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ENGL 216 Quiz 1 Questions & Answers Question 1 This work can be classified as pre-Romantic: Question 2 This author was encouraged to stop writing in a journal. Question 3 Who gives the Baron scissors in The Rape of the Lock? Question 4 Swift provides several serious arguments as to how the problems in Ireland could be solved, including: Question 5 In Rambler No. 4 Johnson suggests that earlier romances were not realistic and therefore not dangerous: Question 6 The main argument in “A Modest Pr...

ENGL 216 Quiz 1 Question 1 For this author, fiction is didactic and authors have the moral responsibility of selecting characters and situations carefully: Question 2 Johnson defines “works of fiction” as ordinary events happening to real people. Question 3 Swift seriously proposes cannibalism in “A Modest Proposal.” Question 4 In her letter to Lady Mar, Montagu states that the Turkish women are the only free people in the Empire. Question 5 “I think it as scandalous for a woman not...

ENGL 216 Quiz 1 Question 1 For this author, fiction is didactic and authors have the moral responsibility of selecting characters and situations carefully: Question 2 Johnson defines “works of fiction” as ordinary events happening to real people. Question 3 Swift seriously proposes cannibalism in “A Modest Proposal.” Question 4 In her letter to Lady Mar, Montagu states that the Turkish women are the only free people in the Empire. Question 5 “I think it as scandalous for a woman not...

ENGL 216 Quiz 3 , English Literature Quiz 3   Question 1 2 out of 2 points This work suggests that King Arthur appeared as ordinary to his wife, Guenever, and his poets as Fleet Street is to Victorian poets: Selected Answer: Aurora Leigh  Question 2 2 out of 2 points In A Christmas Carol, there are five ghosts who visit Scrooge. Selected Answer: False  Question 3 2 out of 2 points This poet was considered “the poet of the people” and was the most popular Victorian po...

ENGL 216 Quiz 3 Question 1 Victorian poetry developed in the shadow of Romanticism. Selected Answer: Question 2 Jane Eyre describes Mr. Brocklehurst firstly as: Question 3 In The Importance of Being Earnest, Jack doesn’t know who his parents are because he was found: Question 4 In A Christmas Carol, there are five ghosts who visit Scrooge. Question 5 Key Events of the Victorian period include: Question 6 Jane Eyre enjoys reading the Psalms. Question 7 A Christmas Carol satirizes Victorian soci...

ENGL 216 Quiz 2 • Question 1 In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” a cross is hung around the Mariner’s neck. • Question 2 This poem describes day as being “gaudy”: • Question 3 This poet said that poetry is the “spontaneous overflow” of feelings: • Question 4 Romanticism is a worldview. • Question 5 Romanticism adheres to order, science, rational, aristocracy, society, and the preferences of classics. • Question 6 In the beginning of “Ode to a Nightingale,” the spe...

ENGL 216 Quiz 4 Question 1 In “Church Going,” Larkin seems to suggest that belief in the unbelievable is preferable to no belief at all. Question 2 The end of the nineteenth century is also known as: Question 3 This work states, “[F]or great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh”: Question 4 In Heart of Darkness at the Central Station, a man tries to extinguish a fire with: Question 5 In “Ah, Are You Digging on M...

ENGL 216 Quiz 4 Question 1 In “Church Going,” Larkin seems to suggest that belief in the unbelievable is preferable to no belief at all. Question 2 The end of the nineteenth century is also known as: Question 3 This work states, “[F]or great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh”: Question 4 In Heart of Darkness at the Central Station, a man tries to extinguish a fire with: Question 5 In “Ah, Are You Digging on M...

ENGL 216 Quiz 4 QUESTION 1 This work suggests that to be effective, female writers must curb emotions and embrace a new (feminine) language: QUESTION 2 The links "In a solitude of the sea / Deep from human vanity, / And the Pride of Life that panned her, stillycouches she" are from what work?QUESTION 3 The third and fourth lines of this poem state, “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”: QUESTION 4 By the beginning of World War I, nearly half o...

ENGL 216 Quiz 3 QUESTION 1 How does Darwin define natural selection? QUESTION 2 Jane Eyre’s response to how she should avoid hell is not to die. QUESTION 3 At the end of A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim dies. QUESTION 4 “We see beautiful adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world” comes from this work: QUESTION 5 This work is both an allegory of social responsibility and a fable of individual transformation through symbolic rebirth: QUESTION 6 The majority of Victorian reader...