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1401. What famous modernist short story D. T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”
compares the universe to an infinite library Answer: Option A. Andre Breton’s
of hexagonal galleries ? “Surrealist Manifesto”
A. Joyce’s “The Dead”
B. Hemingway’s “My Old Man” 1405. As a result of the outbreak of World
C. Woolf’s “A Haunted House” War I and anti-German sentiment which
D. Borges’ “The Library of Babel” important British public figure had to adopt
Answer: Option D. Borges’ “The Library of the family name of Windsor ?
Babel” A. The Suffragette Emmeline Pankhust
B. King George V
1402. Jazz music is described by which of C. King Edward VII
the following characteristics ? D. King James II
A. A way of questioning Victorian moral Answer: Option B. King George V
conceptions
B. A musical invention of the modern age 1406. Which of the following is true of
that allows for experimentation of form Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” ?
C. An example of subjective artistic A. It ends with the lines: “Eternity./It is the
expression sea run off/ With the sun.”
D. All of the above B. It suggests that the quest for knowledge
Answer: Option D. All of the above and enlightenment is deeply satisfying.
C. The poem speaks of the necessity of
1403. Which author writes a profound seeking human approval and communal
criticism of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of acceptance.
Darkness,” accusing Conrad of reinforcing D. It begins with the lines: “I kissed the
typical European stereotypes of Africa ? dawn of summer.”
A. Chinua Achebe Answer: Option A. It ends with the lines:
B. Edward Said “Eternity./It is the sea run off/ With the
C. Arundhati Roy sun.”
D. Salman Rushdie
Answer: Option A. Chinua Achebe 1407. According to Theodor Adorno’s and
Max Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry:
1404. Surrealism became an official Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” which of
aesthetic movement of the modern period the following is true of the culture industry ?
with the publication of which work ? A. The culture industry is classified by
A. Andre Breton’s “Surrealist Manifesto” ruthless uniformity of all ideas.
B. James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
C. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
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B. The culture industry is the chief method businessmen engaged in importing spices
by which technology brings true democracy from South Asia.
to all.
C. The culture industry is a fundamental 1410. Important contemporary reviews of
way to promote individuality. Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” tend to
D. The culture industry is chiefly intended to focus on which of the following aspects of
offer consumers the opportunity to classify the novel ?
wants and desires as well as corresponding A. The profound and often troubling
production. relationships among characters
Answer: Option A. The culture industry is B. The novel’s experimental structure
classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas. C. The novel’s radically unique narrative
voice
1408. Which of the following was one of the D. All of the above
major health consequences for soldiers who Answer: Option D. All of the above
survived the traumas of trench warfare in
World War One ? 1411. According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s
A. Lyme disease “General Introduction to Postmodernism,”
B. Staph infections what is the meaning of the term “simulacra”
C. Shell shock ?
D. A and C only A. “Something that replaces reality with its
Answer: Option C. Shell shock representation”
B. “A stable referent to a knowable original
1409. Which of the following statements cultural artifact”
best describes the “British East India C. “An exact imitation of the material world”
Company ?” D. “A basic affirmation of everyday reality”
A. The British East India Company was Answer: Option A. “Something that
originally a group of London businessmen replaces reality with its representation”
engaged in importing spices from South
Asia. 1412. Which of the following descriptions of
B. The British East India Company first the “Avant-Garde Movement” is false ?
entered South Asia as importers of British A. The avant-garde, a military term meaning
Tea. “advanced guard,” was founded in France in
C. The British East India Company was the mid-19th century.
essentially a covert British army. B. The term avant-garde itself means
D. Both A and B “advanced guard,” and the military role of
Answer: Option A. The British East India the advanced guard and the role of the
Company was originally a group of London
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avantgarde art movement are much of the


same. 1415. Which of the following descriptions
C. The realist painter Gustave Courbet never accurately describes Joseph Conrad’s “Heart
considered himself a member of the avant- of Darkness” ?
garde. A. The end of the novella depicts Marlow’s
D. Both A and B conversation with the Kurtz’s Intended.
Answer: Option C. The realist painter B. The work considers the dark side of
Gustave Courbet never considered himself a European colonialism.
member of the avant-garde. C. Marlow comes to understand the
necessity of European leadership in Africa.
1413. The motto “art for art’s sake” means D. Both A and B
that artists began to do which of the Answer: Option D. Both A and B
following ?
A. Produce works of art that were 1416. What is the “Post-Modern” practice of
meaningless “Deconstructionism” ?
B. Reject artistic production that was A. An assault on the notion that there is any
obligatorily moral in character knowable truth
C. Avoid all forms of prose B. An assault on the sexual mores of the
D. Make art profitable above all else Victorian Age
Answer: Option B. Reject artistic C. A reaffirmation of Romantic notions of
production that was obligatorily moral in the sublime
character D. All of the above
Answer: Option A. An assault on the
1414. Which of the following statements is notion that there is any knowable truth
true of the Anglo-Irish War ?
A. The Anglo-Irish war began with the 1417. The last decade of the nineteenth
resistance of the Irish Republican Army. century saw the development of a number
B. The Anglo-Irish war never involved a of literary and cultural movements which
guerrilla campaign. amounted to a rejection of the principles of
C. In the course of the Anglo-Irish War, only Victorianism because of which social
a few hundred members of the Irish transformations ?
Republican Army were actively resisting A. The shift from agriculturally-based to
British rule. industrial societies in the West
D. All of the above B. The decline of traditional religious beliefs
Answer: Option A. The Anglo-Irish war in Europe
began with the resistance of the Irish C. The rise of traditional social identities and
Republican Army. the decline of personal identity
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D. Both A and B D. Aristotle


Answer: Option D. Both A and B Answer: Option A. Marx

1418. Which of the following best describes 1421. Why does the “Flâneur” begin to
James Joyce’s “Araby” ? disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?
A. It begins with the famous line: “North A. Because of the increasing prominence of
Richmond Street being blind, was a quiet department stores in Paris
street except at the hour when the Christian B. Because of the advent of arcade projects
Brothers’ School set the boys free.” C. Because they began to purchase products
B. It speaks of the author’s illicit relationship as they walked the urbanscape
with a young girl. D. Because they were threatened by police
C. It is a dramatization of the relationship with jail
between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Answer: Option A. Because of the
Eden. increasing prominence of department stores
D. It is an analysis of “Exodus” from “The in Paris
Holy Bible.”
Answer: Option A. It begins with the 1422. Georges Braque’s “Woman with a
famous line: “North Richmond Street being Guitar” is an example of which of the
blind, was a quiet street except at the hour following artistic movements ?
when the Christian Brothers’ School set the A. Cubism
boys free.” B. Vorticism
C. Futurism
1419. Literary critics who analyze the works D. A and B only
of Salman Rushdie often engage which Answer: Option A. Cubism
“Post-Modern” school of criticism ?
A. Marxism 1423. Between 1890 and 1919, which of the
B. Post-Colonial Theory following was a preoccupation of Western
C. Deconstruction European literature ?
D. Feminism A. Sexual mores
Answer: Option B. Post-Colonial Theory B. The importance of the irrational
C. Bourgeois sensibility
1420. Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was D. All of the above
most clearly a student of ____________’s Answer: Option D. All of the above
work?
A. Marx 1424. Which novelist is NOT commonly
B. Freud thought of as producing Post-Colonial work
C. Darwin ?
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A. Arundhati Roy A. His career ended when he was jailed for


