cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries MCQs

B. By dismissing all knowledge from outside Europe

C. By questioning the nature of scientific method

D. By rejecting the divine right of kings

A. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other sonnets in its focus on love.

B. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like other sonnets.

D. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence Sonnets from the Portuguese.

A. Repeal of the corn laws

C. Opium Wars

D. Great Exhibition

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

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

D. The lyric poem creates a personal sense of emotion.

B. It does not cloud the novel with authorial intrusion that confuses the emotions.

C. It provides access to the heroines innermost reactions.

D. It provides a sense of immediacy because the letters are written in the thick of the action.

A. A work of literature that attempts to improve society

B. Literature that relies on devices like irony, sarcasm, and humor

D. A text that exposes serious flaws under the veil of comedy

A. The churchs potential to unify the populace after the English revolution

B. Parliaments ability to restrain the power of the King

C. The monarchs ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance

A. He created a radically new form.

C. He made obscure allusions.

D. He used unusual, arcane words.

A. its absurd response to a real issue.

B. its attempt to shock readers into acting.

C. its mocking tone.

A. His Promethean striving to exceed human limitations as explored by Byron and Percy Shelley

B. Its suggestion that the natural order has laws beyond human control

C. His desire to create a political revolution

A. an Enlightenment focus on useful knowledge.

B. a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and knowing limitations.

D. his use of the heroic couplet.

A. its focus on his lost love.

C. its rejection of scientific progress.

D. its development of elements from national folklore.

A. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelleys works

B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keatss poems

C. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byrons poems

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

C. Life experience does not have to power to alter human opinions.

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

B. The links between sexuality and economics

C. The importance of sisterly bonds

D. The dangers of sensuality to women

A. Members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths should be excluded from public office.

B. Civil servants should talk more openly and publicly about their moral work.

D. Concerts in the parks that were attended by ordinary people should be banned.

A. A sense of adventure

B. Reason over emotions

D. The necessity for an aristocracy

A. rejection of traditional form.

B. rejection of arts political role.

D. attempt to link poetry with music.

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.

B. Their conservative poetics

C. Their radical politics

D. Their nationalistic tone