Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries

The development of the novel is associated with all of the following EXCEPT__________________?

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The development of the novel is associated with all of the following EXCEPT__________________?

A. scientific emphasis on detailed observation.
B. the political focus on individuals and their rights.
C. philosophical theories of sympathy and human emotions.
D. the continuing importance of mythological stories.

Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar______________?

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Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar______________?

A. devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.
B. emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration.
C. reliance on classical scholarship.
D. defense of violent emotions as natural.

Which of the following statements best characterizes Romanticism’s relationship to the Enlightenment ?

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Which of the following statements best characterizes Romanticism’s relationship to the Enlightenment ?

A. Romanticism continued the Enlightenment’s focus on a universal order best apprehended through reason.
B. Romanticism challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on objectivity as the basis of truth.
C. Romanticism largely abandoned the
Enlightenment’s hope in progressive political change.
D. Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism deemed the natural world unimportant

Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?

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Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?

A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body
B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty
C. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting
D. The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure

In which of the following ways does Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho combine the features of the Gothic and the sentimental ?

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In which of the following ways does Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho combine the features of the Gothic and the sentimental ?

A. It emphasizes emotion over reason.
B. It has a didactic moral focus.
C. There is a focus on a central love story.
D. All of these answers

John Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis” emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?

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John Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis” emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?

A. England’s power to overcome the recent plague and the great fire of London
B. The monarch’s ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance
C. The church’s potential to unify the populace after the English revolution
D. Parliament’s ability to restrain the power of the King