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2091English LiteratureMedium

What does the term “translatio studii” mean?

AThe idea that the punishment fits the crime

BThe movement from one circle of hell to another

CThe translation of culture from one civilization to another

DThe ability to move from purgatory into heaven

Correct answer

C. The translation of culture from one civilization to another

Explanation

The correct answer is The translation of culture from one civilization to another.

2092English LiteratureMedium

‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by________?

ANone of these

BShelley

CWordsworth

DColeridge

Correct answer

B. Shelley

Explanation

The correct answer is Shelley.

2093English LiteratureMedium

Which of the following events occur(s) in the first book of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”?

ASatan assembles his fallen legions.

BAdam and Eve fall from the state of Paradise.

CSatan lays dazed on the burning lake.

DA and B

Correct answer

D. A and B

Explanation

The correct answer is A and B.

2094English LiteratureMedium

“The Prince Of Poets in his time”, on whom grave the inscription is given?

AJohn Milton

BSir Philip Sidney

CJohn Donne

DEdmund Spencer

Correct answer

D. Edmund Spencer

Explanation

The correct answer is Edmund Spencer.

2095English LiteratureMedium

Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet?

AHazlitt

BP.B. Shelley

CCharles Lamb

DColeridge

Correct answer

B. P.B. Shelley

Explanation

The correct answer is P.B. Shelley.

2096English LiteratureMedium

What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose?

Athe forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London

Ba new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

Ca Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia

Dthe deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

Correct answer

B. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

Explanation

The correct answer is a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer.

2097English LiteratureMedium

Paul O’Brien argues that Shelley did not lose his passion for the French Revolution, but that ________did?

ALord Byron and John Clare

BJohn Keats and William Blake

CLord Byron and William Blake

DWilliam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Correct answer

D. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Explanation

The correct answer is William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

2098English LiteratureMedium

The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written by________?

AR. K. Narayan

BH. G. Wells

CEdin Blyton

DRudyard Kipling

Correct answer

D. Rudyard Kipling

Explanation

The correct answer is Rudyard Kipling.

2099English LiteratureMedium

What is the feature of Romantic poetry?

APost-modernism

BNone of the above

CImagination

DModernism

Correct answer

C. Imagination

Explanation

The correct answer is Imagination.

2100English LiteratureMedium

Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims; ‘Brave, new, world!’?

AFerdinand

BProspero

CMiranda

DAntonio

Correct answer

C. Miranda

Explanation

The correct answer is Miranda.

What does the term “translatio studii” mean?

AThe idea that the punishment fits the crime

BThe movement from one circle of hell to another

CThe translation of culture from one civilization to another

DThe ability to move from purgatory into heaven

Correct answer

C. The translation of culture from one civilization to another

Explanation

The correct answer is The translation of culture from one civilization to another.

What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose?

Athe forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London

Ba new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

Ca Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia

Dthe deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

Correct answer

B. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

Explanation

The correct answer is a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer.