english literature MCQs – Page 366

Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

7301. How does the following representative quotation from Bronts Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protge, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands ?
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A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.

B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.

C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.

D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

7302. Swinburnes poems such as Hermaphroditus are best known for which of the following ?
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A. Their frank depiction of sexuality

B. Their conservative poetics

C. Their radical politics

D. Their nationalistic tone

7303. Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?
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A. traveled to America.

B. believed in God.

C. rejected Newtons view of the universe.

D. emphasized the importance of human emotions as guiding behavior.

7304. 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 demonized the aristocracy.

B. Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings.

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

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

7305. Which of the following texts is an example of a sentimental novel ?
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A. Swifts A Modest Proposal

B. Popes The Rape of the Lock

C. Lewiss The Monk

D. Richardsons Pamela

7306. The Pre-Raphaelites are best known for which of the following ?
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A. Disassociating painting and poetry

B. A return to neoclassical aesthetics

C. Rejecting English poetic tradition

D. Lavish attention to the sensuous elements of life

7307. Which of the following political ideas is least related to the Enlightenment ?
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A. Social contract

B. Checks and balances

C. Socialism

D. Enlightened monarchy

7308. Which of the following novelists was NOT associated with the rise of the novel as a literary form ?
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A. Samuel Richardson

B. Laurence Sterne

C. Charles Dickens

D. Daniel Defoe

7309. Robinson Crusoes isolation on a deserted island allows Defoe to explore his development in which of the following ways ?
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A. His relationship to God and Christianity

B. His understanding of the basis of economics

C. His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold

D. Both A and B

7310. Samuel Johnsons Dictionary of the English Language most reflects an 18thcentury interest in which of the following ?
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A. Subjective experience

B. Classification, order, and judgment

C. Romantic origins

D. Linguistic indeterminacy

7311. What was the importance of the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867 ?
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A. They allowed new colonization and imperialism efforts.

B. They allowed women to divorce their husbands.

C. They established new standards for Victorian morality.

D. They raised the question of whether women should be able to vote.

7312. 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 struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work

D. Pamelas attempt to seduce her employer

7313. Which of the following best characterizes Wordsworths attitude towards the French Revolution ?
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A. He favored its democratic impulses but was appalled by its destructive nature.

B. He opposed it in favor of supporting the king and the ancien rgime.

C. He thought it did not go far enough in granting women rights.

D. He did not think it concerned him and his relationship to nature.

7314. Which event did Percy Shelley call the master theme of the epoch in which we live ?
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A. French Revolution

B. Industrial Revolution

C. Scientific Revolution

D. Technological Revolution

7315. 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. His lovers betrayal

C. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans

D. The Protestant Reformation

7316. For I have learned/To look on nature, not as in the hour/Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes/The sad, still music of humanity ?
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A. The poets changing relationship to nature as fount of meaning and significance

B. The falsity of human art as opposed to the immediate truth of nature

C. The utter rejection of youthful folly in favor of mature rationality

D. The failure of the poet when a youth to imagine his future

7317. Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of literacy in the 19thcentury ?
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A. More magazines on the market

B. Lower prices for magazines

C. The rise in serialized fiction

D. The passage of the Reform Bills

7318. Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?
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A. An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others pain and joy

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

C. A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity

D. A sense of awe in the power of the natural world

7319. Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Robinson Crusoes and Oroonokos relationship to central features of the early English novel ?
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A. Where Oroonoko foregrounds supernatural agents, Robinson Crusoe avoids religion completely.

B. Both are largely set in South America, reflecting the relationship between empire and the early English novel.

C. Oroonoko seems to defend the aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates the struggles of the middle class.

D. Both make claims to historical veracity.

7320. Which of the following genres is NOT part of the hybrid form of Behns Oroonoko ?
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A. Biography

B. Nonfiction

C. Travel memoir

D. Detective story

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