The following writers are Renaissance poets:

Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Michael Drayton

John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

can be regarded as a predecessor of the bildungsroman

William the Conqueror invaded England

the victim is very often a woman

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1
The Canterbury Tales are written in
French
Middle English
Old English
Latin
2
Virginia Woolf is an author of
Modernism
Victorianism
Romanticism
Postmodernism
3
Jane Austen wrote
Jane Eyre
Sense and Sensibility
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Love's Labour's Lost
4
The Renaissance can be subdivided into
Jacobean and Augustan Age
Elizabethan and Augustan Age
Elizabethan and Jacobean Age
Elizabethan and Georgian Age
5
The predominant genre of Romanticism is
drama
poetry
prose
6
The mimetic approach to literature was postulated by
Aristotle
William Wordsworth
Horace
Oscar Wilde
7
The following writers are Renaissance poets:
Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy
William Butler Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Henry James
Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, Lord Byron
Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Michael Drayton
8
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
was written during the Commonwealth Period
was written in the period between 1689/1700 -1800
is a dystopia
can be regarded as a predecessor of the bildungsroman
9
In 1066
the Romans left England
Beowulf was printed for the first time
Geoffrey Chaucer was born
William the Conqueror invaded England
10
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a
realist novel
comedy of manners
gothic novel
sensational novel
11
The Middle English Period ended in
1642/49
1500
1066
1660
12
William Wordsworth is a
Renaissance poet
Victorian poet
Modernist poet
Romantic poet
13
Which text is often regarded as the first novel in English Literature
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Utopia
Robinson Crusoe
The Castle of Otranto
14
Elizabeth I. was a rival of
Mary I.
Mary Stuart
Mary Shelley
Mary de Guise
15
During the Commonwealth Period
England ruled over 70% of the world
England had a king
theatres closed
the Great Fire destroyed London
16
In a Gothic Novel
the victim is very often a woman
the villain is always ugly and despicable
the hero is always the most interesting character
the setting is often England
17
Beowulf was written down in
the Old English Period
the Renaissance
the Middle English Period
the Restoration
18
Brave New World, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 are
utopias
robinsonades
dystopias
gothic novels
19
The predominant genre of the Renaissance is
the novel
the ode
the ballad
the drama
20
Literary Criticism is based on
analysis and interpretation
art and entertainment
mimesis and didactic function
theory and history
21
1837-1901 is the period of
Victorianism
Romanticism
Modernism
Edwardianism
22
The Restoration period is known for the following author:
John Dryden
John Keats
John Fletcher
John Milton
23
Christopher Marlowe is a writer of the time span of
1500-1642/49
1837-1901
1660-1689/1700
1642/49-1660
24
The Canterbury Tales describe the journey of a group of
aristocrats
monks and nuns
clergymen
pilgrims
25
Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), belongs to the
Romantic Period
Naturalistic Period
Realistic Period
Earl National Period

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