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Question 1

The American Declaration of Independence

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1776

Question 2

French Revolution l

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1789-1794/1799

Question 3

The Romantic Age

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18th-19th century

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2nd Industrial Revolution

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18th-19th century

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William Wordsworth

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1770-1850

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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1772-1834

Question 7

the most mature phase of English Romanticism? What marked it?

Answer 7

1789-1837
Lyrical Ballads

Question 8

Lyrical Ballads

Answer 8

1789
Coleridge&Wordsworty

Question 9

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Answer 9

1789
Coleridge

Question 10

Mary Shelley: birth name&years

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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797-1851)

Question 11

the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

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It is considered the Manifesto of English Romanticism, published in 1800/1801 and written by Wordsworth

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I wandered lonely as a cloud

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1802
Wordsworth
(untitled)

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When was Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus written? By who? When was it published?

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1816
Mary Shelley
1818

Question 14

Biographia Literaria

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A work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge published in 1817

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The Victorian Age

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1837-1901

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Charles Dickens

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1812-1870

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3 Reform Bills

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1832
1867
1884

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The Factory Act

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1833

Question 19

When did Queen Victoria ascend the throne?

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1837

Question 20

Oliver Twist

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1837-1839
Dickens

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The People’s Charter

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1839

Question 22

Oscar Wilde

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1854-1900

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Rudyard Kipling

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1865-1936

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The Educational Act

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1870

Question 25

Berlin Conference

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1884-1885

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The Scramble for Africa

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1885

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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1890

Question 28

The White Man’s Burden

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1899 Rudyard Kipling

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Queen Victoria’s death and Edward II ascended the throne

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1901

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Walt Whitman

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1819-1892

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The Scarlet Letter

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A novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1850

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1st edition of Leaves of Grass

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A collection of poems by Walt Whitman published in 1855

Question 33

Abraham Lincoln elected president

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1860

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American Civil War

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1861-1865

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The Emancipation Proclamation

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1863

Question 36

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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1865

Question 37

O Captain! My Captain!

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1865 Walt Whitman

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Robert Frost

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1874-1963

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James Joyce

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1882-1941

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Modernism

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early 20th century

Question 41

What is 'Interpretation of Dreams' and who wrote it?

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A work by Sigmund Freud published in 1900

Question 42

George Orwell: birth name&year

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Eric Arthur Blair 1903-1950

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WW1

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1914-1918

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Dubliners

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1914 Joyce

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The Road not Taken

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1916 Robert Frost

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Easter Rising in Dublin

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Easter Monday 1916

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What right was granted to women in 1918?

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Right to vote for women aged over 30 who were property owners

Question 48

What cultural period is known as the Roaring Twenties/Jazz Age?

Answer 48

1920s

Question 49

Independence of Southern Ireland

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1922

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Ulysses

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1922 Joyce

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What right was granted to women in 1928?

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Right to vote for women aged over 21

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The Wall Street Crash

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1929

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What cultural period is known as The Age of Anxiety?

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1930s

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WW2

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1938-1945

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Animal Farm

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1945 Orwell

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What period is known as The Cold War?

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1947-1991

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1984

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1948/1949 Orwell

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What is 'The Old Man and the Sea' and who wrote it?

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A novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1952

Question 59

Independence of Nigeria

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1960

Question 60

What is 'Telephone Conversation' and who wrote it?

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A poem by Wole Soyinka published in 1963

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Military coup in Nigeria

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1966

Question 62

Nigerian Civil War

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1967-1970

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End of military dictatorship in Nigeria

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1996

Question 64

when was Nigeria a British colony?

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1851-1960