1. Întrebarea nr. 1 0 points Save
Dickens’ David Copperfield exhibits a strong link between
Romantic imagination and …………. which renders the fictional
world as stylized perception of the real world.
a. reality
b. fairy-tale fancy
c. pessimism
d. fulfilment
ANS: B
2. Întrebarea nr. 2 0 points Save
Is David Copperfield preeminently:
a. a picaresque?
b. a Bildungsroman?
c. a romance?
d. a utopia?
ANS: B
3. Întrebarea nr. 3 0 points Save
In The Bear, by the time the protagonist is thirteen, who kills a colt
owned by Major de Spain?
a. Sam Fathers.
b. Lion.
c. Old Ben.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS: B
4. Întrebarea nr. 4 0 points Save
In Nineteen Eighty-four, what does a voice in a dream tell Winston
C. Smith?
a. ”If there is hope, it is in the proles.”
b. ”Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
c. ”We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS: C
5. Întrebarea nr. 5 0 points Save
In Tristram Shandy, Book One, a black page is connected with
a. Yorick’s passing away.
b. the narrative line.
c. widow Wadman’s appearance.
d. the mourning caused by Dr. Slop’s death.
ANS: A
6. Întrebarea nr. 6 0 points Save
In Tristram Shandy, the narrator is
a. Laurence Sterne.
b. Tristram Shandy
c. Uncle Toby.
d. both Laurence Sterne and Tristram Shandy.
ANS: B
7. Întrebarea nr. 7 0 points Save
The dominant feature of Tennessee William’s personages is:
a. sensibility
b. sensitivity
c. susceptibility
ANS: C
8. Întrebarea nr. 8 0 points Save
In Shelley’s poem The Cloud the morning star shines ……… at
dawn.
a. bright
b. dead
c. dim
d. blazing
ANS:B
9. Întrebarea nr. 9 0 points Save
The historical period to which Hawthorne often resorted in his
fiction was:
a. the medieval legendary age.
b. his contemporary society.
c. the colonial, Calvinist past.
d. the 19th American society.
ANS: C
10. Întrebarea nr. 10 0 points Save
In The Bear, what does the protagonist get at the end of the fourth
section?
a. A wife.
b. A job.
c. A new home.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS: D
11. Întrebarea nr. 11 0 points Save
In The Bear, what does the protagonist’s maternal uncle leave him
as a heritage?
a. Gold coins.
b. A silver cup.
c. IOUs.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS: C
12. Întrebarea nr. 12 0 points Save
In Nineteen Eighty-four, Winston C. Smith commits
”thoughtcrime” by writing
a. a newspaper article.
b. a manifesto.
c. a diary.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: C
13. Întrebarea nr. 13 0 points Save
In The Bear, what does the protagonist encounter on his last trip to
the woods?
a. A bear.
b. A wolf.
c. A panther.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS:D
14. Întrebarea nr. 14 0 points Save
In Shelley’s poem The Cloud, “the cloud” is a symbol standing
for:
a. eternity and immortality.
b. civilization and progress.
c. revolution and liberty.
d. democracy and fraternity.
ANS: A
15. Întrebarea nr. 15 0 points Save
In The Bear, who is the protagonist’s father?
a. Uncle Buck.
b. Uncle Buddy.
c. Sam Fathers.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above
ANS: A
16. Întrebarea nr. 16 0 points Save
In John Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci the final stanza…….
a. is a round-up of the knight’s tale and the answer to the
question asked in the first stanza.
b. brings in an optimistic tone and the knight’s hope for the
continuation of his affair.
c. laments the death of the unhappy knight.
d. shows the knight’s resolution to put an end to his unhappy
life.
ANS: A
17. Întrebarea nr. 17 0 points Save
In Nineteen Eighty-four, Oceania’s dominant doctrine is
a. Nadsat.
b. Ingsoc.
c. Animalism.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: B
18. Întrebarea nr. 18 0 points Save
In David Copperfield, Dickens makes a disguised portrait of his
father through the character of
a. Uriah Heep
b. Mr. Murdstone
c. Mr. Micawber
d. Mr. Spenlow
ANS: C
19. Întrebarea nr. 19 0 points Save
In Shelley’s poem, “the Cloud” laughs at her cenotaph because she
knows that she is ……
a. immortal.
b. immaterial.
c. immature.
d. imaginary.
ANS: A
20. Întrebarea nr. 20 0 points Save
In David Copperfield, the man with “black shallow eye”, black
hair and whiskers, and a square chin, reminding the narrator of an
“wax-work”, is:
a. Dr. Strong
b. Micawber
c. Murdstone
d. Steerforth
ANS: C
21. Întrebarea nr. 21 0 points Save
In the novel David Copperfield, in his relation with Dora, David
seems to be torn between wishing his wife
a. was more beautiful and intelligent.
b. was more hardworking and serious.
c. was more mature and reproaching himself for wanting to
change her.
d. was more aware of the fact he loves her so much.
ANS: C
22. Întrebarea nr. 22 0 points Save
In the novel David Copperfield, Uriah Heep is
a. one of David’s friends.
b. one of Wickfield’s clerks.
c. “a very umble person” (as he describes himself) that
impresses David much.
d. the man Agnes Wickfield was eager to marry.
ANS: B
23. Întrebarea nr. 23 0 points Save
In the third section of The Bear, who is the protagonist supposed to
accompany to make sure that some of the whiskey will arrive safely
at the hunting camp?
a. Sam Fathers.
b. Isaac McCaslin.
c. Boon Hogganbeck.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above
ANS:C
24. Întrebarea nr. 24 0 points Save
What is Crusoe planting in the place in which he first becomes a
planter in the fourth year?
a. Wheat
b. Melons
c. Cane
d. Tobacco
ANS: C
25. Întrebarea nr. 25 0 points Save
Orsino starts Twelfth Night, with the words ...
a. O! spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou.
b. If music be the food of love, play on.
c. O! when mine eyes did see Olivia first.
d. O! she that hath a heart of that fine frame.
ANS: B
26. Întrebarea nr. 26 0 points Save
In The Bear, who is injured or about to die after the final
confrontation?
a. Sam Fathers.
b. Lion.
c. Boon Hogganbeck.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS: D
27. Întrebarea nr. 27 0 points Save
How does Crusoe leave: does he ask anyone’s consent?
a. Yes.
b. No.
c. Not specified in the novel.
d. Not relevant to the novel.
ANS: B
28. Întrebarea nr. 28 0 points Save
In the end of the novel The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale found the
resolve to admit in public that:
a. he hated Chillingworth.
b. he wanted to leave New England.
c. he was Pearl’s father.
d. he did not want to be a minister
ANS: C
29. Întrebarea nr. 29 0 points Save
Which of the following statements about Laurence Sterne’s novel
Tristram Shandy is true?
a. It is a novel written in the third person, having an impersonal
and omniscient narrator, who knows everything about all his
characters.
b. it is a meta-novel,using a subjective, psychological time.
c. it is a Bildungsroman, because it follows the story of the
development of Tristram as an individual, through the
multiple adventures he has, which shape his personality and
ultimately help him find his place in society.
d. it explores the dramatic situation of women in the eighteenth
century, and comments on the double pressure exerted upon
them by an oppressive patriarchal society.
ANS: B
30. Întrebarea nr. 30 0 points Save
“Tennessee” in Tennessee Williams is a pen name.
a. True
b. False
ANS: A
31. Întrebarea nr. 31 0 points Save
What does Crusoe build with the sails of the ship?
a. a hammock for himself to sleep in.
b. a tent in which he brings perishable goods.
c. a tent in which he brings all his tools.
d. a granary.
ANS: B
32. Întrebarea nr. 32 0 points Save
In Hawthorne’s romance, The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth
is
a. an Indian doctor
b. Hester’s husband
c. a clergyman
d. Pearl’s best friend
ANS: B
33. Întrebarea nr. 33 0 points Save
The dialogue between the two speakers in John Keats’ La Belle
Dame Sans Merci is initiated by……..
a. an unknown person.
b. the knight.
c. la belle dame.
d. none of the above mentioned persons.
ANS: A
34. Întrebarea nr. 34 0 points Save
In Chapter XI we are told that, after 15 years of solitude on the
island, Robinson Crusoe finds a footprint on the sand. He is
terrified by the sight and thinks that:
a. there are cannibals on the island
b. the devil left it there to scare him.
c. it was his own footprint.
d. it was Friday’s footprint.
ANS: B
35. Întrebarea nr. 35 0 points Save
In Twelfth Night, the supposed love letter from Olivia asks
Malvolio to ...
a. wear yellow stockings cross-gartered.
b. be rude to the rest of the servants.
c. smile in all circumstances.
d. all of the above.
ANS: D
36. Întrebarea nr. 36 0 points Save
How would you define the relationship between David and Dora in
the novel David Copperfield?
a. a partnership of equals.
b. a father/child relationship.
c. a brother/sister relationship.
d. a master/servant relationship.
ANS: B
37. Întrebarea nr. 37 0 points Save
Which of the following statements about Daniel Defoe’s Robinson
Crusoe is true?
a. It can be read as a metaphor of colonialism, because the
relationship between Robinson and Friday is the archetype of
colonial relations.
b. Robinson lacks the psychological elements that would make
him a full-fledged character; he is therefore a persona.
c. Defoe’s novel is a complex and multilayered satire directed
against the social, religious and political conflicts that were
dividing British society at the time.
d. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe constructs a meta-novel, because
in it he experiments with the mechanisms of novel-writing,
thus revolutionizing the genre.
ANS: A
38. Întrebarea nr. 38 0 points Save
David walked penniless to Dover to throw himself on the mercy of
his aunt, Betsy Trotwood after:
a. he entered Doctors’ Commons, being articled to Mr. Spenlow,
of the firm of Spenlow and Jorkins.
b. he was sent to menial employment in London where he lived a
life of poverty and misery.
c. his mother’s second husband Mr Murdstone, by cruelty
disguised as firmness, punished him repeatedly.
d. he became the friend and companion of Mr Wickfield’s
daughter.
ANS: B
39. Întrebarea nr. 39 0 points Save
In The Bear, the one who teaches the protagonist the secrets of
wilderness is called
a. Sam Fathers.
b. Lion.
c. Old Ben.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: A
40. Întrebarea nr. 40 0 points Save
In The Bear, what do they use to kill the bear?
a. A silver inlaid gun.
b. A spear.
c. Arrows.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS: E
41. Întrebarea nr. 41 0 points Save
In Nineteen Eighty-four, Newspeak is for
a. everyday life.
b. propaganda.
c. technology.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: D
42. Întrebarea nr. 42 0 points Save
In Shelley’s poem The Cloud, “the cloud” famously nourishes the
thirsting…….
a. gardens.
b. forests.
c. seas.
d. flowers.
ANS: D
43. Întrebarea nr. 43 0 points Save
In the novel The Scarlet Letter Pearl, although only a small child,
embarrasses Dimmesdale by asking him if:
a. he will allow her to call him “father”.
b. he will love her mother as long as he lives.
c. he will stand on the pillory with her and her mother the
following day.
d. he will buy her a new dress.
ANS: C
44. Întrebarea nr. 44 0 points Save
In Nineteen Eighty-four, Winston C. Smith works in
a. the Ministry of Truth.
b. the Ministry of Love.
c. the Ministry of Peace.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: A
45. Întrebarea nr. 45 0 points Save
In the novel David Copperfield, the character Betsey Trotwood is:
a. a pretty empty-headed girl
b. strong-headed and eccentric
c girl of exceptionally sweet and high-minded disposition
d. young, pretty and weak
ANS: B
46. Întrebarea nr. 46 0 points Save
In Twelfth Night, Feste visits Malvolio to mock his “insanity” ...
a. disguised as a priest.
b. dressed in yellow stockings.
c. wearing an armor.
d. carrying a fishing rod.
ANS: A
47. Întrebarea nr. 47 0 points Save
In his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne describes the customs
of:
a. the 19th century New England.
b. the 18th century Puritan Boston.
c. the 17th century Puritan New England.
d. the 16th century Puritan England.
ANS:C
48. Întrebarea nr. 48 0 points Save
In Shelley’s poem The Cloud the main structural device is the
figure of speech known as………
a. metaphor.
b. metonymy.
c. personification.
d. synecdoche
ANS: C
49. Întrebarea nr. 49 0 points Save
We are told by the author that Robinson Crusoe was sold as a slave.
When does this happen?
a. When he is leaving London, heading for his island where
Friday will be expecting him.
b. When he is the captain of a ship heading for Guinea, and they
are captured by the pirates and sold to the Moors.
c. When he is captain of a ship trading silk in China, and due to
a violent storm, is shipwrecked on the African coast.
d. When he is shipwrecked in the land of Laputa, and is taken to
the court of the king and made slave.
ANS: B
50. Întrebarea nr. 50 0 points Save
In the Preface to The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne’s metaphors for
romantic realism and romance are:
a. moonlight and stage light.
b. moonlight and firelight.
c. moonlight and torchlight.
d. moonlight and lighthouse.
ANS: B
51. Întrebarea nr. 51 0 points Save
John Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci is one of the best English
…….. of all times.
a. sonnets
b. odes
c. ballads
d. elegies
ANS: C
52. Întrebarea nr. 52 0 points Save
What American actor became famous after playing Stanley in A
Streetcar Named Desire?
a. Paul Newman.
b. Robert Redford.
c. Marlon Brando.
ANS: C
53. Întrebarea nr. 53 0 points Save
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley’s origins are:
a. East European.
b. West European.
c. Central European.
ANS: A
54. Întrebarea nr. 54 0 points Save
Who is Corporal Trim of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy ?
a. Uncle Toby’s brother.
b. Uncle Toby’s son.
c. Uncle Toby’s servant.
d. Walter Shandy’s servant.
ANS: C
55. Întrebarea nr. 55 0 points Save
In John Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci the first three lines of
each stanza are………
a. trimeters.
b. tetrameters.
c. pentameters.
d. hexameters.
ANS: B
56. Întrebarea nr. 56 0 points Save
At the Nineteen Eighty-four’s ending, Winston C. Smith feels a
strong love for
a. Julia.
b. Big Brother.
c. Martin O’Brien.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: B
57. Întrebarea nr. 57 0 points Save
In Hawthorne’s vision, romance transforms the ordinary world
into ………. and then back into the impression of life.
a. cold allegory
b. fairy tale
c. imaginary land
d. symbolic land
ANS: B
58. Întrebarea nr. 58 0 points Save
The story of Tristram’s life and opinions begins in:
a. book 1
b. book 4
c. book 7
d. book 5
ANS: B
59. Întrebarea nr. 59 0 points Save
Tristram was:
a. an only child.
b. he had an elder brother.
c. he had a half brother.
d. he had a younger sister.
ANS: B
60. Întrebarea nr. 60 0 points Save
In Tristram Shandy, what is Corporal Trim’s main interest?
a. flowers
b. military fortifications
c. the ocean
d. life in the city
e. education
ANS: B
61. Întrebarea nr. 61 0 points Save
Tristram Shandy consists of:
a. seven books.
b. eight books.
c. nine books.
d. twelve books.
ANS: C
62. Întrebarea nr. 62 0 points Save
Which of the following is a Bildungsroman?
a. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
b. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
c. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
d. Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter
ANS: A
63. Întrebarea nr. 63 0 points Save
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester’s husband reveals his true identity to
her as he tries:
a. to escape some bad men who are searching for him.
b. to practice his job of a physician.
c. to find out who her lover is.
d. to come back to her.
ANS: C
64. Întrebarea nr. 64 0 points Save
Where does Crusoe first become a planter?
a. India.
b. Brazil
c. England
d. America
e. Australia
ANS: B
65. Întrebarea nr. 65 0 points Save
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche’s past is brought to life by:
a. Mitch.
b. anonymous letter.
c. Stanley.
d. a neighbour.
ANS: C
66. Întrebarea nr. 66 0 points Save
In John Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci, the seventh stanza
abounds in………. images.
a. aural
b. gustatory
c. olfactory
d. visual
ANS: B
67. Întrebarea nr. 67 0 points Save
From a technical point of view, which is the difference between the
concepts of story and of plot?
a. The story is the sum of all the events that the author presents
in his novel, while the plot refers to those parts of the story
that involve the main character directly.
b. Story is the chronologically-ordered representation of all the
information concerning characters, events and settings. It is an
abstract version of events, while the plot is the structured
matter of the novel.
c. There is no important distinction between plot and story, as
both refer to the elements that form the narrative, the material
that constitutes the novel.
d. The story represents the ‘selection’ which the writer makes
among the information and events that constitute the plot.
ANS: B
68. Întrebarea nr. 68 0 points Save
In Nineteen Eighty-four, Mr. Charrington is
a. an old man.
b. an antiquarian.
c. an officer of the Thought Police.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: D
69. Întrebarea nr. 69 0 points Save
In Twelfth Night, Malvolio is taken in by Maria with the help of ...
a. rumors spread about the household.
b. a duel challenge from Antonio.
c. a supposed invitation to Orsino.
d. a forged love letter from Olivia.
