Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries

A. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
B. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
C. Richardson’s Pamela
D. Lewis’s The Monk

A. It functions as a metaphor for the women’s rights movement.
B. It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.
C. It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.
D. It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period.

A. traveled to America.
B. believed in God.
C. emphasized the importance of human emotions as guiding behavior.
D. rejected Newton’s view of the universe.

A. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre addresses the power of wealth and class.
B. Like “Dover Beach,” Jane Eyre mourns the diminishing power of Christian faith.
C. Through Rochester, Jane Eyre develops a Byronic hero.
D. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre can be read as a bildungsroman.

A. Walton, a failed poet who is attempting to discover the North Pole.
B. the creature, after he has killed Victor Frankenstein.
C. Victor Frankenstein’s diary.
D. Mrs. Saville, Frankenstein’s cousin.

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.

A. revealing his interest in Chaucer.
B. enabling his 18th-century readers access to a world they would see as less rational.
C. promoting the rise of museums.
D. commenting on the French and Indian War.

A. Witty banter
B. Epic heroes
C. Sexual promiscuity
D. Hidden identities

A. Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven”
B. Pope’s Rape of the Lock
C. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
D. Benn’s Oroonoko

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.