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.
Related Mcqs:
- In what way does the Gothic novel of the 18th century differ from the modern English novel that began to emerge in the 17th century and flourished in the 18th century ?
A. The focus on the middle and working classes
B. The consideration of the sensibilities of the protagonists
C. Plots taken from everyday life
D. The exploration of cultural taboos - Although Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?
A. Its character’s movement from slavery to freedom.
B. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.
C. The novel’s sensationalist scenes of violence.
D. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice. - 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 - The main plot of Richardson’s Pamela reflects the main characteristics of the sentimental novel through its emphasis on which of the following ?
A. Pamela’s attempt to seduce her employer
B. Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner
C. Pamela’s struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work
D. Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer - What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period ?
A. Realism
B. An epistolary format
C. A focus on the individual
D. An English setting - dominated English literature from the Restoration until the end of the 18th century with the emergence of Romanticism ?
A. Medievalism
B. Modernism
C. Victorianism
D. Neoclassicism - The 18th century work ’Tom Jones” was written by whom ?
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Henry Fielding
C. John Donne
D. Tobias Smollett - Name the English poet of 18th century whose works included Rape of the Lock, Dunciad and Essay on Man?
A. Nelson Mandela
B. Winston Churchill
C. Alexander Pope
D. None of theseSubmitted by: M AQIB ZAI
- What is the name of the popular fiction genre in which the novel Frankenstein belongs to ?
A. Bildungsroman novel
B. Romantic novel
C. Künstlerroman novel
D. epistolary novel - The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
A. supernatural phenomenon
B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
D. all of the above