ANS: D
70. Întrebarea nr. 70 0 points Save
In Twelfth Night, Olivia considers that Malvolio suffers from ...
a. midnight fever.
b. winter flu.
c. spring anxiety.
d. midsummer madness.
ANS: D
71. Întrebarea nr. 71 0 points Save
In Nineteen Eighty-four, Winston C. Smith believes that hope for
a radical change in society lies in
a. Big Brother.
b. Emmanuel Goldstein.
c. the proles.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: C
72. Întrebarea nr. 72 0 points Save
What animals did Crusoe domesticate?
a. Goats.
b. Hares.
c. Fowls.
d. Kine.
ANS: A
73. Întrebarea nr. 73 0 points Save
In Shelley’s poem The Cloud the temporal transformations are
measured by…….
a. natural phenomena.
b. the clock
c. the bell.
d. man’s inner clock.
ANS: A
74. Întrebarea nr. 74 0 points Save
Robinson Crusoe can be interpreted as the fruit of a synthesis of
two existing traditions: the picaresque novel, and the personal
journal or the memoir. Why is that?
a. Because of its emphasis on the development of the
individual.
b. Because it is written in the first person.
c. Because it is a story of a process of colonization similar to the
colonization of the world by the British Empire.
d. Because it comments on the political realities of the period.
ANS: B
75. Întrebarea nr. 75 0 points Save
In The Bear, what does the protagonist have with him when he
meets the bear for the first time?
a. A gun.
b. A compass.
c. A watch.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS: E
76. Întrebarea nr. 76 0 points Save
In Twelfth Night, Olivia repels Orsino’s advances being ...
a. in mourning for the death of her brother.
b. of a higher social rank.
c. in love with Sebastian.
d. of a different sexual orientation.
ANS: A
77. Întrebarea nr. 77 0 points Save
In Twelfth Night, the subtitle of Twelfth Night is ...
a. Much ado about Nothing
b. What You Will
c. The Mistakes of a Night
d. A History of True Love
ANS: B
78. Întrebarea nr. 78 0 points Save
In The Bear, the bear is called
a. Sam Fathers.
b. Lion.
c. Old Ben.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: C
79. Întrebarea nr. 79 0 points Save
Which of the following sentences referring to the novel David
Copperfield, is not true:
a. David’s mother is always intimidated by Mr and Miss
Murdstone.
b. David is critical of his mother’s behaviour.
c. David is younger than Dora and feels sympathy for her in the
same way as an adult feels sympathy for a child.
d. David felt that Dora did not help him with the concerns and
tasks of daily life.
ANS: C
80. Întrebarea nr. 80 0 points Save
The function of one of the longest sentences in English literature
that occurs in The Bear is to show
a. that the character couldn’t think clearly.
b. the way the human mind works.
c. that the information in the ledger was not exact.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: B
81. Întrebarea nr. 81 0 points Save
In The Bear, who entraps the wild dog?
a. Sam Fathers.
b. Isaac McCaslin.
c. Major de Spain.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above
ANS: A
82. Întrebarea nr. 82 0 points Save
The names of characters in Dickens’s fiction (such as Grimwig,
Uriah Heep, Mr. Murdstone) are:
a. independent from the characters.
b. meant as a comment on their physical appearance.
c. a sign of their stereotypical behaviour and moral outlook.
d. important for readers in understanding the novel.
ANS: C
83. Întrebarea nr. 83 0 points Save
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche’s famous line is: “I have
always relied on the kindness of ………..……”
a. friends.
b. woman.
c. people.
d. strangers.
e. God.
ANS: D
84. Întrebarea nr. 84 0 points Save
The orbed maiden in Shelley’s poem The Cloud is
a. the Sun.
b. the Moon.
c. the Spirit.
d. the Sky.
ANS: B
85. Întrebarea nr. 85 0 points Save
Tristram’s father was:
a. a natural philosopher.
b. a stoic.
c. an agnostic philosopher.
d. a doctor in Philosophy.
ANS: A
86. Întrebarea nr. 86 0 points Save
In Nineteen Eighty-four, Julia works in
a. the Ministry of Love.
b. the Minstry of Peace.
c. the Ministry of Plenty.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: E
87. Întrebarea nr. 87 0 points Save
In Twelfth Night, Olivia says that Malvolio ...
a. rises a passion within her.
b. is her most faithful servant.
c. suffers from self-love.
d. deserves a better fate.
ANS: C
88. Întrebarea nr. 88 0 points Save
Hawthorne’s pictorial analogies for his verbal art of the
ROMANCE can be associated with:
a. his gift at drawing and painting.
b. his master’s (Twain’s) keen visual perception of the world.
c. the Horatian “ut pictura poesis” dictum of neoclassicism.
d. his fondness for romantic stories.
ANS: C
89. Întrebarea nr. 89 0 points Save
In Nineteen Eighty-four, which class rules Oceania?
a. The Inner Party.
b. The Central Party.
c. The Upper Party.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS: A
90. Întrebarea nr. 90 0 points Save
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche’s marriage failed because:
a. her husband was unfaithful to her.
b. she was promiscuous.
c. her husband was suicidal.
d. none of the above.
ANS: C
91. Întrebarea nr. 91 0 points Save
What does Crusoe think about the money he discovers on the ship?
a. That the money could be of good use for him in gaining things
in exchange from the natives.
b. That the money should be kept for future use.
c. That the money is the Devil’s temptation
d. That the money is of no use for him, that it is a drug.
ANS: D
92. Întrebarea nr. 92 0 points Save
Which of the following sentences referring to the novel The
Scarlet Letter is true:
a. Dimmesdale believes that Hester’s sin is greater than his own.
b. Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale are, ultimately, archetypes of
sinning and that is why their moral development is frozen in
stereotyped patterns.
c. Hawthorne did not manage to modify the traditional romance
into psychological romance.
d. Hester’s husband, Arthur Dimmesdale, returns incognito and
settles in the town under the name of Richard Chillingworth.
ANS:D
93. Întrebarea nr. 93 0 points Save
Twelfth Night is a play about ...
a. madness and emotion.
b. stereotypical behaviour.
c. mistaken identity.
d. jealousy and murder.
ANS: C
94.. Întrebarea nr. 94 0 points Save
In Nineteen Eighty-four, who is vilified in the media as an archenemy?
a. Big Brother.
b. Emmanuel Goldstein.
c. Martin O’Brien.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS:B
95. Întrebarea nr. 95 0 points Save
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche used to live on a plantation
called:
a. La Bel Reve.
b. La Belle Reve
c. La Belles Reves
d. a different name.
ANS: B
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How does Crusoe name the island on which he was shipwrecked?
a. The Island of Salvation
b. The Island of Hope
c. The Island of Despair
d. The Island of a New Beginning
e. The Island of Repentance
ANS: C
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The message concluding The Scarlet Letter could be: to develop
one’s moral potential one must:
a. plunge into the depth of experiential knowledge in order to
ascend.
b. protect one’s moral worth because it is irreparable.
c. lie and pretend that nothing sinful has happened.
d. heroically rebel against the community.
ANS: A
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In Nineteen Eighty-four, the Thought Police supervises citizens by
means of
a. telescreens.
b. microphones.
c. helicopters.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: D
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In Shelley’s poem The Cloud, …..… acts as the cloud’s pilot.
a. thunder
b. rain
c. sun
d. moon
ANS: A
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In John Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci the poet describes the
outer appearance of the ailing knight in images borrowed from
the……….. world.
a. animal
b. human
c. mineral
d. vegetal
ANS: D
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The knight’s dream in John Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci
combines… and… images.
a. aural and gustatory
b. gustatory and tactile
c. aural and visual
d. visual and olfactory
ANS: C
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Laurence Sterne’s narrative method was:
a. characteristic of his time.
b. an initiation of the stream-of-consciousness technique.
c. a personal interpretation of Locke’s theory.
d. a faithful application of Locke’s theory.
ANS: B
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In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne’s New England is striking for:
a. historical veracity of the facts.
b. historical setting and people.
c. effects of romantic distance and picturesque.
d. effects of picaresque facts.
ANS:C
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Tristram Shandy was published in
a. the Elisabethan Age.
b. the Age of Reason.
c. the Victorian Age.
d. the Romantic Age
ANS: B
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In Tristram Shandy, Walter Shandy explains to Uncle Toby the
contents of Slawkenbergius’s Latin treatise. What is this treatise
about?
a. Noses
b. Hats
c. Pipes
d. Hairdressing
ANS: A
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In Tristram Shandy, in the closing paragraphs, the characters are
preoccupied with:
a. a tall story.
b. a traveler’s tale.
c. a cock-and-bull story.
d. a cloak-and-dagger story.
e. an opera.
