1751. Greek theatre took place where ?
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A. Large indoor theaters

B. All of the above

C. Small indoor theaters

D. Large hillside amphitheaters
1752. Complete the following sentence. Wordsworths advocacy of poets drawing on the language really used by men in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?
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A. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

B. a rejection of nature in favor of society.

C. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.

D. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.

1753. Sir Thomas More held which of the following positions in the English court ?
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A. Master of Requests

B. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

C. All of the above

D. Speaker of the House of Commons

1754. Who was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn who also reigned as Queen of England from 1558 to1603 ?
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A. Mary, Queen of Scots

B. Elizabeth II

C. Catherine of Aragon

D. Elizabeth I
1755. The main plot of Richardsons Pamela reflects the main characteristics of the sentimental novel through its emphasis on which of the following ?
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A. Pamelas attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer

B. Pamelas parents attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner

C. Pamelas attempt to seduce her employer

D. Pamelas struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work

1756. John Lyly became instantly famous with the publication of what text ?
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A. Paradise Lost

B. 95 Theses

C. Utopia

D. Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit
1757. What does gynocriticism recommend as an approach to literature ?
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A. Becoming more familiar with the history of women and womens writing

B. Examining only female-authored literature more critically

C. Studying womens literature for its linguistic qualities only

D. Considering womens literature outside of its historical context

1758. With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?
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A. Julia Kristeva

B. Elaine Showalter

C. Lucy Irigaray

D. Hlne Cixous

1759. How did the New Critics view literature ?
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A. As a historical object that is also aesthetic

B. As a historical object that is not necessarily aesthetic

C. As an aesthetic object that is independent of historical context

D. As an aesthetic object that is influenced by historical context

1760. Samuel Richardsons Pamela and Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?
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A. Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.

B. Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.

C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.

D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

1761. Who coined the term New Historicism ?
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A. Stephen Greenblatt

B. Fredric Jameson

C. Jacques Derrida

D. Terry Eagleton

1762. Complete the following sentence. Keatss Ode to a Nightingale is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?
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A. its rejection of scientific progress.

B. its focus on his lost love.

C. its development of elements from national folklore.

D. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
1763. Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
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A. Leo Tolstoys The Kreutzer Sonata

B. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

C. Aristotles Poetics

D. John Keatss Ode on a Grecian Urn

1764. Fill in the blank. King_____________ was notorious for his six marriages and for ruthlessly persecuting his political enemies, violently eliminating all opposition ?
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A. Henry V

B. Charles II

C. Henry VIII

D. Charles I

1765. John Miltons Paradise Lost focuses attention on the relationship between which opposing entities ?
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A. All of the above

B. God vs. Satan

C. Heaven vs. hell

D. Good vs. evil

1766. What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussures Course in General Linguistics ?
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A. There are five phases of linguistic development.

B. Language is inseparable from its historical context.

C. Language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements.

D. Linguistics is too complicated to be distilled to a formula.

1767. Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ?
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A. The Chicago School

B. The Moscow School

C. The Frankfurt School

D. The Geneva School
1768. Which of the following statements is TRUE concerning the Globe theater in Elizabethan England ?
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A. It was lit from natural sunlight as well as by candle light.

B. It was situated on the Thames River.

C. It burned down and was reconstructed hundreds of years later.

D. All of the above
1769. Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowes influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability _______________?
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A. Very great

B. Insignificant

C. Somewhat significant

D. Impossible

1770. What is mimesis ?
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A. A reversal

B. A poetic metaphor

C. A satire

D. An imitation
1771. What does Edward Said argue about the concept of the Orient ?
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A. Its literature is less proud that that of the West.

B. It illustrates the fundamental political equality of all nations.

C. It has little relationship to the colonization of Asian countries by the West.

D. It was produced by Western scholarship.
1772. Which of the following descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism ?
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A. An approach that emphasizes racial issues in a text

B. An approach that emphasizes the historical context of a text

C. An approach that emphasizes the biographical intent of a text

D. An approach that emphasizes literary devices in a text
1773. Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar ?
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A. Wayne C. Booth

B. Stephen Greenblatt

C. M. H. Abrams

D. Helen Vendler

1774. Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?
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A. How readers imagine visual images in a text

B. How readers learn to read

C. How readers participate in creating the meaning of a text

D. How readers regard critics

1775. Which writer spent more than twelve years imprisoned in the Tower of London ?
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A. Sir Thomas More

B. John Milton

C. Sir Philip Sidney

D. Sir Walter Raleigh
1776. Which of the following statements best describes the Great Chain of Being ?
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A. It regarded human beings as social creatures who could create meaningful lives only in association with other social beings.

B. Its major premise was that every existing thing in the universe had its place in a divinely planned hierarchical order which was pictured as a chain, vertically extended.

