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The characters in James fiction enjoy an unlimited freedom in acting;they are not pressed by the circumstances; neither are Thomas

Hardys characters.

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In a Dickens comic character, looks, mimicry, idiosyncratic gesture,clothing, hobby or language are:

autonomous from the characters psychological or moral

identity; theysimply delight or repel.

outward signs of inward life.

irrelevant of the inward identity; they exist to simply facilitatethe readers

memorizing them.


In James fiction, a favorite theme is the collision of Europeaninnocence and American experience.

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The time space ofPride and Prejudice is

the future of the characters hopes.

the past.

the present.


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Jane Austens narrators are ironic about Gothic imaginings andromanticized

sensibility.

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Who are the international Americans (Americans living in Europeand adopting the European ways) in the novel The Portrait of aLady:

Henrietta Stackpole, Ralph Touchett, Isabel Archer?

Isabel Archer, Madame Merle, Gilbert Osmond?

Pansy Osmond, Caspar Goodwood, Isabel Archer?


As a realist novelist, Austen is generous, lavish in landscapedescriptions objectifying

the characters moods.

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In The Mill on the Floss, the crisis of the narrative turns on Maggiesneed to choose

between her fidelity to:

Red Deeps and her love for Philip.

the rural society of St Oggs and her love for Stephen.

the Cloven Tree and her love for Tom.


The setting in Fieldings Tom Jones is blurred by remoteness andimprecision.

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In the Preface to The Scarlet Letter, Hawthornes metaphors forromantic realism and romance are:

moonlight and stage light

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moonlight and torchlight.


In James fiction, protagonists, European by extraction, choose tosettle down in America

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In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale believes that Hesters sin isgreater than his own.

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In the novel David Copperfield, the characterBetsey Trotwoodis:

a pretty empty-headed girl; Davids attempts to turn her into acompetent house-keeper

and to form her mind are making them both miserable

strong-headed and eccentric. She separated from a cruelhusband, resumed her

maiden name and took a cottage at Dover.

a girl of exceptionally sweet and high-minded disposition, whoexercises a powerful

influence on the rest of Davids life.


In the metaphysical novel, the symbolic setting is often used as amirror to reflect:

the name and the place of some special people living there.

the customs of the people living in that area.

the psychological state of the characters.


In Jane Austens world of economic survival and genteel propriety,the person getting married to a mate marries society as well.

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Characteristically, a Jane Austen novel starts:




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at the outset of the protagonists adulthood.

in the protagonists mid childhood.

in ripe maturity of the protagonists emotional intelligence.


Isabel has a typicallyAmerican hunger for experience coupled witha puritanical fear of her ego, which means that her freedom remainsabstract and unreal.

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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is thesame girl who

assisted in her mothers being sold.

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The world George Eliot gives birth to in her novels is

a fast advancing world of change.a slowly changing world originating in past links.


In The Mill on the Floss, the crisis of the narrative turns on Maggies need tochoose between her fidelity to:

Dorlcote Mill and her love for Philip.

the river Floss and her love for Tom.

the rural society of St Oggs and her love for Stephen.


In The Mayor of Casterbridges, agrarian world of the 1830s, theroad at the opening of chapter 1 justifies the picaresque pattern of theplot.

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with his vices and virtues.

perfectly virtuous, never erring.


In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale are, ultimately,archetypesof sinning and that is why their moral development is frozen in

stereotypedpatterns.

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Match the following "point of view" regarding Isabel's identity with the name of

the character who has uttered it: I think you are my guardian angel! (ThePortrait of a Lady)

Henrietta Stackpole

Pansy Osmond

Madame Merle

Ralph Touchett

Lord Warburton


A notorious case of fiction told mostly in omniscient narrative voiceinterspersed with authorial intrusions, in disciplined or irregularways, is:

Tom Jones

The Portrait of a Lady.

The Scarlet Letter.


In the traditional romance, love stories or historical, e.g. W. Scotts, J. F.Coopers, character is:

complex, unpredicatable, developing.

shallow, stereotyped, polarized.


In James fiction, most of the protagonists are cultured, educated,and aristocratic.

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In Tom Jones, to his great surprise, Mr. Allworthy finds out thatToms mother was his own daughter.

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At the end of the novel The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale found theresolve to admit in public that:

he hated Chillingworth.

he wanted to leave New England.

he was Pearls father.


In Eliots novels the idea of is a key one

absolute freedom of the individual.

kinship.

the conflict between kinship and the freedom of the individual.


The picaresque novel and the detective novel are patterned upon

plots of:

fortune.

thought.

character.


In Joseph Andrew, Fielding burlesqued his own novel, Tom Jones.

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Along with other American writers, Mark Twain and W. D. Howells, HenryJames satirized the European manners.

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a few hours coach ride between London and a village or anestate.

a weeks coach ride between London and a village or an estate.

a one hour odd journey between country estates.


In Pride and Prejudice, before Elizabeth admitted her fault of pride,she

behaved on friendly, encouraging terms with Darcy.

disliked Darcy because he was attracted to her sister, Jane.

overlooked Darcys insensitive remarks about her looks.


Dickens provides traditional novel endings marriage, coming intofortune, social

settlement a comic world vision i.e. the reordering oftemporary disintegration or

confusion.

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In Hawthornes vision is the neutral territory between realityand fairy land, where the Actual and the Imaginary meet and fuse.

the window

the ceiling

the floor


In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is a

cousin of the initial Elisabeth Jane, who has borrowed her name.