B. Salman Rushdie criminal “gross indecency.”
C. Seamus Heaney B. He believed that art should be something
D. Vladimir Nabokov more than the reproduction and
Answer: Option D. Vladimir Nabokov appreciation of the natural world.
C. Wilde was the author of such poems as
1425. According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “Bénédiction,” “L’Albatros,” and “élévation.”
module on Freud, Sigmund Freud’s work on D. He was notorious for his use of paradox.
transference and trauma argues which of Answer: Option C. Wilde was the author
the following points ? of such poems as “Bénédiction,”
A. There is an undeniable “tension between “L’Albatros,” and “élévation.”
the death-instinct and the sexual instincts.”
B. Repetition-compulsion does not help to 1428. Which of the following statements
come to terms with one’s own mortality. does NOT reflect the general characteristics
C. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit of T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” ?
“the compulsion of the human psyche to A. Some academic scholars suggest that
repeat traumatic events over and over “TheWasteland” is an extrapolation of the
again.” search for the Holy Grail.
D. Talk therapy will not help cure one’s B. “The Wasteland” is an excellent example
psychological neuroses concerning past of modernist symbolism.
trauma. C. Eliot’s poem takes great pains to illustrate
Answer: Option A. There is an undeniable the breakdown of stable meaning in the
“tension between the death-instinct and the modern world.
sexual instincts.” D. “The Wasteland” is often used as an
excellent example of poetic realism.
1426. T.S. Eliot considered which of the Answer: Option D. “The Wasteland” is
following one of the greatest short stories often used as an excellent example of poetic
ever written ? realism.
A. “The Dead”
B. “The Surrealist Manifesto” 1429. Which of the following best describes
C. “The Heart of Darkness” the novel “The God of Small Things?”
D. “To the Lighthouse” A. It is a lyrical novel that explores cultural
Answer: Option A. “The Dead” identity and decline of an Indian family.
B. It is a Romantic novel that explores the
1427. Which of the following statements decline of a Russian family.
regarding Oscar Wilde is false ?

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C. It is a stream-of-consciousness narrative
that explores cultural identity in nineteenth- 1432. Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian
century Ireland. Gray” is an example of which of the
D. It is a lyrical novel that explores the following literary trends ?
decline of a Caribbean family. A. Aestheticism
Answer: Option A. It is a lyrical novel that B. Naturalism
explores cultural identity and decline of an C. Decadence
Indian family. D. Both A and C
Answer: Option D. Both A and C
1430. T.S. Eliot’s “TheWaste Land” begins
with which of the following well-known 1433. Which of the following is a literary
opening lines ? work of “The Lost Generation ?”
A. “Was it for this-” A. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
B. “Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from B. James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by C. Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
a commodius vicus of recirculation back to D. Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the
Howth Castle and Environs.” Idols”
C. “And the worst friend and enemy is but Answer: Option A. Ernest Hemingway’s
Death.” “The Sun Also Rises”
D. “April is the cruellest month”
Answer: Option D. “April is the cruellest 1434. Which of the following is NOT a
month” characteristic of “Naturalism” as an artistic
and literary movement ?
1431. Which of the following is NOT a A. Naturalism is a search for scientific
characteristic of “Realism” as an artistic and certainty.
literary movement ? B. Naturalism depicts humans as reasonable
A. Realism strives to depict humans within a and objective.
certain social context. C. Naturalism depicts the more “animalistic”
B. Realism depicts the tension between tendencies of humans.
harsh reality and ideals. D. Naturalism considers the author or artist
C. Realism gives up the search for truth and to be like a scientist.
instead embraces moral relativism. Answer: Option B. Naturalism depicts
D. Realism explores ethical quandaries humans as reasonable and objective.
within a social context.
Answer: Option C. Realism gives up the 1435. Which of the following are well-known
search for truth and instead embraces moral Post-Modern theoreticians ?
relativism. A. Linda Hutcheon
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B. Jean Baudrillard Answer: Option C. Virginia Woolf


C. Thomas Hobbes
D. Both A and B 1439. According to Walter Benjamin in “The
Answer: Option D. Both A and B Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction,” which of the following is true
1436. Fill in the blank. The novel “Things ?
Fall Apart” explores ____________ society A. “Even the most perfect reproduction of a
and its encounter with European work of art is lacking in one element: its
colonialism? presence in time and space, its unique
A. Ibo existence at the place where it happens to
B. Russian be.”
C. Irish B. “The feeling of strangeness that
D. Indian overcomes the actor before the camera, as
Answer: Option A. Ibo Pirandello describes it, is basically of the
same kind as the estrangement felt before
1437. Which of the following sentences is one’s own image in the mirror.”
the famous first line of Nabokov’s “Lolita” ? C. “All art work, even mass produced art,
A. “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. clearly links to an original referent that has a
My sin, my soul.” stable and knowable meaning.”
B. “Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.” D. Both A and B
C. “Lolita, all at once we were madly, Answer: Option D. Both A and B
clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love
with each other.” 1440. Jorge Luis Borges was born the same
D. “Lolita, a cluster of stars palely glowed year as what other famous modern author ?
above us.” A. James Joyce
Answer: Option A. “Lolita, light of my life, B. Vladimir Nabokov
fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” C. T.S. Eliot
D. Joseph Conrad
1438. Who wrote the following statement: Answer: Option B. Vladimir Nabokov
“When you asked me to speak about women
and fiction I sat down on the banks of a 1441. Which of the following is true of
river and began to wonder what the words symbolism ?
meant” ? A. Symbolism began as a French literary
A. Amy Lowell movement in the late 19th century.
B. Gertrude Stein B. Paul Gauguin is an example of symbolism
C. Virginia Woolf in painting.
D. Alice Walker
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C. Symbolism adheres to an objective view 1445. Which of the following statements


of reality and a rational and realistic best describes the “Bloomsbury Group” ?
depiction of the natural world. A. The “Bloomsbury Group” consists of a
D. Both A and B group of English writers, thinkers, and
Answer: Option D. Both A and B artists who met in the Bloomsbury district of
London.
1442. E.M. Forster wrote which of the B. The group consisted of survivors of World
following novels ? War II.
A. “Pale Fire” C. The Bloomsbury group included E.M.
B. “A Passage to India” Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes,
C. “Daniel Deronda” and Virginia Woolf.
D. “On the Road” D. A and C only
Answer: Option B. “A Passage to India” Answer: Option D. A and C only

1443. Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund 1446. Which of the following is NOT a tenet
Freud, psychological “transference” helps to of F.T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” ?
understand the nature of A. “We want to sing the love of danger, the
________________? habit of danger and of temerity.”
A. Incest B. “The essential elements of our poetry will
B. Trauma be courage, daring, and revolt.”
C. Taboo C. “We want to sing the man who holds the
D. Love steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces
Answer: Option B. Trauma the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its
orbit.”
1444. According to Max Simon Nordau in his D. “We want never to glorify war, the
work “Degeneration,” which of the following scourge of the planet.”
best describes the term “Fin de Siècle” ? Answer: Option D. “We want never to
A. “The impotent despair of a sick man, who glorify war, the scourge of the planet.”
feels himself dying by inches in the midst of
an eternally living nature blooming insolently 1447. Which of the following best describes
forever” “stream of consciousness” narrative in the
B. A term that means nothing except for the modern period ?
signification given to it by the user A. Stream of consciousness often relies
C. “A confession and a complaint” upon “free association” of ideas.
D. All of the above B. Stream of consciousness is the capturing
Answer: Option D. All of the above of the interior monologue of the narrator.