ANS: C
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What does Crusoe consider himself to have been the instrument of
what?
a. of his becoming wise
b. of his own salvation
c. of his own destruction
d. of his becoming respectable
ANS: C
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In Shelley’s poem The Cloud, the cloud’s various transformations
are presented in a/an …….. way.
a. idealistic
b. obscure
c. metaphorical
d. materialistic
ANS: D
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Which of the following sentences referring to the novel David
Copperfield is true:
a. In the world of David Copperfield the villain type is
embodied by Traddles and the Micawbers.
b. Even if David is younger than Dora, he feels sympathy for
her much in the same way as an adult feels sympathy for a
child.
c. When David is a few years old his mother, Clara, young,
pretty and weak, refused to marry the hard, dominating
Murdstone.
c. At the end of the novel, David fears that his dear “sister”
Agnes may agree to marry Uriah Heep in order to save her
father.
ANS: D
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What is the name that Tristram’s parents intended for him?
a. Heracles
b. John
c. Trismegistus
d. Winston
e. Charles
ANS: C
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In Nineteen Eighty-four, Winston C. Smith’s resistance is broken
in
a. the Ministry of Love.
b. Room 101.
c. the place where there is no darkness.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: D
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The main purpose of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy is:
a. to follow the adventures of Tristram.
b. to illustrate the way a narrative is built.
c. to comment on social inequalities.
d. to create a paradigm of colonialism.
ANS: B
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The Bear is an example of
a. minimalist fiction.
b. Victorian fiction.
c. postmodernist fiction.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS:E
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Keats’ exceptional use of imagery in La Belle Dame Sans Merci
is proved by the reiterated………. image that amplifies the
knight’s grief for being seduced and forsaken.
a. gustatory
b. olfactory
c. tactile
d. thermal
ANS: D
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According to the description of nature in John Keats’ La Belle
Dame Sans Merci the opening of the poem is set in………
a. spring.
b. summer.
c. autumn.
d. winter.
ANS: C
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Dickens’ narrative point(s) of view in David Copperfield and
Great Expectations was/were:
a. the omniscient
b. the first person
c. the multiple-selective omniscience
d. the neutral omniscient perspective
ANS: B
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The plot of the novel David Copperfield is picaresque in design
in the sense that:
a. it is not episodically structured
b. Dickens struggled not to depart from the 19th century literary
tradition.
c. Dickens was trying to see the term “picaresque” from a new
perspective.
d. Dickens was isolated from his reading public
ANS: D
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In John Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci the acts of seduction
in stanzas five to eight are actions mostly expressed via……….
images.
a. aural
b. olfactory
c. tactile
d. visual
ANS: D
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Why does Robinson leave home?
a. Because he wants to discover America.
b. Because his family had arranged a marriage for him with
Clarissa.
c. Because his father had destined him to a profession he didn’t
like.
d. By accident.
ANS: C
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In the Preface of The Scarlet Letter, in Hawthorne’s vision
……… is the neutral territory between reality and fairy land,
where the Actual and the Imaginary meet and fuse.
a. the window
b. the ceiling
c. the floor
d. the door
ANS: C
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In Twelfth Night,Viola arrives at Illyria after ...
a. escaping a rape attempt.
b. surviving a shipwreck.
c. leaving the nunnery.
d. avoiding a stock market crash.
ANS: B
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In the novel The Scarlet Letter according to Hawthorne’s
philosophical tenets, the Unpardonable Sinner is an individual
who tries to separate his intellect from the heart, in a lack of
reverence for the human soul, looking on mankind as the subject
of his experiment. What character can be considered as such:
a. Arthur Dimmesdale
b. Roger Chillingworth
c. Arthur Hollingworth
d. Mr Surveyor Pue
ANS: B
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In the novel David Copperfield, Dickens’s manner of
characterisation is achieved through
a. burlesque associations.
b. picaresque tradition techniques.
c. hyperbole, stereotypes.
d. all variants.
ANS: D
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In A Streetcar Named Desire, Mitch jilts Blanche because
a. he discovers how old she is.
b. he finds out about her past.
c. he is tired of her airs.
ANS:C
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In Tristram Shandy, Sterne uses a series of unconventional
techniques. Thus, a cross appears on the page when Dr. Slop
crosses himself, blank pages appear to represent pages torn out.
What is the purpose of these technical devices in Sterne’s
construction of the narrative?
a. to illustrate the point he is trying to make
b. to use an omniscient narrator
c. to involve the reader in the process of ‘creation’ of the text
d. to create the illusion of reality
ANS:C
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In Nineteen Eighty-four, children are indoctrinated in an
organization called
a. Scouts.
b. Pioneers.
c. Spies.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.
ANS: C
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The idea of perpetual .……. is evident in Shelley’s The Cloud
a. revolt
b. metamorphosis
c. transgression
d. stasis
ANS: B
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In Nineteen Eighty-four, what is scarce?
a. Chocolate.
b. Razor blades.
c. Coffee.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
ANS: D
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A notorious case of fiction told mostly in omniscient narrative voice interspersed with authorial intrusions, in disciplined or irregular ways, is: Tom Jones
A novelist is involved implicitly or explicitly in: a social, historical, cultural commentary of both the fictional time and of his own time.
A third-person omniscient narrator tells the story in: The Portrait of a Lady.
According to Fielding’s opinion in Tom Jones, the novel should be written in a balanced, rational, useful, democratic manner.
According to Hawthorne’s philosophical tenets, the Unpardonable Sinner is an individual who tries to separate his intellect from the heart... What character ....: Roger Chillingworth
After the publication of Jude the Obscure, Hardy: reverted to poetry writing
Ahab can be viewed as a an enraged, relentless, defying, foolhardy seafarer
Along with other American writers, Mark Twain and W. D. Howells, Henry James satirized the European manners. F
As a realist novelist, Austen is generous, lavish in landscape descriptions objectifying the characters’ moods.F
At one point in the novel, Henchard writes Farfrae two contradictory notes. They concern: Elisabeth Jane.
At the end of the novel The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale found the resolve to admit in public that: he was Pearl’s father.
Austen’s flat characters e.g. Mr. Woodhouse, Charlotte Lucas, Mrs Bennet may be seen as reducible to dominant ideas such as: sense, pride, snobbery... but they are not simply: flat.
By means of the narrative of Moby Dick, H. Melville meditates on the perils of Emersonian self-reliance, on human error and doom
Ch.Dickens’s precursors were Jane Austen, Henry Fielding, Daniel Defoe.
Characteristically, a Jane Austen novel starts: in ripe maturity of the protagonist’s emotional intelligence.
Charles Dickens is preeminently a novelist of self-contained,provincial places. F
Charles Dickens pictures human nature from the outside, like a playwright, identifying the psyche with looks, gesture, speech. A
Charles Dickens transforms literary conventions using symbolic connotations as well as dramatic, often comic associations. A
Charles Dickens’ fertile, exuberant imagination is mostly remarkable for the creation of: character.
Charles Dickens’s manner of characterization is achieved through all variants
Choose the correct answer: A romance plot: inflates the protagonist’s illusions, self-deceiving expectations.
Choose the correct answer: According to George Eliot’s doctrine of realism, expressed in Chapter XVII of one of her famous novels......: the Dutch genre painting.
Choose the correct answer: Characteristically, a Victorian novel plot concludes with: a morally deserved retribution for the hero(ine) and the villain
Choose the correct answer: Dickens’ “round” characters are: unpredictable and developing and mimetically plausible.
Choose the correct answer: Dickens’ acknowledged masters were: Fielding, Smollett, Ben Jonson.
Choose the correct answer: Dickens’ comic novels focus on themes like: individual freedom versus social norms.
Choose the correct answer: Dickens’ fertile, exuberant imagination is mostly remarkable for the creation of: settings.
Choose the correct answer: Focusing upon the slow but decided invasion of modern agricultural technology into a market town, like Casterbridge, Hardy:CANNOT but admit ...
Choose the correct answer: George Eliot’s life and work:PARADOXICALLY diverged i.e. she lived unconventionally, as an offender of Victorian ethics, while her ....
Choose the correct answer: In “David Copperfield”,the man with “black shallow eye”,black hair and whiskers,and a square chin, reminding the narrator of an “wax-work”, is: Murdstone
Choose the correct answer: In “The Mayor of Casterbridge”: Henchard admits that the past cannot be buried despite one’s will or desire.
Choose the correct answer: In “The Mill on the Floss” the conflict is generated by: the protagonist’s irreparably damaging her relationship with the community by a moment’s ...
Choose the correct answer: In E. M. Forster’s vision, the “flat” character of comic and melodramatic fiction is conceptualized, undeveloping, predictable.
