A. Awareness of the importance of living a life without error and sin
B. Awareness of the dangers of setting yourself up as the judge of others or of isolating yourself from humanity
C. Awareness of the ethical problems of sin, punishment and atonement
D. Awareness of the mysteries and frailties of human nature
Related Mcqs:
- Hawthorne’s ancestors are associated with what historical American event ?
A. History of puritans
B. History of slavery
C. Transcendentalism
D. None of the above - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
A. Popular early nosiest
B. Romantisum
C. Scarlett letter
D. All are correct - To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply? “The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.” ?
A. Claudius
B. Hamlet
C. Polonius
D. Rosencrantz - Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental. - One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - Denied the right to apply for divorce and facing intense humiliation, John Milton wrote what work ?
A. “Christian Doctrines”
B. “On Regicide”
C. “The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce”
D. “Paradise Lost” - What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?
A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
C. Formalism
D. Psychological Approach - To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of “romance”emerged, initially apply ?
A. a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
B. a story about love and adventure
C. a Roman official
D. a work written in the French vernacular - To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of \romance\emerged, initially apply ?
A. a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
B. a story about love and adventure
C. a Roman official
D. a work written in the French vernacular - Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings ?
A. Ivy League educated
B. Active pacifist during both world wars
C. Popularized the use of free verse
D. A private and self-effacing person
