A. The Protestant Reformation
B. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans
C. The decline of religion’s importance in the modern West
D. His lover’s betrayal
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Related Mcqs:
- Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?
- A. employs free verse. B. has an undertow of nihilism. C. is chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.” D. was composed between WW I and WW II....
- Which of the following does NOT characterize Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” ?
- A. It is a dramatic monologue. B. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a natural setting as an occasion for philosophical reflection. C. It has a melancholic tone. D. It envisions Christianity as eternal....
- For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
- A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century B. modern literary criticism C. late “nineteenth-century and early” twentieth-century satirical drama D. the surrealist movement...
- Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?
- A. Arthur Hallam B. Milton C. Edward King D. Hugh Clough...
- From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?
- A. Arabian Nights B. Canterbury Tales C. Shah Namah D. Pilgrims Progress...
- For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
- A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century B. modern literary criticism C. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama D. the surrealist movement...
- Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?
- A. The Mahabharata B. Paradise Lost C. The Odyssey D. The Aeneid...
- What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins ?”
- A. The Rape of the Lock B. Solitude: An Ode C. The Dunciad D. Eloisa to Abelard...
- H.D.’s poem “Oread” reads: “WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir.” To which of the following categories does this poem belong ?
- A. Objectivist poetry B. Futurist poetry C. Imagist poetry D. Vorticist poetry...
- In Book Three of “Paradise Lost,” God the Father alludes to what theological principle in the following quotation: “I made him [Adam] just and right, / Sufficient to have stood though free to fall.”
- A. Transubstantiation B. Free will C. Predestination D. Sufficience...
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