English Literature Mcqs

A. Immanuel Kant
B. John Locke
C. David Hume
D. Denis Diderot

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

A. A return to neoclassical aesthetics
B. Disassociating painting and poetry
C. Lavish attention to the sensuous elements of life
D. Rejecting English poetic tradition

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

A. Repeal of the corn laws
B. Opium Wars
C. Great Exhibition
D. French Revolution

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

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

A. Its use of a medieval setting to reflect on rational progress
B. Its focus on having readers vicariously experience the dangers that a heroine faces
C. Its ambivalent treatment of its leading villain
D. Its use of the sublime

A. It has a speaker as well as an implied reader.
B. It includes elements of parody.
C. There is a “spontaneous overflow of emotion.”
D. It is written in common, ordinary language.

A. By dismissing all knowledge from outside Europe
B. By questioning the nature of scientific method
C. By rejecting the divine right of kings
D. By emphasizing the idea that gathering knowledge together can lead to human improvement