Option A: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
Option B: wireless communication across the Atlantic
Option C: the creation of the internet
Option D: the invention of the airplane
Correct Answer: the creation of the internet ✔
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Option A: popular; reverenced
Option B: brash; confident
Option C: radical; inventive
Option D: anxious; haunting
Correct Answer: radical; inventive ✔
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Option A: regional dialect and political critique
Option B: religious symbolism and society comedy
Option C: iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
Option D: witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
Correct Answer: religious symbolism and society comedy ✔
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Option A: the southern counties of Ireland
Option B: Canada
Option C: Ulster
Option D: India
Correct Answer: the southern counties of Ireland ✔
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Option A: eugenics
Option B: psychoanalysis
Option C: phrenology
Option D: all of the above
Correct Answer: psychoanalysis ✔
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Option A: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
Option B: wireless communication across the Atlantic
Option C: the creation of the internet
Option D: the invention of the airplane
Correct Answer: the creation of the internet ✔
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Option A: the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
Option B: a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays
Option C: a popular thirst for the “classics,” driving contemporary writers to the margins
Option D: a, b and c
Correct Answer: the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed ✔
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Option A: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
Option B: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Option C: James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
Option D: James Joyce’s Ulysses
Correct Answer: James Joyce’s Ulysses ✔
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Option A: the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
Option B: the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
Option C: the death of the musical
Option D: all but C
Correct Answer: all but C ✔
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Option A: the Irish National Theatre
Option B: the Globe Theatre
Option C: the Abbey Theatre
Option D: both A and C
Correct Answer: both A and C ✔
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Option A: gluttonous feasting
Option B: hard drinking
Option C: hunting
Option D: all of the above
Correct Answer: all of the above ✔
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Option A: James IV of Scotland
Option B: James VI of Scotland
Option C: Mary, Queen of Scots
Option D: Anne Boleyn
Correct Answer: James VI of Scotland ✔
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Option A: the pursuit of a more confrontational policy towards Catholic powers
Option B: the elimination of bishops
Option C: the right of congregations to choose their own leaders
Option D: the wider use of religious images in churches
Correct Answer: the wider use of religious images in churches ✔
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What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?
Option A: L’Allegro
Option B: Lycidas
Option C: Paradise Lost
Option D: The Divine Comedy
Correct Answer: Paradise Lost ✔
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Option A: the Petrarchan sonnet
Option B: the classical satire
Option C: the country-house poem
Option D: the epigram
Correct Answer: the Petrarchan sonnet ✔
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Option A: Rachel Speght
Option B: Aemilia Lanyer
Option C: Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
Option D: all of the above
Correct Answer: all of the above ✔
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Option A: with an absolute prerogative his father would have envied.
Option B: through a system of draconian military courts.
Option C: with deference to Parliament’s legislative supremacy.
Option D: only a small area around London and Oxford.
Correct Answer: with deference to Parliament’s legislative supremacy. ✔
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Option A: Ben Jonson
Option B: Aemilia Lanyer
Option C: Samuel Daniel
Option D: Mary Wroth
Correct Answer: Mary Wroth ✔
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Option A: All royalties from the sale of books went to the crown (hence the name).
Option B: Poets were required to have a university diploma (the original \poetic license\).
Option C: All books had to be dedicated to a noble or royal patron.
Option D: All books had to be submitted for official approval before publication.
