What does the phrase “White Man’s Burden,” coined by Kipling, refer to ?

A. Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize the world
B. The moral responsibility to bring civilization and christianity to the peoples of the world
C. The british need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
D. The importance of solving economic and social problems in england before tackling the world’s problems

In the title of Marlowe’s play, of where was Dido the Queen ?

A. Troy
B. Carthage
C. Sparta
D. Persia

Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?

A. They relied on admission charges, an innovation of the period.
B. The early versions were oval in shape.
C. They were located outside the city limits of london.
D. All of the above

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities ?

A. London and rome
B. Paris and rome
C. London and paris
D. Berlin and london

Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the____________?

A. Troubadour
B. Skald
C. Chorister
D. Bard

Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?

A. The expurgation of indelicate language
B. The modernization of archaic vocabulary
C. The insertion of bawdy songs
D. The misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and\

For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

A. A renewed secularism in the twentieth century
B. Modern literary criticism
C. Late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama
D. The surrealist movement

What did Henry James describe as \loose baggy monsters\ ?

A. Novels
B. Plays
C. The english
D. Publishers

Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?

A. Their leaders were lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
B. The common people were still essentially pagan.
C. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
D. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

The foremost poet of Jacobean era was ?

A. John milton
B. Charles bacon
C. John donne
D. Herbert spencer