In The Way of the World, Congreve satirizes which of the following ?

A. Ideas about chastity
B. The institution of marriage
C. The aristocracy
D. All of these answers

Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship between Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and Victorian society and its ideals ?

A. Darwin’s work echoed victorian thought with its emphasis on struggle while disrupting victorian faith by decentering humans.
B. Darwin’s work was almost universally accepted from its first appearance.
C. Darwin’s work had little initial influence on victorian society and culture.
D. Almost all religious authorities rejected darwin’s work completely.

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” ?

A. The poet’s changing relationship to nature as fount of meaning and significance
B. The falsity of human art as opposed to the immediate truth of nature
C. The failure of the poet when a youth to imagine his future
D. The utter rejection of youthful folly in favor of mature rationality

Which of the following political ideas is least related to the Enlightenment ?

A. Checks and balances
B. Social contract
C. Enlightened monarchy
D. Socialism

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of literacy in the 19thcentury ?

A. More magazines on the market
B. The rise in serialized fiction
C. Lower prices for magazines
D. The passage of the reform bills

Why were coffee-houses important in the Restoration ?

A. They enabled discussion about important literary texts.
B. They created a space for the exchange of pamphlets.
C. They offered people a private place in which they could plan political revolts.
D. Both a and b

Complete the following sentence. The Romantic movement is least closely related to______________?

A. Folklore.
B. Nationalism.
C. Parody.
D. Exoticism

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” ?

A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.
B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.
C. It indicates that british society had become much more egalitarian.
D. It reveals the stern consequences of the industrial revolution.

Complete the following sentence. Neoclassicism most paralleled Enlightenment thought in its_______________?

A. Rejection of renaissance optimism.
B. Rejection of traditional models.
C. Emphasis on order, logic, and universal truths.
D. Emphasis on the corrupt nature of the aristocracy.

What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?

A. An identical rhyme structure
B. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages
C. The sense of hope that death will come soon
D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life