A. “The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever”
B. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user
C. “A confession and a complaint”
D. All of the above
Related Mcqs:
- His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - According to Theodor Adorno’s and Max Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” which of the following is true of the culture industry ?
A. The culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.
B. The culture industry is the chief method by which technology brings true democracy to all.
C. The culture industry is a fundamental way to promote individuality.
D. The culture industry is chiefly intended to offer consumers the opportunity to classify wants and desires as well as corresponding production. - The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?
A. FR Leavis
B. Harold Bloom
C. William Empson
D. Mariella Frostrup - Who “haunts” the evil Simon Legree when he is drunk ?
A. Cassy
B. Eliza
C. George
D. Uncle Tom - According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General Introduction to Postmodernism,” Roland Barthes, in his work “The Death of the Author,” argues which of the following points ?
A. “The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.”
B. “Once the Author is gone, the claim to “decipher” a text is quite simple.”
C. “A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.”
D. Both A and B - Which best describes the work of a mystic ?
A. the mystic is primarily tasked with intellectual work within monasteries
B. the mystic is a visionary who experiences divine insight
C. the mystic uses a religious platform to promote equal rights for women
D. the mystic usually works as a scribe - Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
C. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
D. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility - Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
C. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
D. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility - Which of the following best describes how Bede was a typical Christian of his time ?
A. He combined zealous Christianity with English patriotism.
B. He did not believe that Christianity was an essential part of English culture.
C. He thought that England was a pagan wilderness.
D. He believed that English Christians needed to move to a New Israel. - What term describes Cassy’s racial heritage ?
A. Quadroon
B. Mulatto
C. Octoroon
D. Hectoroon
