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1401. What famous modernist short story D. T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”
compares the universe to an infinite library Answer: Option A. Andre Breton’s
of hexagonal galleries ? “Surrealist Manifesto”
A. Joyce’s “The Dead”
B. Hemingway’s “My Old Man” 1405. As a result of the outbreak of World
C. Woolf’s “A Haunted House” War I and anti-German sentiment which
D. Borges’ “The Library of Babel” important British public figure had to adopt
Answer: Option D. Borges’ “The Library of the family name of Windsor ?
Babel” A. The Suffragette Emmeline Pankhust
B. King George V
1402. Jazz music is described by which of C. King Edward VII
the following characteristics ? D. King James II
A. A way of questioning Victorian moral Answer: Option B. King George V
conceptions
B. A musical invention of the modern age 1406. Which of the following is true of
that allows for experimentation of form Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” ?
C. An example of subjective artistic A. It ends with the lines: “Eternity./It is the
expression sea run off/ With the sun.”
D. All of the above B. It suggests that the quest for knowledge
Answer: Option D. All of the above and enlightenment is deeply satisfying.
C. The poem speaks of the necessity of
1403. Which author writes a profound seeking human approval and communal
criticism of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of acceptance.
Darkness,” accusing Conrad of reinforcing D. It begins with the lines: “I kissed the
typical European stereotypes of Africa ? dawn of summer.”
A. Chinua Achebe Answer: Option A. It ends with the lines:
B. Edward Said “Eternity./It is the sea run off/ With the
C. Arundhati Roy sun.”
D. Salman Rushdie
Answer: Option A. Chinua Achebe 1407. According to Theodor Adorno’s and
Max Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry:
1404. Surrealism became an official Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” which of
aesthetic movement of the modern period the following is true of the culture industry ?
with the publication of which work ? A. The culture industry is classified by
A. Andre Breton’s “Surrealist Manifesto” ruthless uniformity of all ideas.
B. James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
C. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
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B. The culture industry is the chief method businessmen engaged in importing spices
by which technology brings true democracy from South Asia.
to all.
C. The culture industry is a fundamental 1410. Important contemporary reviews of
way to promote individuality. Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” tend to
D. The culture industry is chiefly intended to focus on which of the following aspects of
offer consumers the opportunity to classify the novel ?
wants and desires as well as corresponding A. The profound and often troubling
production. relationships among characters
Answer: Option A. The culture industry is B. The novel’s experimental structure
classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas. C. The novel’s radically unique narrative
voice
1408. Which of the following was one of the D. All of the above
major health consequences for soldiers who Answer: Option D. All of the above
survived the traumas of trench warfare in
World War One ? 1411. According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s
A. Lyme disease “General Introduction to Postmodernism,”
B. Staph infections what is the meaning of the term “simulacra”
C. Shell shock ?
D. A and C only A. “Something that replaces reality with its
Answer: Option C. Shell shock representation”
B. “A stable referent to a knowable original
1409. Which of the following statements cultural artifact”
best describes the “British East India C. “An exact imitation of the material world”
Company ?” D. “A basic affirmation of everyday reality”
A. The British East India Company was Answer: Option A. “Something that
originally a group of London businessmen replaces reality with its representation”
engaged in importing spices from South
Asia. 1412. Which of the following descriptions of
B. The British East India Company first the “Avant-Garde Movement” is false ?
entered South Asia as importers of British A. The avant-garde, a military term meaning
Tea. “advanced guard,” was founded in France in
C. The British East India Company was the mid-19th century.
essentially a covert British army. B. The term avant-garde itself means
D. Both A and B “advanced guard,” and the military role of
Answer: Option A. The British East India the advanced guard and the role of the
Company was originally a group of London
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1418. Which of the following best describes 1421. Why does the “Flâneur” begin to
James Joyce’s “Araby” ? disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?
A. It begins with the famous line: “North A. Because of the increasing prominence of
Richmond Street being blind, was a quiet department stores in Paris
street except at the hour when the Christian B. Because of the advent of arcade projects
Brothers’ School set the boys free.” C. Because they began to purchase products
B. It speaks of the author’s illicit relationship as they walked the urbanscape
with a young girl. D. Because they were threatened by police
C. It is a dramatization of the relationship with jail
between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Answer: Option A. Because of the
Eden. increasing prominence of department stores
D. It is an analysis of “Exodus” from “The in Paris
Holy Bible.”