Correct Answer: All books had to be submitted for official approval before publication. ✔
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Option A: praising Roman virtues whilst endorsing Christian beliefs
Option B: praising feminine virtue whilst mocking the fixation on chastity
Option C: celebrating Cromwell’s victories whilst inviting sympathy for the executed king
Option D: celebrating the Restoration whilst regretting the frivolity of the new regime
Correct Answer: celebrating Cromwell’s victories whilst inviting sympathy for the executed king ✔
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Option A: Gerrard Winstanley
Option B: Oliver Cromwell
Option C: Praisegod Barebone
Option D: George Monk
Correct Answer: Oliver Cromwell ✔
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Option A: the founding of the Jamestown settlement
Option B: the founding of the Plymouth colony
Option C: Henry Hudson’s fruitless search for the Northwest Passage
Option D: all of the above
Correct Answer: all of the above ✔
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Option A: Pericles
Option B: Genghis Khan
Option C: Richard Lionheart
Option D: Augustus Caesar
Correct Answer: Augustus Caesar ✔
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Option A: John Lilburne
Option B: William Laud
Option C: Roger Williams
Option D: Oliver Cromwell
Correct Answer: Roger Williams ✔
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Option A: abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts
Option B: mounting a revolution and executing the king
Option C: bringing to trial the king’s hated ministers, Strafford and Laud
Option D: remaining in session until they themselves agreed to disband
Correct Answer: mounting a revolution and executing the king ✔
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Option A: William Shakespeare
Option B: Ben Jonson
Option C: John Donne
Option D: John Milton
Correct Answer: John Milton ✔
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Option A: Martin Luther
Option B: John Calvin
Option C: Henry VIII
Option D: Arminius
Correct Answer: John Calvin ✔
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Option A: courtly ideals of the good life
Option B: carpe diem
Option C: loyalty to the king
Option D: pious devotion to religious virtues
Correct Answer: pious devotion to religious virtues ✔
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Option A: \Air and Angels\
Option B: \Satire 3\
Option C: \The Apparition\
Option D: \The Indifferent\
Correct Answer: \Satire 3\ ✔
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Option A: Othello
Option B: Volpone
Option C: King Lear
Option D: Antony and Cleopatra
Correct Answer: Volpone ✔
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Option A: Izaak Walton
Option B: Katherine Philips
Option C: John Skelton
Option D: Isabella Whitney
Correct Answer: Izaak Walton ✔
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Option A: the abolishment of public plays and sports
Option B: the conversion of the English church to Catholicism
Option C: the adoption of English as the official language
Option D: the consolidation of power in an absolute monarch
Correct Answer: the abolishment of public plays and sports ✔
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Option A: William Collins
Option B: William Laud
Option C: William Shakespeare
Option D: William Tyndale
Correct Answer: William Laud ✔
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Option A: the Fifth Monarchists
Option B: the Roarers
Option C: the Diggers
Option D: the Ranters
Correct Answer: the Ranters ✔
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Option A: the novel
Option B: the sermon
Option C: the familiar essay
Option D: the diary
Correct Answer: the familiar essay ✔
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Option A: choler
Option B: blood
Option C: cholesterol
Option D: black bile
Correct Answer: cholesterol ✔
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Option A: The Litany in a Time of Plague
Option B: Utopia
Option C: Leviathan
Option D: The Advancement of Learning
Correct Answer: Leviathan ✔
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Option A: Westminster Abbey
Option B: Tower Bridge
Option C: the Houses of Parliament
Option D: Buckingham Palace
Correct Answer: the Houses of Parliament ✔
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Option A: celebrations of the transience of all life and beauty
Option B: celebrations of lesbian sexuality in terms that did not imply a male readership
Option C: celebrations of religious ecstasy and divine inspiration
Option D: celebrations of female friendship in Platonic terms normally reserved for male Friendships
Correct Answer: celebrations of female friendship in Platonic terms normally reserved for male Friendships ✔
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Option A: human reverence for the classics
Option B: the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks
Option C: pride for the vernacular language
Option D: a and c only
Correct Answer: a and c only ✔
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Option A: Archbishop Cranmer
Option B: Catherine of Aragon
Option C: Elizabeth I
Option D: Mary Tudor
Correct Answer: Mary Tudor ✔
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Option A: a magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader
Option B: a divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader
Option C: a moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models
Option D: a defensive power whereby poetry and its figurative expressions allow the poet to avoid censorship
Correct Answer: a moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models ✔
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Option A: Anne Boleyn
Option B: Martin Luther
Option C: Pope Leo X
Option D: Ulrich Zwingli
Correct Answer: Martin Luther ✔
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Option A: Elizabeth Eisenstein
Option B: Johannes Gutenberg
Option C: Henry VIII
Option D: William Caxton
Correct Answer: William Caxton ✔
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Option A: They relied on admission charges, an innovation of the period.
Option B: The early versions were oval in shape.
Option C: They were located outside the city limits of London.
Option D: all of the above
Correct Answer: all of the above ✔
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Option A: ignominy
Option B: unwarranted abuse
Option C: odium
Option D: love
Correct Answer: love ✔
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Option A: Tudor
Option B: Windsor
Option C: York
Option D: Lancaster
Correct Answer: Tudor ✔
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Option A: Atheism
Option B: Protestantism
Option C: Catholicism
Option D: Ancestor-worship
Correct Answer: Catholicism ✔
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Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as God’s deputy ?
