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The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?
A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems
B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems
C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works
D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems
How did ideas about the spread of the British Empire start to shift in the Victorian Period ?
A. Competition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners.
B. Colonizers were no longer necessarily interested in reforming indigenous populations.
C. People found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority.
D. All of these answers
What was the “white man’s burden” that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title ?
A. The pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions
B. The burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands
C. The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations
D. The concept that all white men do not share the same imperial duties
Complete the following sentence. Neoclassicism most paralleled Enlightenment thought in its_______________?
A. rejection of Renaissance optimism.
B. rejection of traditional models.
C. emphasis on order, logic, and universal truths.
D. emphasis on the corrupt nature of the aristocracy.
Both the Gothic and sentimental fiction emphasize which of the following ?
A. Reason over emotions
B. The necessity for an aristocracy
C. The power of feelings
D. A sense of adventure
Radcliffe’s version of the Gothic differs most from Walpole’s in its use of which of the following ?
A. The sublime
B. The explained supernatural
C. Its medieval settings
D. Its use of mysterious events to spur readers’ interests and emotional responses
How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?
A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.
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.
Jonathan Swift’s suggestion in “A Modest Proposal” that the Irish eat their children exemplifies the characteristics of a satire in all of the following ways EXCEPT_______________?
A. its mocking tone.
B. its absurd response to a real issue.
C. its sentimental plea to its audience.
D. its attempt to shock readers into acting.
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