Answer: Option A. It begins with the 1422. Georges Braque’s “Woman with a
famous line: “North Richmond Street being Guitar” is an example of which of the
blind, was a quiet street except at the hour following artistic movements ?
when the Christian Brothers’ School set the A. Cubism
boys free.” B. Vorticism
C. Futurism
1419. Literary critics who analyze the works D. A and B only
of Salman Rushdie often engage which Answer: Option A. Cubism
“Post-Modern” school of criticism ?
A. Marxism 1423. Between 1890 and 1919, which of the
B. Post-Colonial Theory following was a preoccupation of Western
C. Deconstruction European literature ?
D. Feminism A. Sexual mores
Answer: Option B. Post-Colonial Theory B. The importance of the irrational
C. Bourgeois sensibility
1420. Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was D. All of the above
most clearly a student of ____________’s Answer: Option D. All of the above
work?
A. Marx 1424. Which novelist is NOT commonly
B. Freud thought of as producing Post-Colonial work
C. Darwin ?
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C. It is a stream-of-consciousness narrative
that explores cultural identity in nineteenth- 1432. Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian
century Ireland. Gray” is an example of which of the
D. It is a lyrical novel that explores the following literary trends ?
decline of a Caribbean family. A. Aestheticism
Answer: Option A. It is a lyrical novel that B. Naturalism
explores cultural identity and decline of an C. Decadence
Indian family. D. Both A and C
Answer: Option D. Both A and C
1430. T.S. Eliot’s “TheWaste Land” begins
with which of the following well-known 1433. Which of the following is a literary
opening lines ? work of “The Lost Generation ?”
A. “Was it for this-” A. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
B. “Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from B. James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by C. Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
a commodius vicus of recirculation back to D. Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the
Howth Castle and Environs.” Idols”
C. “And the worst friend and enemy is but Answer: Option A. Ernest Hemingway’s
Death.” “The Sun Also Rises”
D. “April is the cruellest month”
Answer: Option D. “April is the cruellest 1434. Which of the following is NOT a
month” characteristic of “Naturalism” as an artistic
and literary movement ?
1431. Which of the following is NOT a A. Naturalism is a search for scientific
characteristic of “Realism” as an artistic and certainty.
literary movement ? B. Naturalism depicts humans as reasonable
A. Realism strives to depict humans within a and objective.
certain social context. C. Naturalism depicts the more “animalistic”
B. Realism depicts the tension between tendencies of humans.
harsh reality and ideals. D. Naturalism considers the author or artist
C. Realism gives up the search for truth and to be like a scientist.
instead embraces moral relativism. Answer: Option B. Naturalism depicts
D. Realism explores ethical quandaries humans as reasonable and objective.
within a social context.
Answer: Option C. Realism gives up the 1435. Which of the following are well-known
search for truth and instead embraces moral Post-Modern theoreticians ?
relativism. A. Linda Hutcheon
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1443. Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund 1446. Which of the following is NOT a tenet
Freud, psychological “transference” helps to of F.T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” ?
understand the nature of A. “We want to sing the love of danger, the
________________? habit of danger and of temerity.”
A. Incest B. “The essential elements of our poetry will
B. Trauma be courage, daring, and revolt.”
C. Taboo C. “We want to sing the man who holds the
D. Love steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces
Answer: Option B. Trauma the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its
orbit.”
1444. According to Max Simon Nordau in his D. “We want never to glorify war, the
work “Degeneration,” which of the following scourge of the planet.”
best describes the term “Fin de Siècle” ? Answer: Option D. “We want never to
A. “The impotent despair of a sick man, who glorify war, the scourge of the planet.”
feels himself dying by inches in the midst of
an eternally living nature blooming insolently 1447. Which of the following best describes
forever” “stream of consciousness” narrative in the
B. A term that means nothing except for the modern period ?
signification given to it by the user A. Stream of consciousness often relies
C. “A confession and a complaint” upon “free association” of ideas.
D. All of the above B. Stream of consciousness is the capturing
Answer: Option D. All of the above of the interior monologue of the narrator.
