A. The habited nuns
B. Ambrosio’s rape and murder of his sister
C. Lewis’s use of a female pseudonym in the original edition
D. Lewis’s choiceof a feminine literary genre
Related Mcqs:
- Which character best represents the concept of terror versus that of horror in Lewis’s “The Monk” ?
A. Agnes
B. Ambrosio
C. Baptiste
D. Matilda - What role does Rosario play in the Gothic atmosphere of “The Monk” ?
A. Queer provocateur
B. Heroine in distress
C. Angel in the house
D. Pursued protagonist - In “The Monk” what event does NO represent the theme of entrapment of women ?
A. Antonia’s death
B. Matilda’s dressing as Rosario
C. Agnes’s admittance to the convent
D. The magic mirror - How does the motif of the wandering Jew figure in “The Monk” ?
A. It introduces one of several supernatural elements into the plot.
B. It dispels the anti-Semitism associated with the Gothic novel.
C. It offers a positive alternative to the excesses of the Catholic Church.
D. It suggests that redemption is possible through penitence. - How does Lewis portray the Catholic confessional in “The Monk”?
A. As a path to redemption
B. As a necessary control
C. As a voyeuristic activity
D. As a model for contemporary police work - One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - Some critics of literary theory argue that literary theory is problematic for which reason ?
A. Literary theory tends to be too political.
B. Literary theory does not offer a holistic interpretation of a text.
C. Literary theory depends on specialized knowledge that is outside the realm of literary studies.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - As a mode of literary criticism or theory, formalism attempted to bring which of the following to literary studies ?
A. An awareness of the historical circumstances surrounding a text’s production
B. A set of objective criteria for critical analysis
C. An awareness of the economic circumstances surrounding a literary text
D. Strict criteria for evaluating the quality of a literary text - Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?
A. The leading characteristic of the age
B. Monarchs or political events
C. The primary author of the age
D. The language of the age