Choose the correct answer: In George Eliot’s fictional world, conflicts and dramas originate strictly in the interrelationship of both.
Choose the correct answer: Is Hardy’s Wessex world in The Mayor of Casterbridge dimensioned: both?
Choose the correct answer: The early Victorian novels were preferably published in: weekly or monthly parts.
Choose the correct answer: The Mill on the Floss is a feminist novel to the extent it concentrates on: MAGGIE’S innate intelligence, sensitivity, imagination, condemned by ...
Choose the correct answer: The painful conflict between the old ways of provincial communities and the new order of speculative capitalism underlies: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Choose the correct answer: The plot of “The Mayor of Casterbridge” parallels Henchard’s and Farfrae’s fates of fall and rise.The plot is: - SYMBOLIC; the two characters represent..
Choose the correct answer: The Roman amphitheatre about the town of Casterbridge could metaphorically suggest: the leveling of humans by death and time.
Choose the correct answer: The typical Victorian novelist is: reader-oriented.
Choose the correct answer: The Victorian readers controlled: the content of fiction; they preferred sentimentalism and entertainment.
Choose the correct answer: The villains Pip has to face in the world of Great Expectations are: Orlick and Compeyson.
Choose the correct answer: With Hardy the tragic is necessarily related to: humble nature.
Choose the correct answer: Within Victorian culture, with Art assuming the status of Religion, and with the Artist as a moral guide, Victorian fiction: was MEANT to delightfully....
Coincidence and accidental occurrence are beside the point in: Thomas Hardy’s fiction.
Confronted with many ill-omen portents and apprehensions, Ahab chooses to deliberately disregard them and proceed on his voyage
David Copperfield is mainly written in : the 1st person point of view.
David Copperfield is preeminently: a Bildungsroman?
Dickens did not modify the traditional picaresque. F
Dickens is a “metaphysical novelist” because his fiction fuses: realism and romance.
Dickens is pre-eminently a novelist of rural space.
Dickens provides traditional novel endings – marriage, coming into fortune, social settlement – a comic world vision i.e. the reordering of temporary disintegration or confusion.A
Dickens’ fertile, exuberant imagination is mostly remarkable for the creation of: character
Dickens’ plots, in the picaresque tradition, are loose and episodic,rather than compact and justified by character. F
Dickens’ romantic fancy coheres with fairy-tales’ imagination.A
Dickens’ work exhibits a strong link between Romantic imagination and ………….., which renders his fictional world as stylized perception of the real world. fairy-tale fancy
Dickens’ work exhibits a strong link between Romantic imagination and …. which renders the fictional world as stylised perception of the real world. fairy-tale fancy
Dickens’s characters are generally described as flatly-drawn, symbolic
Dickens’s fictional world was characterized by Northrop Frye as ”fairy-tale” in : the high-mimetic mode
Dickens’s narrative point of view is that of: a narrator who is not always omniscient
Dickens’s panorama of characters/plots/scenes is universally human, having in view the whole set of humanity.
Dr. Slop is an incompetent physician
Even if David is younger than Dora, he feels sympathy for her much in the same way as an adult feels sympathy for a child.(David Copperfield) F
Fictional heroes are built on the pattern of classical (Greek) models by Thomas Hardy.
Fielding conceived the novel as a “comic romance”, meant to expose the Ridiculous arisen from: Affectation, Vanity and Hypocrisy.
Fielding responded to the challenge of the romance and of the classic epic by: a comic redefinition of the epic protagonist and plot.
Fielding was a playwright before being a novelist, which explains his dramatic vision of chapters as vivid, alert scenes, and of books as acts. A
Fielding’s use of names in Tom Jones (Allworthy, Sophia, Tom Jones,Lady Bellaston) is allegorical.
For George Eliot, Man is totally severed from his past. F
For its captain, the purpose of the voyage is both variants
From a technical point of view, which is the difference between the concepts of story and of plot? STORY IS THE CHRONOLOGICALLY-ORDERED representation of all .....
From Hardy’s point of view, the protagonist aspires towards self-fulfilment.
From Hardy’s point of view, the protagonist gives up struggling at the first signs of disillusionment.F
G. Eliot voiced her doctrine of realism in chapter 17 of The Mill on the Floss. F
George Eliot offers a discussion of the Poetics of Realism in a preface to Chapter XVII of Adam Bede.
George Eliot used in her novels sensational plots.
George Eliot used suggestive names in her novels, such as: Uriah Heep,Mr. Bounderby, Mr. Veneering, Mr. Murdstone, Pecksniff. F
George Eliot was an impressively self-taught intellectual, of countryside extraction, an equal of the most scholarly male minds of the time. F
George Eliot’s character Maggie Tulliver (in The Mill on the Floss) is finally defined by: her extraordinary beauty.
George Eliot’s character, Maggie Tulliver, is finally defined by her self resignation, ethical responsibility A
George Eliot’s early novels – (i.e.The Mill on the Floss) are cast in agrarian, pre-industrial England. A
George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss is temporally located in: a great span of time.
Gulliver’s Travels exploited the popular form of travel literature, parodied and adapted it to his own satiric..... The book starts...What is the purpose...? To CREATE a fictional world...
Hardy considered that it was impossible to reconcile the immanent energy in the universe, indifferent to human endeavour, with: the benevolence of a Christian God.
Hardy seems to imply that his folk character bears the ills of life by the aid of enduring acceptance
Hardy’s character is generally reintegrated in the community in most of his novels, as wisdom often comes before its downfall. F
Hardy’s characters are neither absolutely good nor absolutely wicked. A
Hardy’s descriptions of his native Wessex nature are achieved both from a close proximity and from a cosmic distance.A
Hardy’s descriptions of solitary spots or of expanses of nature are often loaded with: symbolic, archetypal connotations, betraying a poet’s sensibility.
Hardy’s descriptions of the heath are always achieved from close proximity. F
Hardy’s logical reasoning shows him that it is impossible to reconcile the benevolence of an omnipotent and omniscient force with one’s freedom of choice. A
Hardy’s Tess, Jude, or Henchard are archetypes of: human desires constantly countered by adverse circumstances.
Hawthorne considered himself a romantic realist, much like Dickens. A
Hawthorne modified the traditional romance into psychological romance. A
Hawthorne projects Pearl in his romance, The Scarlet Letter, as a vivid representation, an embodiment of the allegorical letter.
Hawthorne’s New England is rendered for: romantic distance and picturesque effects.
Hawthorne’s pictorial analogies for his verbal art of the ROMANCE can be associated with the Romantics’ cult of the picturesque. A
Hawthorne’s ROMANCES differ from NOVELS in their preference for allegory and psychological exploration.
Henry Fielding compares literature to a feast meant to entertain the readers/guests.
Henry Fielding describes Tom Jones as a “comic epic in prose”. It is indeed epic in short length and describes a small cross-section of people in a comic way.F
Henry Fielding had an in-depth knowledge of human nature so he conceived with his vices and virtues.
His work comments on the political realities of the day, and offers many-layered readings. Under the disguise ... Which of the following authors fits this description?Jonathan Swift
How did the rise of the middle class influence the emergence of the novel as a literary genre? The READING PUBLIC grew, through the large numbers of people in the trading...
How many sections is Tom Jones divided into? Three: The Country, The Road, and London.
In a Dickens comic character, looks, mimicry, idiosyncratic gesture, clothing, hobby or language are:outward signs of inward life.
In Austen’s fictional world the individual is made of the substanceof the social environment exactly as in a romance. F
In Austen’s fictional world the protagonist lives only by the dictates of her emotional intelligence, leaping over the society’s ethics. F
In Chapter XI we are told that, after 15 years of solitude on the island, there are cannibals on the island.
In David Copperfield, David walked penniless to Dover to throw himself on the mercy of his aunt, Betsy Trotwood after -he was sent to menial employment in London where ....
In “David Copperfield”, the man with “black shallow eye”, black hair and whiskers, and a square chin, reminding the narrator of an “wax-work”, is: Murdstone
In Dickens’ fiction most characters are conceived: both allegorically and mimetically.
In Dickens’ fiction most characters are conceived: neither allegorically nor mimetically.
In Dickens’s Great Expectations, Pip’s real benefactor/benefactress is Magwich.
In Eliot’s novels the idea of ………… is a key one the conflict between kinship and the freedom of the individual.
In Eliot’s novels the idea of ………… is a key one the conflict between kinship and the freedom of the individual
In Fielding’s novel Tom Jones, the theme of “human nature” as conflicting and harmoniously balanced moral consciousness and instinctive feeling is embodied by:Tom Jones.
