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

A. traveled to America.

B. believed in God.

C. rejected Newtons view of the universe.

A. Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy.

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

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

A. Swifts A Modest Proposal

B. Popes The Rape of the Lock

C. Lewiss The Monk

A. Disassociating painting and poetry

B. A return to neoclassical aesthetics

C. Rejecting English poetic tradition

A. Social contract

B. Checks and balances

D. Enlightened monarchy

A. Samuel Richardson

B. Laurence Sterne

D. Daniel Defoe

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

A. Subjective experience

C. Romantic origins

D. Linguistic indeterminacy

A. They allowed new colonization and imperialism efforts.

B. They allowed women to divorce their husbands.

C. They established new standards for Victorian morality.

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

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.

B. Industrial Revolution

C. Scientific Revolution

D. Technological Revolution

B. His lovers betrayal

C. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans

D. The Protestant Reformation

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

A. More magazines on the market

B. Lower prices for magazines

C. The rise in serialized fiction

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

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.

A. Biography

B. Nonfiction

C. Travel memoir

A. It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period.

B. It functions as a metaphor for the womens rights movement.

D. It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

B. social contract theory of government.

C. blank slate or tabula rasa.

D. natural political rights.

A. are an example of antithesis to suggest the falcons contradictory nature.

B. refer to the speakers heart.

D. indicate the speakers lack of faith.

A. by emphasizing sexual morality.

B. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.

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

A. language shows humanitys impulse towards order.

B. reason can help man understand beauty.

C. civilization comes through beauty.

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

B. Victor Frankensteins diary.

D. Mrs. Saville, Frankensteins cousin.

B. It has a melancholic tone.

C. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a natural setting as an occasion for philosophical reflection.

D. It is a dramatic monologue.

B. devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.

C. reliance on classical scholarship.

D. defense of violent emotions as natural.

B. commenting on the French and Indian War.

C. revealing his interest in Chaucer.

D. promoting the rise of museums.

A. Darwins work was almost universally accepted from its first appearance.

B. Almost all religious authorities rejected Darwins work completely.

C. Darwins work had little initial influence on Victorian society and culture.

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.

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

A. A discussion of womens roles inside and outside the home

B. A conversation about womens work as a product of the Industrial Revolution

C. A debate about whether women should be able to vote