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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

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