Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?

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1. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?

   A. All knowledge is derived from experience.
   B. Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.
   C. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
   D. The sensory world is an illusion.

2. “Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.” In this work the author argues in favour of____________?

   A. Communism
   B. Revolution
   C. An independent nation of independent individuals
   D. Abolition

3. Horace’s doctrine “ut pictura poesis” was interpreted to mean______________?

   A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
   B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
   C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
   D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.

4. Horace’s doctrine \ut pictura poesis\was interpreted to mean______________?

   A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
   B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
   C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
   D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.

5. What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism ?

   A. William Collins
   B. William Laud
   C. William Shakespeare
   D. William Tyndale

6. What doctrine significantly influenced Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia” ?

   A. Marxism
   B. Christian Humanism
   C. Feminism
   D. New Historicism

7. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?

   A. snide indifference
   B. biblical reverence
   C. condemning censure
   D. satirical derision

8. Which of the following best describes the significance of the following line from Julian of Norwich’s “Revelations of Divine Love”: “all manner of things shall be well” ?

   A. The world is a happy and wonderful place.
   B. We can make the world better if we work hard.
   C. There are many things in the world to love.
   D. The love and grace of God can change lives for the better.

9. Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” begins with the following lines: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?

   A. These lines suggest that it was difficult to define patriotism during the Great War, but soldiers who died in battle provided the best example of patriotism.
   B. These lines suggest that the Great War lasted much longer than it should have.
   C. These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values.
   D. These lines represent a modern funeral dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient Greek funeral dirges.

10. Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with the following lines: “If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke’s poem as a whole ?

    A. These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers’ deaths on the battlefield.
    B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain’s imperial power.
    C. These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.
    D. These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.