Narrative ballads

B. Dramatic Monologues

C. Blank Verse

D. Sensory images

423. Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
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A. King Alfred the Great

B. Francis Bacon

C. Geoffery Chaucer

D. Henry Fielding
425. In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?
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A. None of these

B. The best nature poet

C. The representative poet of Romantic Age

D. The representative poet of Victorian Age
426. The Poet Laureate is_________________?
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A. a winner of Noble Prize in Poetry

B. the court poet of England

C. the best poet of the country

D. a classical poet

427. Of Human Bondage is written by_____________?
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A. James Joyce

B. W.B. Yeats

C. Somerset Maugham

D. Philip Sydney

428. Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly ?
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A. Pride and Prejudice

B. The Daffodils

C. Culture and Anarchy

D. To a skylark
429. Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book ?
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A. He was born in Missouri and traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world before he moved to New York City.

B. He moved to New York from Alabama and the stark contrast between these places deeply influenced his writing.

C. He spent most of his life in Washington, DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained literary fame.

D. He was a native New Yorker who did not travel much but who was keenly aware of New Yorks complexity and diversity.

431. O Captain! My Captain! is a poem written by______________?
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A. Mark Twain

B. Robert Frost

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Walt Whitman
432. According to Professor Hammer, which of the following characteristics did Langston Hughes share with modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost ?
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A. Hughes was very conscious that he

B. an American poet, and this profoundly influenced his writing.

C. Hughes wrote about the legacy of the American Civil War and its long-term cultural consequences.

D. Hughes introduced new subject-matter and new language into poetry.

E. Both A and C
433. The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?
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A. Bitterness and revenge

B. None of these

C. Friendship and benevolence

D. Hatred and jealousy

435. Who is called the Mock heroic poet ?
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A. Jonathan Swift

B. Edmund Walter

C. Alexander Pope

D. Dr. Samuel Johnson

436. Beauty is truth, truth is beauty is stated by_____________?
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A. Jane Austine

B. Keats

C. Charles Lamb

D. Shelley

438. One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevenss poem Sunday Morning consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ?
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A. Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation

B. The ideal of courtly love

C. The alchemical concept of the philosophers stone

D. The Renaissance concept of humanism

441. Which of the following poets wrote about World War II ?
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A. Rudyard Kipling

B. Karl Shapiro

C. Rupert Brooke

D. Hart Crane

442. Rupert Brookes The Soldier opens with the following lines: If I should die, think only this of me:/That theres some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England. Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brookes poem as a whole ?
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A. These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers deaths on the battlefield.

B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britains imperial power.

C. These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.

D. These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.

444. Complete the following sentence. Yeatss Sailing to Byzantium is a good example of High Modernism, because it_____________?
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A. embraces the rhythms and diction of common mans speech.

B. attempts to create a modernist high culture.

C. was written at the very beginning of the 20th century.

D. does not employ rhyme.

445. Who is the author of A Brief History of Time ?
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A. Stephen Hawking

B. Albert Einstein

C. Isaac Newton

D. Jagadish Chandra Basu

447. Professor Hammer argues that Marianne Moores poem England suggests which of the following ?
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A. Moores harsh critique of the carnage of World War I

B. Moores particular kind of combative American cultural nationalism

C. Moores emotional and aesthetic attachment to England

D. Moores interest in Englands civilizing mission in the world

448. Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?
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A. Middle English

B. Victorian

C. Regency

D. Restoration

449. The novel Talisman is written by_______________?
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A. Oliver Goldsmith

B. Charles Dickens

C. Jane Austen

D. Sir Walter Scott
450. Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. Thomas Carew

C. John Skelton

D. Sir Thomas Wyatt