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
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