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C. Stream of consciousness attempts to C. Impressionist


accurately capture the external dialogue of D. Decadent
various characters in a realistic setting by an Answer: Option C. Impressionist
objective observer.
D. A and B only 1451. Which of the following is NOT one of
Answer: Option D. A and B only Pablo Picasso’s periods of artistic production
?
1448. The development of cubism, with its A. Dadaist period
geometric and abstract concerns, can be B. Blue period
attributed largely to which of the following C. Synthetic cubism
two artists ? D. Rose period
A. Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet Answer: Option A. Dadaist period
B. T.S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis
C. Claude Monet and édouard Manet 1452. What are the differences between
D. George Braque and Pablo Picasso conservative modernism and progressive
Answer: Option D. George Braque and modernism ?
Pablo Picasso A. Conservative modernism came to look to
the past for inspiration and hope, while
1449. Which of the following Post-Modern progressive modernism looked to the future.
theoreticians explores the contradictions of B. Conservative modernism supported the
colonial discourse and the ambivalence that status quo, while progressive modernism
the colonizer feels towards the colonized was deeply engaged in political and social
“other” in works such as “Nation and amelioration.
Narration” ? C. Conservative modernism celebrated
A. Linda Hutcheon aesthetic formalism, while progressive
B. Homi Bhabha modernism celebrated innovation and
C. Jacques Derrida attacked aesthetic formalism.
D. Fredric Jameson D. All of the above
Answer: Option B. Homi Bhabha Answer: Option D. All of the above

1450. According to Dr. Michael Webster in 1453. Which of the following is NOT a
his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th characteristic of “Modernism” ?
and early 20th Century,” which of the A. A radical project of experimentation with
following is NOT a poetic mode of this time literary and artistic form
period ? B. A belief in the power of the natural world
A. Genteel to communicate transcendent truth
B. Symbolist C. The use of irony and parody
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D. Both A and B 1456. According to Tristan Tzara’s


Answer: Option B. A belief in the power of “Manifesto on Dadaism,” which of the
the natural world to communicate following does NOT define Dadaism ?
transcendent truth A. “Every product of disgust capable of
becoming a negation of the family”
1454. Which of the following best describes B. “A protest with the fists of its whole being
Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” ? engaged in destructive action”
A. Beckett’s work expresses a certain C. “Absolute and unquestionable faith in
frustration with the inability of language to every god that is the immediate product of
fully capture the human condition. spontaneity”
B. Beckett’s play explores how language D. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and
helps to form one’s notion of self. fury, signifying nothing”
C. Beckett’s work captures an almost Answer: Option D. “A tale told by an idiot,
transcendent melancholy as it explores full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
human
desires for a redemption that may or may 1457. Fill in the blank. Written over the
not ever materialize. course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an
D. All of the above examination of the human desire for
Answer: Option D. All of the above knowledge and understanding in an
inchoate modern landscape ?
1455. Which of the following best describes A. “The Sun Also Rises”
James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a B. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
Young Man” ? C. “The Cantos”
A. It begins with the famous line: “Once D. “To the Lighthouse”
upon a time and a very good time it was Answer: Option C. “The Cantos”
there was a moocow coming down along
the road and this moocow that was coming 1458. What is “Imagism” ?
down along the road met a nicens little boy A. A poetic movement which hoped to offer
named baby tuckoo…”? clear expression of ideas and feelings
B. It is a semi-autobiographical account of through the use of specific visual images
Joyce’s “coming of age” as an artist. B. An attempt to use the “exact word”
C. It captures the conflict that Stephen instead of flowery, excessive descriptive
Dedalus has with his Irish and Catholic language in poetry
heritage. C. A and B only
D. All of the above D. B and C only
Answer: Option D. All of the above Answer: Option C. A and B only

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1459. Which of the following does NOT 1462. In Linton’s The Girl of the Period,
characterize Matthew Arnold’s “Dover what course of behavior does the author
Beach” ? recommend for women ?
A. It is a dramatic monologue. A. Women should wear more makeup in
B. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a order to attract husbands.
natural setting as an occasion for B. Women should make sure to receive an
philosophical reflection. education in order to secure their own
C. It has a melancholic tone. futures.
D. It envisions Christianity as eternal. C. Women should take pains to remain
Answer: Option D. It envisions Christianity generous, modest, and capable.
as eternal. D. Women should be given the right to vote
immediately.
1460. Swinburne’s poems such as Answer: Option C. Women should take
“Hermaphroditus” are best known for which pains to remain generous, modest, and
of the following ? capable.
A. Their conservative poetics
B. Their frank depiction of sexuality 1463. Which of the following did NOT
C. Their radical politics contribute to the growth of literacy in the
D. Their nationalistic tone 19thcentury ?
Answer: Option B. Their frank depiction of A. More magazines on the market
sexuality B. The rise in serialized fiction
C. Lower prices for magazines
1461. Pope’s comment that “Know, then, D. The passage of the Reform Bills
thyself, presume God not to scan;/The Answer: Option D. The passage of the
proper study of mankind is man” in his Reform Bills
“Essay on Man” is indicative of all of the
following EXCEPT______________? 1464. Which of the following political ideas
A. his use of the heroic couplet. is least related to the Enlightenment ?
B. an Enlightenment focus on useful A. Checks and balances
knowledge. B. Social contract
C. a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and C. Enlightened monarchy
knowing limitations. D. Socialism
D. a radical questioning of revealed religion Answer: Option D. Socialism
Answer: Option D. a radical questioning of
revealed religion 1465. For I have learned/To look on nature,
not as in the hour/Of thoughtless youth; but

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hearing oftentimes/The sad, still music of C. The aristocracy


humanity” ? D. All of these answers
A. The poet’s changing relationship to Answer: Option D. All of these answers
nature as fount of meaning and significance
B. The falsity of human art as opposed to 1468. Which of the following is NOT a
the immediate truth of nature central theme of Wordsworth’s poetry ?
C. The failure of the poet when a youth to A. The common man
imagine his future B. The promises of technology
D. The utter rejection of youthful folly in C. The outcast figure
favor of mature rationality D. The movement of time
Answer: Option A. The poet’s changing Answer: Option B. The promises of
relationship to nature as fount of meaning technology
and significance
1469. What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern
1466. Which of the following most Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode”
accurately describes the relationship have in common ?
between Darwin’s On the Origin of Species A. An identical rhyme structure
and Victorian society and its ideals ? B. The belief that a person is incapable of
A. Darwin’s work echoed Victorian thought change, even as he or she ages
with its emphasis on struggle while C. The sense of hope that death will come
disrupting Victorian faith by decentering soon
humans. D. A shared theme that nature exposes the
B. Darwin’s work was almost universally pain in human life
accepted from its first appearance. Answer: Option D. A shared theme that
C. Darwin’s work had little initial influence nature exposes the pain in human life
on Victorian society and culture.
D. Almost all religious authorities rejected 1470. Complete the following sentence.
Darwin’s work completely. Neoclassicism most paralleled Enlightenment
Answer: Option A. Darwin’s work echoed thought in its_______________?
Victorian thought with its emphasis on A. rejection of Renaissance optimism.
struggle while disrupting Victorian faith by B. rejection of traditional models.
decentering humans. C. emphasis on order, logic, and universal
truths.
1467. In The Way of the World, Congreve D. emphasis on the corrupt nature of the
satirizes which of the following ? aristocracy.
A. Ideas about chastity Answer: Option C. emphasis on order,
B. The institution of marriage logic, and universal truths.
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C. They offered people a private place in


