Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ?

A. The legend of good women
B. The house of fame
C. The book of duchess
D. Troilus and criseyde

What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women \surplus\or \redundant\ ?

A. They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.
B. Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.
C. They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.
D. They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn’t provide extensive job opportunities to women.

Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?

A. Sigmund freud
B. Sir james frazer
C. Immanuel kant
D. All but c

what sparked the Renaissance ?

A. The feudal system was collapsing
B. The “95 theses”
C. The crusades
D. The black plague

Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?

A. The normans
B. The geats
C. The celts
D. The anglo-saxons

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

A. Mary shelley and percy bysshe shelley
B. William wordsworth and samuel taylor coleridge
C. Sir walter scott and maria edgeworth
D. Jane austen and charlotte brontë

John Milton was 34 when he married Mary Powell. How old was she ?

A. 48
B. 34
C. 22
D. 17

His “To Penthurst” is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement ?

A. Sir john denham
B. Ben jonson
C. Thomas carew
D. John dryden

Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?

A. Defoe’s robinson crusoe
B. Swift’s gulliver’s travels
C. Behn’s oroonoko
D. Pope’s the rape of the lock

Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?

A. Salman rushdie
B. Joseph conrad
C. Rabindranath tagore
D. John ruskin