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Sophia's name means

sorrow, and expresses Fielding's sense of sadness.

wisdom, and she represents wisdom in Tom Jones.

softness, and she provides a tribute to Fielding's sister.

beauty, and she expresses Fielding's admiration for women.




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In The Scarlet Letter, Hesters husband, Arthur Dimmesdale,returns incognito

and settles in the town under the name of RichardChillingworth.

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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is thedaughter of the initial Elisabeth Jane.

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James admiration for European culture led him to an interest in theconflict of the American and European personalities.

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In Pride and Prejudice,Mr Bennetalways asks his wife a series ofquestions because he teases his wife by deliberatelymisunderstanding her.

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Hardys descriptions of his native Wessex nature are achieved bothfrom a close proximity and from a cosmic distance.

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In Hawthornes vision, romance transforms the ordinary world into coldallegory and then back into the impression of life.

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The past tense in which events are narrated in fiction is transferredby the reader into:

dramatic showing (scene), dialogue.

summary.


The masculine pen-name of Marian Evans disguises the distanceseparating herself as

the moral, serious author, favourably reviewed and read, fromherself as an

adulteress and an agnostic.

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The theme of James The Portrait of a Lady is the dangerouslydeceptive

disregard of the correlation of ethics and aesthetics.

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What character is described in The Mill on the Floss as a "healthy, fair,plump, and dull-witted, the flower of her family for beauty and amiability"?

Philip's mother.

Maggie's mother.

Stephen's mother.

Lucy's mother.


The style of Tom Jones can be best described as:

comic and ironic.

awkward but quite moving.

grand and majestic in tone.


Charles Dickens pictures human nature from the outside, like a playwright,identifying the

psyche with looks, gesture, speech.

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Hawthornes ROMANCES differ from NOVELS in their preference for

allegory and psychological exploration.realistic social observation.

artificial constrains of commercial civilization.


In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie Tulliver is a girl who needs love from herfamily since she never deserved it.

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Fielding was a playwright before being a novelist, which explains hisdramatic vision of chapters as vivid, alert scenes, and of books asacts.

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In Pride and Prejudice, Darcys pride, in the beginning, has a socialcause: he behaves in this way towards Elisabeth because she is hisinferior socially.

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In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen analyses the outcome of the

Industrial Revolution: the economic, cultural and social rise of themiddle class.

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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, on remarrying Susan, MichaelHenchard chose to return to a woman

he had always loved.

he did not love anymore but felt compelled to marry out of




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guilt.

whose beauty he was very proud of although he despised herhumble origin.


Tesss fate is metaphorically dramatized when associated with:

doomed snakes, rats, pheasants.

the plight of sea faring people.

still-born babies.


The earth in Tess of the DUrbevilles (i.e. the green fertile vale ofBlackmoor, Talbothays dairy, the uplands of Flintcomb-Ash) is:

simply a natural setting for the characters to live in.

a dramatic factor of causation in characters lives.

a dramatic primitive antagonist of human consciousness,consequently transcending the natural into a mythic opponent tohuman protagonists.


In Tom Jones, one character in the list below is not the narratorscomic object:

Mr. Allworthy.

Lady Bellaston.

Thwackum.

Square.

Blifil.


Hardys descriptions of solitary spots or of expanses of nature are

often loaded with:

denotative significance only; he is the perfect realistic regionalnovelist.

symbolic, archetypal connotations, betraying a poetssensibility.


Dickens is a metaphysical novelist because his fiction fuses:

realism and myth.philosophical thought and realism.




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realism and romance.


When Hardy describesthe heath from close proximity he is a realist,when he does it from Olympian distances he is an impressionist and

a thoughtful skeptic.

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The cosmic dimension of his characters is the novelty Hardy brought to thecenturys fiction.

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Dickens did not modify the traditional picaresque.

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In Austens fictional world the protagonist lives only by the dictatesof her emotional

intelligence, leaping over the societys ethics.

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St. Ogg, the legendary patron of the town bearing his name in TheMill on the Floss, was a poor boater rewarded for his pity by the

Blessed Virgin herself.

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In The Mill on the Floss, after an expedition down the Floss withStephen he offers to marry her, and Maggie:

accepts and goes home immediately.

returns alone to St. Oggss.

asks her brother for permission.




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Tom Jones setting is fairly divided into:

country-side and London.

country-side and highways.

country-side, highways and London.


In The Mill on the Floss, Maggies wit, impetuosity, compassionatenature, intellectual and sensuous curiosity are associated with:

her cousin Lucys traits of character.

her brother Toms.

her fathers.

her mothers.


One character in the list below does not belong to the world ofJames The

Portrait of a Lady. Who is he?

Gaspar Goodwood

Gilbert Osmond

Lord Wellington

Ralph Touchett


In Pride and Prejudice, Mr Collins, proposing to Elizabeth, states acouple of reasons. Decide which reason of the followings is notmentioned by him.

to obey his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

because he loves her.

to make himself happy.


From Hardys point of view, the protagonist gives up struggling atthe first signs of disillusionment.

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In Fieldings novel Tom Jones, the theme of human nature asconflicting and harmoniously balanced moral consciousness andinstinctive feeling is embodied by:

Mr. Allworthy.

Blifil.

Tom Jones.

Squire Western.


A novelist is involved implicitly or explicitly in:

eluding the social, historical, cultural commentary of an age.

a social, historical, cultural commentary of both the fictionaltime and of his own time.


Picaresque is a terms used to describe:

Fielding's sense of irony.

particularly descriptive writing.

stories of travel, relating to the protagonist's adventures along the route of hisjourney.


The narrative point of view in David Copperfield and GreatExpectations is:

the omniscient.

the first person.the multiply-selective omniscient.


