A. Competition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners.
B. Colonizers were no longer necessarily interested in reforming indigenous populations.
C. People found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority.
D. All of these answers
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A. To help drive his ideas across the universe
B. To help him reach the afterlife
C. To help him hear nature’s music
D. To help him start a new revolutionary war
A. social contract theory of government.
B. blank slate or tabula rasa.
C. divine authority of kings.
D. natural political rights.
A. Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.
B. Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.
C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.
D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.
A. Congreve’s The Way of the World
B. Richardson’s Pamela
C. Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
D. Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
A. Alexander Pope
B. Percy Shelley
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Alfred Tennyson
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.
A. The pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions
B. The burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands
C. The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations
D. The concept that all white men do not share the same imperial duties
A. The lyric poem is a popular form in the Romantic era.
B. The lyric poem has a song-like quality.
C. The lyric poem creates a personal sense of emotion.
D. The lyric poem focuses on action.
A. reason can help man understand beauty.
B. civilization comes through beauty.
C. language shows humanity’s impulse towards order.
D. poetry has no effect on society.