1471. How does the following representative which they could plan political revolts.
quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on D. Both A and B
Victorian social conventions? “You have Answer: Option D. Both A and B
nothing to do with the master of Thornfield,
further than to receive the salary he gives 1474. With which literary form or movement
you for teaching his protégée, and to be is the Restoration most closely associated ?
grateful for such respectful and kind A. Familiar essays
treatment as, if you do your duty, you have B. Comedies of manners
a right to expect at his hands” ? C. Romanticism
A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept D. Medievalism
both men and women from social mobility. Answer: Option B. Comedies of manners
B. It suggests that women were increasingly
accepted as professionals. 1475. Jonathan Swift’s suggestion in “A
C. It indicates that British society had Modest Proposal” that the Irish eat their
become much more egalitarian. children exemplifies the characteristics of a
D. It reveals the stern consequences of the satire in all of the following ways
Industrial Revolution. EXCEPT_______________?
Answer: Option A. It reiterates the class A. its mocking tone.
divisions that kept both men and women B. its absurd response to a real issue.
from social mobility. C. its sentimental plea to its audience.
D. its attempt to shock readers into acting.
1472. Complete the following sentence. The Answer: Option C. its sentimental plea to
Romantic movement is least closely related its audience.
to______________?
A. folklore. 1476. Victor Frankenstein’s project to create
B. nationalism. life in Mary Shelley’s novel can be linked to
C. parody. romanticism through which of the following
D. exoticism ?
Answer: Option C. parody. A. His Promethean striving to exceed human
limitations as explored by Byron and Percy
1473. Why were coffee-houses important in Shelley
the Restoration ? B. Its suggestion that the natural order has
A. They enabled discussion about important laws beyond human control
literary texts. C. His desire to create a political revolution
B. They created a space for the exchange of D. Both A and B
pamphlets. Answer: Option D. Both A and B
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Answer: Option D. the continuing


1477. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” can be importance of mythological stories.
characterized in all of the following ways,
EXCEPT________________? 1480. Complete the following sentence. The
A. it thematizes the importance of choosing scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment
action over complacency. political thought and political revolutions
B. it reflects a Victorian attitude of through its similar______________?
continuing to fight against loss of hope or A. devotion to traditional authority in
faith. political and theoretical matters.
C. it uses Greek mythology to comment on B. emphasis on the world being governed by
contemporary questions. laws that could be discerned through
D. it emphasizes the internal life of the mind rational exploration.
over social action. C. reliance on classical scholarship.
Answer: Option D. it emphasizes the D. defense of violent emotions as natural.
internal life of the mind over social action. Answer: Option B. emphasis on the world
being governed by laws that could be
1478. With which of these writers is the discerned through rational exploration.
“spontaneous overflow of emotion”
associated ? 1481. Which writer is most closely
A. Ann Radcliffe associated with the serialized novel ?
B. William Wordsworth A. William Congreve
C. John Keats B. Ann Radcliffe
D. Alfred Lord Tennyson C. Matthew Lewis
Answer: Option B. William Wordsworth D. Charles Dickens
Answer: Option D. Charles Dickens
1479. The development of the novel is
associated with all of the following 1482. “Do we now live in an enlightened
EXCEPT__________________? age? The answer is, ‘no,’ but we do live in
A. scientific emphasis on detailed an age of enlightenment.” ?
observation. A. Immanuel Kant
B. the political focus on individuals and their B. John Locke
rights. C. David Hume
C. philosophical theories of sympathy and D. Denis Diderot
human emotions. Answer: Option A. Immanuel Kant
D. the continuing importance of
mythological stories.

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1483. Which of the following statements C. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime


best characterizes Romanticism’s through painting
relationship to the Enlightenment ? D. The important role surprise plays in
A. Romanticism continued the creating pleasure
Enlightenment’s focus on a universal order Answer: Option D. The important role
best apprehended through reason. surprise plays in creating pleasure
B. Romanticism challenged the
Enlightenment’s emphasis on objectivity as 1486. Which of the following events was
the basis of truth. NOT associated with the Victorian period ?
C. Romanticism largely abandoned the A. Repeal of the corn laws
Enlightenment’s hope in progressive political B. Opium Wars
change. C. Great Exhibition
D. Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism D. French Revolution
deemed the natural world unimportant Answer: Option D. French Revolution
Answer: Option B. Romanticism
challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on 1487. In which of the following ways does
objectivity as the basis of truth. Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
combine the features of the Gothic and the
1484. The Pre-Raphaelites are best known sentimental ?
for which of the following ? A. It emphasizes emotion over reason.
A. A return to neoclassical aesthetics B. It has a didactic moral focus.
B. Disassociating painting and poetry C. There is a focus on a central love story.
C. Lavish attention to the sensuous D. All of these answers
elements of life Answer: Option D. All of these answers
D. Rejecting English poetic tradition
Answer: Option C. Lavish attention to the 1488. John Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis”
sensuous elements of life emphasizes the solution to which of the
following important Restoration problems or
1485. Which of the following ideas does events ?
NOT come from Edmund Burke’s A. England’s power to overcome the recent
Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our plague and the great fire of London
Ideas of the Sublime ? B. The monarch’s ability to squelch
A. The effect of the sublime on the physical continuing Puritan resistance
body C. The church’s potential to unify the
B. The distinction between the sublime and populace after the English revolution
beauty D. Parliament’s ability to restrain the power
of the King
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Answer: Option A. England’s power to B. By questioning the nature of scientific


overcome the recent plague and the great method
fire of London C. By rejecting the divine right of kings
D. By emphasizing the idea that gathering
1489. Which of the following best knowledge together can lead to human
characterizes the ways that Radcliffe’s The improvement
Mysteries of Udolpho links the Gothic novel Answer: Option D. By emphasizing the
with the sentimental form ? idea that gathering knowledge together can
A. Its use of a medieval setting to reflect on lead to human improvement
rational progress
B. Its focus on having readers vicariously 1492. Which of the following statements
experience the dangers that a heroine faces about Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet
C. Its ambivalent treatment of its leading 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the
villain ways.”) is false ?
D. Its use of the sublime A. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other
Answer: Option B. Its focus on having sonnets in its focus on love.
readers vicariously experience the dangers B. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence
that a heroine faces “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”
C. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like
1490. Which of the following is a other sonnets.
requirement of a dramatic monologue ? D. Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the
A. It has a speaker as well as an implied same way Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is
reader. a romantic poem.
B. It includes elements of parody. Answer: Option D. Sonnet 43 is a
C. There is a “spontaneous overflow of romantic poem in the same way
emotion.” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is a romantic
D. It is written in common, ordinary poem.
language.
Answer: Option A. It has a speaker as well 1493. Which of the following best defines
as an implied reader. satire ?
A. Literature that relies on devices like irony,
1491. How does the Encyclopédie best sarcasm, and humor
epitomize the mission of the Enlightenment B. A work of literature that attempts to
? improve society
A. By dismissing all knowledge from outside C. A text that exposes serious flaws under
Europe the veil of comedy
D. All of these answers
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Answer: Option D. All of these answers C. They established new standards for
Victorian morality.
1494. The Enlightenment in European D. They allowed women to divorce their
history refers to which of the following ? husbands.
A. A period in the 18th century that Answer: Option A. They raised the
celebrated industry question of whether women should be able
B. The revelation of religious truths through to vote.
meditation
C. The power given to absolute monarchs by 1497. Complete the following sentence.
God Shelley’s “Ozymandias” can be linked to his
D. A period in which reason was celebrated “Defence of Poetry” through
as enabling human knowledge and possibly its_______________?
human perfection A. rejection of traditional form.
Answer: Option D. A period in which B. portrayal of the power of art to speak
reason was celebrated as enabling human truth.
knowledge and possibly human perfection C. rejection of art’s political role.
D. attempt to link poetry with music.
1495. Complete the following sentence. Answer: Option B. portrayal of the power
John Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” reflects a of art to speak truth.
commitment to neoclassical aesthetics
through_______________? 1498. What was the “Woman Question” in
A. its references to Shakespeare. the Victorian Period ?
B. its commitment to an elevated taste, its A. A debate about whether women should
use of classical imagery, and its evocation of be able to vote
classic forms. B. A discussion of women’s roles inside and
C. its scientific ethos and setting in London. outside the home
D. its refusal to mention Shadwell directly. C. A conversation about women’s work as a
Answer: Option B. its commitment to an product of the Industrial Revolution
elevated taste, its use of classical imagery, D. All of these answers
and its evocation of classic forms. Answer: Option D. All of these answers