Hardys logical reasoning shows him that it is impossible toreconcile the

benevolence of an omnipotent and omniscient force with onesfreedom of choice.

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Henry Fielding describes Tom Jones as a comic epic in prose. It isindeed epic in short length and describes a small cross-section ofpeople in a comic way.

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In Great Expectations, who else apart from Pip was subjected toMrs. Joe Gargerys bringing up by hand?

her child

Estella

Joe

her sister


Match the following "point of view", regarding Isabel's identity, with the nameof the character who has uttered:Isabels changing every day Shes not the bright American girl she was.Shestaking different views, a different colour, and turning away from her oldidealsIve got a fear in my heart that shes going to marry one of theseEuropeans, and I want to prevent it. (The Portrait of a Lady)

Henrietta Stackpole

Pansy Osmond

Madame Merle

Ralph Touchett

Lord Warburton


In Pride and Prejudice, before Darcy admitted his fault ofsnobbery, he and Elisabeth

could not communicate as sensibilities on a par.

could communicate perfectly easily.

avoided any private intercourse.


Satis House, in Great Expectations, a haunting Gothic residence,symbolizes:

social and biological degeneration.

triumphant love outliving perishable youth and beauty.

magnificence of aristocratic wealth and prestige.




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With Hardy the tragic is necessarily related to: the excellence ofhuman nature, irrespective of the social extraction.

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Hardys characters are neither absolutely good nor absolutelywicked.

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Reduction and exaggeration are devices used by:

a caricaturist?

a sensational novelist?

a history-oriented novelist?


Dickens work exhibits a strong link between Romantic imaginationand .., which renders his fictional world as stylizedperception of the real world.

reality

fairy-tale fancy

pessimism


In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the pessimistic vision of MichaelHenchards fate is the grimmest at:

the beginning of the novel.

the end of the novels last chapter.

the plots climax.


Hardys descriptions of the heath are always achieved from closeproximity.

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Austens flat characters e.g.Mr. Woodhouse, Charlotte Lucas, Mrs

Bennet may be seen as reducible to dominant ideas such as: sense,pride, snobbery and prejudice but they are not simply:

flat.

round.


How many sections is Tom Jones divided into?

Five: Love, Travel, War, London, and Home

Four: Love, Travel, War, and Home.

Three: England, France, and Spain.

Three: The Country, The Road, and London.


In David Copperfield, David walked penniless to Dover to throwhimself on the mercy of his aunt, Betsy Trotwood after

he entered Doctors Commons, being articled to Mr. Spenlow,

of the firm of Spenlowand Jorkins.

he was sent to menial employment in London where he lived alife of poverty and

misery.

his mothers second husband, Mr Murdstone, punished himrepeatedly.


In The Mill on the Floss the conflict is generated by:

the protagonists irreparably damaging her relationship with thecommunity by a moments free choice.

the community living by amoral codes.

the community, as repository of long shared moral values.


In the novel David Copperfield, the characterAgnes Wickfieldis apretty empty-headed girl; Davids attempts to turn her into acompetent house-keeper and to form her mind are making them

both miserable.

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In The Mill on the Floss, as Maggie drifts down the river with

, she repudiates her own moral will.

Tom

Philip

Stephen


In The Scarlet Letter, Pearl, although only a small child,embarrasses Dimmesdale by

asking him if:

he will allow her to call him father.

he will love her mother as long as he lives.

he will stand on the pillory with her and her mother thefollowing day.


In The Mill on the Floss, the Tullivers are placed against theDodsons.

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Charles Dickens is preeminently a novelist of self-contained,provincial places.

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Match the following "point of view" about Isabel with the name of thecharacter who has uttered it:I like her very much. Shes all you described her She has only onefault. ()

She has too many ideas". (The Portrait of a Lady)

Lord Warburton

Gilbert Osmond

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Smolletts and Dickens delight in human eccentricity converged.

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In The Mill on the Floss, within a world controlled by financialsecurity or bankruptcy, the life of the Tullivers is a series of:

financial crises.

comfortable equilibriums between financial gains and lossesfrom investment.


In Great Expectations, when Pip becomes a gentleman he startsacting heartlessly and snobbishly towards Drummle, Herbert andOrlick.

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In his relation with Dora, David seems to be torn between wishinghis wife were

more mature and reproaching himself for wanting to change her.(David

Copperfield)

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In Pride and Prejudice, The Bennets have five daughters,Jane,Elisabeth, Mary, Miranda, Lydia and Mrs Bennets driving

ambition is to see all of them married.

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In The Scarlet Letter, Hesters husband reveals his true identity toher as he tries:

to shun some evil men who are searching for him.

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to find out who her lover is.


In the novel David Copperfield, the characterDora Spenlow is agirl of exceptionally sweet and high-minded disposition, who

exercises a powerful influence on the rest of Davids life.

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The time-settingof a romance is:

remote.

specifically historicized.


In The Mill on the Floss, by whisking her off the river, Stephen is deprivingMaggie of her right:

to sell Dorlcote Mill.

to see her brother.

to decide for her own future.

to talk to Philip.


The setting in Fieldings Tom Jones, is historically individualized.

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In Pride and Prejudice, Mr Bennet always asks his wife a series of

questions because he is genuinely interested in what his wife istalking about.

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Hawthornes pictorial analogies for his verbal art of theROMANCE can be

associated with the Romantics cult of the picturesque.

