Who introduced the character of the “tragic mulatto” ?

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1. Dumas, whose father was a General in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulie, a Quadroon. He went from New-Orleans, where, though to the eye a white man, yet, as known to have African blood in his veins, he could never have enjoyed the privileges due to a human being. A Mulatto is a person who has one white parent and one black parent; what, then, is a Quadroon ?

   A. A person who has two black parents.
   B. A person who has one Meranto parent and one black.
   C. A person who has two Delfigo parents.
   D. A person who has one white parent and one parent who is a Mulatto

2. The “tragic mulatto” myth_________________?

   A. Led to novels of passing.
   B. Existed only in fiction by White authors.
   C. Developed in the 20th century.
   D. Existed only in fiction by female authors.

3. The character named Comus is often seen by critics as a prototype of what character Milton later portrayed ?

   A. Jesus
   B. Samson
   C. Satan
   D. Adam

4. Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ?

   A. Captain Cooper
   B. Victor Frankenstein
   C. Captain Robert Walton
   D. Sergent Thomas Vincent

5. In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by________________?

   A. Nicoll
   B. Goddord
   C. Bradley
   D. Coleridge

6. In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment is this ?

   A. Bradley
   B. Dr. Johnson
   C. Nicoll
   D. None of these

7. In “the tragic history of Doctor Faustus”. Faustus was a ?

   A. German scholar
   B. French scholar
   C. Spanish scholar
   D. Greek scholar

8. In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?

   A. he refers to the mythical Daedalus
   B. he uses an allusion to the mythical Odysseus
   C. he uses an allusion to Tristian and Iseult
   D. he refers to the Oedipal myth

9. In his “Poetics”, Aristotle suggests that tragic literary works should be ?

   A. logical in terms of plot and structure.
   B. complex in terms of plot and structure.
   C. without any sort of moral insight.
   D. sad.

10. Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a tragic hero ?

    A. A noble person who becomes completely corrupted
    B. A cowardly person who doubts himself or herself despite possessing great wealth and political power
    C. A cowardly person who shows some personal strength when faced with a crisis
    D. A noble person who makes a costly mistake