A. The loss of childhood and discovery of the adult world
B. The fall of Satan
C. The life of Blake
D. The history of London
Related Mcqs:
- William Blake’s /Songs of ‘counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’ ?
A. Love
B. childhood
C. Inexperience
D. Innocence - Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?
A. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping England’s economy.
B. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.
C. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.
D. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience. - William Blake’s “Little Black Boy” advocates for __________________?
A. The abolition of slavery
B. The equality of all people
C. The innate brilliance of children
D. The beauty of common language - The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft - “Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey” explores ________________?
A. The way in which one’s psychological state changes over time
B. The failures of Romanticism
C. The beauty of the natural world
D. Coleridge’s addiction to drugs - Which of the following Romantic poets would have been most likely to write a poem celebrating the innocence of childhood ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. William Blake
D. William Wordsworth - Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King” explores which of the following themes ?
A. Fate and free will
B. The corruptive force of technology
C. The power of religious faith
D. Disobedient children - Which of the following Post-Modern theoreticians explores the contradictions of colonial discourse and the ambivalence that the colonizer feels towards the colonized “other” in works such as “Nation and Narration” ?
A. Linda Hutcheon
B. Homi Bhabha
C. Jacques Derrida
D. Fredric Jameson - Fill in the blank. The novel “Things Fall Apart” explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?
A. Ibo
B. Russian
C. Irish
D. Indian - The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?
A. Lacking in freshness and originality
B. Saddened
C. Double meaning
D. Blue-eyed
