1651. What was the white mans burden that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title ?
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A. The concept that all white men do not share the same imperial duties

B. The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations

C. The burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands

D. The pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions

1652. How was the philosophical and popular emphasis on sensibility in the 18th century related to the development of the novel ?
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A. Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings.

B. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion.

C. Like the novel, it focused on romantic relationships.

D. Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy.

1653. According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?
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A. To criticize society through satire

B. To bring to light social oppressions

C. To connect human beings with a higher ideal

D. To entertain those who enjoy it

1655. Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffes medieval settings______________?
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A. suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.

B. implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience.

C. indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.

D. is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.

1656. Which of the following statements does NOT accurately characterize a lyric poem ?
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A. The lyric poem creates a personal sense of emotion.

B. The lyric poem is a popular form in the Romantic era.

C. The lyric poem has a song-like quality.

D. The lyric poem focuses on action.
1657. Sir Thomas More wrote what famous text ?
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A. Utopia

B. Toxophilus

C. Paradise Lost

D. The Inferno

1659. Radcliffes version of the Gothic differs most from Walpoles in its use of which of the following ?
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A. Its medieval settings

B. The explained supernatural

C. The sublime

D. Its use of mysterious events to spur readers interests and emotional responses

1662. What is generally considered to be Theodor W. Adornos primary concern as a theorist ?
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A. The effect of literature in enlightening the human mind

B. The effect of the economy on womens concerns

C. The effect of modern society on human suffering

D. The effect of the unconscious mind on the conscious self

1663. Which of the following characteristics is NOT closely associated with a comedy of manners ?
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A. Witty banter

B. Sexual promiscuity

C. Epic heroes

D. Hidden identities

1664. John Miltons Lycidas is what genre of poetry ?
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A. An epic

B. A satire

C. A mock-epic

D. A pastoral elegy
1666. What text greatly popularized the sonnet form in England during the Elizabethan period ?
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A. Astrophil and Stella

B. Canterbury Tales

C. Utopia

D. Paradise Lost

1667. How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
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A. They reject the idea that ideology has real effects on social progress.

B. They subject all ideologies to critique in order to expose biased interests.

C. They accept ideology as an essential, although sometimes problematic, part of society.

D. They promote ideology because it helps to create a dominant social order

1668. What is defamiliarization ?
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A. All of the above.

B. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky

C. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit

D. A concept associated with Russian formalism

1672. In her essay The Laugh of the Medusa, what does Hlne Cixous suggest for women ?
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A. Women should be unconcerned with the struggle for identity.

B. Women should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts.

C. Women should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon.

D. Women should primarily dedicate themselves to studying womens literature from the past.

1674. Who became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I and was knighted and appointed captain of the Queens Guard in 1587 ?
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A. Sir Thomas More

B. Sir William Shakespeare

C. Sir Philip Sidney

D. Sir Walter Raleigh
1675. The character of Falstaff is important in which play(s) by William Shakespeare ?
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A. Henry IV, Part I

B. Henry IV, Part II

C. Titus Andronicus

D. All of the above
1676. What is affective fallacy ?
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A. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader B. A term that describes the confusion between a poem and its result

B. All of the above.

C. An important term in the field of New Historicism

1677. In Matthew Arnolds poem Dover Beach, the speaker refers to the melancholy, long, withdrawing roar of The Sea of Faith. This reference alludes to which of the following ?
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A. The decline of religions importance in the modern West

B. The Protestant Reformation

C. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans

D. His lovers betrayal

1679. What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious ?
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A. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.

B. It can never be accessed.

C. It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.

D. It has little impact on human behavior.

1680. Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a works meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?
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A. Platos The Republic

B. Roland Barthess The Death of the Author

C. T.S. Eliots Tradition and the Individual Talent

D. Jacques Derridas Of Grammatology

1681. Which of the following genres is NOT part of the hybrid form of Behns Oroonoko ?
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A. Detective story

B. Nonfiction

C. Biography

D. Travel memoir

1682. Aphra Behns Oroonoko is a transitional text in all of the following ways EXCEPT________________?
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A. like a novel, it makes claims to historical realism.