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Match the following "point of view" about Isabel with the name of thecharacter who has uttered it:Shes beautiful, generous and, for an American, well-born. Shes also very

cleverand she has a handsome fortune I want you of course to marry

her (ThePortrait of a Lady)

Henrietta Stackpole

Pansy Osmond

Madame Merle


The provincial society ofThe Mill on the Floss is located in:

the paternalistic, feudal relationships among the squire as thetop of the local hierarchy and tenant farmers, artisans, fieldlabourers.

the money governed social and economic (in)securitycontrolled by impersonal economic forces in late 1820s andearly 1830s.


Hawthorne considered himself a romantic realist, much likeDickens.

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In Austens fictional world the individual is made of the substanceof the social

environment exactly as in a romance.

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A third-person omniscient narrator tells the story in:

David Copperfield.


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Hawthorne modified the traditional romance into psychologicalromance.

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In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie loves to live in her world of imaginationsand illustrations, however, her brother, Tom, likes to socialize and shapes abig contrast with Maggie. Maggie's family loves Tom's way of living, hatesMaggie.

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The Mill on the Floss is George Eliots unsparing analysis ofphilistinism.

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In The Portrait of a Lady, initially, Isabel Archers quest is:

generous; a quest of self-forgetfulness and devotion to thewelfare of her family

selfish; a quest of self-fulfilment, personal happiness.


The sequence of events reconstructed from a fictional arrangementof episodes and happenings, is a:

story.

plot.


The message concluding The Scarlet Letter could be: to developones moral potential one must:

plunge into the depth of experiential knowledge in order toascend.

protect ones moral worth because it is irreparable


G. Eliot voiced her doctrine of realism in chapter 17ofThe Millon the Floss.




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David Copperfield is preeminently:

a picaresque novel?

a Bildungsroman?

a romance?

a utopia?


In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is

another girl than the one we encounter at the beginning of the book.

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The omniscient obtrusive narrator interrupts the narrative and usesit as a starting point for:

a new chapter of the book.

some comment or generalization he/she wishes to make.

a change in the plot.


In the world of David Copperfield the villain type is embodied by Traddlesand the Micawbers.

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The plots of Dickens novels are picaresque in design in the sensethat:

they are not episodically structured.

the writer struggled not to depart from the 18th century literarytradition.

he was trying to see the term picaresque from a newperspective.





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One of the following statements does not refer to Stonehenge, thesymbolic setting Hardy chose for Tesss last appearance before sheis hanged:

A very Temple of the Winds.

[The Temple] is older than the centuries; older than thedUrbervilles!

The heathen temple, you mean?

[The Temple] was without doors and the pillars lay under theroof.


In the novel Tom Jones, Blifil wants to marry Sophia because:

he wants the Western estate and revenge for her rejectionof him.

he ardently admires Squire Western.he's infatuated with her and driven by desire.

he is looking forward to having a lot of children.


Even if David is younger than Dora, he feels sympathy for hermuch in the same way as an adult feels sympathy for a child.(David Copperfield)

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In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen focuses on a type of marriagelike that of which fuses the individuals sentiment withthe individuals welfare.

Jane and Mr Bingley

Charlotte and Mr Gardiner

Lydia and Mr Forster


TheRoman ruins about the town of Casterbridge couldmetaphorically suggest the heroism of famous Roman leaders of theEmpire.

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expose the Ridiculous arisen from:

Selfishness and Meanness.

Self-sufficiency and Foolishness.

Affectation, Vanity and Hypocrisy.


Overtly the Austen society keep up civilized conventions; covertlythey live on hunting for the appropriate man.

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In Hardys view, man is ultimately still an animal as may be readilyobservedwhen his passions are aroused.

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In Dickens fiction most characters are conceived:

allegorically, reduced to ideas, concepts of human nature.mimetically, in abundant varieties of human likeness.

both allegorically and mimetically.

neither allegorically nor mimetically.


Dickens plots, in the picaresque tradition, are loose and episodic,rather than compact and justified by character.

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In The Mill on the Floss, Philip Wakem makes Maggie feel she finally findsone person that knows inside of her and appreciate her quality.

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influences(e.g. ones environment) is strongly related to:

the belief in God that most characters share.

everyones ability to avoid all possible mistakes.

the development of ones character.


Tess pendulum-like swing between Alec and Angel is a swing between:

selfishness and altruism.

wealth and poverty.

flesh and spirit.

pride and modesty.


The picaresque plays an important role in George Eliots novels.

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Fielding responded to the challenge of the romance and of theclassic epic by:

a lyric introspection in the ambiguities of heroism.

a melodramatic assertion of the heros rights to greatness.

a comic redefinition of the epic protagonist and plot.


The illusion of the readers involvement in the fictions presentimmediacy is ensured by the:

omniscient point of view.lavish use of dialogue.


In the novel The Mill on the Floss, Tom Tulliver, a man from upper classadds color in Maggie's life and lets her experience the beauty of love.

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of the 19th century Puritan New England.

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Dickens romantic fancy coheres with fairy-tales imagination.

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In the novel David Copperfield, the character Clara Copperfieldisa girl of exceptionally sweet and high-minded disposition, whoexercises a powerful influence on the rest of Davids life.

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The Russian formalists concept ofplotis:

the sequence of events assumed to have occurred in achronological order.

the particular selection and chronological or not chronological(re)ordering of fictional events.


There are Dickensian flat characters, e.g. The Gargeries, Wemmick,Betsey Trotwood or Pegotty, who:

are strictly shallow.

are not shallow, they vibrate with liveliness.


In The Mill on the Floss, the almost anthropologic analysis of theDodsons, portraits and routines, is achieved in the playfullyhumorous tone, never in the satiric.

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In Joseph Andrews, Fielding burlesqued his own novel, Amelia.

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In the novel Great Expectations, Miss Havisham is a comicportrait of a jilted woman.

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In The Mill on the Floss, seeking an intellectual as her equal,Maggie forms a close

attachment to Stephen Guest, the crippled son of a local lawyer.

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Hawthornes New Englandis rendered for:

historical veracity of the facts.

historical setting.

romantic distance and picturesque effects.


Self-conscious narrators i.e. aware of themselves as tellers, narrate thestory in:

Pride and Prejudice.


The Mill on the Floss.


George Eliots The Mill on the Floss is temporally located in:

a short span of time.

an average span of time.

a great span of time.


Is one of Hardys recurrent terms forfate:

The Immanent Will?

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Young Maggie Tullivers favourite books, Daniel Defoe's History of theDevil, Esop's Fables, or Pilgrim's Progress, as were illustrated; she likedthem because:

of the colorful images; she particularly liked the green and yellow pictures.

she could imagine stories of her own to accompany the pictures.


In Pride and Prejudice, almost every character exhibits too muchpride or too little

pride. Decide what kind of prideMr Collinsexhibits

he has pride of the right sort. He is proud to help the person heloves and her socially

embarrassing family.

he has no special pride, and so, though a nice man, spinelesslylets himself be

managed by others.

he glories in what are mere reflections from the rank of histitled patroness and from

his status.


In his preface "The Custom House" of the novel The Scarlet Letter,Nathaniel Hawthorne talking about ROMANCE says "If a man ... cannotdream strange things and make them look like truth, he need never try to

write romance, meaning that

ROMANCE allows the romancer to release his private fantasies.

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In Tom Jones, one of Toms teachers isMr Thwackum,

a brutish and sadistic church chaplain.a nice and friendly professor.

a good friend of Tom and Blifil.


To Maggie Tulliver, in The Mill on the Floss, the past is aninherent part of the

character; loyalty to it, as to oneself, is a must.

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In the acquisitive society and culture of James fiction moneysymbolizes:

control of action.

obstruction of action.freedom of action.


Master Blifil (Tom Jones) is

a neighbouring irascible fox-hunting squire.

Mr. Allworthys nephew.

a pedantic philosopher and tutor.


Mr. Allworthy (Tom Jones) is

a rich and benevolent lawyer.

an amiable schoolmaster.

a country squire.


What point of view does Hardy use in Tess of the DUrbervilles?

Omniscient.

Selective omniscient.

Subjective.


The Reform Bill of 1884

enfranchised all male voters.

gave rights to women voters.

enfranchised the working classes of towns.


In Fieldings Tom Jones, who is Sophia supposed to marryaccording to her fathers will?

captain Blifils son

Tom

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Who visited Crusoe on the island?

the cannibals

the wise horses

the giants

the dwarves

a group of castaways


What is the name that Tristrams parents intended for him?

Heracles

John

Trismegistus

Winston

Charles


Which author(s) anticipates the postmodern techniques?

Hardy

Defoe

Sterne

Fielding


Fieldings use of names in Tom Jones(Allworthy, Sophia, Tom Jones,Lady Bellaston) is

idiosyncratic, accidental.

allegorical.

satirical, ironical, humorous.


Why is it said that Gulliver is apersona?

Because of the personal tone of this fictional autobiography,in fact a first person narrative;

He does not have the consistency and solidity of a character,lacks a coherent psychology, there is no element of growth.

Because in him Swift realizes his personal satire of thepolitical conflicts that were dividing England at the time.

Because in creating Gulliver, the author is following the innerdevelopment of an individual as a result of the multipleadventures and experiences he has.




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George Eliot used suggestive names in her novels, such as: Uriah Heep,Mr. Bounderby, Mr. Veneering, Mr. Murdstone, Pecksniff.

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Which of the following authors rejects the mimetic principle in theconstruction of his narrative, and sets out to challenge theconvention of the novel:

Laurence Sterne

Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Swift

Samuel Richardson


The Mill on the Floss is set in

a provincial town.

the countryside.

Floss.


Miss Havisham (Dickenss Great Expectations) is generally taken as

a Gothic, Romantic character.

a Realistic description of British aristocracy.


Which of the following novels represent a modern version of an initiationjourney at the end of which the hero finds maturity and respectability?

Gullivers Travels

Robinson Crusoe

Tristram Shandy


The Victorian period proved to be one of

generalised literacy and industrial development.

cultural recession.





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Henry Fielding compares literature to

conversational commentaries.

a feast meant to entertain the readers/guests.


Which of the following are NOT novels in a strict sense:

George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss

Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels

Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe

Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy.


Dickenss panorama of characters/plots/scenes is

merely social.

universally human, having in view the whole set of humanity.


Melville uses Queequegs image in order to

assert the value of pagan morality

warn the readers about the dangers of primitiveness


In Chapter XIwe are told that, after 15 years of solitude on the island,Robinson finds a footprint on the sand. He is terrified by the sight and thinksthat:

there are cannibals on the island.

the devil left it there to scare him.

it was his own footprint.

it was Fridays footprint.


The Hardyesque character is rendered through a conflict betweeninstinct and reason in a fictional world which abounds in signs ofill-omen, accidents, unhappy coincidences, magic beliefs, ancientrituals.

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Which of the following statements is true?

The literature of the 18th century is generally written in thefirst person; it has a very pronounced introspective andsubjective character, there is direct interaction between authorsand their readers.

The literature of the 18th century is predominantly written inthe third person, and uses the omniscient narrator. It has apronounced objective character, an impersonal touch. Theauthor hides behind his text, and there is no direct interactionbetween author and reader.

