What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
A. partition
B. segregation
C. enclosure
D. division
MCQs / Q&A
Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
A. Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.
B. Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.
C. Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.
D. both A and C
Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
A. Prometheus
B. Satan
C. Cain
D. George III
Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
A. Maria Edgeworth
B. Sir Walter Scott
C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Jane Austen
Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
A. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
D. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
A. about half of middle class men
B. almost all working class men
C. all women
D. A, B and C
Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
A. Aristotle
B. Duns Scotus
C. David Hume
D. Immanuel Kant
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
Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
A. theoretical science
B. metaphysics
C. abstract logical deductions
D. A, B, and C
Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
A. Addison
B. Bunyan
C. Crabbe
D. Dryden