What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell’s\Horatian Ode\ ?

A. Praising roman virtues whilst endorsing christian beliefs
B. Praising feminine virtue whilst mocking the fixation on chastity
C. Celebrating cromwell’s victories whilst inviting sympathy for the executed king
D. Celebrating the restoration whilst regretting the frivolity of the new regime

Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet ?

A. John dryden
B. Henry vaughan
C. Alexander pope
D. Ben jonson

Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?

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

Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?

A. The lyric poem written in the first person
B. The sonnet
C. Doggerel rhyme
D. The political tract

The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as____________?

A. H. drummond, edward irving and john ervine
B. W. b. yeats, lady gregory and edward martyn
C. Oscar wilde and his contemporaries
D. Jonathan swift and his contemporaries

How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ?

A. “nothing happens-twice”
B. “political correctness gone mad”
C. “kitchen sink drama”
D. “angry young men

what did Chaucer’s wife use to do ?

A. Lady-in-waiting to queen philip pa of hainaut
B. Nurse of royal court
C. Governess to henry iv
D. None of the above

Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?

A. Othello
B. Volpone
C. King lear
D. Antony and cleopatra

Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?

A. Republicans
B. Liberals
C. Radicals
D. Both b and c

Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________?

A. Jane austin
B. Dickens
C. Emily bronte
D. Thackery