A. Tradition
B. Constitution
C. History
D. Myth
Related Mcqs:
- This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?
A. C.S. Lewis
B. T.S. Eliot
C. G.K. Chesterton
D. Matthew Arnold - How did the development of nation-states in the late Middle Ages affect women ?
A. they lost the ability to be anchoresses
B. they lost much of their political and economic power
C. they were able to acquire more political capital
D. they took on more important roles in the economy - From which institution did Christopher Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584 ?
A. Oxford University
B. Trinity College
C. Corpus Christi College
D. Queens college - Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” attacks the institution of________________?
A. Sharecropping.
B. Slavery.
C. Segregation.
D. Prostitution. - Black Boy is an autobiographical account of whose Southern boyhood ?
A. Thomas
B. Pynchon
C. John Dos Passos
D. Saul Bellow - A diary of someone’s day by day account of events_______________?
A. Journal
B. History
C. Article
D. Legend - During which period London theaterrs remained closed on account of the plague ?
A. 1592
B. 1593
C. 1594
D. 1595 - The foundation story of what poem is the Genesis account of the Creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, culminating in the drama of their temptation and fall ?
A. “Canterbury Tales”
B. “The Faerie Queen”
C. “Paradise Lost”
D. “The Prelude” - “A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EXCEPT_____________?
A. The placement of the action in the past and in a foreign country
B. The grandiose threatening setting that requires ingenious stagecraft
C. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest level of authority
D. The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play - One of Marlowe’s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
A. Anthony and Cleopatra
B. Hero and Leander
C. Troilus and Cressida
D. Apollo and Hyacinth
