English Literature MCQs

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Which of the following statements does NOT accurately characterize a lyric poem ?


a The lyric poem is a popular form in the Romantic era.


bThe lyric poem has a song-like quality.


cThe lyric poem creates a personal sense of emotion.


dThe lyric poem focuses on action.



What was the “white man’s burden” that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title ?


aThe pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions


bThe burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands


cThe Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations


dThe concept that all white men do not share the same imperial duties



Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Robinson Crusoe’s and Oroonoko’s relationship to central features of the early English novel ?


aWhere Oroonoko foregrounds supernatural agents, Robinson Crusoe avoids religion completely.


bBoth are largely set in South America, reflecting the relationship between empire and the early English novel.


cOroonoko seems to defend the aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates the struggles of the middle class.


dBoth make claims to historical veracity.



Which poet did Arthur Henry Hallum associate with “the picturesque” ?


aAlexander Pope


bPercy Shelley


cSamuel Taylor Coleridge


dAlfred Tennyson


View Answer Alfred Tennyson

Which of the following works is considered to be the first Gothic novel ?


a Congreve’s The Way of the World


bRichardson’s Pamela


cRadcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho


dWalpole’s The Castle of Otranto



Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?


aTheir imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.


b Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.


cBoth focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.


dTheir epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.



John Locke is known for advocating all of the following ideas EXCEPT________________?


asocial contract theory of government.


bblank slate or tabula rasa.


cdivine authority of kings.


d natural political rights.



In “Ode to the West Wind,” why does Shelley ask the wind to “make me thy lyre” ?


a To help drive his ideas across the universe


bTo help him reach the afterlife


cTo help him hear nature’s music


dTo help him start a new revolutionary war



How did ideas about the spread of the British Empire start to shift in the Victorian Period ?


aCompetition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners.


bCompetition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners.


cPeople found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority.


dAll of these answers


View Answer All of these answers

What was the “Woman Question” in the Victorian Period ?


aA debate about whether women should be able to vote


bA discussion of women’s roles inside and outside the home


cA conversation about women’s work as a product of the Industrial Revolution


d All of these answers



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