There was greater emphasis placed on human potentiality for growth and excellence through Europe by which year ?

Related Mcqs:

1. This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?

   A. C.S. Lewis
   B. T.S. Eliot
   C. G.K. Chesterton
   D. Matthew Arnold

2. By sublimity Longiuns means a certain distinction and excellence in ____________?

   A. Imitation
   B. Pleasure
   C. Composition
   D. Puerility

   Submitted by: Shah Jahan

3. The main plot of Richardson’s Pamela reflects the main characteristics of the sentimental novel through its emphasis on which of the following ?

   A. Pamela’s attempt to seduce her employer
   B. Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner
   C. Pamela’s struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work
   D. Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer

4. How was the philosophical and popular emphasis on sensibility in the 18th century related to the development of the novel ?

   A. Like the novel, it focused on romantic relationships.
   B. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion.
   C. Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings.
   D. Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy.

5. An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?

   A. alchemy and magic
   B. the literature of Greece and Rome
   C. chivalry of the Middle Ages
   D. the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas

6. Professor Hammer argues that which of the following statements is true of Ezra Pound’s strong emphasis on poetic technique ?

   A. It serves to effectively depersonalize Pound’s poems.
   B. It serves the greater aim of conveying both intensity and immediacy in Pound’s poetry.
   C. It is a paradoxical mixture of personal and impersonal elements.
   D. It is a means of creating a dialogue between modernity and tradition.

7. Applying human qualities to non-human things ?

   A. personification
   B. onomatopoeia
   C. alliteration
   D. none of the above

8. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time”. Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare ?

   A. Jonson
   B. Bacon
   C. Wordsworth
   D. none of above

9. How did travel at the time of the Crusades impact Western Europe ?

   A. people brought tales of romance from different literary and cultural traditions back from their trips
   B. merchants started to import rare silks and spices from new trade roots
   C. architects from Western Europe were influenced by new Eastern styles
   D. All of the Above

10. WorldWar I drastically changed the political and cultural climate in Europe. Which of the following was NOT among the changes brought about by World War I ?

    A. Germany was defeated and blamed for causing the war.
    B. In the course of World War I, the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.
    C. Successful parliamentary democracies were established throughout the continent and remained stable until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
    D. By the end of the 1920s, almost every state that had participated in World War I faced an economic depression and political upheavals.