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ages era period Mcqs
221. Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century ?
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A. Amsterdam

B. Paris

C. London

D. Tokyo

222. The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?
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A. Tudor period

B. English Reformation

C. Elizabethan era

D. England

223. The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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A. Social Movement

B. Literary Movement

C. Religious Movement

D. Political Movement

224. Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the.., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. A Midsummer Nights Dream

C. Ben Jonson

D. Masque
225. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I ?
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A. Anne Boleyn

B. Catherine of Aragon

C. Catherine Howard

D. Jane Seymour

226. In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled abroad. In which country did he spend most of the time ?
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A. Spain

B. France

C. Italy

D. Germany

227. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by \legitimate\ drama ?
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A. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.

B. All of the actors were British.

C. All of the actors were male.

D. The play was spoken.
228. For what do Matthew Arnolds moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Paters aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
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A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

B. the surrealist movement

C. late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century satirical drama

D. modern literary criticism
229. George Eliot was the pen-name of______________?
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A. Clare Reeve

B. Mary Collins

C. Marian Evans

D. Lara Evans

230. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
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A. blank verse

B. the ode

C. the heroic couplet

D. free verse

231. What did Henry James describe as \loose baggy monsters\ ?
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A. plays

B. novels

C. publishers

D. the English

232. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
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A. all but C

B. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

C. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

D. the death of the musical

233. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
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A. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.

B. The sensory world is an illusion.

C. All knowledge is derived from experience.

D. Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.

234. Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as Old Chaucer who, like the morning star, descends to the shades, so that Darkness again the Age invades.
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A. Abraham Cowley

B. John Dryden

C. John Donne

D. William Shakespeare

235. Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam ?
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A. William Laud

B. John Lilburne

C. Oliver Cromwell

D. Roger Williams
236. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Caedmon

C. Bede

D. Sir Thomas Malory

237. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
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A. Virginia Woolf

B. George Orwell

C. Orson Wells

D. Evelyn Waugh

238. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworths claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ?
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A. the sonnet

B. the political tract

C. the lyric poem written in the first person

D. doggerel rhyme

239. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the spirit of the age, which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
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A. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley

C. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake

D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

240. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
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A. Bleak House

B. A Tale of Two Cities

C. Great Expectations

D. The Pickwick Papers