“Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.” In this work the author argues in favour of____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Kyd
   C. John Dryden
   D. John Donne

2. According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General Introduction to Postmodernism,” Roland Barthes, in his work “The Death of the Author,” argues which of the following points ?

   A. “The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.”
   B. “Once the Author is gone, the claim to “decipher” a text is quite simple.”
   C. “A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.”
   D. Both A and B

3. What approach is described by the paragraph? Users of this approach believe that all information essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work itself; there is no need to bring in outside information about the history, politics, or society of the time, or about the author’s life ?

   A. Historical/Biographical Approach
   B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
   C. Formalism
   D. Psychological Approach

4. In analyzing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?

   A. “A meditation on contradictions”
   B. “Overheard inner speech”
   C. “Implicit dialogue with the future”
   D. “Objective correlative”

5. Name the religious group that preached to live a simple and straightforward life_________________?

   A. Mormons
   B. Catholics
   C. Puritans
   D. Druids

6. What author fell in love with Anne Boleyn while she was married to King Henry VIII ?

   A. Sir Philip Sidney
   B. Sir Thomas More
   C. Thomas Wyatt
   D. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

7. In his essay “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?

   A. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.
   B. A text and its author text are unrelated.
   C. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the author’s politics.
   D. Literature is inextricably connected to its creator.

8. In his essay “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?

   A. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.
   B. A text and its author text are unrelated.
   C. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the author’s politics.
   D. Authorial intent must be considered when evaluating literature.

9. “O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?

   A. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
   B. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
   C. by emphasizing sexual morality.
   D. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings.

10. According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s module on Freud, Sigmund Freud’s work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ?

    A. There is an undeniable “tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts.”
    B. Repetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with one’s own mortality.
    C. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit “the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again.”
    D. Talk therapy will not help cure one’s psychological neuroses concerning past trauma.