Fill in the blank. The novel “Things Fall Apart” explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?

Related Mcqs:

1. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?

   A. Fanny Burney
   B. Mary Wollstonecraft
   C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
   D. Jane Austen

2. Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________’s work?

   A. Marx
   B. Freud
   C. Darwin
   D. Aristotle

3. Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s ________ exercised considerable influence upon its author’s contemporaries?

   A. “Euphues”
   B. “Paradise Lost”
   C. “Utopia”
   D. “Zelauto”

4. Fill in the blank. John Foxe was deeply disgusted by the _______________, and could not believe that any honest Christian could accept its doctrinal basis ?

   A. Mass
   B. Transubstantiation
   C. Resurrection
   D. both A and C

5. Fill in the blank. A ____________ was a spectacle performed at court or at the manor of a member of the nobility and was staged to glorify the court or the particular aristocrat?

   A. Masque
   B. Satire
   C. Tragedy
   D. Comedy

6. Fill in the blank. ____________ is remembered as the “Morning Star of the Reformation.”

   A. John Donne
   B. John Dryden
   C. John Wycliffe
   D. Johan Gutenberg

7. Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ____________?

   A. Catholicism
   B. Medieval Europe
   C. Classical antiquity
   D. Protestantism

8. Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?

   A. “The Sun Also Rises”
   B. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
   C. “The Cantos”
   D. “To the Lighthouse”

9. Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological “transference” helps to understand the nature of ________________?

   A. Incest
   B. Trauma
   C. Taboo
   D. Love

10. Fill in the blank. In the play, “Macbeth,” a number of characters refer to the Three Witches as________________?

    A. “The violent trio”
    B. “The Fatal Sisters”
    C. “The Weird Sisters”
    D. “The Dead Sisters”