In Fielding’s Tom Jones, what does Sophia discern, when very young, about Master Blifil...B.that he was prudent D.that he was sober E.that he was interested only in himself B+D+E
In Fielding’s Tom Jones, who is Sophia supposed to marry according to her father’s will? captain Blifil’s son
In Fielding's Tom Jones, where does Sophia run away and why?A.London..... G.she is disgusted by the courtship conducted by the son of Captain Blifil ....A+G
In G. Eliot’s fictional world, conflicts and drama originate strictly in society, not in the character’s inward competing drives materialized in free will choices. F
In George Eliot’s fiction, the high-mimetic hero/ine (in Northrop Frye’s terms) is trapped by deterministic relationships to which s/he participates and which s/he cannot elude. A
In George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, Lucy is presented as a subversive manner of attacking romantic illusion.
In Great Expectations , when Pip becomes a gentleman he starts acting heartlessly and snobbishly towards: Joe and Biddy.
In Great Expectations, Pip learns from Magwitch, Joe and Biddy that: social and educational improvement are irrelevant if moral
In Great Expectations, when Pip becomes a gentleman he starts acting heartlessly and snobbishly towards Drummle, Herbert and Orlick. F
In Great Expectations, who else apart from Pip was subjected to Mrs. Joe Gargery’s bringing up “by hand”? Joe
In Gulliver's Travels, what is the relationship between the physical and the moral characteristics of the inhabitants of Lilliput and of Brobdingnag? It is SYMBOLIC; their size....
In Hardy’s major novels, plots derive from characters and teem with fateful incidents.
In Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge as well as in The Return of the Native, Egdon Heath is described in a mythopoetic, symbolic, mythological one.
In Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Tess murders Alec d'Urberville.
In Hardy’s view, destiny subjecting humans to a number of external influences (e.g. one’s environment) is strongly related to: the development of one’s character.
In Hardy’s view, man is ultimately still an animal as may be readily observed when his passions are aroused. A
In Hardy’s view, man is ultimately still an animal as may be readily observed when his ………….. is/are aroused. passions
In Hawthorne’s vision ……… is the neutral territory between reality and fairy land, where the Actual and the Imaginary meet and fuse. the window
In Hawthorne’s vision, romance transforms the ordinary world into cold allegory and then back into the impression of life.A
In his critical prefaces, Hawthorne acknowledges to be writing fiction as: truth under circumstances, truth of the human heart, thus claiming a licence
In his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne describes the customs of the 19th century Puritan New England. A
In his preface "The Custom House" of the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne talking about ROMANCE says "If a man ... cannot dream strange things and .......... A
In his relation with Dora, David seems to be torn between wishing his wife were more mature and reproaching himself for wanting to change her.(David Copperfield) A
In James’ fiction, a favorite theme is the collision of European innocence and American experience.F
In James’ fiction, most of the protagonists are cultured, educated, and aristocratic.A
In James’ fiction, protagonists, European by extraction, choose to settle down in America F
In Jane Austen’s world of economic survival and genteel propriety, the person getting married to a mate marries society as well. A
In Joseph Andrew, Fielding burlesqued his own novel, Tom Jones. F
In Joseph Andrews, Fielding burlesqued his own novel, Amelia. F
In Moby Dick, Melville’s character Ishmael is the New England narrator.
In Moby Dick, Queequeg is a Polynesian harpooner
In Moby Dick, the sailors are enrolled as members of the crew by : captain Ahab
In most of Hardy’s novels: the tragic and ironic mythoi are predominant.
In Part IV of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver encounters the Houyhnhnms, who are ... What is the downside to the society they created? They created a society that lacks any .....
In Pride and Prejudice, almost every character exhibits too much pride or too little pride. Decide what kind of pride Mr Collins exhibits -he GLORIES in what are mere reflections ....
In Pride and Prejudice, before Darcy admitted his fault of snobbery, he and Elisabeth could not communicate as sensibilities on a par.
In Pride and Prejudice, before Elizabeth admitted her fault of pride, She -overlooked Darcy’s insensitive remarks about her looks.
In Pride and Prejudice, Darcy’s pride, in the beginning, has a social cause: he behaves in this way towards Elisabeth because she is his inferior socially.A
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen analyses the outcome of the Industrial Revolution: the economic, cultural and social rise of the middle class.A
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen focuses on a type of marriage like that of ………… which fuses the individual’s sentiment with the individual’s welfare. Jane and Mr Bingley
In Pride and Prejudice, Mr Bennet always asks his wife a series of questions because he teases his wife by deliberately misunderstanding her.A
In Pride and Prejudice, Mr Bennet always asks his wife a series of questions because he is genuinely interested in what his wife is talking about. F
In Pride and Prejudice, Mr Collins, proposing to Elizabeth, states a couple of reasons. Decide which reason of the followings is not mentioned by him. because he loves her.
In Pride and Prejudice, The Bennets have five daughters, Jane,Elisabeth, Mary, Miranda, Lydia and Mrs Bennet’s driving ambition is to see all of them married. F
In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Talbothay’s Farm is a warm, fertile, rich place.
In Th. Hardy’s novels, the setting is Wessex.
In the acquisitive society and culture of James’ fiction money symbolizes: freedom of action.
In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Dr. Slop is an incompetent physician.
In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Walter Shandy is passioned by science.
In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Widow Wadman is a neighbour to the Shandys’.
In The Mayor of Casterbridge, on remarrying Susan, Michael Henchard chose to return to a woman he did not love anymore but felt compelled to marry out of guilt.
In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is a cousin of the initial Elisabeth Jane, who has borrowed her name. F
In The Mayor of Casterbridge the mature Elisabeth Jane is another girl than the one we encounter at the beginning of the book.
In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is another girl than the one we encounter at the beginning of the book. A
In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is the daughter of the initial Elisabeth Jane. F
In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is the same girl who assisted in her mother’s being sold. F
In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the pessimistic vision of Michael the end of the novel’s last chapter.
In The Mayor of Casterbridge’s, agrarian world of the 1830’s, the road at the opening of chapter 1 justifies the picaresque pattern of the plot. F
In the metaphysical novel, the symbolic setting is often used as a the psychological state of the characters.
In The Mill on the Floss, after an expedition down the Floss with Stephen he offers to marry her, and Maggie: returns alone to St. Oggs’s.
In The Mill on the Floss, as Maggie drifts down the river with………, she repudiates her own moral will. Stephen
In The Mill on the Floss, by whisking her off the river, Stephen is depriving Maggie of her right: to decide for her own future.
In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie loves to live in her world of imaginations..., her brother, Tom, likes to socialize and .... Maggie's family loves Tom's way of living, hates Maggie. A
In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie Tulliver is a girl who needs love from her family since she never deserved it. F
In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie’s wit, impetuosity, compassionate nature, intellectual and sensuous curiosity are associated with: her father’s.
In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie's history contains mostly outward events being less concerned with her inner life. F
In The Mill on the Floss, Philip Wakem makes Maggie feel she finally finds one person that knows inside of her and appreciate her quality. A
In The Mill on the Floss, seeking an intellectual as her equal, Maggie forms a close attachment to Stephen Guest, the crippled son of a local lawyer. F
In The Mill on the Floss, the almost anthropologic analysis of the Dodsons, portraits and routines, is achieved in the playfully humorous tone, never in the satiric. A
In The Mill on the Floss, the conflict is generated by: the protagonist’s irreparably damaging her relationship with the community by a moment’s free choice.
In The Mill on the Floss, the crisis of the narrative turns on Maggie’s need to choose between her fidelity to: the rural society of St Ogg’s and her love for Stephen.
In The Mill on the Floss, the Tullivers are placed against the Dodsons. A
In The Mill on the Floss, the Tullivers are placed against the Dodsons.
In The Mill on the Floss, within a world controlled by financial security or bankruptcy, the life of the Tullivers is a series of: financial crises.
In the novel David Copperfield, the character Agnes Wickfield is a pretty empty-headed girl; David’s attempts to turn her into a competent house-keeper and to “form her mind”....F
In the novel David Copperfield, the character Betsey Trotwood is:-strong-headed and eccentric.She separated from a cruelhusband, resumed her maiden name and took ...
In the novel David Copperfield, the character Clara Copperfield is a girl ....., who exercises a powerful influence on the rest of David’s life.F
In the novel David Copperfield, the character DoraSpenlow is a girl of exceptionally sweet and high-minded disposition, who exercises a powerful influence on the rest of David’s life. F
In the novel Great Expectations, Miss Havisham is a comic portrait of a jilted woman. F
In the novel The Mill on the Floss, Tom Tulliver, a man from upper class adds color in Maggie's life and lets her experience the beauty of love. A
In the novel Tom Jones, Blifil wants to marry Sophia because: he wants the Western estate and revenge for her rejectionof him.
