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MCQs 1: Which of the following novelists was NOT associated with the rise of the novel as a literary form ?
MCQs 2: Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language most reflects an 18thcentury interest in which of the following ?
MCQs 3: Radcliffe’s version of the Gothic differs most from Walpole’s in its use of which of the following ?
The sublime
The explained supernatural
Its medieval settings
Its use of mysterious events to spur readers’ interests and emotional responses
MCQs 4: Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most fundamentally emphasizes which theme from Johnson’s other works or other 18thcentury works ?
The need for linguistic correctness as exemplified in his Dictionary
The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the Encyclopédie
The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
The need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like Robinson Crusoe
MCQs 5: Which event did Percy Shelley call “the master theme of the epoch in which we live” ?
MCQs 6: In Pamela, how does the epistolary style enhance the sentimental aspects of the novel ?
It provides access to the heroine’s innermost reactions.
It does not cloud the novel with authorial intrusion that confuses the emotions.
It provides a sense of immediacy because the letters are written in the thick of the action.
All of these answers
MCQs 7: Complete the following sentence. In the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover,” the words “daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon” ?
are an example of antithesis to suggest the falcon’s contradictory nature.
use alliterative language to draw attention to the falcon’s importance as a symbol of Christ.
refer to the speaker’s heart.
indicate the speaker’s lack of faith.
MCQs 8: How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?
It focuses on a royal hero.
It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
It focuses on adventures.
It connects to poetry.
MCQs 9: Robinson Crusoe’s isolation on a deserted island allows Defoe to explore his development in which of the following ways ?
His relationship to God and Christianity
His understanding of the basis of economics
His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold
Both A and B
MCQs 10: Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?
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