According to Longinus, the queen of figures is ___________?

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1. How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus ?

   A. Three
   B. Four
   C. Five
   D. Six

2. According to Longinus, there are ________principle sources of sublime.

   A. Three
   B. Five
   C. Six
   D. None

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3. Who became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I and was knighted and appointed captain of the Queen’s Guard in 1587 ?

   A. Sir Thomas More
   B. Sir Walter Raleigh
   C. Sir Philip Sidney
   D. Sir William Shakespeare

4. Longinus asserts that nothing contributes more to loftiness of tone in writing than _________?

   A. Grandeur Thought
   B. Genuine Emotion
   C. Impassioned Utterance
   D. Splendour Style

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5. Longinus establishes that the most beautiful of meters is __________?

   A. Dactylic Hexameter 
   B. Iambic Pentameter
   C. Torchaic Octameter
   D. None

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6. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?

   A. Cleanth Brooks
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Karl Marx
   D. Sigmund Freud

7. Which of the following figures was an important political theorist of the Renaissance ?

   A. Niccolo Machiavelli
   B. Francesco Petrarcha
   C. Aristotle
   D. Plato

8. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?

   A. Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
   B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence
   C. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods
   D. A and C only

9. 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

10. Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book ?

    A. He was a native New Yorker who did not travel much but who was keenly aware of New York’s complexity and diversity.
    B. He moved to New York from Alabama and the stark contrast between these places deeply influenced his writing.
    C. He was born in Missouri and traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world before he moved to New York City.
    D. He spent most of his life in Washington, DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained literary fame.