What did Thomas Carlyle mean by \Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe\ ?

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1. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?

   A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
   B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
   C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
   D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.

2. In the phrase, “thy seed shall bruise our foe,” “thy” refers to__________________?

   A. Sin
   B. Eden
   C. Satan
   D. Eve

3. How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?

   A. a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits
   B. a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being
   C. a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
   D. the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium

4. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?

   A. the expurgation of indelicate language
   B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary
   C. the insertion of bawdy songs
   D. the misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and\

5. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to “’Peddlers,’ and ’Boats,’ and ’Wagons’!” ?

   A. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden
   B. the clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots
   C. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
   D. Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary and everyday

6. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to \’Peddlers,’ and ’Boats,’ and ’Wagons’!\ ?

   A. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden
   B. the clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots
   C. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
   D. Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary and everyday

7. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ?

   A. six lectures
   B. five lectures
   C. four lectures
   D. seven lectures

8. The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means ?

   A. Religious Scripture
   B. Seaside Resort
   C. Tailor Repatched
   D. None of these

9. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’ ?

   A. Johnson
   B. Cromwell
   C. Shakespeare
   D. Luther

10. The dedication of Byron’s “Don Juan” can be best described as ________________?

    A. Sincere and heartfelt
    B. Mocking and satirical
    C. Mournful and dark
    D. Polemic and dry