A. “Araby”
B. “The Dead”
C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D. Finnegans Wake
Related Mcqs:
- Please identify the story: “her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition. ”
A. “The Boarding House”
B. “Clay”
C. “Eveline”
D. “A Little Cloud” - The quote “take then henceforth thy pleasure for guide” comes from which text ?
A. Vita Nuova
B. The Convivio
C. De Vulgari Eloquentia
D. The Divine Comedy - One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - “Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.” In this work the author argues in favour of____________?
A. Communism
B. Revolution
C. An independent nation of independent individuals
D. Abolition - Which text(s) are referenced in Joyce’s Ulysses ?
A. The Bible
B. Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey
C. Yeat’s “Who Goes with Fergus”
D. All of the Above - In Finnegans Wake, to which text(s) does Joyce make an allusion ?
A. the Book of the Dead
B. the Bible
C. Vico’s La Scienza Nuova
D. All of the Above - With which text(s) is the word “riverrun” associated ?
A. The Dubliners
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C. Ulysses
D. Finnegans Wake - The line “To be or not to be” comes from which play ?
A. Macbeth
B. Twelfth Night
C. A Midsummer Night’s dream
D. Hamlet - Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’ ?
A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. Swinburne
D. D.G. Rossetti - Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ?
A. The Stones of Venice
B. The Two Paths
C. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
D. Modem Painters
