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351. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
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A. all but C

B. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

C. the death of the musical

D. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

352. Which of the following was not an expressed objective of the \Long Parliament\ when it convened in 1640 ?
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A. remaining in session until they themselves agreed to disband

B. mounting a revolution and executing the king

C. abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts

D. bringing to trial the kings hated ministers, Strafford and Laud

353. Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period ?
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A. A and C only

B. Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of the working classes

C. Labor reform, improving working conditions for industrial laborers

D. Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase in literacy

354. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
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A. Gays Beggars Opera

B. Drydens Absalom and Achitophel

C. Butlers Hudibras

D. Fieldings Jonathan Wild

355. In which work do you read: Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive. ?
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A. Fra Lippo Lippi

B. Porphyrias Lover

C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

D. My Last Duchess
356. Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?
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A. a monster fabricated in a laboratory

B. a Greek or Roman mythological figure

C. a French revolutionary

D. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.
357. 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 arts sake

B. art for intellects sake

C. art for Gods sake

D. art for the masses

358. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
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A. the Pre-Raphaelites

B. the coteries of plenty

C. the bluestockings

D. the Behnites

359. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrences novel Lady Chatterleys Lover, written in 1928?
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A. 1930

B. 1945

C. 1960

D. 2000

360. Who applied the term Romantic to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
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A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien rgime, especially satire

B. English historians half a century after the period ended

D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

E. The Satanic School of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers

361. James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
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A. Richard Lionheart

B. Augustus Caesar

C. Pericles

D. Genghis Khan

362. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
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A. George Gordon, Lord Byron

B. all of the above

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. William Wordsworth

363. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?
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A. Boston, Massachusetts

B. Stanford, Connecticut

C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

D. New York City
364. Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
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A. odium

B. love

C. unwarranted abuse

D. ignominy

365. The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer ?
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A. Henry VIII

B. Arminius

C. John Calvin

D. Martin Luther

366. Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as Gods deputy ?
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A. constitutional monarchism

B. manifest destiny

C. royal absolutism

D. extreme unction

367. Who introduced the art of printing into England ?
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A. Johannes Gutenberg

B. Henry VIII

C. William Caxton

D. Elizabeth Eisenstein

368. In the late seventeenth century, a \battle of the books\erupted between which two groups ?
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A. the Welsh and the Scots

B. champions of ancient and modern learning

C. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery

D. round-earthers and flat-earthers

369. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
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A. the figment

B. the aubade

C. the fractal

D. the fragment
370. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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A. Popes The Rape of the Lock

B. Behns Oroonoko

C. Swifts Gullivers Travels

D. Defoes Robinson Crusoe

371. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
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A. an instructional manual for manners

B. a book of model letters

C. a history of everyday life

D. a book of devotion

372. Wordsworth described all good poetry as_______________?
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A. the divine gift of grace

B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C. the polite patter of a corrupted age

D. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition

373. Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?
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A. interludes

B. meditations

C. mysteries

D. spectacles

374. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to Peddlers, and Boats, and Wagons! ?
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A. the clumsiness of Shakespeares plots

B. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge

C. Wordsworths devotion to the ordinary and everyday

D. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden

375. Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the \first\of its kind to be published by an English woman ?
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A. Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland

B. Rachel Speght

C. all of the above

D. Aemilia Lanyer

376. How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
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A. 22

B. 16

C. 14

D. 10

377. To what does the phrase \the stigma of print\refer ?
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A. lead poisoning contracted from handling printers ink

B. the brutal punishment for printing without a license

C. the perception among court poets that printed verses were less exclusive

D. the pre-Reformation ban on printing the Bible in English

378. Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
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A. pious devotion to religious virtues

B. carpe diem

C. courtly ideals of the good life

D. loyalty to the king

379. Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?
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A. Pirandello

B. Cavalcanti

C. Castiglione

D. Boccaccio

380. Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of Englands large-scale imperialism ?
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A. John Ruskin

B. Salman Rushdie

C. Rabindranath Tagore

D. Joseph Conrad

381. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
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A. the union of England and Wales with Scotland

B. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity

C. the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade

D. formal diplomatic relations with China

382. Who wrote: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair! ?
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A. Percy Bysshe Shelley

B. William Woodsworth

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Lord Byron

383. In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry ?
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A. a moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models

B. a divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader

C. a defensive power whereby poetry and its figurative expressions allow the poet to avoid censorship

D. a magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader

384. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called ?
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A. The Way of the World

B. The Order of Angels

C. The Great Chain of Being

D. The Foundational Ladder

385. Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press ?
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A. Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

B. Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood

C. Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and Frances Burney

D. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary

386. Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?
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A. A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.

B. Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public

C. all of the above

D. Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.

387. Who wrote: Reader, I married him. ?
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A. Emily Bronte

B. Edith Wharton

C. Jane Austen

D. Charlotte Bronte
388. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties ?
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A. the Tories and the Whigs

B. the Royalists and the Tories

C. the Republicans and the Royalists

D. the Royalists and the Whigs

389. What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelleys poems to the working classes ?
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A. the Battle of Waterloo

B. the storming of the Bastille

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

D. the Peterloo Massacre

E. ong: Men of England and England in 1819?

390. Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
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A. shining sword

B. verdant mead

C. simian rivalry

D. checkered shade

391. What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
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A. Cheapside

B. Covent Garden

C. Elephant and Castle

D. Grub Street
392. His To Penthurst is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement ?
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A. Thomas Carew

B. Sir John Denham

C. John Dryden

D. Ben Jonson
393. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
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A. George II

B. James II

C. William and Mary

D. Elizabeth I

394. Which of the following shifts began in the reign of Henry VII and continued under his Tudor successors ?
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A. the growing authority of the Pope over domestic English affairs

B. the rise in the power and confidence of the aristocracy

C. the expansion of Englands colonial possessions

D. the countering of feudal power structures by a stronger central authority
395. Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne of England ?
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A. James I

B. Elizabeth II

C. Henry IX

D. Charles I

396. Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance ?
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A. It was ordered according to the medieval trivium and quadrivium

B. Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning.

C. It was conducted by tutors in wealthy families or in grammar schools.

D. It was aimed primarily at sons of the nobility and gentry.

397. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for________________?
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A. knights preparing for their first tournament

B. courtiers entering the service of Richard II

C. translators of French romances

D. women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
398. What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?
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A. a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays

B. a, b and c

C. a popular thirst for the classics, driving contemporary writers to the margins

D. the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
399. What was the name of the Bronte sisters only brother ?
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A. Branwell

B. Anderson

C. Richard

D. Pearson

400. Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?
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A. Margery Kempe

B. William Langland

C. Sir Thomas Malory

D. Julian of Norwich