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
D. Both A and B
Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries
“Do we now live in an enlightened age? The answer is, ‘no,’ but we do live in an age of enlightenment.” ?
A. Immanuel Kant
B. John Locke
C. David Hume
D. Denis Diderot
Complete the following sentence. We can best understand the medieval setting of Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto as______________?
A. revealing his interest in Chaucer.
B. enabling his 18th-century readers access to a world they would see as less rational.
C. promoting the rise of museums.
D. commenting on the French and Indian War.
Which of the following texts is an example of a sentimental novel ?
A. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
B. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
C. Richardson’s Pamela
D. Lewis’s The Monk
Which of the following best characterizes the ways that Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho links the Gothic novel with the sentimental form ?
A. Its use of a medieval setting to reflect on rational progress
B. Its focus on having readers vicariously experience the dangers that a heroine faces
C. Its ambivalent treatment of its leading villain
D. Its use of the sublime
In Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach,” the speaker refers to the “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar” of “The Sea of Faith.” This reference alludes to which of the following ?
A. The Protestant Reformation
B. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans
C. The decline of religion’s importance in the modern West
D. His lover’s betrayal
Which of the following events was NOT associated with the Victorian period ?
A. Repeal of the corn laws
B. Opium Wars
C. Great Exhibition
D. French Revolution
With which of these writers is the “spontaneous overflow of emotion” associated ?
A. Ann Radcliffe
B. William Wordsworth
C. John Keats
D. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Which of the following genres is NOT part of the hybrid form of Behn’s Oroonoko ?
A. Nonfiction
B. Travel memoir
C. Detective story
D. Biography
Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?
A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
B. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
D. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.
