Which of the following genres is NOT part of the hybrid form of Behn’s Oroonoko ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is a transitional text in all of the following ways EXCEPT________________?

   A. like a romance, it focuses on an aristocratic character considered superior to average individuals.
   B. like a novel, it tells its story with an emphasis on realistic detail and the everyday passage of time.
   C. like an epic, it involves gods and goddesses.
   D. like a novel, it makes claims to historical realism.

2. How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?

   A. It focuses on a royal hero.
   B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
   C. It focuses on adventures.
   D. It connects to poetry.

3. Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Robinson Crusoe’s and Oroonoko’s relationship to central features of the early English novel ?

   A. Where Oroonoko foregrounds supernatural agents, Robinson Crusoe avoids religion completely.
   B. Both are largely set in South America, reflecting the relationship between empire and the early English novel.
   C. Oroonoko seems to defend the aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates the struggles of the middle class.
   D. Both make claims to historical veracity.

4. John Milton’s “Comus” is best described by which of the following genres ?

   A. Pastoral elegy
   B. Prose polemic
   C. Blank verse tragedy
   D. Masque

5. John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” is best described by which of the following genres ?

   A. Pastoral elegy
   B. Prose polemic
   C. Blank verse tragedy
   D. Epic

6. John Milton’s “Areopagitica” is best described by which of the following genres ?

   A. Pastoral elegy
   B. Prose polemic
   C. Blank verse tragedy
   D. Masque

7. John Milton’s “Lycidas” is best described by which of the following genres ?

   A. Pastoral elegy
   B. Prose polemic
   C. Blank verse tragedy
   D. Masque

8. According to most critics, Vita Nuova is an example of which of the following genres ?

   A. Autobiography
   B. Framed narrative
   C. Lyric poetry
   D. All of the above

9. Which of the following genres applies to Langland’s “Piers Plowman” ?

   A. Allegory
   B. Social satire
   C. Dream vision
   D. All of these answers

10. With which of the following genres is The Romance of the Rose most closely associated ?

    A. medieval lay
    B. hagiography
    C. mysticism
    D. dream vision