English Literature MCQs

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Why do scholars consider the first wave of the English Gothic novel an aspect of Romanticism ?


aThe use of poetic prose in the Gothic novel

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bThe Gothic novel’s interest in the apocalyptic prophecies found in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures

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cThe ascendency of human reason in the Gothic novel

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dThe representation of contemporary life in the Gothic novel

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Why does one scholar suggest that “The Monk” represents literary transvestism ?


aThe habited nuns

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bAmbrosio’s rape and murder of his sister

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cLewis’s use of a female pseudonym in the original edition

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dLewis’s choiceof a feminine literary genre

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View Answer The habited nuns

How does Frankenstein’s monster learn about the Garden of Eden ?


aHe reads the Bible.

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bHe is taught by Victor about the Bible.

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cHe reads Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”

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dHe listens outside church services.

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What does the term “angel in the house” signify ?


aThe idea that women should advise men

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bThe idea that the Victorian woman represents “the new woman”

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cThe idea that women are pure and morally superior to men

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dThe idea that confinement in the home may induce madness

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What Gothic literary convention did NOT originate with Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto” ?


aThe ancestral castle

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bPsychological terror

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cThe supernatural

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dPhysical violence

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View Answer Psychological terror

All of the following are ways in which “The Castle of Otranto” reflects the values of Enlightenment England EXCEPT_________________?


a The concern for the sanctity of legal inheritance

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bThe interest in the lessons and values of the Middle Ages for England in the 18th century

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cThe support for the British class system

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dThe belief in British superiority to foreign countries

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All of the following refer to “the uncanny” EXCEPT________________?


aA psychoanalytic term that explains terror

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bThe supernatural

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c“Unheimlich”

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dA sense of uncomfortable strangeness

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In what way does Gothic-style architecture complement the themes of the Gothic novel ?


aThe ethereal quality of the interior space of Gothic architecture

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bThe scientific advancement of the ribbed vault and flying buttress associated with Gothic architecture

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cThe reduction in width of the stone masonry in Gothic architecture

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dThe immense scale typical of Gothic structuresThe immense scale typical of Gothic structures

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In “Jane Eyre” how does Bertha NOT trouble the patriarchy ?


aShe is sexually deviant

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bShe exemplifies unfeminine anger.

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cShe is not submissive.

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dShe is understood to be mad.

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Why do critics see Frankenstein’s monster as equivalent to the Biblical Adam ?


aHis habitat is equivalent to the Garden of Eden.

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bHe is a mistake.

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cHe is the first of his kind.

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dHe is responsible for the burden of original sin.

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