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1) Complete the following sentence. Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to the idea that______________? a. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry. b. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas. c. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience. d. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.
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2) Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffe’s medieval settings______________? a. indicates her longing for the older aristocracy. b. suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church. c. is at odds with her explicit socialist politics. d. implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience.
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3) Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________? a. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction. b. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope. c. a rejection of nature in favor of society. d. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.
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4) The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ? a. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems b. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems c. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works d. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems
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5) Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________? a. demonstrate the importance of the topic. b. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns. c. reveal the learnedness of the characters. d. elicit the sympathy of elite readers
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6) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ? a. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination b. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world c. The poet as special interpreter of the world d. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world
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7) Which of the following directives was part of Queen Victoria’s moral crusade ? a. There should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world. b. Concerts in the parks that were attended by ordinary people should be banned. c. Civil servants should talk more openly and publicly about their moral work. d. Members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths should be excluded from public office.
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8) Which of the following best characterizes Wordsworth’s attitude towards the French Revolution ? a. He thought it did not go far enough in granting women rights. b. He opposed it in favor of supporting the king and the ancien régime. c. He favored its democratic impulses but was appalled by its destructive nature. d. He did not think it concerned him and his relationship to nature.
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9) The main plot of Richardson’s Pamela reflects the main characteristics of the sentimental novel through its emphasis on which of the following ? a. Pamela’s attempt to seduce her employer b. Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner c. Pamela’s struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work d. Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer
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10) Which of the following statements best describes the behavior of the upper-class characters in Congreve’s The Way of the World ? a. They are somewhat jaded, but all are finally good at heart. b. They are almost universally selfabsorbed and willing to do anything to get what they want. c. They tend to value love above money and honor. d. They provide a moral example for the lower classes.
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