Opening Lines Part VII
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71. Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me. —GŸnter Grass, The Tin Drum (1959; trans. Ralph Manheim)
72. When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson. —Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show (1971)
73. Hiram Clegg, together with his wife Emma and four friends of the faith from Randolph Junction, were summoned by the Spirit and Mrs. Clara Collins, widow of the beloved Nazarene preacher Ely Collins, to West Condon on the weekend of the eighteenth and nineteenth of April, there to await the End of the World. —Robert Coover, The Origin of the Brunists(1966)
74. She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. —Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902)
75. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. —Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
76. "Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. —Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
77. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
78. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. —L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
79. On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen. —Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (1980)
80. Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. —William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own (1994)
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71. Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me. —GŸnter Grass, The Tin Drum (1959; trans. Ralph Manheim)
72. When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson. —Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show (1971)
73. Hiram Clegg, together with his wife Emma and four friends of the faith from Randolph Junction, were summoned by the Spirit and Mrs. Clara Collins, widow of the beloved Nazarene preacher Ely Collins, to West Condon on the weekend of the eighteenth and nineteenth of April, there to await the End of the World. —Robert Coover, The Origin of the Brunists(1966)
74. She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. —Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902)
75. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. —Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
76. "Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. —Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
77. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
78. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. —L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
79. On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen. —Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (1980)
80. Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. —William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own (1994)
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Negative Capability
A famous phrase used by Keats when writing to his brothers George and Thomas (21 Dec. 1817).
The relevant passage is: “I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously – I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium of Mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half- knowledge. This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no farther than this; that with a great Poet the sense of beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Accept, therefore, the insight into beauty and be cautious of rationalization. In his Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats summarized part of his philosophy in this matter:
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
A famous phrase used by Keats when writing to his brothers George and Thomas (21 Dec. 1817).
The relevant passage is: “I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously – I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium of Mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half- knowledge. This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no farther than this; that with a great Poet the sense of beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Accept, therefore, the insight into beauty and be cautious of rationalization. In his Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats summarized part of his philosophy in this matter:
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
1. What does ‘conceit’ refer to in concern to metaphysical poetry?
a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors
b) Showing off of learning
c) Sincerity to one theme
d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem
2. One of Donne's 'Meditations' inspired the title of a famous novel set during the Spanish Civil War, written by which 20th century author?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Jack London
c) Herman Melville
d) William Somerset Maugham
3. Who claimed, “Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging”?
a) Ben Jonson
b) S. Eliot
c) Samuel Johnson
d) John Dryden
4. Who said about Donne, “He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love”?
a) John Dryden
b) Ben Jonson
c) S. Eliot
d) Samuel Johnson
5. What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?
a) The Massacre at Paris
b) The Massacre at Berlin
c) The Massacre at Rome
d) The Massacre at Copenhagen
6. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
a) King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John
a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors
b) Showing off of learning
c) Sincerity to one theme
d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem
2. One of Donne's 'Meditations' inspired the title of a famous novel set during the Spanish Civil War, written by which 20th century author?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Jack London
c) Herman Melville
d) William Somerset Maugham
3. Who claimed, “Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging”?
a) Ben Jonson
b) S. Eliot
c) Samuel Johnson
d) John Dryden
4. Who said about Donne, “He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love”?
a) John Dryden
b) Ben Jonson
c) S. Eliot
d) Samuel Johnson
5. What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?
a) The Massacre at Paris
b) The Massacre at Berlin
c) The Massacre at Rome
d) The Massacre at Copenhagen
6. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
a) King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John
NTA UGC NET - English
1. What does ‘conceit’ refer to in concern to metaphysical poetry? a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors b) Showing off of learning c) Sincerity to one theme d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem 2. One of Donne's 'Meditations'…
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NTA UGC NET - English
1. What does ‘conceit’ refer to in concern to metaphysical poetry? a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors b) Showing off of learning c) Sincerity to one theme d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem 2. One of Donne's 'Meditations'…
Answers
1. a
2. a [ For Whom the Bell Tolls - It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.]
3. a
4. a [although the term metaphysical poets was coined by Samuel Johnson]
5. a
6. a
1. a
2. a [ For Whom the Bell Tolls - It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.]
3. a
4. a [although the term metaphysical poets was coined by Samuel Johnson]
5. a
6. a
Quiz 2
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1. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
a) the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
b) the Toleration Act
c) the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada
d) the Bishops' War
🔘 e) the Act of Union
2. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century?
a) formal diplomatic relations with China
🔘 b) the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade
c) the American and French revolutions
d) the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
e) the union of England and Wales with Scotland
3. What was "restored" in 1660?
🔘 a) the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
b) the dominance of the Tory Party
c) the "Book of Common Prayer"
d) toleration of religious dissidents
e) Irish independence.
4. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration?
a) Gay's Beggar's Opera
b) Butler's Hudibras
c) Fielding's Jonathan Wild
d) Pope's Dunciad
🔘 e) Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
5. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties?
a) the Republicans and the Royalists
b) the Royalists and the Whigs
🔘 c) the Tories and the Whigs
d) the Royalists and the Tories
e) the Whigs and the Republicans
6. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
a) Elizabeth I
🔘 b) James II
c) George II
d) William and Mary
e) Anne
7. Who became the first "prime minister" of Great Britain in the reign of George II?
a) Henry St. John
b) Robert Harley
c) John Churchill
🔘 d) Robert Walpole
e) Matthew Prior
8. In the late seventeenth century, a "battle of the books" erupted between which two groups?
a) abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
b) round-earthers and flat-earthers
c) the Welsh and the Scots
🔘 d) champions of ancient and modern learning
e) Oxfordians and Baconians
9. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?
🔘 a) All knowledge is derived from experience.
b) Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.
c) The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
d) The sensory world is an illusion.
e) God is the center of an ordered and just universe.
10. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh?
a) theoretical science
b) metaphysics
c) abstract logical deductions
d) a and b only
🔘 e) a, b, and c
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1. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
a) the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
b) the Toleration Act
c) the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada
d) the Bishops' War
🔘 e) the Act of Union
2. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century?
a) formal diplomatic relations with China
🔘 b) the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade
c) the American and French revolutions
d) the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
e) the union of England and Wales with Scotland
3. What was "restored" in 1660?
🔘 a) the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
b) the dominance of the Tory Party
c) the "Book of Common Prayer"
d) toleration of religious dissidents
e) Irish independence.
4. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration?
a) Gay's Beggar's Opera
b) Butler's Hudibras
c) Fielding's Jonathan Wild
d) Pope's Dunciad
🔘 e) Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
5. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties?
a) the Republicans and the Royalists
b) the Royalists and the Whigs
🔘 c) the Tories and the Whigs
d) the Royalists and the Tories
e) the Whigs and the Republicans
6. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
a) Elizabeth I
🔘 b) James II
c) George II
d) William and Mary
e) Anne
7. Who became the first "prime minister" of Great Britain in the reign of George II?
a) Henry St. John
b) Robert Harley
c) John Churchill
🔘 d) Robert Walpole
e) Matthew Prior
8. In the late seventeenth century, a "battle of the books" erupted between which two groups?
a) abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
b) round-earthers and flat-earthers
c) the Welsh and the Scots
🔘 d) champions of ancient and modern learning
e) Oxfordians and Baconians
9. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?
🔘 a) All knowledge is derived from experience.
b) Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.
c) The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
d) The sensory world is an illusion.
e) God is the center of an ordered and just universe.
10. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh?
a) theoretical science
b) metaphysics
c) abstract logical deductions
d) a and b only
🔘 e) a, b, and c
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The Tempest by William Shakespeare from Tales from Shakespeare - Charles and Mary Lamb
📝 QU̲I̲Z̲ #3
1. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse?
a) ☑️ the conviction that he was damned forever
b) the loss of his fortune in the "South Sea Bubble"
c) the vindication of Newtonian physics
d) condemnation of his work by Jeremy Collier
e) his skewering in Pope's Dunciad
2. According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for...:
a) love."
b) honor."
c) ☑️money."
d) his party."
e) fun."
3. Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press?
a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary
☑️ b) Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood
c) Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
d) Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and Frances Burney
e) Mary Leapor, Mary Astell, and Mary Shelley
4. Horace's doctrine "ut pictura poesis" was interpreted to mean:
a) A picture is worth a thousand words.
b) Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
c) Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
☑️ d) Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
e) Paintings of poets should be prized over those of kings.
5. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets?
a) civilization
b) woman
c) God
d) alcohol
☑️ e) nature
6. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike?
☑️ a) wit
b) sprezzatura
c) naturalism
d) gusto
e) metaphysics
7. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
☑️ a) the heroic couplet
b) blank verse
c) free verse
d) the ode
e) the spondee
8. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
a) Addison
b) Bunyan
c) Crabbe
☑️ d) Dryden
e) Equiano
9. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
a) Etherege's The Man of Mode
b) Wycherley's The Country Wife
c) Behn's The Rover
☑️ d) Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
e) Congreve's Love for Love
10. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
a) the Behnites
☑️ b) the bluestockings
c) the coteries of plenty
d) the Pre-Raphaelites
e) the tattlers and spectators
1. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse?
a) ☑️ the conviction that he was damned forever
b) the loss of his fortune in the "South Sea Bubble"
c) the vindication of Newtonian physics
d) condemnation of his work by Jeremy Collier
e) his skewering in Pope's Dunciad
2. According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for...:
a) love."
b) honor."
c) ☑️money."
d) his party."
e) fun."
3. Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press?
a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary
☑️ b) Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood
c) Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
d) Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and Frances Burney
e) Mary Leapor, Mary Astell, and Mary Shelley
4. Horace's doctrine "ut pictura poesis" was interpreted to mean:
a) A picture is worth a thousand words.
b) Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
c) Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
☑️ d) Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
e) Paintings of poets should be prized over those of kings.
5. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets?
a) civilization
b) woman
c) God
d) alcohol
☑️ e) nature
6. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike?