1496. What was the importance of the 1499. How did ideas about the spread of the
Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867 ? British Empire start to shift in the Victorian
A. They raised the question of whether Period ?
women should be able to vote. A. Competition between European rivals
B. They allowed new colonization and forced the British to find new trading
imperialism efforts. partners.
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B. Colonizers were no longer necessarily B. Both emphasize romantic relationships


interested in reforming indigenous that play up the importance of women
populations. readers.
C. People found ways to justify expansion by C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or
claiming national superiority. middle-class characters, mirroring the
D. All of these answers development of a large middle-class
Answer: Option D. All of these answers readership as consumers.
D. Their epistolary forms reflect an
1500. In “Ode to the West Wind,” why does increasing political interest in subjective
Shelley ask the wind to “make me thy lyre” feelings.
? Answer: Option C. Both focus on the
A. To help drive his ideas across the struggles of lower or middle-class
universe characters, mirroring the development of a
B. To help him reach the afterlife large middle-class readership as consumers.
C. To help him hear nature’s music
D. To help him start a new revolutionary 1503. Which of the following works is
war considered to be the first Gothic novel ?
Answer: Option A. To help drive his ideas A. Congreve’s The Way of the World
across the universe B. Richardson’s Pamela
C. Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
1501. John Locke is known for advocating D. Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
all of the following ideas Answer: Option D. Walpole’s The Castle of
EXCEPT________________? Otranto
A. social contract theory of government.
B. blank slate or tabula rasa. 1504. Which poet did Arthur Henry Hallum
C. divine authority of kings. associate with “the picturesque” ?
D. natural political rights. A. Alexander Pope
Answer: Option C. divine authority of B. Percy Shelley
kings. C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Alfred Tennyson
1502. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Answer: Option D. Alfred Tennyson
Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe similarly
reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in 1505. Which of the following does NOT
which of the following ways ? accurately describe Robinson Crusoe’s and
A. Their imperialist settings reflect the Oroonoko’s relationship to central features
interest in faraway lands that led to of the early English novel ?
adventure novels.
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A. Where Oroonoko foregrounds C. The lyric poem creates a personal sense


supernatural agents, Robinson Crusoe of emotion.
avoids religion completely. D. The lyric poem focuses on action.
B. Both are largely set in South America, Answer: Option D. The lyric poem focuses
reflecting the relationship between empire on action.
and the early English novel.
C. Oroonoko seems to defend the 1508. Shelley expresses all of the following
aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe ideas in A Defence of Poetry,
elaborates the struggles of the middle class. EXCEPT______________?
D. Both make claims to historical veracity. A. reason can help man understand beauty.
Answer: Option A. Where Oroonoko B. civilization comes through beauty.
foregrounds supernatural agents, Robinson C. language shows humanity’s impulse
Crusoe avoids religion completely. towards order.
D. poetry has no effect on society.
1506. What was the “white man’s burden” Answer: Option D. poetry has no effect on
that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the society.
same title ?
A. The pressure of conforming to preexisting 1509. Which of the following texts is an
social conventions example of a sentimental novel ?
B. The burden of white colonizers who are A. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
forced to learn to live in new lands B. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
C. The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer C. Richardson’s Pamela
has a social responsibility to civilize other D. Lewis’s The Monk
nations Answer: Option C. Richardson’s Pamela
D. The concept that all white men do not
share the same imperial duties 1510. What does the shift in weather in
Answer: Option C. The Eurocentric idea Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the
that the colonizer has a social responsibility plot ?
to civilize other nations A. It functions as a metaphor for the
women’s rights movement.
1507. Which of the following statements B. It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.
does NOT accurately characterize a lyric C. It symbolizes the increase in scientific
poem ? knowledge.
A. The lyric poem is a popular form in the D. It acts as an allusion to the importance of
Romantic era. nature in the Romantic period.
B. The lyric poem has a song-like quality. Answer: Option B. It foreshadows a
negative shift in mood.
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Answer: Option A. Walton, a failed poet


1511. Complete the following sentence. who is attempting to discover the North
Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Pole.
Smith and Rousseau_____________?
A. traveled to America. 1514. Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is a
B. believed in God. transitional text in all of the following ways
C. emphasized the importance of human EXCEPT________________?
emotions as guiding behavior. A. like a romance, it focuses on an
D. rejected Newton’s view of the universe. aristocratic character considered superior to
Answer: Option C. emphasized the average individuals.
importance of human emotions as guiding B. like a novel, it tells its story with an
behavior. emphasis on realistic detail and the
everyday passage of time.
1512. Which of the following does NOT C. like an epic, it involves gods and
accurately characterize Jane Eyre’s goddesses.
relationship to other literary works ? D. like a novel, it makes claims to historical
A. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre realism.
addresses the power of wealth and class. Answer: Option C. like an epic, it involves
B. Like “Dover Beach,” Jane Eyre mourns gods and goddesses.
the diminishing power of Christian faith.
C. Through Rochester, Jane Eyre develops a 1515. Complete the following sentence. We
Byronic hero. can best understand the medieval setting of
D. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre can be Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
read as a bildungsroman. as______________?
Answer: Option B. Like “Dover Beach,” A. revealing his interest in Chaucer.
Jane Eyre mourns the diminishing power of B. enabling his 18th-century readers access
Christian faith. to a world they would see as less rational.
C. promoting the rise of museums.
1513. Complete the following sentence. The D. commenting on the French and Indian
opening frame narrative of Frankenstein War.
comes from_______________? Answer: Option B. enabling his 18th-
A. Walton, a failed poet who is attempting century readers access to a world they
to discover the North Pole. would see as less rational.
B. the creature, after he has killed Victor
Frankenstein. 1516. Which of the following characteristics
C. Victor Frankenstein’s diary. is NOT closely associated with a comedy of
D. Mrs. Saville, Frankenstein’s cousin. manners ?
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A. Witty banter C. Daniel Defoe


