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Category: Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries
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.
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.
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