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1
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what does british empire known as?

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the empire on which the sun never sets

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2
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what territories did british empire included?

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canada east africa australia new zealand

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3
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what made britain the first urban industrial society and the richest country

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industrial revolution

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4
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what did britain produced the world

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cotton and coal

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5
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what did industrialization lead to?

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extreme working bad living conditions

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6
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what helped to improve the conditions created by industrialization

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reform bills extended voting rights

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7
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what movement was the first working class movement demanded political reforms

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the chartist movement

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8
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what does wueen victoria represents

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stability n domesticity

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9
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what discovery challanged tradition and religionsk beliefs?

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charles darwins theory of evolution

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10
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what laws were made for women

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matrimonial causes of act and married womans property

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11
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alfred lord tennyson writings

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ulysses and tears idle tears

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12
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robert browning writings

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meeting at night
my last duchess

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13
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matthew arnold

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dover beach
isolation : to marguerite
to marguerite : continued

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14
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emily bronte

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and first an hour of mournful musing
remembrance

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15
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johnruskin

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modern painters

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16
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rudyard kipling

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the white mans burden

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17
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what group did dante rosetti co founded

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pre raphaelites who included poets and painters

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18
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dante gabriel rosetti works

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the house of life
withiut her
bodys beauty
sudden light

19
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who is christina rosetti

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dantes sister

20
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christjna rosetti works

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song
echo
a better ressurection

21
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gerard manley hopkins

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gods grendeur
spring and fall
pied beauty

22
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the twentieth century was characterized by…

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conflict

23
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what war shattared old political instututions and traditionak values

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the great war

24
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what does lit associates with in this century snd what did it reflect

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modernism , reflected the political and existential futility of the time

25
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first woman poet in britain

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carol ann duffy

26
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thomas hardys originak job

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an architect

27
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thomas hardys works

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hap
the to be forgotten
god forgotten
the man he killed
from satires of circumstance

28
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what secret society did yeats found

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dublin hermetic order

29
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works of william butler yeats

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the second coming
sailing to byzantium

30
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to yeats ….. ls the source of all images and symbols

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sipiritus mundi, a collective unconcoius

31
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t.s eliot works

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the love song of j alfred prufrock
the naming of cats

32
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what is the love song of j slfred prufock is about

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its not a love song
inability to act
an isolated man anti heroic

33
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ezra pound works

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in a station of the metro

34
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wilfred owen

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dulce et decorum est

35
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rupert brooke

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the soldier

36
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james joyce works

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dubliners

37
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what is araby from dubkiners is about

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explain

38
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what is eveline is about

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explain

39
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what clay is about

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explain

40
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virginia woolf personality

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feminist and modernist

41
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virginia woolf work

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from a room of ones own shakespeares sister

42
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george orwell works

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shooting an elephant

43
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who is simon armitage

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professor of poetry
deald with future problems

44
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other writers of twentieth century

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wh auden
dylan thomas
stevie smith
philip larkin
ted hughes
tony harrison
seamus heaney
carol ann duffy
douglas dunn
craig raine

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