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English Literature Mcqs

While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?

While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?

A. a history of everyday life
B. an instructional manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
D. a book of model letters

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English Literature Mcqs, MCQs / Q&A

How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?

How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?

A. a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits
B. a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being
C. a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
D. the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

Who wrote: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?

Who wrote: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?

A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Robert Browning
D. Henrik Ibsen

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?

Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?

A. Fanny Burney
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
D. Jane Austen

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins ?”

What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins ?”

A. The Rape of the Lock
B. Solitude: An Ode
C. The Dunciad
D. Eloisa to Abelard

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century