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Category: Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries
Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?
A. its focus on his lost love.
B. its rejection of scientific progress.
C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
D. its development of elements from national folklore.
Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship between Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and Victorian society and its ideals ?
A. Darwin’s work echoed Victorian thought with its emphasis on struggle while disrupting Victorian faith by decentering humans.
B. Darwin’s work was almost universally accepted from its first appearance.
C. Darwin’s work had little initial influence on Victorian society and culture.
D. Almost all religious authorities rejected Darwin’s work completely.
Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?
A. traveled to America.
B. believed in God.
C. emphasized the importance of human emotions as guiding behavior.
D. rejected Newton’s view of the universe.
Which of the following novelists was NOT associated with the rise of the novel as a literary form ?
A. Samuel Richardson
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Charles Dickens
Shelley expresses all of the following ideas in A Defence of Poetry, EXCEPT______________?
A. reason can help man understand beauty.
B. civilization comes through beauty.
C. language shows humanity’s impulse towards order.
D. poetry has no effect on society.
Which of the following social issues does Dickens confront in Great Expectations ?
A. Penal reform
B. Educational reform
C. The role of the monarchy
D. Both A and B
What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?
A. An identical rhyme structure
B. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages
C. The sense of hope that death will come soon
D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life
How was the philosophical and popular emphasis on sensibility in the 18th century related to the development of the novel ?
A. Like the novel, it focused on romantic relationships.
B. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion.
C. Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings.
D. Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy.
Which event did Percy Shelley call “the master theme of the epoch in which we live” ?
A. Industrial Revolution
B. French Revolution
C. Scientific Revolution
D. Technological Revolution
Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar______________?
A. devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.
B. emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration.
C. reliance on classical scholarship.
D. defense of violent emotions as natural.
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