What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?

A. Elephant and castle
B. Grub street
C. Covent garden
D. Cheapside

Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?

A. Mary wollstonecraft and william blake
B. Mary wollstonecraft shelley and percy bysshe shelley
C. William wordsworth and samuel taylor coleridge
D. Charles lamb and william hazlitt

Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?

A. Alan bennett
B. Caryl churchill
C. Tom stoppard
D. Harold pinter

Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?

A. Tennyson
B. Elizabeth barret browning
C. D. g. rossetti
D. Christina rossetti

Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?

A. Albert einstein’s theory of relativity
B. Wireless communication across the atlantic
C. The creation of the internet
D. The invention of the airplane

What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?

A. Its intellectual complexity
B. Its union of thought and passion
C. Its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and b

Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?

A. Embellishment at the service of christian doctrine
B. Repetition of parallel syntactic structures
C. Ironic understatement
D. Stress on every third diphthong

Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?

A. The short story
B. The heroic epic
C. The morality play
D. The romance

Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s ?

A. Archbishop cranmer
B. Catherine of aragon
C. Elizabeth i
D. Mary tudor

Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?

A. Etherege’s the MAN of mode
B. Wycherley’s the country wife
C. Behn’s the rover
D. Marlowe’s doctor faustus