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ENGL203 Final Exam - Cultural and Literary Expression in the 18th and 19th Centuries
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MCQs on formative cultural and literary developments chronologically, dividing the course into four roughly sequential periods: The Enlightenment and Restoration Literature; The Rise of the Novel; Romanticism; and the Victorian Period.
 

ENGL203 Final Exam - Cultural and Literary Expression in the 18th and 19th Centuries
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1. Jonathan Swift's suggestion in 'A Modest Proposal' that the Irish eat their children exemplifies the characteristics of a satire in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
2. Complete the following sentence. We can best understand the medieval setting of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto as:
3. 'Do we now live in an enlightened age? The answer is, 'no,' but we do live in an age of enlightenment.'
4. Which of the following statements accurately describes the theme of Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey'?
5. The opening lines of Charlotte Smith's 'Beachy Head' refer to the speaker 'reclin[ing]' on the 'stupendous summit' of a 'rock sublime' as her 'Fancy' went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry?
6. What was the 'white man's burden' that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title?
7. Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth's advocacy of poets drawing on the 'language really used by men' in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents:
8. Aphra Behn's Oroonoko is a transitional text in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
9. What do Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' and Coleridge's 'Dejection Ode' have in common?
10. Complete the following sentence. In Pope's The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to:
11. Which of the following best defines sentimentalism?
12. Which of the following texts is an example of a sentimental novel?
13. In which of the following ways does Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho combine the features of the Gothic and the sentimental?
14. Which of the following genres is NOT part of the hybrid form of Behn's Oroonoko?
15. Pope's comment that 'Know, then, thyself, presume God not to scan;/The proper study of mankind is man' in his 'Essay on Man' is indicative of all of the following EXCEPT:
16. Which of the following works is considered to be the first Gothic novel?
17. Complete the following sentence. According to Edmund Burke, the French Revolution was:
18. In which of the following ways did Hopkins revolutionize poetry?
19. Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar:
20. The Enlightenment in European history refers to which of the following?
21. Complete the following sentence. Shelley's 'Ozymandias' can be linked to his 'Defence of Poetry' through its:
22. The Pre-Raphaelites are best known for which of the following?
23. In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes which of the following social institutions?
24. Complete the following sentence. In Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, Pip gains his fortune from:
25. Which of the following novelists was NOT associated with the rise of the novel as a literary form?

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