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The main plot of Richardson’s Pamela reflects the main characteristics of the sentimental novel through its emphasis on which of the following ?


aPamela’s attempt to seduce her employer

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bPamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner

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cPamela’s struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work

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d Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer

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View Answer Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer

Which of the following best characterizes Wordsworth’s attitude towards the French Revolution ?


aHe thought it did not go far enough in granting women rights.

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bHe opposed it in favor of supporting the king and the ancien régime.

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cHe favored its democratic impulses but was appalled by its destructive nature.

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dHe did not think it concerned him and his relationship to nature.

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View Answer He favored its democratic impulses but was appalled by its destructive nature.

Which of the following directives was part of Queen Victoria’s moral crusade ?


aThere should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world.

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bConcerts in the parks that were attended by ordinary people should be banned.

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cCivil servants should talk more openly and publicly about their moral work.

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dMembers of the Jewish and Catholic faiths should be excluded from public office.

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View Answer There should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?


aNature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination

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bThe limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world

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cThe poet as special interpreter of the world

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d The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world

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View Answer The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world

Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?


a demonstrate the importance of the topic.

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bset up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.

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creveal the learnedness of the characters.

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delicit the sympathy of elite readers

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View Answer set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.

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

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bA focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems

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cA call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works

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dA nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems

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View Answer An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems

Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?


aa radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.

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ba continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.

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ca rejection of nature in favor of society.

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da defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

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View Answer a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.

Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffe’s medieval settings______________?


a indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.

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bsuggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.

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c is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.

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dimplies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience.

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View Answer implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience.

Complete the following sentence. Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to the idea that______________?


acertain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.

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bthe true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.

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cthe poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.

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d it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

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View Answer the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.

Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?


aits focus on his lost love.

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bits rejection of scientific progress.

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cits elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.

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dits development of elements from national folklore.

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View Answer its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.

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