Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’ ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ?

   A. six lectures
   B. five lectures
   C. four lectures
   D. seven lectures

2. In his first lecture onWilliam Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this ?

   A. Yeats’s poetry was autobiographical, but he understood his life through the prism of myths and symbols; symbolism was therefore present in both Yeats’s life and in his poetry.
   B. Yeats believed that each person was an instance of a general cultural type or symbol.
   C. The young Yeats wished to emphasize his identity as an English poet and draw attention away from his Irish heritage.
   D. Both A and B

3. ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by______________?

   A. Ruskin
   B. Carlyle
   C. Mill
   D. None of these

4. “Can this be so!” cried goodman Brown, with a stare of amazement at his undisturbed companion. Howbeit, I have nothing to do with the governor and council – they have their own ways, and are no rule for a simple husbandman, like me. But, were I to go on with thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbathday and lecture-day!” The word “husbandman” usually means farmer, but in this context it means something else – what ?

   A. Rancher
   B. Male partner in a marriage
   C. Cowboy
   D. Man of ordinary status

5. The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means ?

   A. Religious Scripture
   B. Seaside Resort
   C. Tailor Repatched
   D. None of these

6. In his introductory lecture, how does Paul Fry define literary theory ?

   A. A hypothesis about how literary texts can be understood
   B. A methodology for applying ideas to literary texts
   C. The practice of interpreting literary texts
   D. A trend in university English departments

7. In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and poetic modernism ?

   A. Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.
   B. Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.
   C. Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s own imagination.
   D. All of these answers

8. 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

9. After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem “Hero and Leander” ?

   A. Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Nash
   C. George Chapman
   D. Thomas More

10. How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?

    A. a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits
    B. a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being
    C. a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
    D. the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium