A. social contract theory of government.
B. blank slate or tabula rasa.
C. divine authority of kings.
D. natural political rights.
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?
A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body
B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty
C. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting
D. The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure - Before advocating on behalf of the enslaved in colonial Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall participated in what early American crisis event ?
A. Mayflower compact
B. Salem Witch Trails
C. No involvement
D. All the above - Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
A. courtly ideals of the good life
B. carpe diem
C. loyalty to the king
D. pious devotion to religious virtues - Where was John Milton born? Where was John Milton born ?
A. London
B. Bristol
C. Wales
D. Yorkshire - Fill in the blank. In the second edition of_________________, John Foxe promised that he would edit a collection of the works of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes?
A. “Acts and Monuments”
B. “Utopia”
C. “Euphues”
D. “Paradise Regained” - Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is a transitional text in all of the following ways EXCEPT________________?
A. like a romance, it focuses on an aristocratic character considered superior to average individuals.
B. like a novel, it tells its story with an emphasis on realistic detail and the everyday passage of time.
C. like an epic, it involves gods and goddesses.
D. like a novel, it makes claims to historical realism. - Tennyson’s “Ulysses” can be characterized in all of the following ways, EXCEPT________________?
A. it thematizes the importance of choosing action over complacency.
B. it reflects a Victorian attitude of continuing to fight against loss of hope or faith.
C. it uses Greek mythology to comment on contemporary questions.
D. it emphasizes the internal life of the mind over social action. - According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT________________?
A. Thomas More.
B. Francis Bacon.
C. Earl of Oxford.
D. John Shakespeare. - All of the following refer to “the uncanny” EXCEPT________________?
A. A psychoanalytic term that explains terror
B. The supernatural
C. “Unheimlich”
D. A sense of uncomfortable strangeness - All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT________________?
A. The unknown
B. Transgression
C. Reason
D. The grotesque
