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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
From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?
A. Arabian Nights
B. Canterbury Tales
C. Shah Namah
D. Pilgrims Progress
Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the …..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?
A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
D. hearth; needle; heart; obey
Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
A. Anthony Trollope
B. Charles Dickens
C. John Ruskin
D. Friedrich Engels
What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia
C. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value
Which work did Edmund Spenser author ?
A. The Castle of Perseverance
B. The Double
C. The Metamorphoses
D. The Faerie Queene
For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
B. modern literary criticism
C. late “nineteenth-century and early” twentieth-century satirical drama
D. the surrealist movement
Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after William Wordsworth ?
A. D.G Rossetti
B. Tennyson
C. Robert Browning
D. George Eliot
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