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Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period ?
A. The notoriety of the Lake School
B. Technological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press
C. Innovations in retailing, such as the cut-price sale of remaindered books
D. Increased literacy, thanks in large part to Sunday schools
The basic theme of Arnold’s Literature and Dogma is____________?
A. Contemporary literary criticism
B. Art and Literature
C. Theology
D. Social changes in the Victorian Age
Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
A. automatic writing
B. confused daze
C. total recall
D. stream of consciousness
Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as God’s deputy ?
A. manifest destiny
B. extreme unction
C. royal absolutism
D. constitutional monarchism
Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
A. formal diplomatic relations with China
B. the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade
C. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
D. the union of England and Wales with Scotland
What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
A. Elephant and Castle
B. Grub Street
C. Covent Garden
D. Cheapside
Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true ?
A. She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
B. She was a virgin martyr.
C. She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.
D. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.
Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb bowdlerize.What does it mean ?
A. the expurgation of indelicate language
B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary
C. the insertion of bawdy songs
D. the misspelling of simple words like theand and
While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
A. a history of everyday life
B. an instructional manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
D. a book of model letters
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