What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?

   A. the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
   B. a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays
   C. a popular thirst for the “classics,” driving contemporary writers to the margins
   D. a, b and c

2. This approach provides a universalistic approach to literature and identifies a reason why certain literature may survive the test of time. It works well with works that are highly symbolic.What approach has this advantage ?

   A. Mimetic
   B. Psychological
   C. Historical/Biographical
   D. Mythological/Archetypal

3. The study of elementary speech sounds is called________?

   A. Phonology
   B. Morphology
   C. Syntax
   D. Semantics

4. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?

   A. Sigmund Freud
   B. Sir James Frazer
   C. Immanuel Kant
   D. all but C

5. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?

   A. Sigmund Freud
   B. Sir James Frazer
   C. Immanuel Kant
   D. all but C

6. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?

   A. automatic writing
   B. confused daze
   C. total recall
   D. stream of consciousness

7. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?

   A. automatic writing
   B. confused daze
   C. total recall
   D. stream of consciousness

8. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the \flowering\of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?

   A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
   B. the Gawain poet
   C. the Beowulf poet
   D. Chr´tien de Troyes

9. When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was_____________?

   A. The closing of theatres
   B. The return of the King.
   C. King Arthurs’ dead
   D. King to exile

10. In literature, some of Shakespeare’s most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ______________?

    A. William Shakespeare
    B. Ben Jonson
    C. Ben Jonson folios
    D. English Renaissance theatre