English Literature mcqs

To keep the slave offspring of White slave owners from inheriting.

To make sure mothers of mixed-race children got custody.

To keep White slave owner parents of mixed-race offspring from having to pay for their children.

To allow mixed-race children to get scholarships meant for African Americans.

So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.

So the author could get paid.

In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.

So that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured.

English was a more commonly used language in the Church.

The audience was partially lay-women with little knowledge of Latin.

The audience was likely unable to read French.

Women were more educated, so they knew more languages.

The comitatus ethic is evidence of a period in which behavior was guided by Christian ethics.

The comitatus ethic represents a culture in which rulers had no responsibilities to their citizens.

The comitatus ethic shows a historical return to older types of political organization.

The comitatus ethic represents the shift from a nomadic to a more organized social structure.

To go pay old man Stevenson.

To end their lives.

To go to a party.

To go to church.

It creates a sense of contentment.

It reminds readers of their civic duties.

It causes an experience of elestasis, or transport.

It leads the reader to overlook the beauty of nature.

Feudalism represents an economic hierarchy, the upper levels of which created and consumed literature.

The feudal world is one of glamor and beauty.

Feudalism represents interesting family quarrels that make for good stories.

Feudalism represents the world ofscholars who studied the ancient texts of the past.

Eventually English was reestablished, deeply influenced by Norman French.

For a time, England became a country with two languages.

English as a language of the king’s court was replaced by Norman French.

All of these answers

Transylvania and England were once part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Transylvania represents a vaguely known and, therefore, suspicious country.

Transylvania and England had been at war in the 1860s.

Transylvania is England’s economic rival.

The poem illustrates Caedmon’s erudition and scholarship.

The poem is widely believed to be the first written poem in Old English.

The poem’s theme of alienation becomes familiar to Anglo-Saxon poetry.

The poem could be easily sung in all churches and was widely accepted.

It suggests that reason is more important than emotion.

It shows the possible dangers of science.

It marks a return to more primitive ways of pre-Enlightenment thought and expression.

It exposes the deep flaws in medieval ways of thinking about the world.

To make an ironic statement about the point of view and marginalization of the “Other” in Victorian England

To make reference to the rise of personal responsibility in Victorian England for the care of the sick and insane

To represent the expansion of Gothic literary spaces from only subterranean spaces to attics as well

To represent the shift from the male Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain in the Victorian Gothic novel

Because of the advent of arcade projects

Because of the increasing prominence of department stores in Paris

Because they began to purchase products as they walked the urbanscape

Because they were threatened by police with jail

It acknowledges the lack of supernatural plot tricks.

It frees Radcliffe from a strict adherence to common life, allowing her to place Emily in challenging situations.

Radcliffe considers her work a continuation of the sentimental novel of the 18th century.

Radcliffe wants to emphasize the happy ending of the marriage of Emily and Valancourt.

Lewis’s choiceof a feminine literary genre

The habited nuns

Ambrosio’s rape and murder of his sister

Lewis’s use of a female pseudonym in the original edition

To assist with the flight and pursuit of villains and their prey

To emphasize the importance of character development over action

To encourage rational evaluation rather than arouse emotional reactions

To support the growth and development of machinery in the 18th century

To show ideas of transcendentalism are put into action

None of the above

To critique slavery

Tell his entire life story

She loves the beauty of it.

She doesn’t want Maggie to have it.

She wants to display it for her friends to see.

She is proud of her heritage.

The Eskimo’s felt that family was important and to try to harm a family member was not normal or natural

All Eskimo myths name the antagonist the “Unnatural Uncle”

Since this tale is from the oral tradition, the characters had no names and when the myth was written down this is the name that was given

The pronunciation of Eskimo names are impossible so the author decided that this was easy for the reader

None of the above

Literary Maverick

First native american to publish life writing

Mentor to other writers

The use of poetic prose in the Gothic novel

The ascendency of human reason in the Gothic novel

The Gothic novel’s interest in the apocalyptic prophecies found in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures

The representation of contemporary life in the Gothic novel

To communicate

For identifying themselves

To articulate their circumstances

For existence

Her full embrace of the Gothic vision of Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis

Her lack of imagination

Her sense of morality and decorum

Her defiance of contemporary culture

All of the Above

it allowed women to exercise political authority in their communities

it provided women with a place to nourish their intellectual growth

it provided women with the opportunity to protect their own property

there are few primary sources that reconstruct the history of the time

the lack of technology made it literally dark

it was a period of surging Roman institutions

the production of historical records increased