B. Epic heroes D. Charles Dickens
C. Sexual promiscuity Answer: Option D. Charles Dickens
D. Hidden identities
Answer: Option A. Witty banter 1520. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the
English Language most reflects an
1517. With which text is the term mock-epic 18thcentury interest in which of the
most closely associated ? following ?
A. Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven” A. Classification, order, and judgment
B. Pope’s Rape of the Lock B. Romantic origins
C. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” C. Linguistic indeterminacy
D. Benn’s Oroonoko D. Subjective experience
Answer: Option B. Pope’s Rape of the Answer: Option A. Classification, order,
Lock and judgment

1518. How was the philosophical and 1521. Radcliffe’s version of the Gothic differs
popular emphasis on sensibility in the 18th most from Walpole’s in its use of which of
century related to the development of the the following ?
novel ? A. The sublime
A. Like the novel, it focused on romantic B. The explained supernatural
relationships. C. Its medieval settings
B. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract D. Its use of mysterious events to spur
reason over experience and emotion. readers’ interests and emotional responses
C. Like the novel, it emphasized the Answer: Option B. The explained
importance of sympathy and individual supernatural
feelings.
D. Like the novel, it demonized the 1522. Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most
aristocracy. fundamentally emphasizes which theme
Answer: Option C. Like the novel, it from Johnson’s other works or other
emphasized the importance of sympathy 18thcentury works ?
and individual feelings. A. The need for linguistic correctness as
exemplified in his Dictionary
1519. Which of the following novelists was B. The promise of universal knowledge as
NOT associated with the rise of the novel as epitomized by the Encyclopédie
a literary form ? C. The ultimate impossibility of achieving
A. Samuel Richardson happiness, as espoused in his poem “The
B. Laurence Sterne Vanity of Human Wishes”
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D. The need for self-sufficiency as detailed B. use alliterative language to draw


in novels like Robinson Crusoe attention to the falcon’s importance as a
Answer: Option C. The ultimate symbol of Christ.
impossibility of achieving happiness, as C. refer to the speaker’s heart.
espoused in his poem “The Vanity of Human D. indicate the speaker’s lack of faith.
Wishes” Answer: Option B. use alliterative
language to draw attention to the falcon’s
1523. Which event did Percy Shelley call importance as a symbol of Christ.
“the master theme of the epoch in which we
live” ? 1526. How does this quotation from Behn’s
A. Industrial Revolution Oroonoko most suggest its status as an
B. French Revolution early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you
C. Scientific Revolution the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain
D. Technological Revolution my reader with adventures of a feigned
Answer: Option B. French Revolution hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may
manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?
1524. In Pamela, how does the epistolary A. It focuses on a royal hero.
style enhance the sentimental aspects of the B. It denies being imagined in favor of
novel ? claims of realism.
A. It provides access to the heroine’s C. It focuses on adventures.
innermost reactions. D. It connects to poetry.
B. It does not cloud the novel with authorial Answer: Option B. It denies being
intrusion that confuses the emotions. imagined in favor of claims of realism.
C. It provides a sense of immediacy because
the letters are written in the thick of the 1527. Robinson Crusoe’s isolation on a
action. deserted island allows Defoe to explore his
D. All of these answers development in which of the following ways
Answer: Option D. All of these answers ?
A. His relationship to God and Christianity
1525. Complete the following sentence. In B. His understanding of the basis of
the opening lines of Gerard Manley economics
Hopkins’s “The Windhover,” the words C. His ability to identify with the slaves he
“daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn has sold
Falcon” ? D. Both A and B
A. are an example of antithesis to suggest Answer: Option D. Both A and B
the falcon’s contradictory nature.

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1528. Complete the following sentence. D. implies that contemporary British society
Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is has overcome the institutions leading to the
characteristically Romantic because horrors its characters experience.
of_____________? Answer: Option D. implies that
A. its focus on his lost love. contemporary British society has overcome
B. its rejection of scientific progress. the institutions leading to the horrors its
C. its elaboration of the intersecting characters experience.
importance of nature and the imagination.
D. its development of elements from 1531. Complete the following sentence.
national folklore. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on
Answer: Option C. its elaboration of the the “language really used by men” in his
intersecting importance of nature and the preface to Lyrical Ballads
imagination. represents______________?
A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on
1529. Complete the following sentence. elevated diction.
Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to B. a continuity with poets such as Alexander
the idea that______________? Pope.
A. certain people are simply incapable of C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
understanding poetry. D. a defense of the use of elaborate
B. the true poet must be comfortable with figurative language.
balancing conflicting ideas. Answer: Option A. a radical break with
C. the poet cannot express anything beyond 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
his own experience.
D. it is only in the absence of experience 1532. The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s
that true poetry can emerge. “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker
Answer: Option B. the true poet must be “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of
comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas. a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth.
This poem reflects which of the following
1530. Complete the following sentence. The features common to much Romantic poetry
politics of Radcliffe’s medieval ?
settings______________? A. An emphasis on the relationship between
A. indicates her longing for the older a natural setting and the imagination as in
aristocracy. Wordsworth’s poems
B. suggests her commitment to the Catholic B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of
Church. Keats’s poems
C. is at odds with her explicit socialist C. A call for social and political reform as in
politics. some of Shelley’s works
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D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some A. There should be more missionary work in
of Byron’s poems less civilized parts of the world.
Answer: Option A. An emphasis on the B. Concerts in the parks that were attended
relationship between a natural setting and by ordinary people should be banned.
the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems C. Civil servants should talk more openly
and publicly about their moral work.
1533. Complete the following sentence. In D. Members of the Jewish and Catholic
Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated faiths should be excluded from public office.
language functions primarily Answer: Option A. There should be more
to______________? missionary work in less civilized parts of the
A. demonstrate the importance of the topic. world.
B. set up the parody of the pretensions of
the characters and their concerns. 1536. Which of the following best
C. reveal the learnedness of the characters. characterizes Wordsworth’s attitude towards
D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers the French Revolution ?
Answer: Option B. set up the parody of A. He thought it did not go far enough in
the pretensions of the characters and their granting women rights.
concerns. B. He opposed it in favor of supporting the
king and the ancien régime.
1534. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most C. He favored its democratic impulses but
reflects which central romantic themes or was appalled by its destructive nature.
concerns ? D. He did not think it concerned him and his
A. Nature as mirroring the human mind and relationship to nature.
its imagination Answer: Option C. He favored its
B. The limits of scientific attempts to democratic impulses but was appalled by its
understand and control the world destructive nature.
C. The poet as special interpreter of the
world 1537. The main plot of Richardson’s Pamela
D. The centrality of subjective experience to reflects the main characteristics of the
apprehending the world sentimental novel through its emphasis on
Answer: Option B. The limits of scientific which of the following ?
attempts to understand and control the A. Pamela’s attempt to seduce her employer
world B. Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to
a wealthy landowner
1535. Which of the following directives was C. Pamela’s struggle to overcome her
part of Queen Victoria’s moral crusade ? poverty through hard-work

