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English Literature Mcqs

Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century /
Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27
B. Asthma, headaches, and sal deformity made him an invalid
C. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending
D. He just wasn’t bright enough

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

In which work do you read: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.” ?

English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century /
In which work do you read: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.” ?

A. Porphyria’s Lover
B. My Last Duchess
C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
D. Fra Lippo Lippi

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?

English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century /
Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?

A. to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans
B. as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking
C. symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,
D. All the above

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?

English Literature Mcqs /
Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?

A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C

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English Literature Mcqs

What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?

English Literature Mcqs /
What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?

A. It brought the last group of English convicts to Australia in 1901.
B. It was sunk by the German navy in 1914, bringing the United States into World War I.
C. It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948.
D. It delivered a small dog into space in 1959, and returned it to earth.

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English Literature Mcqs