A. abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts
B. mounting a revolution and executing the king
C. bringing to trial the king’s hated ministers, Strafford and Laud
D. remaining in session until they themselves agreed to disband
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.
B. Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.
C. Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities.
D. Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent. - Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.
B. Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.
C. Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities.
D. Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent. - Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot’s concept of the “objective correlative” ?
A. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal structure and its meaning.
B. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal structure and its rhetorical aim.
C. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s theme and its objective historical context.
D. The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion. - Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
A. ignominy
B. unwarranted abuse
C. odium
D. love - Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
A. studied melancholy and aestheticism
B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
C. raucous celebration mixed with self congratulatory sophistication
D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent - Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
A. studied melancholy and aestheticism
B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
C. raucous celebration mixed with selfcongratulatory sophistication
D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent - Who coined the expression “objective corelative” ?
A. Coleridge
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Allen Tate
D. F. R. Leavis - Who originated the term “objective correlative,” which is often used in formalist criticism ?
A. C.S. Lewis
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Matthew Arnold
D. T.S. Eliot - What was one of the first acts of Parliament after the outbreak of hostilities in the First Civil War ?
A. the abolishment of public plays and sports
B. the conversion of the English church to Catholicism
C. the adoption of English as the official language
D. the consolidation of power in an absolute monarch - Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the “supreme governor” of all things spiritual. Who was it ?
A. The Pope in Rome
B. Each man was his own supreme governor
C. The Archbishop of Canterbury
D. Queen Elizabeth I
