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101. Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?
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A. Scientific Bibliology

B. Critical Inquiry

C. New Criticism

D. Higher Criticism
102. The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic depression in 1620-1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of ____________in London in 1625 ?
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A. Tuberculosis

B. Bubonic plague

C. Plague (disease)

D. Cholera

103. Who translated the New Testament into German for the first time ?
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A. Martin Luther

B. Poliziano

C. Alexander VI

D. Cervantes

104. A poem that deals in an idealized way with Shepherds and rustic life is known as____________?
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A. An extended metaphor

B. A pastoral poem

C. A Petrarchan Sonnet

D. A Protestant Poem

105. Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought good luck charms. What science did they utilize in trying to predict and control the future ?
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A. Metallurgy

B. Astrology

C. Geocentricity

D. Alchemy

106. Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
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A. all of the above

B. evolution

C. geology

D. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances

107. From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?
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A. Canterbury Tales

B. Arabian Nights

C. Pilgrims Progress

D. Shah Namah
108. Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in_____________?
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A. 1876

B. 1843

C. 1892

D. 1854

109. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
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A. In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India

B. Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.

C. From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from 300 billion to 800 billion.

D. To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
110. The father of humanism was_______________?
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A. Pico della Mirandola

B. Petrarch

C. Boccaccio

D. Dante

111. What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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A. Victorian era

B. Elizabethan Era

C. Caroline era

D. Jacobean Era

112. What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelleys poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?
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A. the Battle of Waterloo

B. the Peterloo Massacre

C. the organization of a working class mens choral group in Southern England

D. the storming of the Bastille

113. Fill in the blanks from Tennysons The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the ..: Man to command and woman to ____________?
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A. throne; scepter; soul; decree

B. school; scalpel; pen; set free

C. crop; scabbard; foot; agree

D. hearth; needle; heart; obey
114. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworths claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?
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A. doggerel rhyme

B. the lyric poem written in the first person

C. the sonnet

D. the political tract

115. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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A. the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada

B. the Act of Union

C. the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

D. the Toleration Act

116. Who wrote: There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. ?
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A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Henrik Ibsen

D. Robert Browning

117. Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance ?
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A. emphasis on individuality

B. the development of social insurance programs

C. the emergence of merchant oligarchies

D. confidence in human rationality

118. Wordsworth described all good poetry as______________?
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A. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition

B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C. the polite patter of a corrupted age

D. the divine gift of grace

119. What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in England during her reign ?
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A. Calvinism

B. The Lutheran Church

C. The Anglican Church

D. The Roman Catholic Church

120. The foremost poet of Jacobean era was ?
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A. Herbert Spencer

B. John Donne

C. Charles Bacon

D. John Milton

121. Which country believed it had an Invincible Armada before 1588 ?
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A. England

B. The Netherlands

C. Spain

D. France

122. Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
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A. Prometheus

B. Cain

C. Satan

D. George III
123. Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst_____________?
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A. Cranford

B. Ruth

C. Vanity Fair

D. Hard Times
124. Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?
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A. Stingy

B. Unintelligent

C. Rude

D. Fanatic

125. 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. the Rights of Man

B. laissez-faire

C. enclosure

D. economic independence

126. Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
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A. Godwins Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

B. Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Men

C. Paines Rights of Man

D. Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France
127. Which one of Gaskells novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing ?
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A. Ruth

B. North and South

C. Cranford

D. Mary Barton

128. Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?
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A. epistolary novel

B. Gothic fiction

C. meta-novel

D. Hunnish epic

129. Which of the following was the Tower of London used for in the Elizabethan age ?
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A. As a prison

B. As a school for the royal children

C. As an astronomical observation deck

D. As a storage place for grain

130. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as \the special and opportune art of the modern world ?
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A. nonfiction prose

B. comic drama

C. the lyric

D. the novel

131. The Song of the Lotus is a poem by____________?
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A. Keats

B. Eliot

C. Coleridge

D. Tennyson
132. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.

B. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age.

C. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.

D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.
133. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
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A. Tom Stoppard

B. Harold Pinter

C. Caryl Churchill

D. Alan Bennett

134. Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth ?
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A. Pope Innocent III

B. Pope Gregory XIII

C. Pope Pius V

D. Pope Boniface

135. One of Marlowes most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
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A. Hero and Leander

B. Troilus and Cressida

C. Apollo and Hyacinth

D. Anthony and Cleopatra

136. The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War finds its reference in the poem__________?
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A. The Charge of the Light Bridge

B. 1st September

C. Ultima Ratio Regum

D. In Memorium

137. Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens____________?
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A. Our Mutual Friend

B. Edwin Drood

C. Little Dorrit

D. Dombey and Son

138. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as____________?
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A. Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

B. H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine

C. Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

D. W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn
139. In which city was Milton ?
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A. London

B. Norwich

C. Canterbury

D. York

140. The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________?
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A. Paradise Lost

B. Pilgrims Progress

C. Utopia

D. Divine Comedy

141. Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
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A. all of the above

B. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

C. the India Mutiny in 1857

D. the Boer War in the south of Africa

142. Elizabeth Barretts poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?
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A. womens rights and suffrage

B. child labor

C. Chartism

D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians

143. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
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A. all of the above

B. Matthew Arnold

C. Thomas Carlyle

D. Charles Dickens

144. Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the supreme governor of all things spiritual. Who was it ?
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A. The Archbishop of Canterbury

B. Each man was his own supreme governor

C. Queen Elizabeth I

D. The Pope in Rome

145. In what country did the Renaissance begin ?
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A. Italy

B. England

C. France

D. Germany

146. What does the phrase \White Mans Burden,\ coined by Kipling, refer to ?
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A. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the worlds problems

B. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world

C. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world

D. Britains manifest destiny to colonize the world

147. Who exemplified the role of the \peasant poet\ ?
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A. John Clare

B. A and C only

C. Robert Burns

D. John Keats

148. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
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A. all of the above.

B. Matthew Arnold

C. Thomas Carlyle

D. Charles Dickens

149. What religion was Mary Queen of Scots ?
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A. Lutheran

B. Presbyterian

C. Catholic

D. Episcopalian

150. Utopia was written by_____________?
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A. Poliziano

B. Thomas More

C. Machiavelli

D. Cervantes