English Literature MCQs

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Tennyson’s “Ulysses” can be characterized in all of the following ways, EXCEPT________________?


ait thematizes the importance of choosing action over complacency.


bit reflects a Victorian attitude of continuing to fight against loss of hope or faith.


c it uses Greek mythology to comment on contemporary questions.


dit emphasizes the internal life of the mind over social action.



Victor Frankenstein’s project to create life in Mary Shelley’s novel can be linked to romanticism through which of the following ?


aHis Promethean striving to exceed human limitations as explored by Byron and Percy Shelley


bIts suggestion that the natural order has laws beyond human control


cHis desire to create a political revolution


dBoth A and B


View Answer Both A and B

Jonathan Swift’s suggestion in “A Modest Proposal” that the Irish eat their children exemplifies the characteristics of a satire in all of the following ways EXCEPT_______________?


a its mocking tone.


b its absurd response to a real issue.


c its sentimental plea to its audience.


d its attempt to shock readers into acting.



With which literary form or movement is the Restoration most closely associated ?


aFamiliar essays


bComedies of manners


cRomanticism


dMedievalism


View Answer Comedies of manners

Why were coffee-houses important in the Restoration ?


aThey enabled discussion about important literary texts.


bThey created a space for the exchange of pamphlets.


cThey offered people a private place in which they could plan political revolts.


dBoth A and B


View Answer Both A and B

Complete the following sentence. The Romantic movement is least closely related to______________?


afolklore


bnationalism


cparody


dexoticism


View Answer parody

How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?


a It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.


bIt suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.


cIt indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.


dIt reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution.



Complete the following sentence. Neoclassicism most paralleled Enlightenment thought in its_______________?


arejection of Renaissance optimism.


brejection of traditional models


cemphasis on order, logic, and universal truths.


demphasis on the corrupt nature of the aristocracy.



What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?


aAn identical rhyme structure


b The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages


cThe sense of hope that death will come soon


dA shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life



Which of the following is NOT a central theme of Wordsworth’s poetry ?


aThe common man


b The promises of technology


cThe outcast figure


dThe movement of time



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