In The Portrait of a Lady, initially, Isabel Archer’s quest is: selfish; a quest of self-fulfilment, personal happiness.
In the Preface to The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne’s metaphors for moonlight and firelight
In The Scarlet Letter, at first the letter "A" refers to Adultery.
In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale believes that Hester’s sin is greater than his own. F
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale are, ultimately, Archetypes of sinning and that is why their moral development is frozen in Stereotyped patterns.F
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester’s husband reveals his true identity to her as he tries: to find out who her lover is.
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester’s husband, Arthur Dimmesdale,returns incognito and settles in the town under the name of Richard Chillingworth. F
In The Scarlet Letter, Pearl, although only a small child, embarrasses Dimmesdale by asking him if: he will stand on the pillory with her and her mother the following day.
In the second chapter of Robinson Crusoe’s adventures, we are told he was sold as slave. When does this happen? When he is the captain of a ship heading for GUINEA, ....
In the second scaffold scene (The Scarlet Letter), the minister mounts at night the steps of the platform, joined by Hester and Pearl.
In the traditional romance, love stories or historical, e.g. W. Scott’s, J. F.Cooper’s, character is: shallow, stereotyped, polarized.
In the world of David Copperfield the villain type is embodied by Traddles and the Micawbers. F
In Tom Jones, one character in the list below is not the narrator’s comic object: Mr. Allworthy.
In Tom Jones, one of Tom’s teachers is Mr Thwackum, a brutish and sadistic church chaplain.
In Tom Jones, to his great surprise, Mr. Allworthy finds out that Tom’s mother was his own daughter. F
In Tristram Shandy, Sterne uses a series of unconventional techniques. Thus,a cross appears.. What is the purpose .?To involve the reader in the process of ‘creation’ of the text.
In which of the following novels, does the main narrative line respect the chronological order of events, in other words, in which novel does the assumed........ .? Robinson Crusoe
In which volume is discussed the birth of Tristram Shandy? vol 3
Initially, the Pequod sails on her fateful voyage in order to hunt whales for their oil
Is … one of Hardy’s recurrent terms for fate: The Immanent Will?
Isabel has a typically American hunger for experience coupled with a puritanical fear of her ego, which means that her freedom remains abstract and unreal. F
James’ admiration for European culture led him to an interest in the conflict of the American and European personalities.A
Jane Austen’s narrators are ironic about Gothic imaginings and Romanticized sensibility.A
Marriage is described in many of Hardy’s novels, such as Tess of the d’Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure as a trap which crashes natural instinct against social necessity. A
Mary-Ann Evans is neither of them.
Master Blifil (Tom Jones) is Mr. Allworthy’s nephew.
Match the following "point of view" about isabel with the name of the character who has uttered it: “I like her very much. ..... .............................Gilbert Osmond
Match the following "point of view" about Isabel with the name of the character who has uttered it: “She’s beautiful, generous ......................... Madame Merle
Match the following "point of view" regarding Isabel's identity with the name of the character who has uttered it: “I think you are my guardian angel!” (The Portrait of ...)Pansy Osmond
Match the following "point of view", regarding isabel's identity, with the name of the character who has uttered:“Isabel’s changing every day… Henrietta Stackpole
Melville uses Queequeg’s image in order to assert the value of pagan morality
Miss Havisham (Dickens’s Great Expectations) is generally taken as a Gothic, Romantic character.
Moby Dick is generally viewed as an epic romance in a tragic mode.
Moby Dick should be critically interpreted as an exploratory voyage that raises ontological and epistemological questions.
Mr Tulliver is a fragile, meek, easy-going person. F
Mr. Allworthy (Tom Jones) is a country squire.
N. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was meant as a moral, allegorical probing into the nature of evil and guilt.
Nineteenth century American fiction has a kinship with symbolism (traditional allegory included).
On remarrying Susan, Henchard chose to return to a woman he did not love anymore but felt compelled to marry out of guilt.
Once arrived in the land of the Houyhnhnms, who does Gulliver feel he can identify with: neither.
One character in the list below does not belong to the world of James’ The Portrait of a Lady. Who is he? Lord Wellington
One of the following statements does not refer to Stonehenge, the symbolic setting Hardy chose for Tess’s....The Temple] was without doors and the pillars lay under the roof”.
Overtly the Austen society keep up civilized conventions; covertly they live on hunting for the appropriate man. A
Picaresque is a terms used to describe: stories of travel, relating to the protagonist's adventures along the route of his journey.
Read the following fragment from Robinson Crusoe, and choose among the statements ..... “After he had slumbered....The fragment describes a CRUCIAL moment .....
Reduction and exaggeration are devices used by: a caricaturist?
Robinson Crusoe can be interpreted as the fruit of a synthesis of two existing traditions: the picaresque... Why is that? Because of its EMPHASIS on the development of ....
Roger Chillingworth is in Hawthorne’s romance, The Scarlet Letter, Hester’s husband.
Satis House, in Great Expectations, a haunting Gothic residence,symbolizes: social and biological degeneration.
Self-conscious narrators i.e. aware of themselves as tellers, narrate the story in: The Mill on the Floss.
Smollett’s and Dickens’ delight in human eccentricity converged. A
Sophia's name means wisdom, and she represents wisdom in Tom Jones.
St. Ogg, the legendary patron of the town bearing his name in The Mill on the Floss, was a poor boater rewarded for his pity by the Blessed Virgin herself. A
State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE: George Eliot’s early novels – Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner are cast in the alert...... in mid 19th century.F
State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE: George Eliot’s early novels – Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss,Silas Marner are cast in agrarian, pre-industrial England. A
State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE: George Eliot’s deterministically structured fictional world is focused on the middling heroism of self-renunciation. A
State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE: Hardy’s self-conscious, enduring protagonists are his mythic archetypes of human endurance. A
State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE: In “The Mill on the Floss”, the Tullivers have a remarkable sense of humour which saves them in the moments of family tensions.A
State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE: In “The Mill on the Floss”, the humorous portrait of Mrs.Tulliver reveals her as deliciously unaware of her involuntary humour.A
State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE: In Hardy’s major fiction, Tess, Jude the Oscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, the human rebellion against Fate is not ..... F
State if the following statements are TRUE or FALSE: In Hardy’s fictional ancestral agrarian communities, the folk live by traditional pagan practices. A
State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE: The Victorian novelist wrote observing his tastes, free from the constraining authorities of publishers, book-sellers, readers.F
Tess’ pendulum-like swing between Alec and Angel is a swing between: flesh and spirit.
Tess’s fate is metaphorically dramatized when associated with: doomed snakes, rats, pheasants.
The 18th century novel was best suited for the tastes of middle-class, bourgeois readers.
The characters in James’ fiction enjoy an unlimited freedom in acting; they are not pressed by the circumstances; neither are Thomas Hardy’s characters.F
The cosmic dimension of his characters is the novelty Hardy brought to the century’s fiction. A
The doctrine of the transcendental movement in American literarure(founders: Emerson, Thoreau, G. Ripley......) was influenced by English romanticism and German idealism.
The earth in Tess of the D’Urbevilles (i.e. the green fertile vale of ...) is:-a dramatic primitive antagonist of human consciousness,consequently transcending the natural ....
The eighteenth century is also named ‘ the Augustan Age’. Which are the aesthetic ideals that best characterize this period? -CLARITY, precision, order, harmony, universality.....
The freedom of will cannot in fact be other than an illusion, for a break in the chain of cause and effect (such as "freedom"necessarily...)is unthinkable in Hardy’s fatalistic perspective
The Hardyesque character is rendered through a conflict between instinct and reason in a fictional world which abounds in signs of ill-omen, accidents,unhappy coincidences,magic.. A
The historical period to which Hawthorne often resorted in his fiction was: the colonial, Calvinist past.
The human characters run into the category of “sacrificial animals” in Thomas Hardy’s vision.
The illusion of the readers’ involvement in the fiction’s present immediacy is ensured by the: lavish use of dialogue.
The main purpose of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy is: to illustrate the way a narrative is built
The masculine pen-name of Marian Evans disguises the distance separating herself as the moral, serious author, favourably reviewed and read, from herself as an adulteress.... A
The message concluding The Scarlet Letter could be: to develop one’s moral potential one must: plunge into the depth of experiential knowledge in order to ascend.
The metatext is an author’s critical commentary on the novel itself. Metatexts/digressions in Fielding’s Tom Jones are ordered as formal boundaries to the chapters.
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s unsparing analysis of philistinism. A
The Mill on the Floss is set in a provincial town.
