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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

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