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Restoration and 18th Century

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

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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.” ?

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.” ?

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 ?

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 ?

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 ?”

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 ?”

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

In which work do you read: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?

English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century /
In which work do you read: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?

A. The Man of Feeling
B. In Memoriam
C. Song to Aella
D. Ozymandias

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?

English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century /
Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?

A. Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence
C. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods
D. A and C only

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

In which work do you read: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?

English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century /
In which work do you read: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?

A. A Doll’s House
B. Riders to the Sea
C. A Handful of Dust
D. The Fatal Curiosity

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century