B. like an epic, it involves gods and goddesses.

C. like a novel, it tells its story with an emphasis on realistic detail and the everyday passage of time.

D. like a romance, it focuses on an aristocratic character considered superior to average individuals.

1683. What is Christopher Rickss attitude toward literary theory ?
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A. He feels that literary theory is ultimately too limited in scope to serve as a proper method of interpretation.

B. He has no misgivings about the practical usability of literary theory.

C. He considers theory to be the only way that literary texts can be interpreted.

D. He considers it to be vital in order to understand literary texts.

1684. To what idea does the term heteroglossia refer ?
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A. The formulaic shift between economic and political themes

B. An infants inability to speak prior to the mirror stage

C. The referential relationships among symbols, signifiers, and signs

D. The multi-layered nature of language in a literary work
1685. In 1534, King Henry VIII was declared head of what church ?
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A. The Catholic Church

B. The English Church

C. The Church of God

D. Both A and B

1686. Shelley expresses all of the following ideas in A Defence of Poetry, EXCEPT______________?
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A. poetry has no effect on society.

B. language shows humanitys impulse towards order.

C. reason can help man understand beauty.

D. civilization comes through beauty.

1687. How does Virginia Woolfs essay A Room of Ones Own contribute to feminist theory ?
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A. It suggests that education, rather than money, is needed for the liberation of women.

B. It suggests that gender has power over class.

C. It suggests that the suppression of women is part of a historical climate that will naturally fade away.

D. It suggests that gender roles are conditioned by the possession of money and power.
1688. In his essay The Death of the Author, Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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A. Authorial intent must be considered when evaluating literature.

B. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the authors politics.

C. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.

D. A text and its author text are unrelated.
1689. Jacques Derridas concept of diffrance challenges us to think about language as a system that___________?
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A. evolved exclusively as a function of our individual psyche.

B. prevents us from communicating through writing or speech.

C. mirrors our physical evolution as human beings.

D. involves a constant process of deferred meaning.
1690. Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?
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A. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.

B. All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.

C. All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.

D. All linguistics is related to history, and therefore the meaning of linguistics relies exclusively on historical context.

1691. In Fredric Jamesons book The Political Unconscious, what does Jameson suggest about literature ?
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A. History comprises the essential framework for the performance of literary analysis

B. Psychoanalysis is critical to literary analysis

C. Biography is essential to literary analysis

D. Politics and the economy are the most important factors in literary analysis

1692. Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.

B. Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.

C. Texts are examined to determine the authors intent.

D. Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities.
1693. What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
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A. It includes too few works by nonwhite writers.

B. It includes too few works by women.

C. All of the above.

D. It includes too few works by non- Western writers.
1694. Who wrote Orlando Furioso ?
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A. Ludovico Ariosto

B. William Shakespeare

C. John Milton

D. Sir Philip Sidney

1695. To what idea does the ancient Greek term aporia refer in terms of deconstruction theory ?
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A. Jacques Derridas style of writing

B. The ability of a text to contain truth

C. The undecidability and essentially unstable nature of a text

D. The idea that a text has a specific meaning that can be understood through a process of deconstruction

1696. Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation ?
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A. Edward Said

B. Plato

C. Stephen Greenblatt

D. Jacques Lacan

1699. Complete the following sentence. We can best understand the medieval setting of Walpoles The Castle of Otranto as______________?
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A. enabling his 18th-century readers access to a world they would see as less rational.

B. promoting the rise of museums.

C. commenting on the French and Indian War.

D. revealing his interest in Chaucer.

1700. What is New Historicism ?
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A. A theory that abandons the idea of history as an imitation of events

B. All of the above

C. A theory that capitalizes on the interplay between literature and history

D. A theory that regards history as a series of narratives