A. Her sense of morality and decorum
B. Her defiance of contemporary culture
C. Her lack of imagination
D. Her full embrace of the Gothic vision of Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis
Related Mcqs:
- Why does Radcliffe favor the term “romance” as the subtitle to “The Mysteries of Udolpho” ?
A. Radcliffe wants to emphasize the happy ending of the marriage of Emily and Valancourt.
B. It frees Radcliffe from a strict adherence to common life, allowing her to place Emily in challenging situations.
C. Radcliffe considers her work a continuation of the sentimental novel of the 18th century.
D. It acknowledges the lack of supernatural plot tricks. - Why do scholars consider the first wave of the English Gothic novel an aspect of Romanticism ?
A. The use of poetic prose in the Gothic novel
B. The Gothic novel’s interest in the apocalyptic prophecies found in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures
C. The ascendency of human reason in the Gothic novel
D. The representation of contemporary life in the Gothic novel - Why has Bertha been characterized as the “madwoman in the attic” by literary scholars ?
A. To represent the expansion of Gothic literary spaces from only subterranean spaces to attics as well
B. To represent the shift from the male Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain in the Victorian Gothic novel
C. To make reference to the rise of personal responsibility in Victorian England for the care of the sick and insane
D. To make an ironic statement about the point of view and marginalization of the “Other” in Victorian England - 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 - Why do most scholars consider Finnegans Wake avant-garde ?
A. the invented words
B. the free dream associations
C. the sketchy, episodic structure
D. All of the Above - The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection – a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball – a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives – and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an “insurrection” ?
A. An act or instance of beginning
B. An of revolting against civil authority
C. The state of one risen from the dead
D. The condition of being stopped - According to Ellen Moers, how does Radcliffe’s heroine differ from the typical Gothic woman ?
A. Emily ends up happily married.
B. Emily’s sense of decorum seems to falter late in the novel.
C. Emily is a sensible rather than defenseless woman.
D. Emily provides a unique example of a weak woman. - In what way does Radcliffe depart from Walpole’s earlier tradition ?
A. She creates a strong male hero to rescue Emily.
B. She is not concerned with issues of rightful inheritance.
C. She sets the novel in present day.
D. She resolves the appearance of supernatural phenomena. - According to Radcliffe, what is the difference between terror and horror ?
A. Horror is only a sense of the sublime.
B. Terror contracts the soul.
C. Terror involves uncertainty and obscurity.
D. Horror fails to awaken and expand the soul. - The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
A. supernatural phenomenon
B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
D. all of the above
