A. Pamela’s attempt to seduce her employer
B. Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner
C. Pamela’s struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work
D. Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer
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. - In Pamela, how does the epistolary style enhance the sentimental aspects of the novel ?
A. It provides access to the heroine’s innermost reactions.
B. It does not cloud the novel with authorial intrusion that confuses the emotions.
C. It provides a sense of immediacy because the letters are written in the thick of the action.
D. All of these answers - “O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?
A. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
B. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
C. by emphasizing sexual morality.
D. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings. - While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
A. a history of everyday life
B. an instructional manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
D. a book of model letters - While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
A. a history of everyday life
B. an instructional manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
D. a book of model letters - One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
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. - Which of the following texts is an example of a sentimental novel ?
A. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
B. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
C. Richardson’s Pamela
D. Lewis’s The Monk - Which of the following best characterizes the ways that Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho links the Gothic novel with the sentimental form ?
A. Its use of a medieval setting to reflect on rational progress
B. Its focus on having readers vicariously experience the dangers that a heroine faces
C. Its ambivalent treatment of its leading villain
D. Its use of the sublime - In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental novel is evident ?
A. The scene invokes audience sympathy.
B. The heroine has to balance autonomy with self-denial.
C. The heroine conquers her passions.
D. A and B
E. B and C - Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
A. Fanny Burney
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
D. Jane Austen