1450. According to Dr. Michael Webster in 1453. Which of the following is NOT a
his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th characteristic of “Modernism” ?
and early 20th Century,” which of the A. A radical project of experimentation with
following is NOT a poetic mode of this time literary and artistic form
period ? B. A belief in the power of the natural world
A. Genteel to communicate transcendent truth
B. Symbolist C. The use of irony and parody
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1459. Which of the following does NOT 1462. In Linton’s The Girl of the Period,
characterize Matthew Arnold’s “Dover what course of behavior does the author
Beach” ? recommend for women ?
A. It is a dramatic monologue. A. Women should wear more makeup in
B. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a order to attract husbands.
natural setting as an occasion for B. Women should make sure to receive an
philosophical reflection. education in order to secure their own
C. It has a melancholic tone. futures.
D. It envisions Christianity as eternal. C. Women should take pains to remain
Answer: Option D. It envisions Christianity generous, modest, and capable.
as eternal. D. Women should be given the right to vote
immediately.
1460. Swinburne’s poems such as Answer: Option C. Women should take
“Hermaphroditus” are best known for which pains to remain generous, modest, and
of the following ? capable.
A. Their conservative poetics
B. Their frank depiction of sexuality 1463. Which of the following did NOT
C. Their radical politics contribute to the growth of literacy in the
D. Their nationalistic tone 19thcentury ?
Answer: Option B. Their frank depiction of A. More magazines on the market
sexuality B. The rise in serialized fiction
C. Lower prices for magazines
1461. Pope’s comment that “Know, then, D. The passage of the Reform Bills
thyself, presume God not to scan;/The Answer: Option D. The passage of the
proper study of mankind is man” in his Reform Bills
“Essay on Man” is indicative of all of the
following EXCEPT______________? 1464. Which of the following political ideas
A. his use of the heroic couplet. is least related to the Enlightenment ?
B. an Enlightenment focus on useful A. Checks and balances
knowledge. B. Social contract
C. a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and C. Enlightened monarchy
knowing limitations. D. Socialism
D. a radical questioning of revealed religion Answer: Option D. Socialism
Answer: Option D. a radical questioning of
revealed religion 1465. For I have learned/To look on nature,
not as in the hour/Of thoughtless youth; but
Answer: Option D. All of these answers C. They established new standards for
Victorian morality.
1494. The Enlightenment in European D. They allowed women to divorce their
history refers to which of the following ? husbands.
A. A period in the 18th century that Answer: Option A. They raised the
celebrated industry question of whether women should be able
B. The revelation of religious truths through to vote.
meditation
C. The power given to absolute monarchs by 1497. Complete the following sentence.
God Shelley’s “Ozymandias” can be linked to his
D. A period in which reason was celebrated “Defence of Poetry” through
as enabling human knowledge and possibly its_______________?
human perfection A. rejection of traditional form.
Answer: Option D. A period in which B. portrayal of the power of art to speak
reason was celebrated as enabling human truth.
knowledge and possibly human perfection C. rejection of art’s political role.
D. attempt to link poetry with music.
1495. Complete the following sentence. Answer: Option B. portrayal of the power
John Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” reflects a of art to speak truth.
commitment to neoclassical aesthetics
through_______________? 1498. What was the “Woman Question” in
A. its references to Shakespeare. the Victorian Period ?
B. its commitment to an elevated taste, its A. A debate about whether women should
use of classical imagery, and its evocation of be able to vote
classic forms. B. A discussion of women’s roles inside and
C. its scientific ethos and setting in London. outside the home
D. its refusal to mention Shadwell directly. C. A conversation about women’s work as a
Answer: Option B. its commitment to an product of the Industrial Revolution
elevated taste, its use of classical imagery, D. All of these answers
and its evocation of classic forms. Answer: Option D. All of these answers
1496. What was the importance of the 1499. How did ideas about the spread of the
Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867 ? British Empire start to shift in the Victorian
A. They raised the question of whether Period ?
women should be able to vote. A. Competition between European rivals
B. They allowed new colonization and forced the British to find new trading
imperialism efforts. partners.
