English Literature Mcqs — Test 33
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Question 1
In The Way of the World, Congreve satirizes which of the following ?
Question 2
Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship between Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and Victorian society and its ideals ?
Question 3
For I have learned/To look on nature, not as in the hour/Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes/The sad, still music of humanity” ?
Question 4
Which of the following political ideas is least related to the Enlightenment ?
Question 5
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of literacy in the 19thcentury ?
Question 6
Why were coffee-houses important in the Restoration ?
Question 7
Complete the following sentence. The Romantic movement is least closely related to______________?
Question 8
How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?
Question 9
Complete the following sentence. Neoclassicism most paralleled Enlightenment thought in its_______________?
Question 10
What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?