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.
Related Mcqs:
- Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar______________?
A. devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.
B. emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration.
C. reliance on classical scholarship.
D. defense of violent emotions as natural. - Complete the following sentence. Neoclassicism most paralleled Enlightenment thought in its_______________?
A. rejection of Renaissance optimism.
B. rejection of traditional models.
C. emphasis on order, logic, and universal truths.
D. emphasis on the corrupt nature of the aristocracy. - In ’Paradise Lost’, which angel is ordered by God to drive Adam and Eve out of Paradise? Before he does so, he shows Adam a number of visions about the future of the human race, beginning with Cain murdering Abel and ending with the redemption of mankind through Christ. Who is this angel that has a large role in the finishing chapters of ’Paradise Lost’ ?
A. Michael
B. Abdiel
C. Rafael
D. Gabriel - Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?
A. “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
B. “The Winter’s Tale”
C. “The Tempest”
D. “Faustus” - Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?
A. always fighting for good against evil.
B. fortunate in always coming out victorious.
C. nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight.
D. devoted to religion above all things - Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?
A. its focus on his lost love.
B. its rejection of scientific progress.
C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
D. its development of elements from national folklore. - Complete the following sentence. In the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover,” the words “daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon” ?
A. are an example of antithesis to suggest the falcon’s contradictory nature.
B. use alliterative language to draw attention to the falcon’s importance as a symbol of Christ.
C. refer to the speaker’s heart.
D. indicate the speaker’s lack of faith. - Complete the following sentence. We can best understand the medieval setting of Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto as______________?
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. - Complete the following sentence. The opening frame narrative of Frankenstein comes from_______________?
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. - Complete the following sentence. John Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” reflects a commitment to neoclassical aesthetics through_______________?
A. its references to Shakespeare.
B. its commitment to an elevated taste, its use of classical imagery, and its evocation of classic forms.
C. its scientific ethos and setting in London.
D. its refusal to mention Shadwell directly.
