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Paradise Lost was written to be a justification of …… resting on theological system as definite at almost as carefully articulated in the De Doctrine Christiania as Dante had accepted from the Summa of Aquinas?

A) Me ways of Satan to men

B) The ways of Man to Satan

C)The ways of God to Man

D) None of these

Contemporary drama saw Brecht create …….?

A) Street theater

B) Theatre of absurd

C) Epic theatre

D) Roman theatre

G (B) Shaw was influenced by as the dramatist’s plays exactly titled every middle and professional class suburb in Europe?

A) Racine

B) Moire

C) Ibsen

D) Shakespeare’s

Linda in Ibsen’s A Dolls House provides a sub-plot by her relations with Krogstad and she serves a foil and model to …….. who recognizes through her that a woman is entitled to her own judgement and independent thought?

A) Gina

B) Rebecca

C) Nora

D) Hedda

……. a delicate visual, called, operates in Oscar Wilde Importance of Being Ernest crystallizing underlying meanings?

A) Symbolism

B) Puns

C) Imagery

D) Diction

Which of the following Shakespearean plays is not a Tragi-comic?

A) A Winters Tale

B) Romeo and Juliet

C) The Tempest

D) The Merchant of Venice

In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?

A) A realist power that cannot be made to seem Iike mere illusion and trickery

B) A defensive power whereby poetry and its figurative expressions allow the poet to avoid censorship.

C) A magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader

D) A moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models

Bacon’s devotedness to …….. was responsible for his rapid rise in the British Court which won him knighthood?

A) Henry VIII

B) Mary Tudor

C) Elizabeth I

D) James I

Voltaire, Pope, Swift, and Kant belonged to the philosophical movement of the eighteenth century that celebrated reason …….. clarity of thought and statement, scientific thinking, and a person ability to perfect itself?

A) Enlightenment

B) Renaissance

C) Reformation

D) None of these

Culture and Imperialism is a sequel to?

A) Nationalism

B) Orientalism

C) Marxism

D) None of these