The literature of the 18th century is written both in the thirdand in the first person, and focuses on the exploration of theinner workings of the human mind. It uses the stream ofconsciousness technique and the free indirect speech, and triesto explain human psychology from within.


Which of the following statements is true of Laurence Sternes TristramShandy ?

It is a Bildungsroman.

In it Sterne constructs a critique of the patriarchal 18th century society.

In his construction of the plot, Sterne manipulates time, playing with order,duration and frequency.

In his development of his characters, Sterne uses pre-Freudian techniques.


What is an epistolary novel?

A novel that follows the development of an individual from youth to maturity,and his/her growth as a human being through adventures and misfortune.

A novel which is written as a series of documents, usually letters, although itcan also consist of diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents.

A novel which is constructed as a fictional voyage, and is provided withdetailed descriptions of the heros life and background, in order to create theillusion of reality.


Whose Victorian novelists motto is that of writing as a witness in a box onoath?

Charles Dickens

George Eliot

Henry Fielding

Jane Austen


Moby Dick is generally viewed as

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an epic romance in a tragic mode.

a melodramatic travelogue.


George Eliot offers a discussion of the Poetics of Realismin a preface toChapter XVII of

Silas Marner.

Adam Bede.

Middlemarch.


Confronted with many ill-omen portents and apprehensions, Ahab

chooses to

accept their message and avoid the whale

deliberately disregard them and proceed on his voyage


In Tess of the DUrbervilles, Talbothays Farm is

a drab and desolate place, with exhausted natural resources.

a warm, fertile, rich place.


In Moby Dick, Melvilles character Ishmael is

a New Zealand harpooner.

the captain of the whaler.

a mysterious Parsee.

the New England narrator.


What does Fielding consider his Tom Jonesto be as a literary genre?

A.dramatic writingB.sublime writingC.prosaic writingD.comic writingE.epic writingF.romantic poemG.historical poemH.prosaic poemI.tragic poemJ.heroic poem

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A+B+C+J

F+H+I


Why is RobinsonCrusoe considered to be an odyssey of a

middle class individual, and by extension, a founding myth ofbourgeois society?

Because of the powerful impact it exerted on the readingpublic at the time of its publication.

Because it is a story of a process of colonization similar to thecolonization of the world by the British Empire.

Because it offers the reader a small version of the largerprocesses that were reshaping the face of the world

everywhere in the 18th century.

Because it was an accurate satirical representation of thepolitical conflicts that were dividing British society at thetime.


Thomas Hardys fiction

rejected the link to the past, either the immemorial or local one.

sided with tradition, nostalgically recreating a rural landscape.


Which of these novels is considered to be a picaresque one?

Henry Jamess The Portrait of a Lady

George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss

Henry Fieldings Tom Jones


Ch.Dickenss precursors were

Jane Austen, Henry Fielding, Daniel Defoe.

foreign (Russian and French) novelists.


In Tristram Shandy, Sterne uses a series of unconventional techniques.Thus, a cross appears on the page when Dr. Slop crosses himself, a blackpage is supposed to signify the mourning caused by the death of Yorick,blank pages appear to represent pages torn out while an empty page isoffered to the reader who is asked to write his own description of WidowWadmans beauty. What is the purpose of these technical devices in

Sternes construction of the narrative?

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To use an omniscient narrator.

To involve the reader in the process of creation of the text.

To create the illusion of reality.


Why does Robinson leave home ?

Because he wants to discover America.

Because his family had arranged a marriage for him withClarissa

Because his father had destined him to a profession he didntlike

By accident

Because of the rivalry between him and his older brother.


Tom Jones is described by its author as

an idle, medieval romance.

dynamic, realistic, comic, epic, heroic, prosaic.

a poem in prose.


In Gulliver's Travels, what is the relationship between the physical and themoral characteristics of the inhabitants of Lilliput and of Brobdingnag?

It is symbolic; their size is symbolic of their morality and generosity. Thecharacters are literally and spiritually big/small.

It is aesthetic; the physical monstrosity/delicacy of the characters correspondsto their morality and generosity.

There is no relation between the two sets of attributes.


David Copperfieldis mainly written in :

the 3rd person point of view.

the 1st person point of view.

the neutral omniscient perspective.


The Victorian economic ideology was based on the following doctrine:

utilitarianism.

consumerism.

socialism.




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Roger Chillingworth is in Hawthornes romance, The Scarlet Letter,

an Indian doctor.

a clergyman.

Hesters husband.Pearl's father.


Coincidence and accidental occurrence are beside the point in:

George Eliots fiction.

Thomas Hardys fiction.


How did the rise of the middle class influence the emergence of thenovel as a literary genre?

Through the establishment of new universities and colleges,that provided their students with a classic education, largelydestined for the aristocracy.

The reading public grew, through the large numbers ofpeople in the trading middle class who were literate and towhom literature offered entertainment.

The authors were able to secure safe wages, which made it that

they no longer needed wealthy patrons.

The political climate changed as well, and the stateencouraged the emergence of a new literary genre that wouldeducate the rising middle class.


Thomas Hardy was

a poet.

a novelist.

a poet and novelist.


Dickenss characters are generally described as

round, complex ones

flatly-drawn, symbolic


In HardysMayor of Casterbridge as well as inThe Return of the Native,Egdon Heath is described in




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a conventionally realistic manner.

a mythopoetic, symbolic, mythological one.


In which of the following novels, does the main narrative line respect the

chronological order of events, in other words, in which novel does theassumed sequence of events in the story correspond to their actual order ofpresentation in the book?

