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.

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bThe lyric poem has a song-like quality.

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cThe lyric poem creates a personal sense of emotion.

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dThe lyric poem focuses on action.

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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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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dBoth make claims to historical veracity.

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


aAlexander Pope

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bPercy Shelley

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cSamuel Taylor Coleridge

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dAlfred Tennyson

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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

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bRichardson’s Pamela

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cRadcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho

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dWalpole’s The Castle of Otranto

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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.

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

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

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

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


asocial contract theory of government.

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bblank slate or tabula rasa.

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cdivine authority of kings.

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d natural political rights.

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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

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bTo help him reach the afterlife

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cTo help him hear nature’s music

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dTo help him start a new revolutionary war

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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.

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

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cPeople found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority.

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dAll of these answers

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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

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

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

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d All of these answers

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