English Literature MCQs

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In which of the following ways does Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho combine the features of the Gothic and the sentimental ?


a It emphasizes emotion over reason.


bIt has a didactic moral focus.


c There is a focus on a central love story.


d All of these answers



Which of the following events was NOT associated with the Victorian period ?


aRepeal of the corn laws


bOpium Wars


cGreat Exhibition


dFrench Revolution


View Answer French Revolution

Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?


aThe effect of the sublime on the physical body


bThe distinction between the sublime and beauty


c An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting


dThe important role surprise plays in creating pleasure



The Pre-Raphaelites are best known for which of the following ?


a A return to neoclassical aesthetics


bDisassociating painting and poetry


cLavish attention to the sensuous elements of life


dRejecting English poetic tradition



Which of the following statements best characterizes Romanticism’s relationship to the Enlightenment ?


aRomanticism continued the Enlightenment’s focus on a universal order best apprehended through reason.


bRomanticism challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on objectivity as the basis of truth.


cRomanticism largely abandoned the Enlightenment’s hope in progressive political change.


dUnlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism deemed the natural world unimportant



“Do we now live in an enlightened age? The answer is, ‘no,’ but we do live in an age of enlightenment.” ?


aImmanuel Kant


bJohn Locke


cDavid Hume


dDenis Diderot


View Answer Immanuel Kant

Which writer is most closely associated with the serialized novel ?


a William Congreve


bAnn Radcliffe


cMatthew Lewis


d Charles Dickens


View Answer Charles Dickens

Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar______________?


a devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.


bemphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration.


creliance on classical scholarship.


ddefense of violent emotions as natural.



The development of the novel is associated with all of the following EXCEPT__________________?


ascientific emphasis on detailed observation.


bthe political focus on individuals and their rights.


cphilosophical theories of sympathy and human emotions.


d the continuing importance of mythological stories.



With which of these writers is the “spontaneous overflow of emotion” associated ?


a Ann Radcliffe


bWilliam Wordsworth


cJohn Keats


dAlfred Lord Tennyson


View Answer William Wordsworth

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