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Miscellany
100
The following excerpt is from one of "The Chimney Sweeper" poems by William Blake. Is it from The Songs of Innocence or from The Songs of Experience?

And because I am happy, & dance & sing,
They think they have done me no injury,
And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King,
Who make up a heaven of our misery.

The Songs of Experience
100
This is perhaps one of this author's most famous and most often quoted poems. Name the poem and the author: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints--I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Sonnet (number 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Also acceptable: one of the Sonnets from the Portuguese
100
T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce were part of the __________ period, a revolutionary literary period that dramatically shifted away from the realism and rationalism of the Victorian period to more experimental, fragmented styles.
The Modernist period
100
The Bloomsbury Group, an early 20th century British intellectuals and writers with shared philosophies about ethics, social good, and art, included two novelists studied this semester. Name one.
Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster were among the central members of the Bloomsbury Group.
100
This historical event is commonly accepted to mark the beginning of the British Romantic Period.
The French Revolution
200
Name the author and the title of this excerpt:

Consider, I address you as a legislator, whether, when men content for their freedom, and to be allowed to judge for themselves respecting their own happiness, it be not inconsistent and unjust to subjugate women, even though you firmly believe that you are acting in the manner best calculated to promote their happiness? Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him the gift of reason?

Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
200
In Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess," what was the fate of the speaker's previous wife?
The Duke of Ferrara, the speaker in this dramatic monologue, had his previous wife killed.

O sir, she smiled, no doubt,
When'er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave command;
Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands
As if alive...(43-46)

200
Identify the author of this statement: "Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
Virginia Woolf - from her book A Room of One's Own
200
Several novels this semester have included the theme of secret hidden identities. Name one---include the book, the author, and a hidden identity that is revealed by the end.
Acceptable novels include, but are not necessarily limited to:
Collins's The Moonstone
Stoker's Dracula
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rushdie's Midnight's Children
etc., etc.
200
He was poet laureate of England from 1850 to 1892, and one of his most famous poetic works was In Memoriam, written in memory of his friend Arthur Hallam.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
300
Poet George Gordon, Lord Byron eventually devoted himself to this country's independence from the Ottoman Empire, a cause for which he eventually died.
Greece
300
One of the ways the beginning and end of Victorian period in British literature are typically defined is...
The reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. Sometimes the Victorian period is said to have started in 1832 with the passing of The First Reform Bill, which gave the lower middle class (males) the right to vote.
300
Magical realism is a literary sub-genre that incorporates mythical and fantasy elements into realistic fiction. Name an author and novel from this semester that employed magical realism.
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Jeanette Winterson's The Passion

300
Name the poem title and the author:

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain...

"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
400
In 1816, the Shelley Circle spent time in Geneva, Switzerland, where at least one well-known gothic work by one of these authors was inspired. Name the work and the author.
The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
400
Name the poem title and author of the following:

"Lizzie, Lizzie, have you tasted
For my sake the fruit forbidden?
Must your light like mine be hidden
Your young life like mine be wasted...

"Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti
400
Several of T. S. Eliot's poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and The Waste Land, demonstrate his modernist use of this poetic literary voice, often used by Victorian poet Robert Browning.
Dramatic monologue
400
The novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid and excellent example of this literary technique, for which James Joyce is well known. This literary technique is characterized by a continuous flow of thoughts, ideas, and impressions rather than logically structured narrative.
"stream of consciousness" narration
400
He was Britain's poet laureate from 1843 to 1850.
William Wordsworth
500
This prominent Romantic poet stated "that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility..." Name the poet (or name the work the statement came from).
William Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballads
500
T. N. Mukharji, an Indian government official, traveled to England in 1886. What was his caste level or title?
Brahman, the highest Hindu caste
500
These lines are the beginning of one of the seminal works of the Modernist period, a work that, in part, re-invents the myth of the impotent Fisher King seeking the Holy Grail for rejuvenation.

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

Name the author and the text.

T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
500
Some of the most highly acclaimed 19th century novels are praised for their realism and their concrete depictions of Victorian society and industry. Name a novel and author this semester that is known for its realism.
Acceptable novels include, but are not necessarily limited to:

Charles Dickens's Hard Times

Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South

Also, acceptable: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility for its social realism

500
In "The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano," the author Equiano gradually explains two major learning experiences that change him significantly and ultimately make his writing a powerful tool for the British abolitionist movement. Name one of these significant learning experiences.
1) He learns English and is eventually extremely literate
2) he converts to Christianity and argued that baptism as a Christian should free a person from slavery.