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201. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian periods contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
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A. Charles Dickens

B. John Ruskin

C. Friedrich Engels

D. Anthony Trollope

202. Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
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A. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

B. The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers

C. English historians half a century after the period ended

D. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien rgime, especially satire

203. In the title of Marlowes play, of where was Dido the Queen ?
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A. Troy

B. Persia

C. Carthage

D. Sparta

204. Who was the sister of Mary I ?
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A. Elizabeth I

B. Anne

C. Victoria

D. Isabella

205. The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance__________________?
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A. greater appreciation of pagan writers

B. decline in the use of Latin

C. earlier occurrence

D. growth of religious activity among common people

206. What religion was Mary I ?
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A. Catholic

B. Episcopalian

C. Anglican

D. Presbyterian

207. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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A. a series of Factory Acts

B. the Womens Suffrage Act

C. the Custody Act

D. the Married Womens Property Rights Acts

208. what sparked the Renaissance ?
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A. the Crusades

B. the Black Plague

C. the 95 theses

D. The Feudal system was collapsing

209. Renaissance thinkers argued that women should be educated______________?
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A. just the same as men

B. not at all

C. with emphasis on science and mathematics

D. confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting

210. Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into a social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot: they were denied basic comforts, security, and even the chance to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes one could legally wear based on rank. Which of the following could the poor wear ?
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A. Velvet coats

B. Sable-lined cloaks

C. Woolen underwear

D. Purple silk dresses

211. Marlowes poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love begins with the line Come live with me and be my love; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. Thomas Kyd

C. John Donne

D. John Dryden

212. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian periods contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
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A. Charles Dickens

B. Friedrich Engels

C. John Ruskin

D. Anthony Trollope

213. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poets time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
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A. Alfred Lord Tennyson

B. William Wordsworth

C. William Blake

D. Samuel Johnson

214. Marlowes play Tamburlaine the Great was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler ?
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A. Timur

B. Genghis Khan

C. Zhu Yuanzhang

D. Kublai Khan

215. Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century?
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A. Amsterdam

B. London

C. Tokyo

D. Paris

216. The Oxford Movement was started by______________?
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A. The University Wits

B. The Scholars of the Oxford University

C. The clergymen of Oxford

D. The people of the Oxford area

217. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?
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A. The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its authors death.

B. The General Prologue is appended to The Canterbury Tales.

C. In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.

D. The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.

218. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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A. the Custody Act

B. the Married Womens Property Rights Acts

C. a series of Factory Acts

D. the Womens Suffrage Act

219. What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I ?
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A. 1603-1625

B. 1608-1639

C. 1592-1608

D. 1607-1627

220. Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________?
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A. Dickens

B. Thackery

C. Jane Austin

D. Emily Bronte

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