Tristram Shandy

Robinson Crusoe

Gullivers Travels


According to Hawthornes philosophical tenets, the Unpardonable Sinner isan individual who tries to separate his intellect from the heart, in a lack ofreverence for the human soul, looking on mankind as the subject of hisexperiment. What character can be considered as such:

Arthur Dimmesdale

Roger Chillingworth

Robert Hollingworth.


Whose daughter is Sophia in Fieldings Tom Jones?

George Seagrim

Captain Blifil

Squire Western

the philosopher Square


The historical period to which Hawthorne often resorted in his fictionwas:

the medieval legendary age.his contemporary society.

the colonial, Calvinist past.


Thomas Hardys plots are considered to be

realistic.

improbable, melodramatic.

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Gentleman contains

a discourse on the history of noses.

a dialogue on morality.

a description of Tristrams travels to France.


Initially, the Pequodsails on her fateful voyage in order to

find a particular whale whose jaws destroyed the captainsleg

hunt whales for their oil


Nineteenth century American fiction has a kinship with

symbolism (traditional allegory included).

the novel of manners (Jane Austen, J. Fielding, W. Thackeray).


In George Eliots fiction, the high-mimetic hero/ine (in Northrop Fryes terms)is trapped by deterministic relationships to which s/he participates andwhich s/he cannot elude.

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The typical Victorian novelist is

isolated from his reading public.

reader-oriented.

uncompromising as to his writing manner.


The novelist considered as an inexhaustible inventor of comic plots andstereotypes is

Thomas Hardy

Charles Dickens

George Eliot


Hawthorne projects Pearl in his romance, The Scarlet Letter, as

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a vivid representation, an embodiment of the allegorical letter.

Roger Chillingworth's daughter.


Charles Dickenss manner of characterization is achieved through

burlesque associations.

picaresque tradition techniques.

hyperboly, stereotypes.

none of these variants.

all variants


Ahab can be viewed as a

truly Promethean figure

an enraged, relentless, defying, foolhardy seafarer

a sensible, efficient, dutiful officer


Which writer was influenced by Fuerbachs Essence of Christianity,Comtes sociological theories, Spencers evolutionarys philosophy, H. G.Lewess literary views?

Charles Dickens

George Eliot

Jane Austen

Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardys pessimistic novels were influenced by Darwin, Huxley,Spencer, Mill, Schopenhauer.

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Why is Gullivers Travels still a universal satire, enjoyed today asmuch as it was enjoyed 200 years ago?

Because it deals with the universal problem of growing up inthe world, and of finding ones place as an adult individual inan oppressive society.

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imperfections create.

Because it represents an extended metaphor of colonialism,and offers the reader a small version of the larger processesthat were reshaping the face of the world at the time.


What animals did Crusoe domesticate?

Goats

hares

Fowles

Kine


Which novelist changes the linearity of the narrative onpurpose?

Fielding

Swift

Sterne


The white whale suggests the following attributes

destructive, annihilating power, evil.beneficient to man.

divinity of nature.

expansiveness, indefiniteness.

a paradoxical image, generating multiple associations


. From a technical point of view, which is the difference betweenthe concepts ofstory and ofplot?

The story is the sum of all the events that the author presentsin his novel, while theplotrefers to those parts of the storythat involve the main character directly.

Story is the chronologically-ordered representation of all theinformation concerning characters, events and settings. It is anabstract version of events, while theplotis the structuredmatter of the novel.

There is no important distinction betweenplotand story, asboth refer to the elements that form the narrative, the materialthat constitutes the novel.

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Which of the following novels are Bildungsromans?

Daniel DefoesRobinson Crusoe

Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy

Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels


In Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles, Tess murders

Alec d'Urberville.

Angel Clare.

both of them.


Fictional heroes are built on the pattern of classical (Greek) models by

Charles Dickens.

Thomas Hardy.

George Eliot.


In his critical prefaces, Hawthorne acknowledges to be writing fiction as:

an objective, faithful representation of reality.truth under circumstances, truth of the human heart, thus claiming a licencefrom everyday probability.


Charles Dickens transforms literary conventions using symbolicconnotations as well as dramatic, often comic associations.

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The Victorian age (overlapping with the reign of Queen Victoria)stretches between:

1871-1904

1837-1901

1834-1920


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science.

military sieges.

art.

gardens.


The eighteenth century is also named the Augustan Age. Whichare the aesthetic ideals that best characterize this period?

wealth of detail, baroque extravagance, dissonance,asymmetry, instinctuality.

clarity, precision, order, harmony, universality, reason,propriety and harmony.

light and dark contrast, synchretism, opposition of contraries,emphasis on the description of the specific.

a strong religious spirit, religious themes, emphasis onmorality and virtue from the perspective of the Christiandoctrine.


In Moby Dick, Queequeg is

a fortune-teller

a Polynesian harpooner

an African captain


The doctrine of the transcendental movement in American literarure(founders: Emerson, Thoreau, G. Ripley, M. Fuller) was influenced by

English romanticism and German idealism.

Victorian realism.


In Fielding's Tom Jones, where does Sophia run away and why?A.LondonB.EdinburghC.BristolD.ExeterE.she needs a change of perspectiveF.she is disgusted with her lifeG.she is disgusted by the courtship conducted by the son of Captain BlifilH.she starts on a quest for the son of Captain Blifil, whom she fell in lovewith

B+D+E+G

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Which of the following European authors are considered to have

influenced the development of the English novel in the 18th

century?

Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, Marcel Proust.

Cervantes, Rabelais

Homer, Virgil

Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf.

