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

ages era period Mcqs
361. James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
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A. Richard Lionheart

B. Augustus Caesar

C. Pericles

D. Genghis Khan

362. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
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A. George Gordon, Lord Byron

B. all of the above

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. William Wordsworth

363. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?
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A. Boston, Massachusetts

B. Stanford, Connecticut

C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

D. New York City
364. Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
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A. odium

B. love

C. unwarranted abuse

D. ignominy

365. The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer ?
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A. Henry VIII

B. Arminius

C. John Calvin

D. Martin Luther

366. Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as Gods deputy ?
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A. constitutional monarchism

B. manifest destiny

C. royal absolutism

D. extreme unction

367. Who introduced the art of printing into England ?
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A. Johannes Gutenberg

B. Henry VIII

C. William Caxton

D. Elizabeth Eisenstein

368. In the late seventeenth century, a \battle of the books\erupted between which two groups ?
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A. the Welsh and the Scots

B. champions of ancient and modern learning

C. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery

D. round-earthers and flat-earthers

369. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
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A. the figment

B. the aubade

C. the fractal

D. the fragment
370. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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A. Popes The Rape of the Lock

B. Behns Oroonoko

C. Swifts Gullivers Travels

D. Defoes Robinson Crusoe

371. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
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A. an instructional manual for manners

B. a book of model letters

C. a history of everyday life

D. a book of devotion

372. Wordsworth described all good poetry as_______________?
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A. the divine gift of grace

B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C. the polite patter of a corrupted age

D. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition

373. Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?
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A. interludes

B. meditations

C. mysteries

D. spectacles

374. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to Peddlers, and Boats, and Wagons! ?
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A. the clumsiness of Shakespeares plots

B. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge

C. Wordsworths devotion to the ordinary and everyday

D. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden

375. Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the \first\of its kind to be published by an English woman ?
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A. Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland

B. Rachel Speght

C. all of the above

D. Aemilia Lanyer

376. How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
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A. 22

B. 16

C. 14

D. 10

377. To what does the phrase \the stigma of print\refer ?
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A. lead poisoning contracted from handling printers ink

B. the brutal punishment for printing without a license

C. the perception among court poets that printed verses were less exclusive

D. the pre-Reformation ban on printing the Bible in English

378. Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
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A. pious devotion to religious virtues

B. carpe diem

C. courtly ideals of the good life

D. loyalty to the king

379. Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?
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A. Pirandello

B. Cavalcanti

C. Castiglione

D. Boccaccio

380. Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of Englands large-scale imperialism ?
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A. John Ruskin

B. Salman Rushdie

C. Rabindranath Tagore

D. Joseph Conrad