Complete the following sentence. Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Browning’s dramatic monologues can best be seen as combining neoclassicism with romanticism through their ?

A. Neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.
B. Romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.
C. Romantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on social context.
D. Romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.

Complete the following sentence. Robert Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover” is_______________?

A. A sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.
B. A dramatic monologue spoken by a murderer.
C. A dramatic monologue spoken by browning.
D. An epic describing a great romance.

In which of the following ways did Hopkins revolutionize poetry ?

A. He created a radically new form.
B. He used unusual, arcane words.
C. He made obscure allusions.
D. All of these answers

“O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?

A. Through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
B. By emphasizing the character’s fright.
C. By emphasizing sexual morality.
D. Through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings.

Greek theatre took place where ?

A. Large hillside amphitheaters
B. Large indoor theaters
C. Small indoor theaters
D. All of the above

Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ____________?

A. Catholicism
B. Medieval europe
C. Classical antiquity
D. Protestantism

Which of the following statements best describes the “Great Chain of Being” ?

A. It regarded human beings as social creatures who could create meaningful lives only in association with other social beings.
B. Its major premise was that every existing thing in the universe had its “place” in a divinely planned hierarchical order which was pictured as a chain, vertically extended.
C. It could only be achieved through faith in god’s grace.
D. Both a and b

Which of the following figures was an important political theorist of the Renaissance ?

A. Niccolo machiavelli
B. Francesco petrarcha
C. Aristotle
D. Plato

The character of Falstaff is important in which play(s) by William Shakespeare ?

A. “henry iv, part i”
B. “henry iv, part ii”
C. “titus andronicus”
D. All of the above

A total of how many sonnets constitute the entirety of “Astrophil and Stella” ?

A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. 40