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CLEP World Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Shakespeare
Valdes and Cornelius
The Tower
2. The 'shrew' of the title
Joseph Conrad
Katherine
Ivanhoe
Don Juan
3. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Shakespeare
Ann Radcliffe
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Tower
4. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
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William Langland
The Alchemist
Pilgrim's Progress
5. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Don Juan
Othello
Edmund Spenser
6. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who - disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry - looks for distraction in foreign lands.
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7. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Macbeth
The Jew of Malta
William Langland
8. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Idylls of the King
Sir Walter Scott
9. Men and Women - a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes - all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators - some identified and some not - was written by...
The Alchemist
Gulliver
Robert Browning
'Spenserian stanza'
10. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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11. Leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it - employs a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed - at least in part - for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Ann Radcliffe
Shakespeare
A frame story/narrative
12. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Achilles
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Pygmalion
The Waste Land
13. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
'Spenserian stanza'
Don Juan
Rape of the Lock
T.S. Elliot
14. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Rape of the Lock
15. Jane Austen wrote ...
Ivanhoe
The Knight's Tale
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
16. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
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Ophelia in the story of hamlet
John Bunyan
Bells and Pomegranates.
17. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Joseph Conrad
Philip Sidney
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Jonathon Swift
18. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Macbeth
Valdes and Cornelius
19. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'
Wuthering Heights
Pygmalion
The Waste Land
The Tower
20. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
John Milton
Dante
Philip Sidney
Jungle Book
21. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
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22. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Divine Comedy
John Bunyan
23. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Odes
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
24. Written by Sir Walter Scott - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disliked by his father because he loves a girl and is friends with some of the Normans -there is a tournament - and Ivanhoe is injured and the daughter wants to take him to get help - -battles e
Idylls of the King
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Ivanhoe
25. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy
William Langland
Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
William Wordsworth
26. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
T.S. Elliot
27. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Pilgrim's Progress
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
John Bunyan
28. If the daughters don't marry and the father dies - the girls and their mom will be left without a home. Main characters: Elizabeth Bennett and Darcy
Othello
Bells and Pomegranates.
Pride and Prejudice
William Langland
29. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Hamlet
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
William Blake
30. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Sailing to Byzantium
Pulpit
31. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Wuthering Heights
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Robert Browning
32. One of the earliest English history plays - telescopes most of Edward II's reign into a single narrative - beginning with the recall of his favourite - Piers Gaveston - from exile - and ending with his son Edward III's execution of Mortimer Junior fo
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
33. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Gulliver
Astrophel and Stella
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
34. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Philip Sidney
Pulpit
The love of travel
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
35. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Macbeth
Oliver Twist
John Milton
Astrophel and Stella
36. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Prometheus Unbound
Tamburlaine the Great
Achilles
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37. 18th Century Irish Satirist
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Jonathon Swift
Jungle Book
Prometheus Unbound
38. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Ivanhoe
Pilgrim's Progress
39. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Waste Land
40. Heroine thinks she is good at matchmaking and thinks that she will never find love for herself - ends up with Knightley after a long time
Emma by Jane Austen
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Wuthering Heights
The Renaissance 1485-1660
41. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
William Langland
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The absurdity of life
Philip Sidney
42. Is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work - although generally - unlike the stanza - each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit.
The Waste Land
Mary Shelley
Sonnet sequence
'Spenserian stanza'
43. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Icarus
John Keats
Dante
44. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Macbeth
45. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Great Expectations
Hamlet
The love of travel
Sir Walter Scott
46. The first tale from Canterbury Tales - this story was written in iambic pentameter - about courtly love and ethical dilemmas - Arcite and Palamon are imprisoned. They both fall for a woman named Emily which causes tension and hate.
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47. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Paradise Lost
48. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Polonius
49. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Alchemist
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
50. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Pride and Prejudice
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Don Juan
The absurdity of life