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181. Staying alive was a difficult task for Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, and occupational accidents could all result in ones untimely demise. Most people never reached the age of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom ?
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A. Mourning clothes

B. Long processionals

C. Strict simplicity

D. Tolling of church bells

182. Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by ?
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A. George Herbert

B. Sir Walter Scot

C. Christopher Marlow

D. Ben Johnson

183. The Prince was written to gain favor of the_______________?
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A. Medici

B. Inquisition

C. Pazzi

D. Republic

184. Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill are characters from the novel____________?
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A. Emma

B. Hard Times

C. Cranford

D. Great Expectation

185. Which English king had several of his wives killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir ?
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A. Henry VIII

B. Edward VI

C. Richard III

D. George III

186. How many times did Milton marry ?
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A. 1

B. 2

C. 0

D. 3

187. Wilds drama Woman of No Importance appared in __________?
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A. 1893

B. 1904

C. 1879

D. 1884

188. Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art ?
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A. realism

B. individualism

C. perspective

D. abstractioin

189. the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?
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A. Iliad

B. Beowulf

C. Canterbury Tales

D. Odyssey

190. the word renaissance means______________?
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A. reading of books

B. the time of astronauts

C. the rebirth of learning or knowledge

D. the study of art

191. Who composed The Preludes ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. William Wordsworth

C. S T Coleridge

D. William Blake

192. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Miltons at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?
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A. II penseroso

B. lycidas

C. Paradise Lost

D. none of the above

193. Maud is a poem written by_________________?
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A. Tennyson

B. Swineburne

C. Pope

D. Byron

194. Thomas Mores Utopia placed the blame for societys problems on_______________?
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A. the Church

B. society itself

C. Gods will

D. human nature

195. The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as_______________?
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A. The Great Order of Life

B. The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker

C. The Great Chain of Being

D. The Great System of Shakespeare

196. Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue ?
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A. Money lending

B. Begging

C. Fortune-telling

D. Wine bottling

197. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as the special and opportune art of the modern world ?
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A. the novel

B. nonfiction proseB.

C. the lyric

D. comic drama

198. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
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A. all but C

B. It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldnt make serious statements about society.

C. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.

D. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.

199. Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ?
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A. Oxford Movement

B. Pre-Raphaelite

C. Methodist

D. Imagism

200. Which one is Gaskells first novel ?
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A. Ruth

B. Mary Barton

C. North and South

D. Cranford

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