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D. Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity 1540. Both the Gothic and sentimental
from the advances of her employer fiction emphasize which of the following ?
Answer: Option D. Pamela’s attempts to A. Reason over emotions
protect her chastity from the advances of B. The necessity for an aristocracy
her employer C. The power of feelings
D. A sense of adventure
1538. Which of the following statements Answer: Option C. The power of feelings
best describes the behavior of the upper-
class characters in Congreve’s The Way of 1541. In Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover
the World ? Beach,” the speaker refers to the
A. They are somewhat jaded, but all are “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar” of
finally good at heart. “The Sea of Faith.” This reference alludes to
B. They are almost universally selfabsorbed which of the following ?
and willing to do anything to get what they A. The Protestant Reformation
want. B. Religious interpretations of changes to
C. They tend to value love above money and the oceans
honor. C. The decline of religion’s importance in the
D. They provide a moral example for the modern West
lower classes. D. His lover’s betrayal
Answer: Option B. They are almost Answer: Option C. The decline of religion’s
universally selfabsorbed and willing to do importance in the modern West
anything to get what they want.
1542. Complete the following sentence.
1539. Which of the following statements Wordsworth conceives of himself as a
accurately describes the theme of “chosen son” primarily
Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” ? because_____________?
A. Nature loses its ability to affect human A. his brothers died in their youth.
emotion over time. B. he was endowed with a great poetic
B. Sensitivity to nature’s message comes talent.
with age. C. he was given special educational
C. Life experience does not have to power opportunities.
to alter human opinions. D. he feels especially connected to nature
D. It is not possible to appreciate beauty due to his experience as a youth.
once one has aged. Answer: Option D. he feels especially
Answer: Option B. Sensitivity to nature’s connected to nature due to his experience
message comes with age. as a youth.

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1543. Which of the following social issues 1547. Complete the following sentence. The
does Dickens confront in Great Expectations Byronic hero is characterized
? as________________?
A. Penal reform A. always fighting for good against evil.
B. Educational reform B. fortunate in always coming out victorious.
C. The role of the monarchy C. nearly superhuman in his powers but
D. Both A and B tortured by a psychological weight.
Answer: Option D. Both A and B D. devoted to religion above all things
Answer: Option C. nearly superhuman in
1544. In The Rape of the Lock, Pope his powers but tortured by a psychological
satirizes which of the following social weight.
institutions ?
A. The government 1548. Which of the following statements
B. Marriage about the poems in Blake’s Songs of
C. Organized religion Innocence and Experience is true ?
D. All of these answers A. The poems defend the industrial
Answer: Option D. All of these answers revolution as helping England’s economy.
B. The poems criticize religious institutions
1545. Which of the following genres is NOT for not helping the oppressed.
part of the hybrid form of Behn’s Oroonoko C. The poems reject experience in favor of
? innocence.
A. Nonfiction D. The poems reject innocence in favor of
B. Travel memoir experience.
C. Detective story Answer: Option B. The poems criticize
D. Biography religious institutions for not helping the
Answer: Option C. Detective story oppressed.

1546. Which of the following is a central 1549. Which of the following terms is NOT
theme of Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin closely associated with the Gothic novel ?
Market” ? A. Horror
A. The dangers of sensuality to women B. The sublime
B. The links between sexuality and C. Suspense
economics D. Picaresque
C. The importance of sisterly bonds Answer: Option D. Picaresque
D. All of these answers
Answer: Option D. All of these answers 1550. Which of the following best defines
sentimentalism ?
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A. A refusal to emphasize the innate Answer: Option B. a misguided attempt to


goodness of humanity overthrow human nature by rejecting
B. An emphasis on the power of sympathy tradition.
to allow individuals to feel others’ pain and
joy 1553. “O my death mother! I am miserable,
C. A sense of awe in the power of the truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened,
natural world I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me
D. A parody of the interest in emotion that so!” These lines characterize Samuel
developed out of the Enlightenment interest Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following
in reason ways EXCEPT ______________?
Answer: Option B. An emphasis on the A. through the personal, direct appeal
power of sympathy to allow individuals to enabled by his epistolary form.
feel others’ pain and joy B. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
C. by emphasizing sexual morality.
1551. Which of the following best defines D. through the sentimental attempt to make
the heroic couplet ? readers strongly identify with the character’s
A. Two characters in an epic who are feelings.
romantically involved Answer: Option B. by emphasizing the
B. Two lines of rhyming verse written in character’s fright.
iambic pentameter
C. The concluding lines of any poem 1554. In which of the following ways did
D. Two characters who act as foils in a Hopkins revolutionize poetry ?
comedy of manners A. He created a radically new form.
Answer: Option B. Two lines of rhyming B. He used unusual, arcane words.
verse written in iambic pentameter C. He made obscure allusions.
D. All of these answers
1552. Complete the following sentence. Answer: Option D. All of these answers
According to Edmund Burke, the French
Revolution was________________? 1555. Complete the following sentence.
A. the ultimate expression of humankind’s Robert Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover”
ability to control its own destiny. is_______________?
B. a misguided attempt to overthrow human A. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his
nature by rejecting tradition. wife.
C. a necessary change that was beginning B. a dramatic monologue spoken by a
to go astray. murderer.
D. an event that had little consequence to C. a dramatic monologue spoken by
England Browning.
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D. an epic describing a great romance. order which was pictured as a chain,


Answer: Option B. a dramatic monologue vertically extended.
spoken by a murderer.
1558. Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers
1556. Complete the following sentence. strongly associated themselves with the
Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Browning’s values of ____________?
dramatic monologues can best be seen as A. Catholicism
combining neoclassicism with romanticism B. Medieval Europe
through their ? C. Classical antiquity
A. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form D. Protestantism
and romantic subjectivism. Answer: Option C. Classical antiquity
B. romantic rejection of science and
neoclassical use of mythology. 1559. Greek theatre took place where ?
C. romantic emphasis on personal feelings A. Large hillside amphitheaters
combined with a neoclassical focus on social B. Large indoor theaters
context. C. Small indoor theaters
D. romantic critique of industrialization and D. All of the above
neoclassical use of satire. Answer: Option A. Large hillside
Answer: Option C. romantic emphasis on amphitheaters
personal feelings combined with a
neoclassical focus on social context. 1560. The character of Falstaff is important
in which play(s) by William Shakespeare ?
1557. Which of the following statements A. “Henry IV, Part I”
best describes the “Great Chain of Being” ? B. “Henry IV, Part II”
A. It regarded human beings as social C. “Titus Andronicus”
creatures who could create meaningful lives D. All of the above
only in association with other social beings. Answer: Option D. All of the above
B. Its major premise was that every existing
thing in the universe had its “place” in a 1561. Which of the following figures was an
divinely planned hierarchical order which important political theorist of the
was pictured as a chain, vertically extended. Renaissance ?
C. It could only be achieved through faith in A. Niccolo Machiavelli
God’s grace. B. Francesco Petrarcha
D. Both A and B C. Aristotle
Answer: Option B. Its major premise was D. Plato
that every existing thing in the universe had Answer: Option A. Niccolo Machiavelli
its “place” in a divinely planned hierarchical
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1562. A total of how many sonnets 1566. Fill in the blank. Sir Philip Sidney’s
constitute the entirety of “Astrophil and strong_____________ convictions made him
Stella” ? publicly oppose a projected marriage for
A. 10 Queen Elizabeth?
B. 20 A. Catholic
C. 30 B. Protestant
D. 40 C. Buddhist
Answer: Option C. 30 D. Quaker
Answer: Option B. Protestant
1563. Which of the following plays by
William Shakespeare is a comedy ? 1567. Which of the following characters is
A. “Romeo and Juliet” NOT found in the dramatis personae
B. “Hamlet” ofWilliam Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”
C. “Much Ado about Nothing” ?
D. “Henry IV, Part I” A. Benvolio
Answer: Option C. “Much Ado about B. Lady Capulet
Nothing” C. Mercutio
D. Falstaff
1564. According to John Milton’s “Paradise Answer: Option D. Falstaff
Lost,” what is Satan’s tragic flaw ?
A. Lust 1568. John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses
B. Pride attention on the relationship between which
C. Jealousy opposing entities ?
D. Love A. Heaven vs. hell
Answer: Option B. Pride B. God vs. Satan
C. Good vs. evil
1565. Fill in the blank. The intellectual and D. All of the above
social movement which historians call Answer: Option D. All of the above
“___________” is what lies at the base of
the period we call the Renaissance ? 1569. Fill in the blank. The term
A. Socialism “Renaissance” literally translates as
B. Capitalism “_____________” ?
C. Humanitarianism A. Reincarnation
D. Humanism B. Rebirth
Answer: Option D. Humanism C. Reproduction
D. Recapitulation
Answer: Option B. Rebirth
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1570. What text greatly popularized the 1574. On which of the following topics did
sonnet form in England during the Sir Thomas More focus in his “Utopia” ?
Elizabethan period ? A. Riches, jewels, and gold
A. “Astrophil and Stella” B. Suicide
B. “Utopia” C. Marriage and divorce
C. “Paradise Lost” D. All of the above
D. “Canterbury Tales” Answer: Option D. All of the above
Answer: Option A. “Astrophil and Stella”
1575. Which of the following theaters could
1571. Who was in charge of organizing be found in England after Queen Elizabeth I
court festivities and entertainment of the came to the throne ?
English court ? A. The Curtain
A. Court Jester B. The Rose
B. Master of Revels C. The Globe
C. Master of Rebels D. All of the above
D. Master of Ceremonies Answer: Option D. All of the above
Answer: Option B. Master of Revels
1576. What Renaissance text uses
1572. Sir Thomas More wrote what famous martyrology as a device to historicize the
text ? conflict between the true Church and the
A. “Toxophilus” false Church in England ?
B. “Utopia” A. “Euphues”
C. “The Inferno” B. “Paradise Lost”
D. “Paradise Lost” C. “Paradise Regained”
Answer: Option B. “Utopia” D. “Acts and Monuments”
Answer: Option D. “Acts and Monuments”
1573. Fill in the blank. Although there is
dispute about the actual “invention” of the 1577. Which of the following statements is
printing press with movable metal type, TRUE concerning the Globe theater in
_________ is usually the man credited with Elizabethan England ?
the invention. A. It burned down and was reconstructed
A. Niccolo Machiavelli hundreds of years later.
B. Johan Gutenberg B. It was situated on the Thames River.
C. Peter Schoeffer C. It was lit from natural sunlight as well as
D. Johannes Fust by candle light.
Answer: Option B. Johan Gutenberg D. All of the above
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Answer: Option D. All of the above D. “Paradise Regained”


