Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What statement below best sums up the literary significant of Maria Stewart ?

   A. First African American woman to speak to a mixed audience
   B. First African American to publish life writing Most popular native American writer
   C. Most popular slave narrative
   D. All the above

2. With which literary form or movement is the Restoration most closely associated ?

   A. Familiar essays
   B. Comedies of manners
   C. Romanticism
   D. Medievalism

3. Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory ?

   A. Literary criticism is concerned only with the meaning of a literary work, while literary theory is concerned only with the structure of a literary work.
   B. Literary criticism draws upon research derived from sources outside literature, while literary theory draws upon sources within a text.
   C. Literary theory is concerned with the method used to interpret a work, while literary criticism is the application of literary theory.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

4. Some critics of literary theory argue that literary theory is problematic for which reason ?

   A. Literary theory tends to be too political.
   B. Literary theory does not offer a holistic interpretation of a text.
   C. Literary theory depends on specialized knowledge that is outside the realm of literary studies.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

5. As a mode of literary criticism or theory, formalism attempted to bring which of the following to literary studies ?

   A. An awareness of the historical circumstances surrounding a text’s production
   B. A set of objective criteria for critical analysis
   C. An awareness of the economic circumstances surrounding a literary text
   D. Strict criteria for evaluating the quality of a literary text

6. As a mode of literary criticism or theory, gender theory attempts to bring which of the following to literary texts ?

   A. An understanding of the various conceptions and understandings of gender that have carried throughout various cultures
   B. An understanding of gender as a human construct
   C. An understanding of how standard histories of western societies are presented in terms of heterosexual identity
   D. All of these.

7. A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?

   A. Marxist criticism
   B. Reader-response criticism
   C. Psychoanalytic criticism
   D. New Criticism

8. Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory?

   A. Literary criticism is concerned only with the meaning of a literary work, while literary theory is concerned only with the structure of a literary work.
   B. Literary criticism draws upon research derived from sources outside literature, while literary theory draws upon sources within a text.
   C. Literary criticism is concerned with how characters in a text act, while literary theory is concerned with why characters act.
   D. Literary theory is concerned with the method used to interpret a work, while literary criticism is the application of literary theory.

9. Some critics of literary theory argue that literary theory is problematic for which reason ?

   A. Literary theory does not offer a holistic interpretation of a text.
   B. Literary theory depends on specialized knowledge that is outside the realm of literary studies.
   C. Literary theory is sometimes very abstract and difficult to read.
   D. All of the above.

10. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?

    A. The leading characteristic of the age
    B. Monarchs or political events
    C. The primary author of the age
    D. The language of the age