English Literature MCQs

Page No. 251

In “Dracula” what does the death of Lucy suggest ?


aThat sexual purity was less important than society’s safety

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bThat female sexuality is dangerous and must be destroyed

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cThat women are not one-dimensional

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dThat men consider themselves responsible for their own fates

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View Answer That female sexuality is dangerous and must be destroyed

What do scholars Michael O’Rourke and David Collings argue about “Queer Romanticism” ?


aRomantic literary criticism has been stubbornly limited with regard to queer readings.

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bDeviant sexuality, including homosexuality, has historically been associated with Romantic literature.

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cThe sexual lives of Romantic-era authors are not relevant to our understanding of queer Romanticism.

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dThe “Queer Gothic” is understudied.

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View Answer Romantic literary criticism has been stubbornly limited with regard to queer readings.

“It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.” How does this opening sentence of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ?


aThe reference to ancestral halls

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bThe uncommon nature of the event

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cThe first-person narrator

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dThe dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate

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View Answer The first-person narrator

In what way do the houses in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Jane Eyre” differ from each other as Gothic literary structures ?


aThe relative location of the room in which the “troubled” women are kept

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b The state of disrepair when the houses are first encountered by the protagonists

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cThe relative location of the houses within the larger communities

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dThe relative age of the houses

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View Answer The state of disrepair when the houses are first encountered by the protagonists

How does the use of Gothic architecture assist the Gothic novelist ?


aIt engenders confusion for both the novel’s protagonist and readers.

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bIt offers a secure refuge for the novel’s protagonist.

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cIt provides the space for a large community of people to congregate.

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dIt represents the glory of a bygone age.

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View Answer It engenders confusion for both the novel’s protagonist and readers.

Why has Bertha been characterized as the “madwoman in the attic” by literary scholars ?


aTo represent the expansion of Gothic literary spaces from only subterranean spaces to attics as well

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bTo represent the shift from the male Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain in the Victorian Gothic novel

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cTo make reference to the rise of personal responsibility in Victorian England for the care of the sick and insane

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dTo make an ironic statement about the point of view and marginalization of the “Other” in Victorian England

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View Answer To make an ironic statement about the point of view and marginalization of the “Other” in Victorian England

Which of the following terms is most closely related to the phrase “the explained supernatural” ?


aThe uncanny

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bThe fallen world

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cThe “Other”

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dThe sublime

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View Answer The uncanny

How is the concept of “the new woman” Gothic ?


aIt represents a “doubling” of Queen Victoria by English women as they remake themselves in her image.

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bIt represents the “transformation” of the traditional Victorian woman from the private sphere to the public sphere.

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cIt represents the rise in psychological pathologies or “madness” in women in the late 19th century.

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dIt represents the “pollution” of the ideal woman by foreign influences.

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View Answer It represents the “transformation” of the traditional Victorian woman from the private sphere to the public sphere.

In “The Castle of Otranto” which attitude does Walpole express towards primogeniture ?


aIt is a necessary part of the social order.

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bIt is essentially fair.

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cIt is monstrous.

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dIt will naturally fall out of favor.

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View Answer It is monstrous.

How is Thornfield in “Jane Eyre” different from the structures found in the first wave of Gothic novels ?


a It is an ancestral estate.

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bIt contains vault-like spaces.

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cIt is located in England.

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dIt is mysterious.

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View Answer It is located in England.

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