A. Led to novels of passing.
B. Existed only in fiction by White authors.
C. Developed in the 20th century.
D. Existed only in fiction by female authors.
Related Mcqs:
- Dumas, whose father was a General in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulie, a Quadroon. He went from New-Orleans, where, though to the eye a white man, yet, as known to have African blood in his veins, he could never have enjoyed the privileges due to a human being. A Mulatto is a person who has one white parent and one black parent; what, then, is a Quadroon ?
A. A person who has two black parents.
B. A person who has one Meranto parent and one black.
C. A person who has two Delfigo parents.
D. A person who has one white parent and one parent who is a Mulatto - Who introduced the character of the “tragic mulatto” ?
A. William Wells Brown
B. Lydia Maria Child
C. Harriet Jacobs
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe - In “the tragic history of Doctor Faustus”. Faustus was a ?
A. German scholar
B. French scholar
C. Spanish scholar
D. Greek scholar - In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
A. he refers to the mythical Daedalus
B. he uses an allusion to the mythical Odysseus
C. he uses an allusion to Tristian and Iseult
D. he refers to the Oedipal myth - Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
A. Agathon
B. Aeschylus
C. Sophocles
D. Euripides - “The tragic-comedy which is the product of the English theatre is one the most monstrous inventions that ever entered into a poet’s thought.” Whose view is this ?
A. John Dryden’s
B. Alexander Pope’s
C. Joseph Addison’s
D. Dr. Johnson’s - In his “Poetics”, Aristotle suggests that tragic literary works should be ?
A. logical in terms of plot and structure.
B. complex in terms of plot and structure.
C. without any sort of moral insight.
D. sad. - Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a tragic hero ?
A. A noble person who becomes completely corrupted
B. A cowardly person who doubts himself or herself despite possessing great wealth and political power
C. A cowardly person who shows some personal strength when faced with a crisis
D. A noble person who makes a costly mistake - According to John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” what is Satan’s tragic flaw ?
A. Lust
B. Pride
C. Jealousy
D. Love - In Nikki Giovanni’s “The American Vision of Lincoln,” the poet argues that the Capitol needs a statue of _____________next to the one of Abraham Lincoln?
A. W.E.B. DuBois
B. Amiri Baraka
C. Booker T. Washington
D. Frederick Douglass
