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Crée / Actualisé	18.11.2025 / 18.11.2025
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Which of the following were not reasons for the Protestant Reformation?

Available translations of the Bible enabling people to distinguish between biblical scripture and Catholic Church practices.

The Industrial Revolution.

The Catholic Church's willingness to forgive sin was seen as corrupt and against the commands on individual conscience.

The Death of Queen Elizabeth I.

The belief that authority through scripture, rather than through the Pope and Catholic Church, should govern the faithful’s actions and piety.

In the sestet of Wroth’s “Sonnet 16”, what does the speaker come to realize?

She cannot escape her love for Amphilanthus.

She has the power to reject love and control her feelings.

She is not subject to Cupid’s power.

How is Faustus cautioned against exceeding human limits and signing the devil’s bargain?

Mephastophilis himself warns Faustus to “leave these frivolous demands” and gives him the option to change his mind.

A priest and several other professors tell him that such desires are beneath his intellect.

As Faustus goes to sign the official deed in blood, the blood congeals on his arm, forming a warning.

Consider the following lines from John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”: “Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” Critics differ on how they interpret the last two lines because:

No one really knows what “truth” and “beauty” mean.

The punctuation of those lines differs based on the version one is reading.

It is unclear who is saying “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” or to whom it is addressed.

Some critics suspect those lines were added later, after Keats’s death.

In Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo’s obsession with masculinity:

Is something that was commonplace in this precolonial, Igbo society.

Is a source of internal conflicts and tensions for him and his family.

Is purposefully conveyed in an exaggerated manner, contrasting him from the rest of his community and society.

Aligned him with the invading British colonial missionaries.

Which of the following statement/s about Emily Dickinson is/are false?

She dealt with severe mental illnesses later in her life.

Because she was so reclusive, she was oblivious to the events of the Civil War.

The period during the Civil War was the time in which she wrote the most.

She felt people who supported the Northern/Union efforts were foolish.

Because she was so devoted to the craft of poetry, she never bothered with what she considered “trifles” of contemporary politics.

Jonathan Swift turned his scorn toward:

The lazy idlers, vagabonds, and errant travelers who created chaos in the urban centers.

The party structure within the English Parliament.

The Irish for not accepting a new form of currency from the British Crown.

The bourgeoisie who were emerging as a dominant social class.

“Defamiliarization” often involves:

Talking about familiar things in unfamiliar ways.

Prioritizing strangeness and novelty in language.

Bringing subject matters to the foreground that are often shocking or scandalizing to readers.

Distancing oneself from the subject matter one is describing, as if watching as an outside observer.

When Alisoun rejects Nicholas’s advances in “The Miller’s Tale,” Nicholas responds by:

Convincing John of Alisoun’s infidelity.

Taking a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral.

Challenging Absolan to a fight.

Crying to manipulate Alisoun until she gives in to his advances.

The main target/s of Louise Bennett’s poem “Colonization in Reverse” is/are:

Those who uphold paranoid views about the arrival of immigrants.

Those who want to reverse the historical record on colonization.

Those who are ignorant and naive about the threat of colonial violence.

Louise Bennett’s poetry arose during a time in which:

There was intensifying racism in the U.K.

There were anti-colonial struggles occurring globally.

There was a rising interest in Black British and Diasporic poetry.

There were hardly any other Black poets writing in England.

As his 1789 Abolition Speech ends, Wilberforce:

Admits that slavery as an institution is unlikely to end within his lifetime.

Suggests that his fellow countrymen can no longer claim ignorance about the cruelty of slavery.

Invites his audience to act in accordance with their own values of progress and rational governance.

Calls upon parliament to punish all slave-owners and profiteers.

Which of the following do we associate with Mystery Play?

They refrained from criticizing people in power.

The name “mystery” is derived from the Latin term ministerium, which describes the guilds which were responsible for building and setting up the performances.

Its main purpose is to educate the audience by conveying stories of the gospel in a more appealing and entertaining form.

They were usually performed on the back of wagons outside with simple props.

They were accessible to a broad audience.

The following Revolutions provide important background for The Narrative of Olaudah Equiano and the slavery-abolition movement:

The Industrial Revolution.

The French Revolution.

The Glorious Revolution.

The Haitian Revolution.

The American Revolution.

Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, is often called an “ethnographic novel” because:

The narrator speaks from a removed point of view, away from the characters and societies being depicted.

The story tries to capture the full complexity of social relations, while also using creative prose language and storytelling.

The book derives its source material from an ethnographic study of precolonial, Igbo society.

The book tries to emulate the style and form of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

What are the consequences of the Mariner shooting the albatross in the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?

He has to carry the albatross around his neck, symbolizing his guilt and crimes.

He is cursed to stay on the ship until he repents for his sins.

The sailors’ fortunes changed for the worse.

He dedicates his life to telling his story as a cautionary tale.

The Mariner becomes weaker and weaker, unable to move or eat.

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