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1518. How was the philosophical and 1521. Radcliffe’s version of the Gothic differs
popular emphasis on sensibility in the 18th most from Walpole’s in its use of which of
century related to the development of the the following ?
novel ? A. The sublime
A. Like the novel, it focused on romantic B. The explained supernatural
relationships. C. Its medieval settings
B. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract D. Its use of mysterious events to spur
reason over experience and emotion. readers’ interests and emotional responses
C. Like the novel, it emphasized the Answer: Option B. The explained
importance of sympathy and individual supernatural
feelings.
D. Like the novel, it demonized the 1522. Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most
aristocracy. fundamentally emphasizes which theme
Answer: Option C. Like the novel, it from Johnson’s other works or other
emphasized the importance of sympathy 18thcentury works ?
and individual feelings. A. The need for linguistic correctness as
exemplified in his Dictionary
1519. Which of the following novelists was B. The promise of universal knowledge as
NOT associated with the rise of the novel as epitomized by the Encyclopédie
a literary form ? C. The ultimate impossibility of achieving
A. Samuel Richardson happiness, as espoused in his poem “The
B. Laurence Sterne Vanity of Human Wishes”
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1528. Complete the following sentence. D. implies that contemporary British society
Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is has overcome the institutions leading to the
characteristically Romantic because horrors its characters experience.
of_____________? Answer: Option D. implies that
A. its focus on his lost love. contemporary British society has overcome
B. its rejection of scientific progress. the institutions leading to the horrors its
C. its elaboration of the intersecting characters experience.
importance of nature and the imagination.
D. its development of elements from 1531. Complete the following sentence.
national folklore. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on
Answer: Option C. its elaboration of the the “language really used by men” in his
intersecting importance of nature and the preface to Lyrical Ballads
imagination. represents______________?
A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on
1529. Complete the following sentence. elevated diction.
Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to B. a continuity with poets such as Alexander
the idea that______________? Pope.
A. certain people are simply incapable of C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
understanding poetry. D. a defense of the use of elaborate
B. the true poet must be comfortable with figurative language.
balancing conflicting ideas. Answer: Option A. a radical break with
C. the poet cannot express anything beyond 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
his own experience.
D. it is only in the absence of experience 1532. The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s
that true poetry can emerge. “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker
Answer: Option B. the true poet must be “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of
comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas. a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth.
This poem reflects which of the following
1530. Complete the following sentence. The features common to much Romantic poetry
politics of Radcliffe’s medieval ?
settings______________? A. An emphasis on the relationship between
A. indicates her longing for the older a natural setting and the imagination as in
aristocracy. Wordsworth’s poems
B. suggests her commitment to the Catholic B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of
Church. Keats’s poems
C. is at odds with her explicit socialist C. A call for social and political reform as in
politics. some of Shelley’s works
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D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some A. There should be more missionary work in
of Byron’s poems less civilized parts of the world.
Answer: Option A. An emphasis on the B. Concerts in the parks that were attended
relationship between a natural setting and by ordinary people should be banned.
the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems C. Civil servants should talk more openly
and publicly about their moral work.
1533. Complete the following sentence. In D. Members of the Jewish and Catholic
Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated faiths should be excluded from public office.
language functions primarily Answer: Option A. There should be more
to______________? missionary work in less civilized parts of the
A. demonstrate the importance of the topic. world.
B. set up the parody of the pretensions of
the characters and their concerns. 1536. Which of the following best
C. reveal the learnedness of the characters. characterizes Wordsworth’s attitude towards
D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers the French Revolution ?
Answer: Option B. set up the parody of A. He thought it did not go far enough in
the pretensions of the characters and their granting women rights.
concerns. B. He opposed it in favor of supporting the
king and the ancien régime.
1534. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most C. He favored its democratic impulses but
reflects which central romantic themes or was appalled by its destructive nature.
concerns ? D. He did not think it concerned him and his
A. Nature as mirroring the human mind and relationship to nature.
its imagination Answer: Option C. He favored its
B. The limits of scientific attempts to democratic impulses but was appalled by its
understand and control the world destructive nature.
C. The poet as special interpreter of the
world 1537. The main plot of Richardson’s Pamela
D. The centrality of subjective experience to reflects the main characteristics of the
apprehending the world sentimental novel through its emphasis on
Answer: Option B. The limits of scientific which of the following ?
attempts to understand and control the A. Pamela’s attempt to seduce her employer
world B. Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to
a wealthy landowner
1535. Which of the following directives was C. Pamela’s struggle to overcome her
part of Queen Victoria’s moral crusade ? poverty through hard-work
D. Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity 1540. Both the Gothic and sentimental
from the advances of her employer fiction emphasize which of the following ?
