A. She is mature and realistic.
B. She is immature and has difficulty recognizing the difference between fact and fiction.
C. She is a matchmaker trying to set up romances between her friends, all the while unable to find true love herself.
D. B and C
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following descriptions of Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” seems most appropriate ?
A. It offers a critique of Romantic poetry and ideology.
B. It serves to parody gothic novels.
C. It is a horror novel.
D. It is a memoir based on Jane Austen’s childhood. - Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” pursues which of the following themes ?
A. The conflict between marriages based on love and those based on money
B. The ways in which appearances don’t always match realities
C. The danger in not recognizing the difference between reality and fiction
D. All of these - The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” ?
A. Horace Walpole
B. Ann Radcliffe
C. Matthew Lewis
D. Mary Shelley - Which of the following statements accurately describes the theme of Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” ?
A. Nature loses its ability to affect human emotion over time.
B. Sensitivity to nature’s message comes with age.
C. Life experience does not have to power to alter human opinions.
D. It is not possible to appreciate beauty once one has aged. - Which of the following themes do both Julian of Norwich and Catherine of Siena explore ?
A. the idea that community is essential to salvation
B. the concept of dualism of body and soul
C. the concept of a sensual God
D. the idea that God is separate from the human experience of love - Why did Catherine of Siena refuse to marry a husband ?
A. she said that the institution was too flawed
B. she claimed she was already married to God
C. she wanted to make a political statement against the Church
D. she was concerned about loss of property - In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to ?
A. Nature
B. Dorothy
C. Coleridge
D. Wye - “Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey” explores ________________?
A. The way in which one’s psychological state changes over time
B. The failures of Romanticism
C. The beauty of the natural world
D. Coleridge’s addiction to drugs - What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?
A. An identical rhyme structure
B. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages
C. The sense of hope that death will come soon
D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life - How is the abbey in “The Monk” NOT Gothic ?
A. It is a Catholic structure.
B. It was built in the Middle Ages.
C. It is a sanctuary for women.
D. It is labyrinthine.
