She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father’s peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. . . . She wore ornaments of pure yellow gold to set off her charms, and a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. This is_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought good luck charms. What “science” did they utilize in trying to predict and control the future ?

   A. Alchemy
   B. Metallurgy
   C. Geocentricity
   D. Astrology

2. Miniver scorned the gold he sought. Here gold refers to______________?

   A. the yellow metal
   B. paycheck or money
   C. materialism
   D. the pot of luck

3. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Write an Analytical Essay about Short Fiction”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the writing an essay about short fiction ?

   A. Begin your paper with an introduction that identifies the purpose of the paper and the text you are addressing.
   B. Compose topic sentences (four or five, perhaps) that support, explore, demonstrate, or illustrate your thesis.
   C. Select specific passages in the text of the story that help you to develop each topic sentence.
   D. Build your paper to a climax; save your most engaging or important topic sentence for discussion last.

4. Which character spoke following lines? “What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, Nor arm nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man, O be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet,” ?

   A. Desdemona
   B. Juliet
   C. Rosalind
   D. Hero

5. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry ?

   A. William Carlos Williams
   B. Emily Dickinson
   C. Gerard Manly Hopkins
   D. Robert Frost

6. Wanders in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically To a lute’s well-tunéd law, Round about a throne, where sitting (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The sovereign of the realm was seen. What does Porphyrogene mean ?

   A. Born to be free
   B. Inflicted with the disease Porphyria
   C. Of royal birth
   D. Wearing purple robes

7. In which way does Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” include elements of the uncanny ?

   A. It reflects a woman’s everyday life.
   B. An everyday object causes her terror.
   C. An apparently normal person is revealed as a man.
   D. It features a body transformation.

8. “It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.” How does this opening sentence of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ?

   A. The reference to ancestral halls
   B. The uncommon nature of the event
   C. The first-person narrator
   D. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate

9. In what way do the houses in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Jane Eyre” differ from each other as Gothic literary structures ?

   A. The relative location of the room in which the “troubled” women are kept
   B. The state of disrepair when the houses are first encountered by the protagonists
   C. The relative location of the houses within the larger communities
   D. The relative age of the houses

10. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” what does Gilman suggest about madness ?

    A. That it is necessary to contain mad women
    B. That it is an artificial patriarchal tool
    C. That men also are mad
    D. That female madness is a serious obstacle to women’s liberation