A. France’s war with a foreign nation
B. The mass execution of enemies of the revolution
C. Napoleon’s rise to power
D. The death of the king of France
Related Mcqs:
- I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition— for why should I not so term it?—served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. This work exemplifies ?
A. Unity of effect
B. Ratiocinactive effect
C. Cataleptic effect
D. Didactic effect - According to Radcliffe, what is the difference between terror and horror ?
A. Horror is only a sense of the sublime.
B. Terror contracts the soul.
C. Terror involves uncertainty and obscurity.
D. Horror fails to awaken and expand the soul. - For many scholars, what distinguishes terror from horror in the Gothic novel ?
A. The anticipation of the violation of one’s person versus an act of physical violence
B. Plotted revenge versus random violence
C. The male Gothic versus the female Gothic
D. The persistence of the past in the present versus the betrayal in the present of the paternal protector - Which character best represents the concept of terror versus that of horror in Lewis’s “The Monk” ?
A. Agnes
B. Ambrosio
C. Baptiste
D. Matilda - The Freudian concept of “the uncanny” refers to_________________?
A. a feeling of being disconnected from the world.
B. a sense of something being familiar and foreign at once.
C. terror at the thought of death.
D. a realization of one’s empowered position in the world. - In whose reign Morality plays began ?
A. Henry five
B. Elizabeth one
C. Henry six
D. Henry eight - Who introduced the Italian sonnet to the British Isles during the reign of King Henry VIII ?
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
C. John Donne
D. Both A and B - The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ?
A. James I
B. Mary Tudor
C. Elizabeth Tudor
D. Henry VII - What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I ?
A. 1592-1608
B. 1603-1625
C. 1607-1627
D. 1608-1639 - Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
A. King Henry VIII
B. Queen Elizabeth I
C. Queen Victoria
D. King John
