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Peter Ackroyd's biography of ________is regarded as one of the best biographies in English language.


A) t s eliot
B) thomas more
C) charlie chaplin
D) charles dickens

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"Y.Y" was the pen name of__________


A) robert lynd
B) j b s haldane
C) walter pater
D) carl jung

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Who wrote Apology for Poetrie?


A) philip sidney
B) thomas lodge
C) milton
D) robert greene

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The _____century was doubtlessly an age of prose.


A) 16th
B) 18th
C) 19th
D) 17th

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Who contributed five biographies for Encyclopaedia of Britannica?


A) walter pater
B) john ruskin
C) macaulay
D) thomas carlyle

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___________ developed further Ruskin's approach to social and economic problems through art to active propaganda for socialism.


A) thomas carlyle
B) mathew arnold
C) walter pater
D) william morris

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The Pilgrim's Progress is the masterpiece of ______


A) john dryden
B) daniel defoe
C) thomas hardy
D) john bunyan

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Who contributed the literary term 'pathetic fallacy'?


A) john ruskin
B) walter pater
C) mathew arnold
D) t s eliot

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Who is the author of Eminent Victorians?


A) lytton strachey
B) robert lynd
C) virginia woolf
D) peter ackroyd

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__________ had a powerful effect on early Stuart prose


A) puritanism
B) communism
C) humanism
D) egalitarianism

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Name of the imaginary character in the essays of Joseph Addison


A) elia
B) sir roger de coverley
C) robinson
D) mathew

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B

Oliver Goldsmith's ___________is a series of imaginary letters from a Chinese traveller


A) the citizen of the world
B) the hermit
C) the deserted village
D) the traveller

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The Lives of the Poets was written by_______


A) dr. johnson
B) samuel johnson
C) edward gibbon
D) coleridge

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_______________is regarded as a great modern biographer


A) peter ackroyd
B) lytton strachey
C) robert lynd
D) michel faber

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_____________was an eminent Victorian prose writer


A) ruskin bond
B) coleridge
C) e v lucas
D) g k chesterton

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An Inland Voyage is the collection of essays of _______


A) walter pater
B) r l stevenson
C) mathew arnold
D) thomas carlyle

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_________was a strong believer of the theory of art for art's sake.


A) r l stevenson
B) thomas carlyle
C) william morris
D) walter pater

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Who is the author of Robinson Crusoe?


A) robert green
B) charles dickens
C) daniel defoe
D) george orwell

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C

Who was the author of 'A Vindication of the Right of Woman?


A) virginia woolf
B) mary wollstonecraft
C) judith butler
D) george eliot

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Novum Organum is the work of _________


A) milton
B) johnson
C) bacon
D) robert greene

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