A. Where Oroonoko foregrounds supernatural agents, Robinson Crusoe avoids religion completely.
B. Both are largely set in South America, reflecting the relationship between empire and the early English novel.
C. Oroonoko seems to defend the aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates the struggles of the middle class.
D. Both make claims to historical veracity.
Related Mcqs:
- Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?
A. Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.
B. Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.
C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.
D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings. - 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 - How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?
A. It focuses on a royal hero.
B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
C. It focuses on adventures.
D. It connects to poetry. - What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period ?
A. Realism
B. An epistolary format
C. A focus on the individual
D. An English setting - In what way does the Gothic novel of the 18th century differ from the modern English novel that began to emerge in the 17th century and flourished in the 18th century ?
A. The focus on the middle and working classes
B. The consideration of the sensibilities of the protagonists
C. Plots taken from everyday life
D. The exploration of cultural taboos - Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
A. Fanny Burney
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
D. Jane Austen - Which of the following does NOT accurately characterize Jane Eyre’s relationship to other literary works ?
A. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre addresses the power of wealth and class.
B. Like “Dover Beach,” Jane Eyre mourns the diminishing power of Christian faith.
C. Through Rochester, Jane Eyre develops a Byronic hero.
D. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre can be read as a bildungsroman. - Which of the following genres is NOT part of the hybrid form of Behn’s Oroonoko ?
A. Nonfiction
B. Travel memoir
C. Detective story
D. Biography - Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is a transitional text in all of the following ways EXCEPT________________?
A. like a romance, it focuses on an aristocratic character considered superior to average individuals.
B. like a novel, it tells its story with an emphasis on realistic detail and the everyday passage of time.
C. like an epic, it involves gods and goddesses.
D. like a novel, it makes claims to historical realism. - Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus’ character at the beginning of the play ?
A. kind
B. stupid
C. sensitive
D. arrogant
