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Practise focused ages era period questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

ages era period Mcqs
241. From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?
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A. Machiavellis \The Prince\

B. Castigliones \The Courtier

C. Boccaccios \Decameron

D. Dantes \Divine Comedy

242. What was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 ?
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A. Buckingham Palace

B. the Houses of Parliament

C. Tower Bridge

D. Westminster Abbey

243. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?
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A. biblical reverence

B. satirical derision

C. snide indifference

D. condemning censure

244. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
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A. the invention of the airplane

B. wireless communication across the Atlantic

C. Albert Einsteins theory of relativity

D. the creation of the internet
245. Who was the first English Christian king ?
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A. Alfred

B. Richard II

C. Richard III

D. Ethelbert
246. What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era ?
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A. the familiar essay

B. the sermon

C. the diary

D. the novel

247. When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was_____________?
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A. The closing of theatres

B. King to exile

C. The return of the King.

D. King Arthurs dead

248. In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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A. Hampshire

B. Norfolk

C. Yorkshire

D. Sussex

249. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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A. Ann Radcliffes The Italian

B. William Beckfords Vathek

C. Tobias Smolletts Roderick Randsom

D. Matthew Lewiss The Monk

250. Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was not a courtier ?
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A. Thomas Wyatt

B. George Puttenham

C. Walter Ralegh

D. Philip Sidney

251. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
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A. almost all working class men

B. all women

C. about half of middle class men

D. A, B and C
252. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?
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A. The Bahagavad Gita

B. The Aeneid

C. The Odyssey

D. The Illiad
253. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
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A. the Irish National Theatre

B. the Independent Theatre

C. the Abbey Theatre

D. both A and C
254. Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
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A. the founding of the Jamestown settlement

B. all of the above

C. Henry Hudsons fruitless search for the Northwest Passage

D. the founding of the Plymouth colony

255. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical method in place of the old narrative method and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
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A. James Joyces Finnegans Wake

B. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

C. Virginia Woolfs The Waves

D. James Joyces Ulysses
256. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
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A. the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade

B. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity

C. formal diplomatic relations with China

D. the American and French revolutions

257. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill ?
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A. Humming Bird

B. Seagull

C. Crow

D. Albatross
258. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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A. India

B. Canada

C. Ulster

D. the southern counties of Ireland
259. Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s ?
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A. the restoration of the monarchy

B. the free circulation of ideas without prior censorship

C. the right of the people to dismiss and even execute their rulers

D. the disestablishment of the church and the removal of bishops

260. Who exemplified the role of the peasant poet ?
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A. John Keats

B. A and C only

C. Robert Burns

D. John Clare