Option A: manifest destiny
Option B: extreme unction
Option C: royal absolutism
Option D: constitutional monarchism
Correct Answer: royal absolutism ✔
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Option A: the patron of the acting company, eg, the Lord Chamberlain
Option B: the bishop of London
Option C: the printer
Option D: the acting company
Correct Answer: the acting company ✔
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Option A: George Puttenham
Option B: Philip Sidney
Option C: Walter Ralegh
Option D: Thomas Wyatt
Correct Answer: George Puttenham ✔
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Option A: Elizabeth II
Option B: Henry IX
Option C: James I
Option D: Charles I
Correct Answer: James I ✔
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Option A: Ulster
Option B: the Protectorate
Option C: the Pale
Option D: West Britain
Correct Answer: the Pale ✔
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Option A: They caused excessive noise and traffic.
Option B: They charged too much.
Option C: They excited illicit sexual desires.
Option D: They drew young people away from work.
Correct Answer: They charged too much. ✔
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Option A: Cavalcanti
Option B: Castiglione
Option C: Pirandello
Option D: Boccaccio
Correct Answer: Castiglione ✔
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Option A: remained constant.
Option B: fell from 375,00 to barely 100,000.
Option C: doubled from 60,000 to 120,000.
Option D: doubled from 600,000 to 1,200,000
Correct Answer: doubled from 60,000 to 120,000. ✔
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Option A: Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Option B: William Shakespeare’s King Lear
Option C: Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III
Option D: Thomas More’s Utopia
Correct Answer: Thomas More’s Utopia ✔
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Option A: charity
Option B: patronage
Option C: censorship
Option D: subscription
Correct Answer: patronage ✔
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Option A: ruinous condition.
Option B: performing bears.
Option C: graffiti.
Option D: bookshops.
Correct Answer: bookshops. ✔
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Option A: villain tragedy
Option B: poetic tragedy
Option C: heroic tragedy
Option D: revenge tragedy
Correct Answer: revenge tragedy ✔
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Option A: the growing authority of the Pope over domestic English affairs
Option B: the expansion of England’s colonial possessions
Option C: the rise in the power and confidence of the aristocracy
Option D: the countering of feudal power structures by a stronger central authority
Correct Answer: the countering of feudal power structures by a stronger central authority ✔
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Option A: iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
Option B: the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet
Option C: free verse, without rhyme or regular meter
Option D: unrhymed iambic pentameter
Correct Answer: unrhymed iambic pentameter ✔
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Option A: It was aimed primarily at sons of the nobility and gentry.
Option B: Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning.
Option C: It was conducted by tutors in wealthy families or in grammar schools.
Option D: It was ordered according to the medieval trivium and quadrivium
Correct Answer: Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning. ✔
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Option A: Castiglione’s \The Courtier\
Option B: Dante’s \Divine Comedy\
Option C: Boccaccio’s \Decameron\
Option D: Machiavelli’s \The Prince\
Correct Answer: Machiavelli’s \The Prince\ ✔
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Option A: lead poisoning contracted from handling printer’s ink
Option B: the brutal punishment for printing without a license
Option C: the pre-Reformation ban on printing the Bible in English
Option D: the perception among court poets that printed verses were less exclusive
Correct Answer: the perception among court poets that printed verses were less exclusive ✔
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Option A: shepherd and shepherdesses who fall in love and engage in singing contests
Option B: heroic stories in epic form
Option C: a celebration of the humility, contentment, and simplicity of living in the country
Option D: A and C only
Correct Answer: A and C only ✔
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Option A: English travelers were not obliged to learn French, Italian, or Spanish during their explorations of the Continent.
Option B: English was fast supplanting Latin as the second language of most European intellectuals.
Option C: English travelers often returned from the Continent with foreign fashions, much to the delight of moralists.
Option D: Intending his Utopia for an international intellectual community, Thomas More wrote in Latin, since English had no prestige outside of England.
Correct Answer: Intending his Utopia for an international intellectual community, Thomas More wrote in Latin, since English had no prestige outside of England. ✔
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Option A: interludes
Option B: spectacles
Option C: meditations
Option D: mysteries
Correct Answer: interludes ✔
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Option A: nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
Option B: bewilderment and visceral loathing.
Option C: admiration and elegiac sympathy.
Option D: bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
Correct Answer: admiration and elegiac sympathy. ✔
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Option A: 1300 to 1350
Option B: 1337 to 1453
Option C: 1302 to 1343
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: 1337 to 1453 ✔
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Option A: Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
Option B: The common people were still essentially pagan.
