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Category: Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries
Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most fundamentally emphasizes which theme from Johnson’s other works or other 18thcentury works ?
A. The need for linguistic correctness as exemplified in his Dictionary
B. The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the Encyclopédie
C. The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
D. The need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like Robinson Crusoe
Which of the following statements best characterizes Romanticism’s relationship to the Enlightenment ?
A. Romanticism continued the Enlightenment’s focus on a universal order best apprehended through reason.
B. Romanticism challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on objectivity as the basis of truth.
C. Romanticism largely abandoned the
Enlightenment’s hope in progressive political change.
D. Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism deemed the natural world unimportant
Victor Frankenstein’s project to create life in Mary Shelley’s novel can be linked to romanticism through which of the following ?
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
“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
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