English MCQs — Test 50

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Question 1

Which of the following texts is an example of a sentimental novel ?

Question 2

Shelley expresses all of the following ideas in A Defence of Poetry, EXCEPT______________?

Question 3

Which of the following statements does NOT accurately characterize a lyric poem ?

Question 4

What was the “white man’s burden” that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title ?

Question 5

Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is a transitional text in all of the following ways EXCEPT________________?

Question 6

Complete the following sentence. The opening frame narrative of Frankenstein comes from_______________?

Question 7

Which of the following does NOT accurately characterize Jane Eyre’s relationship to other literary works ?

Question 8

Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?

Question 9

What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?

Question 10

How was the philosophical and popular emphasis on sensibility in the 18th century related to the development of the novel ?