What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the “occult” practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?

   A. supernatural phenomenon
   B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
   C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
   D. all of the above

2. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

   A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
   B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
   C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age.
   D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

3. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

   A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
   B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
   C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
   D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

4. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics ?

   A. Keats
   B. Wordsworth
   C. Shelley
   D. Byron

5. In her essay “Wordsworth Balladry: Real Men Wanted,” Elizabeth Fey argues that the Romantics were interested in the medieval focus upon _______________?

   A. Courtly love and modern-seeming emotion
   B. Violence
   C. Nature
   D. Death and disease

6. 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

7. Which literary theory would most directly explore questions of the role of spatial setting in a poem ?

   A. Trauma theory
   B. Ecotheory
   C. Game theory
   D. Marxist theory

8. Robinson Crusoe’s isolation on a deserted island allows Defoe to explore his development in which of the following ways ?

   A. His relationship to God and Christianity
   B. His understanding of the basis of economics
   C. His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold
   D. Both A and B

9. Which of the following themes do both Julian of Norwich and Catherine of Siena explore ?

   A. the idea that community is essential to salvation
   B. the concept of dualism of body and soul
   C. the concept of a sensual God
   D. the idea that God is separate from the human experience of love

10. Alice Walker’s novels often explore the abuse experienced by African American women. What is the only abuse Celie does not experience The Color Purple ?

    A. Betrayal by the educational system.
    B. Betrayal by her sister.
    C. Betrayal by her community.
    D. Betrayal by a family member.