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How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?
A. It focuses on a royal hero.
B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
C. It focuses on adventures.
D. It connects to poetry.
Which of the following political ideas is least related to the Enlightenment ?
A. Checks and balances
B. Social contract
C. Enlightened monarchy
D. Socialism
For I have learned/To look on nature, not as in the hour/Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes/The sad, still music of humanity” ?
A. The poet’s changing relationship to nature as fount of meaning and significance
B. The falsity of human art as opposed to the immediate truth of nature
C. The failure of the poet when a youth to imagine his future
D. The utter rejection of youthful folly in favor of mature rationality
Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?
A. demonstrate the importance of the topic.
B. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.
C. reveal the learnedness of the characters.
D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers
Which of the following is a central theme of Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin Market” ?
A. The dangers of sensuality to women
B. The links between sexuality and economics
C. The importance of sisterly bonds
D. All of these answers
With which literary form or movement is the Restoration most closely associated ?
A. Familiar essays
B. Comedies of manners
C. Romanticism
D. Medievalism
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.
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