English Literature MCQs

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Robinson Crusoe’s isolation on a deserted island allows Defoe to explore his development in which of the following ways ?


aHis relationship to God and Christianity

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b His understanding of the basis of economics

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c His understanding of the basis of economics

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dBoth A and B

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View Answer Both A and B

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.

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bIt denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

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cIt focuses on adventures.

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dIt connects to poetry.

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View Answer It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

Complete the following sentence. In the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover,” the words “daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon” ?


aare an example of antithesis to suggest the falcon’s contradictory nature.

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buse alliterative language to draw attention to the falcon’s importance as a symbol of Christ.

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crefer to the speaker’s heart.

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drefer to the speaker’s heart.

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View Answer use alliterative language to draw attention to the falcon’s importance as a symbol of Christ.

In Pamela, how does the epistolary style enhance the sentimental aspects of the novel ?


a It provides access to the heroine’s innermost reactions.

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bIt does not cloud the novel with authorial intrusion that confuses the emotions.

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cIt provides a sense of immediacy because the letters are written in the thick of the action.

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dAll of these answers

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View Answer All of these answers

Which event did Percy Shelley call “the master theme of the epoch in which we live” ?


aIndustrial Revolution

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b French Revolution

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c Scientific Revolution

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dTechnological Revolution

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View Answer French Revolution

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

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b The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the Encyclopédie

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cThe ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes”

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dThe need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like Robinson Crusoe

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View Answer The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes”

Radcliffe’s version of the Gothic differs most from Walpole’s in its use of which of the following ?


aThe sublime

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bThe explained supernatural

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cIts medieval settings

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dIts use of mysterious events to spur readers’ interests and emotional responses

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View Answer The explained supernatural

Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language most reflects an 18thcentury interest in which of the following ?


a Classification, order, and judgment

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bRomantic origins

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cLinguistic indeterminacy

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dSubjective experience

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View Answer Classification, order, and judgment

Which of the following novelists was NOT associated with the rise of the novel as a literary form ?


aSamuel Richardson

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b Laurence Sterne

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cDaniel Defoe

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dCharles Dickens

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View Answer Charles Dickens

How was the philosophical and popular emphasis on sensibility in the 18th century related to the development of the novel ?


aLike the novel, it focused on romantic relationships.

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bLike the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion.

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cLike the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings.

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dLike the novel, it demonized the aristocracy.

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View Answer Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings.

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