ages era period MCQs – Page 15

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

ages era period Mcqs
281. John Dryden wrote Absalom and Achitophel. Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?
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A. King Davids son

B. A Judge of Israel

C. Bathshebas first husband

D. Absaloms advisor
282. What was the tile of Thomas Hobbess defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
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A. The Litany in a Time of Plague

B. The Advancement of Learning

C. Utopia

D. Leviathan
283. Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?
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A. They were located outside the city limits of London.

B. The early versions were oval in shape.

C. all of the above

D. They relied on admission charges, an innovation of the period.

284. Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy ?
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A. the Fifth Monarchists

B. the Ranters

C. the Roarers

D. the Diggers

285. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?
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A. Robert Herrick

B. John Dryden

C. Ben Jonson

D. Alexander Pope

286. Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donnes conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
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A. Air and Angels

B. The Apparition

C. The Indifferent

D. \Satire 3\
287. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?
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A. woman

B. civilization

C. nature

D. God

288. In what decade did the \angry young men\come to prominence on the theatrical scene ?
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A. 1970s

B. 1930s

C. 1950s

D. 1910s

289. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
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A. Maria Edgeworth

B. Sir Walter Scott

C. Thomas De Quincey

D. Jane Austen
290. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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A. the southern counties of Ireland

B. Ulster

C. India

D. Canada

291. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrences novel Lady Chatterleys Lover, written in 1928?
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A. 1945

B. 1960

C. 2000

D. 1930

292. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
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A. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

B. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

C. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

D. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery

293. What is Shakespeares longest play ?
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A. A Midsummer Nights Dream

B. Hamlet

C. Taming of the Shrew

D. Romeo and Juliet

294. Who wrote: Beauty is truth, truth beauty. ?
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A. Samuel Butler

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. John Keats

D. William Shakespeare

295. Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any persons pursuit of their personal interests ?
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A. economic independence

B. enclosure

C. the Rights of Man

D. laissez-faire
296. Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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A. Eminent Victorians

B. Jungle Books

C. The Way of All Flesh

D. both A and C
297. Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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A. Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.

B. Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.

C. Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.

D. both A and C
298. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
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A. naturalism

B. sprezzatura

C. gusto

D. wit
299. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
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A. admiration and elegiac sympathy.

B. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

C. bewilderment and visceral loathing.

D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

300. A classic book is usually one that possesses what quality ?
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A. All of the above.

B. It makes connections.

C. It has universal appeal.

D. It can stand the test of time.