Ages, era, period

A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

A. the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail
B. a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness
C. the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society
D. A and C

A. Graham Greene
B. Anthony Powell
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. William Golding

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

A. Vanity Fair
B. Mill on the Floss
C. Northanger Abbey
D. Pickwick Papers

A. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
B. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
C. It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn’t make serious statements about society.
D. all but C

A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C

A. the India Mutiny in 1857
B. the Boer War in the south of Africa
C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
D. all of the above

A. geology
B. evolution
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
D. all of the above

A. The Legend of Good Women
B. The House of Fame
C. The Book of Duchess
D. Troilus and Criseyde