C. It could only be achieved through faith in Gods grace.

D. Both A and B

1777. What is the main function of literary theory ?
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A. To evaluate the role of historical context in the interpretation of literature

B. All of the above.

C. To formulate relationships among an author, a reader, and a literary work

D. To understand the role of sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity in literary study

1778. Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?
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A. A sense of awe in the power of the natural world

B. An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others pain and joy

C. A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity

D. A parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the Enlightenment interest in reason

1779. According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
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A. All of the above.

B. Reproducing the authors thoughts in a critical context

C. Entering the authors mind through his or her literary works

D. Understanding the authors consciousness

1780. Complete the following sentence. The opening frame narrative of Frankenstein comes from_______________?
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A. Walton, a failed poet who is attempting to discover the North Pole.

B. Victor Frankensteins diary.

C. Mrs. Saville, Frankensteins cousin.

D. the creature, after he has killed Victor Frankenstein.

1781. Complete the following sentence. Tennysons In Memoriam and Brownings dramatic monologues can best be seen as combining neoclassicism with romanticism through their ?
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A. romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.

B. romantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on social context.

C. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.

D. romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.

1782. The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses is an example of what dramatic genre ?
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A. Satire

B. Tragedy

C. Masque

D. Burlesque

1783. Which literary theory would most directly explore questions of the role of spatial setting in a poem ?
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A. Ecotheory

B. Marxist theory

C. Trauma theory

D. Game theory

1784. What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeares Hamlet ?
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A. All of the above

B. Womens tragedies tend to be subordinated to those of men.

C. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.

D. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.

1785. Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory?
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A. Literary criticism draws upon research derived from sources outside literature, while literary theory draws upon sources within a text.

B. Literary criticism is concerned with how characters in a text act, while literary theory is concerned with why characters act.

C. Literary criticism is concerned only with the meaning of a literary work, while literary theory is concerned only with the structure of a literary work.

D. Literary theory is concerned with the method used to interpret a work, while literary criticism is the application of literary theory.
1786. Which of the following statements about the poems in Blakes Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?
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A. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience.

B. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.

C. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping Englands economy.

D. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.

1787. The foundation story of what poem is the Genesis account of the Creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, culminating in the drama of their temptation and fall ?
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A. The Faerie Queen

B. Canterbury Tales

C. Paradise Lost

D. The Prelude

1788. What are some common criticisms of literary theory ?
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A. The reasoning of theory is often too circular.

B. All of the above.

C. Many theories have been pushed too far into abstraction.

D. Many theories are no longer accepted by their parent disciplines.

1789. Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the concept of strange attractors in chaos theory ?
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A. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are entirely random.

B. Strange attractors are complex forces that are determined by the laws of physics.

C. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined.

D. Strange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random.

1790. In 1583, which playwright became in control of the first Blackfriars Theatre along with director William Hunnis ?
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A. Sir Thomas More

B. John Foxe

C. John Lyly

D. Henry VIII

1791. Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?
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A. Langland

B. Chaucer

C. Homer

D. Shakespeare
1792. Edmund Spenser was directly influenced by which writers epic poetry ?
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A. Milton

B. Wordsworth

C. Aristo

D. Both A and B

1793. Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. Austins performativity theory ?
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A. Individuals perform gender actively.

B. Individuals develop consciousness through speech

C. Language is used to indicate action as well as thought.

D. Performance is the ultimate objective of all human beings.

1794. Which of the following statements accurately describes the theme of Wordsworths Tintern Abbey ?
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A. Life experience does not have to power to alter human opinions.

B. Sensitivity to natures message comes with age.

C. Nature loses its ability to affect human emotion over time.

D. It is not possible to appreciate beauty once one has aged.

1795. O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, dont be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so! These lines characterize Samuel Richardsons Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?
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A. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.

B. by emphasizing sexual morality.

C. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the characters feelings.

D. by emphasizing the characters fright.
1796. Which of the following statements best describes the behavior of the upper-class characters in Congreves The Way of the World ?
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A. They are somewhat jaded, but all are finally good at heart.

B. They are almost universally selfabsorbed and willing to do anything to get what they want.

C. They provide a moral example for the lower classes.

D. They tend to value love above money and honor.

1797. What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?
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A. Literary texts solely reflect an authors intentions.

B. Literary texts should not be read as a projection of the authors psyche.

C. Literary texts are unlike dreams because they have a system of order and produce meaning.

D. Literary texts reveal secret elements of an authors unconscious.
1798. Who is the meaning of the term Peripeteia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?
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A. Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad

B. Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good

C. Fluctuations occurring in the fortune of the hero

D. Constancy in the fortune of the hero

1799. Who coined the term esemplastic ?
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A. Eliot

B. Coleridge

C. William Worsworth

D. Browning

1800. According to Dr. Mark Canadas An Introduction to the Novel, Richard Chase identifies which of the following as a main difference between novels and romances ?
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A. The type of people who write them

B. The language in which they are written

C. The way they are structured

D. The way they view reality