The narrative point of view in David Copperfield and Great Expectations is: the first person.
The novelist considered as an inexhaustible inventor of comic plots and stereotypes is Charles Dickens
The omniscient author knows everything about the characters, is always in possession of truth.
The omniscient obtrusive narrator interrupts the narrative and uses it as a starting point for: some comment or generalization he/she wishes to make.
The ordinary folk in Hardy’s fiction: heroically rebel against Fate and end up destroyed by it.
The past tense in which events are narrated in fiction is transferred by the reader into: dramatic showing (scene), dialogue.
The Pequod sails from the centre of American whaling activity, which is Nantucket
The picaresque novel and the detective novel are patterned upon plots of: fortune.
The picaresque plays an important role in George Eliot’s novels. F
The plots of Dickens’ novels are picaresque in design in the sense that: he was trying to see the term ‘picaresque’ from a new perspective.
The plot of “The Mayor of Casterbridge” parallels Henchard’s and Farfrae’s fates of fall and rise. The plot is: symbolic; the two characters represent a conflict of ages (maturity versus youth) complicated by further conflicts: emotion versus reason; tradition versus novelty.
The Portrait of a Lady is a tragedy, like Tess or The Mayor of Casterbridge. F
The provincial society of The Mill on the Floss is located in:-the money governed social and economic (in)security controlled by ........ forces in late 1820s and early 1830s.
The Reform Bill of 1884 enfranchised all male voters.
The Roman ruins about the town of Casterbridge could metaphorically suggest the heroism of famous Roman leaders of the Empire. F
The Russian formalists’ concept of plot is: the particular selection and chronological or not chronological(re)ordering of fictional events.
The sequence of events reconstructed from a fictional arrangement of episodes and happenings, is a: story.
The setting in Fielding’s Tom Jones is blurred by remoteness and imprecision.F
The setting in Fielding’s Tom Jones, is historically individualized. A
The space setting of Pride and Prejudice, can be measured in: a few hours’ coach ride between London and a village or an estate.
The style of Tom Jones can be best described as: comic and ironic.
The term ………………. is not always the most appropriate to refer to some of Dickens’ characters who are convincingly built, fully rendering the “impression of life” flat
The theme of James’ The Portrait of a Lady is the dangerously deceptive disregard of the correlation of ethics and aesthetics. A
The time space of Pride and Prejudice is the present.
The time-setting of a romance is: remote.
The typical Victorian novelist is reader-oriented.
The Victorian age (overlapping with the reign of Queen Victoria) stretches between: 1837-1901
The Victorian economic ideology was based on the following doctrine: utilitarianism.
The Victorian essayist and founder of logic J.S.Mill was an adept of liberal policies
The Victorian novelist wrote observing his tastes, free from the constraining authorities of publishers, book-sellers, readers. Fals
The Victorian period proved to be one of generalised literacy and industrial development.
The Victorian readers controlled: the content of fiction; they preferred sentimentalism and entertainment.
The white whale suggests the following attributes a paradoxical image, generating multiple associations
The world George Eliot gives birth to in her novels is a slowly changing world originating in past links.
There are descriptions of ancient monuments and customs (the mummers’play, the bonfires) in George Eliot’s novels.
There are Dickensian flat characters, e.g. The Gargeries, Wemmick, Betsey Trotwood or Pegotty, who: are not shallow, they vibrate with liveliness.
This novel is considered to be not only a classic travel and adventure story,but also the prototype of the novel.... Which of the following books....? Robinson Crusoe
Thomas Hardy was a poet and novelist.
Thomas Hardy’s fiction sided with tradition, nostalgically recreating a rural landscape.
Thomas Hardy’s pessimistic novels were influenced by Darwin, Huxley,Spencer, Mill, Schopenhauer. A
Thomas Hardy’s plots are considered to be improbable, melodramatic.
To Maggie Tulliver, in The Mill on the Floss, the past is an inherent part of the character; loyalty to it, as to oneself, is a must. A
Tom Jones is described by its author as dynamic, realistic, comic, epic, heroic, prosaic.
Tom Jones’ setting is fairly divided into: country-side, highways and London.
Unlike George Eliot, who avoided the extremes of social behaviour, Hardy was concerned with the radical, the rebel. A
Victorian literature is considered to be all variants.
Victorian monthly publications included essays, poetry, fiction as well.
Volume IV of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,Gentleman contains a discourse on the history of noses.
Walter Shandy is passioned by : science
What animals did Crusoe domesticate? Goats
What character is described in The Mill on the Floss as a "healthy, fair, plump, and dull-witted, the flower of her family for beauty and amiability"? Maggie's mother.
What do the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms stand for? They represent INSTINCT AND REASON, as two opposite tendencies that naturally live side by side in the human spirit.
What does Fielding consider his Tom Jones to be as a literary genre? A.dramatic writing .. C.prosaic writing D.comic writing E.epic writing ..G.historical poem .......C+D+E+G
What does Sophia discern, when very young, about Tom Jones?A.that he was a thoughtless... C.that he was idle.. E.that he was his own enemy..G.that he was everybody. .A+C+E+G
What is an epistolary novel? A novel which is WRITTEN AS A SERIES of documents, usually letters, although it can also consist of diary entries, newspaper clippings ....
What is Fielding’s Tom Jones fundamentally about? Human Nature
What is the name that Tristram’s parents intended for him? Trismegistus
What kind of philosopher was Mr Toby Shandy? Natural philosopher.
What point of view does Hardy use in Tess of the D’Urbervilles? Omniscient.
What was the consequence of Sophia’s having discerned, when very young, the nature of Tom Jones? she honoured him
When Hardy describes the heath from close proximity he is a realist, when he does it from Olympian distances he is an impressionist and a thoughtful skeptic.A
Which author(s) anticipates the postmodern techniques? Sterne
Which novel has a symmetrical structure based on polarities (positive versus negative characters)? Fielding’s Tom Jones
Which novelist changes the linearity of the narrative on purpose? Sterne
Which of the following are NOT novels in a strict sense: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
Which of the following authors rejects the mimetic principle in the construction of his narrative, and sets out to challenge the convention of the novel: Laurence Sterne
Which of the following European authors are considered to have influenced the development of the English novel in the 18th century? Cervantes, Rabelais
Which of the following novels are Bildungsromans? Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
Which of the following novels represent a modern version of an initiation journey at the end of which the hero finds maturity and respectability? Robinson Crusoe
Which of the following statements about Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is true? IT CAN BE READ as a metaphor of colonialism, because the relationship between R....
Which of the following statements about Laurence Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy is true? It is a META-NOVEL, because it is an extended meditation on story-telling, having ....
Which of the following statements is true of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy?In his construction of the plot,Sterne manipulates time,playing with order,duration and...
Which of the following statements is true? Bildungsroman is a literary genre that started in FRANCE, and it ultimately is an extended meditation on story-telling, having .....
Which of the following statements is true? The literature of the 18th century is GENERALLY WRITTEN IN THE FIRST person; it has a very pronounced introspective and.....
Which of these novels is considered to be a picaresque one? Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
Which writer was influenced by Fuerbach’s “Essence of Christianity”, Comte’s sociological theories, Spencer’s evolutionary’s philosophy, H. G. Lewes’s literary views? George Eliot
Who are the “international Americans” (Americans......) in the novel The Portrait of a Lady: Isabel Archer, Madame Merle, Gilbert Osmond
Who visited Crusoe on the island? the cannibals
Whose daughter is Sophia in Fielding’s Tom Jones? Squire Western
Whose Victorian novelist’s motto is that of “writing as a witness in a box on oath”? George Eliot
Whose writer’s vision was shaped by skepticism and cynicism? Thomas Hardy
Why does Robinson leave home ? Because his father had destined him to a profession he didn’t like
Why is Gulliver’s Travels still a universal satire, enjoyed today as much as it was enjoyed 200 years ago? Because its OBJECTS ARE MAN’S MORAL NATURE and .....
Why is it said that Gulliver is a persona? He does not have the consistency and solidity of a character, lacks a coherent psychology, there is no element of growth.
Why is Laurance Sterne considered to be the precursor of the modernist novel? Because of his ATTENTION to subjectivism, psychological time, and of his .....
Why is Robinson Crusoe considered to be an odyssey of a middle class individual, and by extension, a founding myth of bourgeois society?Because it OFFERS THE READER a...
With Hardy the tragic is necessarily related to: the excellence of human nature, irrespective of the social extraction. A
With Hardy, the freedom of will is felt as a deeply rooted innate desire.
Young Maggie Tulliver’s favourite books, ............., as were illustrated; she liked them because: she could imagine stories of her own to accompany the pictures.
