While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?

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1. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?

   A. a history of everyday life
   B. an instructional manual for manners
   C. a book of devotion
   D. a book of model letters

2. “O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?

   A. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
   B. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
   C. by emphasizing sexual morality.
   D. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings.

3. 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.

4. The main plot of Richardson’s Pamela reflects the main characteristics of the sentimental novel through its emphasis on which of the following ?

   A. Pamela’s attempt to seduce her employer
   B. Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner
   C. Pamela’s struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work
   D. Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer

5. In Pamela, how does the epistolary style enhance the sentimental aspects of the novel ?

   A. It provides access to the heroine’s innermost reactions.
   B. It does not cloud the novel with authorial intrusion that confuses the emotions.
   C. It provides a sense of immediacy because the letters are written in the thick of the action.
   D. All of these answers

6. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?

   A. Long, wide petticoats
   B. A trench-coat
   C. Loose, wide breeches
   D. Underpants

7. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse ?

   A. Alliterative verse
   B. Sonnet form
   C. Iambic pentameter
   D. Dactylic hexameter

8. Dr. Samuel Gladden, in his essay “Shelley’s Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant ,” argues that Shelley’s “Oedipus- Tyrannus” is important because a_______________?

   A. Shelley himself dismissed the poem
   B. The poem was incomplete
   C. Shelley recognizes the power of sexual transgression in it
   D. Shelley writes about Byron’s sexuality in it

9. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to the idea that______________?

   A. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.
   B. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.
   C. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.
   D. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

10. 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