A. His relationship to God and Christianity
B. His understanding of the basis of economics
C. His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold
D. Both A and B
Related Mcqs:
- Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?
A. Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.
B. Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.
C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.
D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings. - Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Robinson Crusoe’s and Oroonoko’s relationship to central features of the early English novel ?
A. Where Oroonoko foregrounds supernatural agents, Robinson Crusoe avoids religion completely.
B. Both are largely set in South America, reflecting the relationship between empire and the early English novel.
C. Oroonoko seems to defend the aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates the struggles of the middle class.
D. Both make claims to historical veracity. - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - “Can this be so!” cried goodman Brown, with a stare of amazement at his undisturbed companion. Howbeit, I have nothing to do with the governor and council – they have their own ways, and are no rule for a simple husbandman, like me. But, were I to go on with thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbathday and lecture-day!” The word “husbandman” usually means farmer, but in this context it means something else – what ?
A. Rancher
B. Male partner in a marriage
C. Cowboy
D. Man of ordinary status - Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Shelley
C. John Keats
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Which of the following themes do both Julian of Norwich and Catherine of Siena explore ?
A. the idea that community is essential to salvation
B. the concept of dualism of body and soul
C. the concept of a sensual God
D. the idea that God is separate from the human experience of love - Which literary theory would most directly explore questions of the role of spatial setting in a poem ?
A. Trauma theory
B. Ecotheory
C. Game theory
D. Marxist theory - Which literary theory would most directly explore questions of the role of spatial setting in a poem ?
A. Trauma theory
B. Ecotheory
C. Game theory
D. Marxist theory - What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the “occult” practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?
A. smoking opium
B. hypnotism
C. psychoanalysis
D. dream interpretation - Alice Walker’s novels often explore the abuse experienced by African American women. What is the only abuse Celie does not experience The Color Purple ?
A. Betrayal by the educational system.
B. Betrayal by her sister.
C. Betrayal by her community.
D. Betrayal by a family member.
