William the Conqueror invaded England

John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

can be regarded as a predecessor of the bildungsroman

the victim is very often a woman

The following writers are Renaissance poets:

Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Michael Drayton

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

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