English Literature Mcqs

Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?

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Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?

A. Skipg church on Sunday
B. A woman screaming at her husband in public
C. Stealing a horse
D. Public drunkenness

What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

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For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
B. modern literary criticism
C. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama
D. the surrealist movement