☑️ a) wit
b) sprezzatura
c) naturalism
d) gusto
e) metaphysics
7. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
☑️ a) the heroic couplet
b) blank verse
c) free verse
d) the ode
e) the spondee
8. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
a) Addison
b) Bunyan
c) Crabbe
☑️ d) Dryden
e) Equiano
9. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
a) Etherege's The Man of Mode
b) Wycherley's The Country Wife
c) Behn's The Rover
☑️ d) Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
e) Congreve's Love for Love
10. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
a) the Behnites
☑️ b) the bluestockings
c) the coteries of plenty
d) the Pre-Raphaelites
e) the tattlers and spectators
📝 QU̲I̲Z̲ #4
1. Elizabeth Barrett's poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s?
a) women's rights and suffrage
✅ b) child labor
c) chartism
d) the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians
e) insurrection in the colonies
2. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?
✅a) the rich and the poor
b) Anglicans and Methodists
c) England and Ireland
d) Britain and Germany
e) the industrial north and the agrarian south
3. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria?
a) Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.
b) In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India.
✅c) To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
d) From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from £300 billion to £800 billion.
e) In 1867 the Canadian provinces were unified into the Dominion of Canada
4. Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England?
a) A group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldn't tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England.
✅ b) Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.
c) They were part of the High Church or the "Catholic" side of the church.
d) They were devout "tractarians," as described by John Henry Newman.
e) They pertained to all three divisions of the Church of England: Low, Broad, and High
5. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism?
a) a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
✅ b) a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
c) a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
d) a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
e) a form of nonconformism
6. Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?
a) New Criticism
b) Critical Inquiry
c) Scientific Bibliology
✅d) Higher Criticism
e) New Historicism
7. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism?
a) William Morris
b) John Ruskin
c) Edward FitzGerald
d) Karl Marx
✅ e) all but c
8. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era?
a) a series of Factory Acts
b) the Custody Act
✅ c) the Women's Suffrage Act
d) the Married Women's Property Rights Acts
e) the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act
9. Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The Princess address?
a) the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
b) the debate on women's suffrage
✅ c) the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women's college in London
d) the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power
e) the establishment of a civil divorce court
10. What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women "surplus" or "redundant"?
1. Elizabeth Barrett's poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s?
a) women's rights and suffrage
✅ b) child labor
c) chartism
d) the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians
e) insurrection in the colonies
2. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?
✅a) the rich and the poor
b) Anglicans and Methodists
c) England and Ireland
d) Britain and Germany
e) the industrial north and the agrarian south
3. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria?
a) Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.
b) In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India.
✅c) To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
d) From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from £300 billion to £800 billion.
e) In 1867 the Canadian provinces were unified into the Dominion of Canada
4. Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England?
a) A group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldn't tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England.
✅ b) Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.
c) They were part of the High Church or the "Catholic" side of the church.
d) They were devout "tractarians," as described by John Henry Newman.
e) They pertained to all three divisions of the Church of England: Low, Broad, and High
5. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism?
a) a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
✅ b) a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
c) a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
d) a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
e) a form of nonconformism
6. Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?
a) New Criticism
b) Critical Inquiry
c) Scientific Bibliology
✅d) Higher Criticism
e) New Historicism
7. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism?
a) William Morris
b) John Ruskin
c) Edward FitzGerald
d) Karl Marx
✅ e) all but c
8. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era?
a) a series of Factory Acts
b) the Custody Act
✅ c) the Women's Suffrage Act
d) the Married Women's Property Rights Acts
e) the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act
9. Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The Princess address?
a) the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
b) the debate on women's suffrage
✅ c) the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women's college in London
d) the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power
e) the establishment of a civil divorce court
10. What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women "surplus" or "redundant"?
✅a) They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.
b) Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.
c) They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.
d) They were divorced.
e) They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn't provide extensive job opportunities to women.
11. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson's The Princess.
Man for the field and woman for the _:
Man for the sword and for the _ she:
Man with the head and woman with the _:
Man to command and woman to _.
a) crop; scabbard; foot; agree
b) throne; scepter; soul; decree
c) school; scalpel; pen; set free
✅d) hearth; needle; heart; obey
e) field; sword; head; command
12. What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels?
a) the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail
b) a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness
c) a mythic dream world
d) the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society
✅ e) a and d
13. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women?
a) It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
b) It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
c) It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn't make serious statements about society.
d) It often concerned the domestic world with which women were familiar.
✅e) all but c
b) Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.
c) They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.
d) They were divorced.
e) They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn't provide extensive job opportunities to women.
11. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson's The Princess.
Man for the field and woman for the _:
Man for the sword and for the _ she:
Man with the head and woman with the _:
Man to command and woman to _.
a) crop; scabbard; foot; agree
b) throne; scepter; soul; decree
c) school; scalpel; pen; set free
✅d) hearth; needle; heart; obey
e) field; sword; head; command
12. What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels?
a) the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail
b) a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness
c) a mythic dream world
d) the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society
✅ e) a and d
13. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women?
a) It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
b) It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
c) It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn't make serious statements about society.
d) It often concerned the domestic world with which women were familiar.
✅e) all but c
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Thomas Arnold [2]
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