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1
Who wrote
The red badge of courage
?
Emerson
Crane
Hawthorne
Stevens
2
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Wordsworth
Coleridge and opium
Coleridge
3
Shakespeare was born April 26th
1564
1565
1563
1566
4
Dates of the Civil War in USA
1871-1875
1861-1865
1864-1868
1864-1868
5
Wilde and Shaw were
Irish
Unconformists
Playwrights
Grumpy old men
6
Childe Harold
Keats
Shelley
Scott
Byron
7
Which two are periods of the XVIII century in Britain?
The Augustan period
Age of Newton
Age of Sensibility
The Enlightenment
8
Songs of Inocence, Songs of experience.
Blake
Keats
Coleridge
Wordsworth
9
Which of these are not plays?
Coriolanus
The winter's tale
The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
10
Prometheus Unbound
Byron
Shelley
Blake
Keats
11
Thomas Malory wrote in
Norman dialect
Old English
French
Middle English
12
Sherman Act
1890
1908
1897
1907
13
Chaucer could have advised Shakespeare in the writing of
Edward III
Answers 1 and 2 are correct
Henry IV
Richard II
14
Which one is NOT a Conrad novel?
The light that failed
Nostromo
Lord Jim
Typhoon
15
Chretien de Troyes wrote in
Latin
Norman dialect
Old English
French
16
Spanish Armada is defeated in
1578
1579
1589
1588
17
First settlements in Australia
1688
1588
1888
1788
18
Jane Austen was born
1850
1875
1750
1775
19
Vice president of Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
John Wilkes
Andrew Johnson
Edward Johnson
20
Who succeeded Elizabeth I?
Edward I
James II
Edward II
James I
21
Geoffrey Chaucer was born
c. 1480
c. 1440
c. 1340
c. 1380
22
Who wrote Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte
Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
Charlotte Bronte
Ann Bronte
23
Dickens was born in
1812
1829
1832
1809
24
Caxton's edition of Morte d'Arthur is from
1585
1385
1485
1580
25
How many pilgrims in Canterbury Tales?
15
20
10
30
26
Historia Regum Britanniae
1314
1138
1035
1236
27
Lincoln was assassinated in
1865
1863
1875
1873
28
Why is Wuthering Heights remarkable?
The main female character dresses as a man.
Unusual structure
29
When was
Tom Jones
published?
1749
1689
1849
1649
30
Year of publication of
The heart of Darkness
1879
1889
1869
1899
31
Who wrote
Felix Holt, the radical
?
Thomas Hardy
Silas Marner
Jane Austen
George Eliot
32
Jonathan Swift did not write
Moll Flanders
Gulliver's Travels
A Tale of a Tub
A Modest Proposal
33
Clarissa or the history of a young lady
was written by
Richardson
Defoe
Fielding
Johnson
34
Congo Free State
1885 to 1895
1885 to 1888.
1885 to 1908
1885-1890
35
American Revolutionary War
, aka
American War of Independence
(1773–1787)
(1775–1783)
(1775–1789)
(1778–1785)
36
First generation of Romantic poets
Blake, Keats, Wordsworth
Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge
Shelley, Byron, Coleridge
Keats, Byron, Shelley
37
President after Johnson?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
Chester Arthur
James Garfield
38
Which kings held the crown during most of XVIII century?
George I, II, III of Hannover
Edward III, IV, V of Windsor
Richard IV, V, VI of Bordeaux
Henry X, XI, XII of Tudor
39
Which work by Chaucer is not unfinished?
The legend of Good Women
The Canterbury Tales
Consolation of Philosophy
House of fame
