A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.
B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.
C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.
D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution.
Related Mcqs:
- In what way does Thornfield Hall differ from the Castle of Otranto, Udolpho, and the Convent of St. Clare ?
A. It is the scene of violence.
B. It is the scene of sexual transgression.
C. It is the scene of redemption for the Byronic hero.
D. It serves as a kind of prison. - 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 - Although at least one critic has likened Thornfield to Bridewell, in what way are the two structures different ?
A. Each owner upends the prevailing law of the land.
B. Both are former palaces.
C. The owners of each had mistresses.
D. On the outside they look like homes, but on the inside they are prisons - How is Thornfield in “Jane Eyre” different from the structures found in the first wave of Gothic novels ?
A. It is an ancestral estate.
B. It contains vault-like spaces.
C. It is located in England.
D. It is mysterious. - “Can this be so!” cried goodman Brown, with a stare of amazement at his undisturbed companion. Howbeit, I have nothing to do with the governor and council – they have their own ways, and are no rule for a simple husbandman, like me. But, were I to go on with thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbathday and lecture-day!” The word “husbandman” usually means farmer, but in this context it means something else – what ?
A. Rancher
B. Male partner in a marriage
C. Cowboy
D. Man of ordinary status - 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 - Despite Samson’s defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will “arise and his great name assert” by making Dagon receive “Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers” (467–71). This prediction is interesting because ?
A. the prediction is never fulfilled.
B. the prophet Enoch had made the same prediction centuries earlier.
C. Samson doesn’t know he himself will fulfill the prediction.
D. the prediction is finally fulfilled much later when Jesus defeats Dagon - What does George Harris’ master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape ?
A. Relocate to Louisiana
B. Punish another slave
C. Abandon his faith
D. Marry another woman - In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that country, there is a small district of country, thily populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn-out, sandy, deserts-like appearance of its soil, the general dilapidation of its farms and fences, the indigent and spiritless character of its inhabitants, and the prevalence of ague and fever. What does dilapidation mean ?
A. Hunger or famine
B. Decrease
C. Derivation
D. Neglect or decray - The pastoral elegy often begins with which of the following poetic conventions ?
A. Invocation of a muse
B. A cry of lament
C. Prayer to the Sun
D. A and B
