The use of \whale-road\for sea and \lifehouse\ for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?

A. Symbolism
B. Simile
C. Metonymy
D. Kenning

Who owned the rights to a theatrical script ?

A. The patron of the acting company, eg, the lord chamberlain
B. The bishop of london
C. The printer
D. The acting company

In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?

A. Bleak house
B. Great expectations
C. A tale of two cities
D. The pickwick papers

What was “restored” in 1660 ?

A. The monarchy, in the person of charles ii
B. The dominance of the tory party
C. The “book of common prayer”
D. Toleration of religious dissidents

Who is the author of Blessed Damozel ?

A. Robert browning
B. D.g rossetti
C. Tennyson
D. Christina rossetti

Which contemporary discussions on women’s rights did Tennyson’s The Princess address ?

A. The grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
B. The debate on women’s suffrage
C. The need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women’s college in london
D. The question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power

Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?

A. The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
B. The diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
C. The death of the musical
D. All but c

chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for_______________________?

A. Beating a friar in a london street
B. For writing poetry against the church
C. For crossing the border of great britain
D. None of the above

In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What’s the name of that masque ?

A. ’il penseroso’
B. ’lycidas’
C. ’comus’
D. ’the masque of blackness’

What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?

A. Gay’s beggar’s opera
B. Butler’s hudibras
C. Fielding’s jonathan wild
D. Pope’s dunciad