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Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries

How did ideas about the spread of the British Empire start to shift in the Victorian Period ?

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How did ideas about the spread of the British Empire start to shift in the Victorian Period ?

A. Competition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners.
B. Colonizers were no longer necessarily interested in reforming indigenous populations.
C. People found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority.
D. All of these answers

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In “Ode to the West Wind,” why does Shelley ask the wind to “make me thy lyre” ?

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In “Ode to the West Wind,” why does Shelley ask the wind to “make me thy lyre” ?

A. To help drive his ideas across the universe
B. To help him reach the afterlife
C. To help him hear nature’s music
D. To help him start a new revolutionary war

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John Locke is known for advocating all of the following ideas EXCEPT________________?

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John Locke is known for advocating all of the following ideas EXCEPT________________?

A. social contract theory of government.
B. blank slate or tabula rasa.
C. divine authority of kings.
D. natural political rights.

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Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?

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Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?

A. Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.
B. Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.
C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.
D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

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Which of the following works is considered to be the first Gothic novel ?

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Which of the following works is considered to be the first Gothic novel ?

A. Congreve’s The Way of the World
B. Richardson’s Pamela
C. Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
D. Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto

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Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Robinson Crusoe’s and Oroonoko’s relationship to central features of the early English novel ?

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Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Robinson Crusoe’s and Oroonoko’s relationship to central features of the early English novel ?

A. Where Oroonoko foregrounds supernatural agents, Robinson Crusoe avoids religion completely.
B. Both are largely set in South America, reflecting the relationship between empire and the early English novel.
C. Oroonoko seems to defend the aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates the struggles of the middle class.
D. Both make claims to historical veracity.

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What was the “white man’s burden” that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title ?

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What was the “white man’s burden” that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title ?

A. The pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions
B. The burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands
C. The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations
D. The concept that all white men do not the same imperial duties

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Which of the following statements does NOT accurately characterize a lyric poem ?

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Which of the following statements does NOT accurately characterize a lyric poem ?

A. The lyric poem is a popular form in the Romantic era.
B. The lyric poem has a song-like quality.
C. The lyric poem creates a personal sense of emotion.
D. The lyric poem focuses on action.

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Shelley expresses all of the following ideas in A Defence of Poetry, EXCEPT______________?

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Shelley expresses all of the following ideas in A Defence of Poetry, EXCEPT______________?

A. reason can help man understand beauty.
B. civilization comes through beauty.
C. language shows humanity’s impulse towards order.
D. poetry has no effect on society.

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