Answer: Option D. Pamela’s attempts to A. Reason over emotions
protect her chastity from the advances of B. The necessity for an aristocracy
her employer C. The power of feelings
D. A sense of adventure
1538. Which of the following statements Answer: Option C. The power of feelings
best describes the behavior of the upper-
class characters in Congreve’s The Way of 1541. In Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover
the World ? Beach,” the speaker refers to the
A. They are somewhat jaded, but all are “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar” of
finally good at heart. “The Sea of Faith.” This reference alludes to
B. They are almost universally selfabsorbed which of the following ?
and willing to do anything to get what they A. The Protestant Reformation
want. B. Religious interpretations of changes to
C. They tend to value love above money and the oceans
honor. C. The decline of religion’s importance in the
D. They provide a moral example for the modern West
lower classes. D. His lover’s betrayal
Answer: Option B. They are almost Answer: Option C. The decline of religion’s
universally selfabsorbed and willing to do importance in the modern West
anything to get what they want.
1542. Complete the following sentence.
1539. Which of the following statements Wordsworth conceives of himself as a
accurately describes the theme of “chosen son” primarily
Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” ? because_____________?
A. Nature loses its ability to affect human A. his brothers died in their youth.
emotion over time. B. he was endowed with a great poetic
B. Sensitivity to nature’s message comes talent.
with age. C. he was given special educational
C. Life experience does not have to power opportunities.
to alter human opinions. D. he feels especially connected to nature
D. It is not possible to appreciate beauty due to his experience as a youth.
once one has aged. Answer: Option D. he feels especially
Answer: Option B. Sensitivity to nature’s connected to nature due to his experience
message comes with age. as a youth.
1543. Which of the following social issues 1547. Complete the following sentence. The
does Dickens confront in Great Expectations Byronic hero is characterized
? as________________?
A. Penal reform A. always fighting for good against evil.
B. Educational reform B. fortunate in always coming out victorious.
C. The role of the monarchy C. nearly superhuman in his powers but
D. Both A and B tortured by a psychological weight.
Answer: Option D. Both A and B D. devoted to religion above all things
Answer: Option C. nearly superhuman in
1544. In The Rape of the Lock, Pope his powers but tortured by a psychological
satirizes which of the following social weight.
institutions ?
A. The government 1548. Which of the following statements
B. Marriage about the poems in Blake’s Songs of
C. Organized religion Innocence and Experience is true ?
D. All of these answers A. The poems defend the industrial
Answer: Option D. All of these answers revolution as helping England’s economy.
B. The poems criticize religious institutions
1545. Which of the following genres is NOT for not helping the oppressed.
part of the hybrid form of Behn’s Oroonoko C. The poems reject experience in favor of
? innocence.
A. Nonfiction D. The poems reject innocence in favor of
B. Travel memoir experience.
C. Detective story Answer: Option B. The poems criticize
D. Biography religious institutions for not helping the
Answer: Option C. Detective story oppressed.
1546. Which of the following is a central 1549. Which of the following terms is NOT
theme of Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin closely associated with the Gothic novel ?
Market” ? A. Horror
A. The dangers of sensuality to women B. The sublime
B. The links between sexuality and C. Suspense
economics D. Picaresque
C. The importance of sisterly bonds Answer: Option D. Picaresque
D. All of these answers
Answer: Option D. All of these answers 1550. Which of the following best defines
sentimentalism ?
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1562. A total of how many sonnets 1566. Fill in the blank. Sir Philip Sidney’s
constitute the entirety of “Astrophil and strong_____________ convictions made him
Stella” ? publicly oppose a projected marriage for
A. 10 Queen Elizabeth?
B. 20 A. Catholic
C. 30 B. Protestant
D. 40 C. Buddhist
Answer: Option C. 30 D. Quaker
Answer: Option B. Protestant
1563. Which of the following plays by
William Shakespeare is a comedy ? 1567. Which of the following characters is
A. “Romeo and Juliet” NOT found in the dramatis personae
B. “Hamlet” ofWilliam Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”
C. “Much Ado about Nothing” ?
D. “Henry IV, Part I” A. Benvolio
Answer: Option C. “Much Ado about B. Lady Capulet
Nothing” C. Mercutio
D. Falstaff
1564. According to John Milton’s “Paradise Answer: Option D. Falstaff
Lost,” what is Satan’s tragic flaw ?
