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401. In which work do you read: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ?
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A. The Canturbury Tales

B. The Wild Swans of Coole

C. The Dark Angel

D. The Second Coming

402. Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s ?
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A. Elizabeth I

B. Catherine of Aragon

C. Mary Tudor

D. Archbishop Cranmer

403. Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
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A. Samuel Richardson

B. Tobias Smollett

C. Henry Fielding

D. Laurence Sterne

404. Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?
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A. Sense and Sensibility

B. Vanity Fair

C. Pride and Prejudice

D. Mansfield Park

405. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
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A. confused daze

B. automatic writing

C. total recall

D. stream of consciousness

406. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?
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A. art for the masses

B. art for arts sake

C. art for intellects sake

D. art for Gods sake

407. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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A. Republicans

B. Liberals

C. Radicals

D. both B and C

408. Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
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A. Mansfield Park

B. Sense and Suspensibility

C. Pride and Prejudice

D. Emma

409. What was \restored\in 1660 ?
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A. the \Book of Common Prayer

B. the dominance of the Tory Party

C. toleration of religious dissidents

D. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II

410. What was one of the first acts of Parliament after the outbreak of hostilities in the First Civil War ?
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A. the conversion of the English church to Catholicism

B. the abolishment of public plays and sports

C. the adoption of English as the official language

D. the consolidation of power in an absolute monarch

411. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
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A. all of the above

B. phrenology

C. eugenics

D. psychoanalysis

412. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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A. Immanuel Kant

B. Aristotle

C. Duns Scotus

D. David Hume

413. Who began the tradition of revenge play ?
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A. Goorge peele

B. Phineas fletcher

C. Samuel daniel

D. Thomas kyd

414. To what subgenre did the Senecan influence give rise, as evidenced in the first English tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex ?
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A. poetic tragedy

B. heroic tragedy

C. revenge tragedy

D. villain tragedy

415. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
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A. the romance

B. the morality play

C. the short story

D. the heroic epic

416. Who became the first \prime minister\of Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
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A. John Churchill

B. Henry St. John

C. Robert Harley

D. Robert Walpole

417. How did one critic sum up Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot ?
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A. political correctness gone mad

B. angry young men

C. kitchen sink drama

D. nothing happens-twice

418. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by legitimate drama ?
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A. All of the actors were male.

B. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.

C. The play was spoken.

D. All of the actors were British.

419. Who wrote: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold ?
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A. Thomas Moore

B. William Butler Yeats

C. Edgar Allan Poe

D. James Joyce

420. Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire Absalom and Achitophel ?
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A. Cromwell

B. The Duke of Monmouth

C. Charles II

D. The Earl of Shaftesbury

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