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English Literary History Overview
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English Literary History Overview
English Literary History Chapter 1
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1
Question
Who is the author of 'The Selfish Giant'?
Answer
Oscar Wilde
2
Question
Who was called the 'Spirits Brother' of William Wordsworth?
Answer
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3
Question
Name a major 17th-century poet besides Dryden.
Answer
John Milton
4
Question
Who is considered the greatest Scottish poet of the 18th century?
Answer
Robert Burns
5
Question
The poem 'In Memoriam' was written by which poet?
Answer
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
6
Question
What is the allegory in *The Hind and the Panther* about?
Answer
Catholicism and Anglicanism
7
Question
What is the theme of 'Doctor Faustus'?
Answer
A scholar’s tragic pursuit of forbidden knowledge in magic
8
Question
The major work 'The Waste Land' was written by?
Answer
T.S. Eliot
9
Question
Which play is a comedy by Sheridan?
Answer
*The School for Scandal*
10
Question
Name the poet associated with mock-heroic style in this period.
Answer
Alexander Pope
11
Question
The era during which the conflict between religion and science intensified, especially with Darwin's ideas, is called?
Answer
The Victorian Era
12
Question
The religious revival started by John and Charles Wesley is known as?
Answer
Methodism
13
Question
Who is the author of 'Sartor Resartus'?
Answer
Thomas Carlyle
14
Question
Name a tragedian from the Restoration period.
Answer
Thomas Otway, Nathaniel Lee, Nicholas Rowe
15
Question
Who began the Celtic Revival?
Answer
W.B. Yeats
16
Question
Identify a key feature of 'Gorboduc' as a Senecan tragedy.
Answer
Revenge as the main motive
17
Question
For what is Hardy famous, among his poems?
Answer
The Hound of Heaven
18
Question
Who wrote the play 'The Rivals'?
Answer
Sheridan
19
Question
'Adonais' is an elegy for which poet?
Answer
Keats
20
Question
Which author is famous for the novel 'Kim' and stories about India?
Answer
Rudyard Kipling
21
Question
Which one was not a Lake poet?
Answer
Shelley
22
Question
What literary technique is prominently used in 'To the Lighthouse'?
Answer
Stream-of-consciousness
23
Question
Which novel by Virginia Woolf has a three-part structure including 'The Window', 'Time Passes', and 'The Lighthouse'?
Answer
To the Lighthouse
24
Question
Which poet is known as the 'High Priest of Nature'?
Answer
William Wordsworth
25
Question
What are the romantic interests of Elinor and Marianne?
Answer
Elinor with Edward Ferrars; Marianne with Willoughby, then Brandon
26
Question
Who composed the poem 'The Battle of Baltic'?
Answer
Thomas Campbell
27
Question
Swinburne, Rossetti, and Morris formed a group known as?
Answer
Pre-Raphaelite poets
28
Question
Who is the protagonist in Henry James' 'The Portrait of a Lady'?
Answer
Isabel Archer
29
Question
What is the primary setting of 'The Portrait of a Lady'?
Answer
Europe, including countries like England, Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt
30
Question
What happens in Book IX of 'Paradise Lost'?
Answer
Satan tempts Eve, leading to the original sin