A. The way in which one’s psychological state changes over time
B. The failures of Romanticism
C. The beauty of the natural world
D. Coleridge’s addiction to drugs
Related Mcqs:
- In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to ?
A. Nature
B. Dorothy
C. Coleridge
D. Wye - Which of the following statements accurately describes the theme of Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” ?
A. Nature loses its ability to affect human emotion over time.
B. Sensitivity to nature’s message comes with age.
C. Life experience does not have to power to alter human opinions.
D. It is not possible to appreciate beauty once one has aged. - What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?
A. An identical rhyme structure
B. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages
C. The sense of hope that death will come soon
D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life - William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” explores ________________?
A. The loss of childhood and discovery of the adult world
B. The fall of Satan
C. The life of Blake
D. The history of London - Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King” explores which of the following themes ?
A. Fate and free will
B. The corruptive force of technology
C. The power of religious faith
D. Disobedient children - Which of the following Post-Modern theoreticians explores the contradictions of colonial discourse and the ambivalence that the colonizer feels towards the colonized “other” in works such as “Nation and Narration” ?
A. Linda Hutcheon
B. Homi Bhabha
C. Jacques Derrida
D. Fredric Jameson - Fill in the blank. The novel “Things Fall Apart” explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?
A. Ibo
B. Russian
C. Irish
D. Indian - Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” pursues which of the following themes ?
A. The conflict between marriages based on love and those based on money
B. The ways in which appearances don’t always match realities
C. The danger in not recognizing the difference between reality and fiction
D. All of these - Which of the following statements best describes Catherine Moreland in “Northanger Abbey” ?
A. She is mature and realistic.
B. She is immature and has difficulty recognizing the difference between fact and fiction.
C. She is a matchmaker trying to set up romances between her friends, all the while unable to find true love herself.
D. B and C - The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” ?
A. Horace Walpole
B. Ann Radcliffe
C. Matthew Lewis
D. Mary Shelley
