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581. Following are the lines of: Im your wife if you marry me If not, Ill die your maid to be your fellow You may deny me, but Ill be your servant Whether you deny or not ?
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A. Hamlet

B. Tempest

C. Othello

D. Romeo and Juliet

582. Book 1 of Paradise Lost presents Satan with his angels fallen into Hell. When recovered, Satan awakens all his legions and speaks to them. The first he addresses is described as one next to himself in power, and next in crime, long after known in Palestine. Whats the name of this fallen angel?
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A. Moloch

B. Mammon

C. Ashtaroth

D. Beelzebub
583. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem Ode to the West Wind ?
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A. Rime royal

B. Terza rima

C. Ottava rima

D. Spenserian Stanza

584. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land ?
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A. Oedipus

B. Sysyphus

C. Philomela

D. Grail Legend of Fisher King

585. W.B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in the year ?
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A. 1925

B. 1932

C. 1938

D. 1923
586. What is Miltons stated purpose in Paradise Lost ?
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A. To make his story hard to understand

B. To assert his superiority to other poets

C. To justify the ways of God to men

D. To argue against the doctrine of predestination

587. Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally ?
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A. Forinbras

B. Leartus

C. Polonius

D. Horatio

588. In which country is Macbeth set ?
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A. Canada

B. Spain

C. Scotland

D. Denmark

589. Miltons unholy trinity of characters includes_______________?
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A. Satan, Sin, and Death

B. Sin, Temptation, and Satan

C. Sin, Death and Temptation

D. Error, Temptation, and Satan

590. The ode on which topic that Coleridge wrote while attending Jesus College, Cambridge won him the Browne Gold Medal ?
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A. On romantic philosophy

B. On the slave trade

C. On supernatural elements in poetry

D. On the creativity of human mind

591. ____________was father of Desdemona ?
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A. Othello

B. Iago

C. Brabantio

D. Gratiano

592. Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub ?
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A. Uriel

B. Abdiel

C. Michael

D. Raphael

593. How many narrative arcs does Paradise Lost have ?
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A. 1

B. 12

C. 4

D. 2
594. Which work of William Wordsworth, with the joint publication with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature ?
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A. The Excursion

B. Lyrical Ballads

C. Poems, in Two Volumes

D. The Prelude

595. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
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A. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

B. Work Without Hope

C. Youth and Age

D. Frost at Midnight

596. Was the Globe ?
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A. A famous map of the world.

B. An Elizabethan sports stadium.

C. An Elizabethan Theater.

D. A Roman Amphitheater.

597. With which other poet did Samuel Taylor Coleridge founded the Romantic movement in English Literature ?
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A. Lord Byron

B. John Keats

C. Shelley

D. William Wordsworth
598. Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches ?
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A. An armed head

B. A child crowned, with a tree in his hand

C. A bloody child.

D. A bloody dagger floating in mid-air.
599. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower ?
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A. Hamlet

B. Horatio

C. Polonius

D. Gertrude

600. Following are the characters of: Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, Sempronius ?
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A. Winters tale

B. Cymbeline

C. Timon of Athens

D. Coriolanus