Answer: Option A. “Acts and Monuments”
1578. Fill in the blank. Christopher
Marlowe’s influence on William Shakespeare 1582. Fill in the blank. John Foxe was
was in all probability _______________? deeply disgusted by the _______________,
A. Very great and could not believe that any honest
B. Insignificant Christian could accept its doctrinal basis ?
C. Somewhat significant A. Mass
D. Impossible B. Transubstantiation
Answer: Option A. Very great C. Resurrection
D. both A and C
1579. Fill in the blank. John Foxe was Answer: Option A. Mass
extremely sensitive to
the_______________? 1583. Edmund Spenser wrote what famous
A. Buddhist text ?
B. Anglican A. “Paradise Lost”
C. Quaker B. “The Faerie Queen”
D. Catholic C. “The Prelude”
Answer: Option D. Catholic D. “Canterbury Tales”
Answer: Option B. “The Faerie Queen”
1580. The conceit of the Petrarchan sonnet
in English during the Elizabethan period 1584. What author fell in love with Anne
often involves what topic ? Boleyn while she was married to King Henry
A. Drugs VIII ?
B. Sex A. Sir Philip Sidney
C. Animals B. Sir Thomas More
D. Propaganda C. Thomas Wyatt
Answer: Option B. Sex D. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Answer: Option C. Thomas Wyatt
1581. Fill in the blank. In the second edition
of_________________, John Foxe promised 1585. Who is largely considered to be the
that he would edit a collection of the works father of epic poetry ?
of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert A. Homer
Barnes? B. Dante
A. “Acts and Monuments” C. Virgil
B. “Utopia” D. Milton
C. “Euphues” Answer: Option A. Homer
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1590. Who became a favorite of Queen


1586. Which of the following texts is an Elizabeth I and was knighted and appointed
example of epic poetry ? captain of the Queen’s Guard in 1587 ?
A. “Paradise Lost” A. Sir Thomas More
B. “The Odyssey” B. Sir Walter Raleigh
C. “The Iliad” C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. All of the above D. Sir William Shakespeare
Answer: Option D. All of the above Answer: Option B. Sir Walter Raleigh

1587. How did the invention of the printing 1591. Who was considered to be England’s
press affect European culture ? first literary celebrity ?
A. Print halted the corruption of texts by A. John Donne
copyists, giving everyone identical texts. B. Sir Walter Raleigh
B. Scientific research became a more C. Sir Thomas More
collaborative effort. D. John Foxe
C. Learning to read was made easier as Answer: Option D. John Foxe
print was standardized and made clearer.
D. All of the above 1592. Who was King Henry VIII’s first wife ?
Answer: Option D. All of the above A. Catherine of Aragon
B. Anne Boleyn
1588. William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is an C. Mary, Queen of Scots
example of what dramatic genre ? D. Anne of Cleves
A. Tragedy Answer: Option A. Catherine of Aragon
B. Comedy
C. Romance 1593. In 1534, King Henry VIII was declared
D. Satire head of what church ?
Answer: Option A. Tragedy A. The Catholic Church
B. The English Church
1589. Sir Thomas More held which of the C. The Church of God
following positions in the English court ? D. Both A and B
A. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Answer: Option B. The English Church
B. Speaker of the House of Commons
C. Master of Requests 1594. William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” is an
D. All of the above example of what dramatic genre ?
Answer: Option D. All of the above A. Tragedy
B. Comedy
C. Romance
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D. History 1599. Fill in the blank. In 1585,


Answer: Option D. History _______________ sponsored the first
English colony in America on Roanoke Island
1595. Which queen of England attended a (now North Carolina)?
number of William Shakespeare’s play ? A. Sir Thomas More
A. Queen Elizabeth I B. Sir Walter Raleigh
B. Queen Elizabeth II C. John Foxe
C. Queen Anne D. John Lyly
D. Both A and B Answer: Option B. Sir Walter Raleigh
Answer: Option A. Queen Elizabeth I
1600. Fill in the blank. _______ was a
1596. John Milton’s “Lycidas” is what genre Christian theologian and Augustinian monk
of poetry ? whose teachings inspired the Protestant
A. A pastoral elegy Reformation?
B. A satire A. Niccolo Machiavelli
C. An epic B. Martin Luther
D. A mock-epic C. John Milton
Answer: Option A. A pastoral elegy D. John Wycliffe
Answer: Option B. Martin Luther
1597. There was greater emphasis placed
on human potentiality for growth and
excellence through Europe by which year ?
A. 1400
B. 1500
C. 1600
D. 1650
Answer: Option B. 1500

1598. Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s ________


exercised considerable influence upon its
author’s contemporaries?
A. “Euphues”
B. “Paradise Lost”
C. “Utopia”
D. “Zelauto”
Answer: Option A. “Euphues”

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