According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”

According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”

A. In English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”
B. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.
C. All of the above
D. A and B only

The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work “Against the Grain,” is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?

The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work “Against the Grain,” is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?

A. The work celebrates the young Jean and his Jesuit school education as a model for the best possible education of the young.
B. It ends with the famous line “the horror, the horror.”
C. It explores Jean’s decision to become a recluse and a social drop-out.
D. All of the above

The literary style of Virginia Woolf’s novel “To the Lighthouse” is best described in which of the following ways ?

The literary style of Virginia Woolf’s novel “To the Lighthouse” is best described in which of the following ways ?

A. As an omniscient narrative of love and loss
B. As a third-person narrative of the Great Depression
C. As a domestic stream of consciousness narrative
D. A and B only

In Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel,” which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?

In Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel,” which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?

A. The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.
B. It is obsessed with the descriptions of an endless and ultimately incomprehensible library.
C. Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.
D. The library is analogous to the universe.