Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?

A. Geoffrey chaucer
B. Marie de france
C. Chrétien de troyes
D. B and c only

Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?

A. Cavalcanti
B. Castiglione
C. Pirandello
D. Boccaccio

Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?

A. A poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
B. An effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
C. An attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
D. The resurrection of romantic poetic sensibility

Who wrote: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold ” ?

A. William butler yeats
B. James joyce
C. Thomas moore
D. Edgar allan poe

Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?

A. Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.
B. Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.
C. Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.
D. Both a and c

What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?

A. A new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
B. A puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia
C. The forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of london
D. The deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

What religion was Mary I ?

A. Catholic
B. Anglican
C. Episcopalian
D. Presbyterian

which of these is not certain about Chaucer ?

A. His birth date
B. His death year
C. His father’s name
D. None of the above

Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

A. William shakespeare
B. Thomas kyd
C. John dryden
D. John donne

Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, establishing the Stuart dynasty ?

A. James iv of scotland
B. James vi of scotland
C. Mary, queen of scots
D. Anne boleyn