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41. What are the beginning and ending dates of the Elizabethan era ?
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A. 1575-1600

B. 1558-1603

C. 1500-1520

D. 1560-1570

42. Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?
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A. Coleridges Remorse

B. Byrons Manfred

C. Shelleys Prometheus Unbound

D. Shelleys The Cenci

43. The Jacobean Era refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries ?
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A. Malaysia

B. England

C. Tunisia

D. Jordan

44. What Pope poem begins, In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heavnly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestals veins ?
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A. The Rape of the Lock

B. Eloisa to Abelard

C. The Dunciad

D. Solitude: An Ode

45. The basic theme of Arnolds Literature and Dogma is____________?
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A. Contemporary literary criticism

B. Art and Literature

C. Social changes in the Victorian Age

D. Theology

46. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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A. Duns Scotus

B. Immanuel Kant

C. Aristotle

D. David Hume

47. 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

48. Who were the Two Nations referred to in the subtitle of Disraelis Sybil (1845) ?
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A. the rich and the poor

B. England and Ireland

C. Britain and Germany

D. Anglicans and Methodists

49. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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A. William Morris

B. Edward FitzGerald

C. John Ruskin

D. all but C

50. An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
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A. the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas

B. the literature of Greece and Rome

C. alchemy and magic

D. chivalry of the Middle Ages

51. What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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A. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia

C. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

D. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London

52. For what do Matthew Arnolds moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Paters aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
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A. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama

B. the surrealist movement

C. modern literary criticism

D. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

53. Which rulers reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
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A. Queen Victoria

B. King Henry VIII

C. King John

D. Queen Elizabeth I

54. Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend ?
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A. Christs College

B. Trinity College

C. St. Xaviers College

D. Pembroke College

55. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
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A. sound as a means to express meaning

B. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem

C. all of the above

D. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

56. What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeths court ?
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A. Jousting

B. Gambling

C. Backgammon

D. Swimming

57. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdlers edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?
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A. the expurgation of indelicate language

B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary

C. the insertion of bawdy songs

D. the misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and

58. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
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A. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature

B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number

C. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools

D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

59. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ?
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A. women

B. slaves

C. the working classes

D. the lower middle classes

60. Who was Edmund Spensers patron ?
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A. Francis Bacon

B. The Earl of Leicester

C. Elizabeth

D. Lord Burleigh

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