A. Lust 1568. John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses
B. Pride attention on the relationship between which
C. Jealousy opposing entities ?
D. Love A. Heaven vs. hell
Answer: Option B. Pride B. God vs. Satan
C. Good vs. evil
1565. Fill in the blank. The intellectual and D. All of the above
social movement which historians call Answer: Option D. All of the above
“___________” is what lies at the base of
the period we call the Renaissance ? 1569. Fill in the blank. The term
A. Socialism “Renaissance” literally translates as
B. Capitalism “_____________” ?
C. Humanitarianism A. Reincarnation
D. Humanism B. Rebirth
Answer: Option D. Humanism C. Reproduction
D. Recapitulation
Answer: Option B. Rebirth
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1570. What text greatly popularized the 1574. On which of the following topics did
sonnet form in England during the Sir Thomas More focus in his “Utopia” ?
Elizabethan period ? A. Riches, jewels, and gold
A. “Astrophil and Stella” B. Suicide
B. “Utopia” C. Marriage and divorce
C. “Paradise Lost” D. All of the above
D. “Canterbury Tales” Answer: Option D. All of the above
Answer: Option A. “Astrophil and Stella”
1575. Which of the following theaters could
1571. Who was in charge of organizing be found in England after Queen Elizabeth I
court festivities and entertainment of the came to the throne ?
English court ? A. The Curtain
A. Court Jester B. The Rose
B. Master of Revels C. The Globe
C. Master of Rebels D. All of the above
D. Master of Ceremonies Answer: Option D. All of the above
Answer: Option B. Master of Revels
1576. What Renaissance text uses
1572. Sir Thomas More wrote what famous martyrology as a device to historicize the
text ? conflict between the true Church and the
A. “Toxophilus” false Church in England ?
B. “Utopia” A. “Euphues”
C. “The Inferno” B. “Paradise Lost”
D. “Paradise Lost” C. “Paradise Regained”
Answer: Option B. “Utopia” D. “Acts and Monuments”
Answer: Option D. “Acts and Monuments”
1573. Fill in the blank. Although there is
dispute about the actual “invention” of the 1577. Which of the following statements is
printing press with movable metal type, TRUE concerning the Globe theater in
_________ is usually the man credited with Elizabethan England ?
the invention. A. It burned down and was reconstructed
A. Niccolo Machiavelli hundreds of years later.
B. Johan Gutenberg B. It was situated on the Thames River.
C. Peter Schoeffer C. It was lit from natural sunlight as well as
D. Johannes Fust by candle light.
Answer: Option B. Johan Gutenberg D. All of the above
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1587. How did the invention of the printing 1591. Who was considered to be England’s
press affect European culture ? first literary celebrity ?
A. Print halted the corruption of texts by A. John Donne
copyists, giving everyone identical texts. B. Sir Walter Raleigh
B. Scientific research became a more C. Sir Thomas More
collaborative effort. D. John Foxe
C. Learning to read was made easier as Answer: Option D. John Foxe
print was standardized and made clearer.
D. All of the above 1592. Who was King Henry VIII’s first wife ?
Answer: Option D. All of the above A. Catherine of Aragon
B. Anne Boleyn
1588. William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is an C. Mary, Queen of Scots
example of what dramatic genre ? D. Anne of Cleves
A. Tragedy Answer: Option A. Catherine of Aragon
B. Comedy
C. Romance 1593. In 1534, King Henry VIII was declared
D. Satire head of what church ?
Answer: Option A. Tragedy A. The Catholic Church
B. The English Church
1589. Sir Thomas More held which of the C. The Church of God
following positions in the English court ? D. Both A and B
A. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Answer: Option B. The English Church
B. Speaker of the House of Commons
C. Master of Requests 1594. William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” is an
D. All of the above example of what dramatic genre ?
Answer: Option D. All of the above A. Tragedy
B. Comedy
C. Romance
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