Option C: They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic
Option D: The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.
Correct Answer: The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners. ✔
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Option A: Alfred
Option B: Richard III
Option C: Richard II
Option D: Ethelbert
Correct Answer: Ethelbert ✔
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Option A: Julian of Norwich
Option B: Margery Kempe
Option C: William Langland
Option D: Sir Thomas Malory
Correct Answer: Sir Thomas Malory ✔
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Option A: Bede
Option B: Sir Thomas Malory
Option C: Geoffrey Chaucer
Option D: Caedmon
Correct Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer ✔
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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in__________?
Option A: the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
Option B: the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Option C: the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
Option D: the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
Correct Answer: the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. ✔
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Option A: the short story
Option B: the heroic epic
Option C: the morality play
Option D: the romance
Correct Answer: the morality play ✔
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Option A: his birth date
Option B: his death year
Option C: his father’s name
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: his birth date ✔
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Option A: a poet
Option B: a merchant
Option C: a civil servant
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: a civil servant ✔
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Option A: courtiers entering the service of Richard II
Option B: translators of French romances
Option C: women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
Option D: knights preparing for their first tournament
Correct Answer: women who have chosen to live as religious recluses ✔
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Option A: Geoffrey of Monmouth
Option B: the Gawain poet
Option C: the Beowulf poet
Option D: Chrétien de Troyes
Correct Answer: the Gawain poet ✔
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Option A: Chaucer’s corner
Option B: poet’s corner
Option C: legend’s corner
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: poet’s corner ✔
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Option A: beating a friar in a London street
Option B: for writing poetry against the church
Option C: for crossing the border of Great Britain
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: beating a friar in a London street ✔
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Option A: a musician
Option B: an astronomer
Option C: a nun
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: a nun ✔
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Option A: leather merchant
Option B: civil servant
Option C: a vintner
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: a vintner ✔
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Option A: Edward III
Option B: Henry II
Option C: Richard II
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: Henry II ✔
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Option A: Westminster Palace
Option B: Tower of London
Option C: St. George’s chapel at Windsor
Option D: Buckingham Palace
Correct Answer: Buckingham Palace ✔
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Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
Option A: embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
Option B: repetition of parallel syntactic structures
Option C: ironic understatement
Option D: stress on every third diphthong
Correct Answer: ironic understatement ✔
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Option A: the reign of King Arthur
Option B: the coronation of Henry II
Option C: King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
Option D: the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Correct Answer: the reign of King Arthur ✔
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Option A: 1374 to 1385
Option B: 1350 to 1360
Option C: 1360 to 1400
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: 1374 to 1385 ✔
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Option A: banishment to Asia
Option B: everlasting shame
Option C: conversion to Christianity
Option D: mild melancholia
Correct Answer: everlasting shame ✔
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Option A: Dante’s Divine Comedy
Option B: Boccaccio’s Decameron
Option C: The Dream of the Rood
Option D: Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
Correct Answer: Dante’s Divine Comedy ✔
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Option A: She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
Option B: She was a virgin martyr.
Option C: She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.
Option D: She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.
Correct Answer: She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular. ✔
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Option A: Sir Thomas Malory
Option B: Geoffrey Chaucer
Option C: Caedmon
Option D: John Gower
Correct Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer ✔
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Option A: Geoffrey of Monmouth
Option B: the Gawain poet
Option C: the Beowulf poet
Option D: Chr´tien de Troyes
Correct Answer: the Gawain poet ✔
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Option A: a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
Option B: a story about love and adventure
Option C: a Roman official
Option D: a work written in the French vernacular
Correct Answer: a work written in the French vernacular ✔
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Option A: Alfred
Option B: Richard III
Option C: Richard II
Option D: Ethelbert
Correct Answer: Ethelbert ✔
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Option A: Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
Option B: The common people were still essentially pagan.
Option C: They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
Option D: The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.
Correct Answer: The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners. ✔
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Option A: the short story
Option B: the heroic epic
Option C: the morality play
Option D: the romance
Correct Answer: the morality play ✔
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Option A: banishment to Asia
Option B: everlasting shame
Option C: conversion to Christianity
Option D: being buried alive
Correct Answer: everlasting shame ✔
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Option A: Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
Option B: Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
Option C: Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
Option D: Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed
Correct Answer: Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct. ✔
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