Th. Hardy, Dickens, Thackeray.


The human characters run into the category of sacrificial animals in

George Eliots fiction.

Charles Dickenss novels.

Thomas Hardys vision.


N. Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter was meant as

a Puritan indictment of sin.

a moral, allegorical probing into the nature of evil and guilt.


In the second chapter of Robinson Crusoes adventures, we are toldhe was sold as slave. When does this happen?

When he is leaving London, heading for his island whereFriday will be expecting him.

When he is the captain of a ship heading for Guinea, and they

are captured by the pirates and sold to the Moors.When he is captain of a ship trading silk in China, and due to aviolent storm, is shipwrecked on the African coast.

When he is shipwrecked in the land of Laputa, and is taken tothe court of the king and made slave.


Which of the following statements about Laurence Sternes novel TristramShandyis true?

It is a novel written in the third person, having an impersonal and omniscient

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importance to how it is told.

It is a Bildungsroman, because it follows the story of the development ofTristram as an individual, through the multiple adventures he has, whichshape his personality and ultimately help him find his place in society.

It explores the dramatic situation of women in the eighteenth century, andcomments on the double pressure exerted upon them by an oppressivepatriarchal society.


In The Scarlet Letter, at firstthe letter "A" refers to

Arthur Dimmesdale.

America.

Adultery.

Ambition.


Moby Dick should be critically interpreted as

an encyclopedia of whaling.

an exploratory voyage that raises ontological and epistemological questions.


Once arrived in the land of the Houyhnhnms, who does Gulliver feel he canidentify with:

the Yahoos.

the Houyhnhnms.

both.

neither.


Mary-Ann Evans is

the main character in George Eliots Adam Bede.

Charlotte Bronts real name.

neither of them.


Which of the following statements is true?

The Bildungsroman is a literary genre that started in Germany,and is equivalent to a fictional autobiography. One example is

Robinson Crusoe.

Bildungsroman is a literary genre that started in Germany, and

is in fact an adventure novel, a travel narrative. One exampleis Gullivers Travels

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ultimately is an extended meditation on story-telling, havingas central premise the idea that what the story is about is ofsecondary importance to how it is told. One example isTristram Shandy

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What does Sophia discern, when very young, about Tom Jones?

A.that he was a thoughtless rascalB.that he was a careful personC.that he was idleD.that he was virtuousE.that he was his own enemyF.that he was everybodys enemyG.that he was everybodys friend

B+D+E+GA+C+E+G

D+F+G


There are descriptions of ancient monuments and customs (themummersplay, the bonfires) in

Charles Dickenss novels.

Thomas Hardys novels.

George Eliots novels.


What was the consequence of Sophias having discerned, when very young,the nature of Tom Jones?

she honoured him

she disregarded him

she despised him

she loathed himshe tolerated him


By means of the narrative ofMoby Dick, H.Melville

praises the daredevilry of the American frontier man

meditates on the perils of Emersonian self-reliance, on humanerror and doom


What is Fieldings Tom Jones fundamentally about?




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Human Vice

Human Virtue

Human Nature


His work comments on the political realities of the day, and offersmany-layered readings. Under the disguise of authentic travelnarratives his book offers a subtle critique of British politics, whileat the same time being enjoyed by children, as well as bysophisticated readers. Which of the following authors fits thisdescription?

Laurence Sterne

Jonathan Swift

Daniel Defoe


George Eliot used in her novels

positivist, determinist, ethical concepts.

sensational plots.


Whose writers vision was shaped by skepticism and cynicism?

George Eliot

Thomas Hardy

Henry Fielding


Why is Laurance Sterne considered to be the precursor of the modernistnovel?

Because of his interest in the drama of women in the 18

th

century.Because of his attention to subjectivism, psychological time, and of histemporal manipulations of the plot.

Because of his use of the persona.

Because of his criticism of colonialism, economic exploitation and racialdiscrimination.


Unlike George Eliot, who avoided the extremes of social behaviour, Hardywas concerned with the radical, the rebel.

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The 18th century novel was best suited for the tastes of

the aristocratic audience.

middle-class, bourgeois readers.


The main purpose of Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandyis:

to follow the adventures of Tristram

to illustrate the way a narrative is built

to comment on social inequalities

to create a paradigm of colonialism


In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Dr. Slop is

the local parson.

an incompetent physician.

a relative of the Shandys.


Victorian monthly publications included

only scientifical and general issues.

essays, poetry, fiction as well.


Themetatextis an authors critical commentary on the novel itself.Metatexts/digressions in Fieldings Tom Jones are

central to the text but randomly distributed.

ordered as formal boundaries to the chapters.


In Part IV of Gullivers Travels, Gulliver encounters the Houyhnhnms, whoare intelligent horses, embodiment of a cold humanity, ruled by reason only.What is the downside to the society they created?

It is chaotic, ruled by instinct, almost animal-like.

Because of the abstract preoccupations of its inhabitants, who were interestedin science only, the inhabitants of the land of the Houyhnhnms have lost touchwith reality altogether.

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What kind of philosopher was Mr Toby Shandy?

Deistic philosopher.

Natural philosopher.

Stoic philosopher.

Transcendental philosopher.


This novel is considered to be not only a classic travel and adventure story,but also the prototype of the novel, because of its focus on the daily,external and internal activities of ordinary people, but primarily because ofits exploration of both the internal and of the external aspects of his hero,whose personal development occupies a central part in the story. Which ofthe following books fits this description?

Gullivers Travels

Robinson CrusoeThe Mayor of Casterbridge


Read the following fragment from Robinson Crusoe, and choose among thestatements below the one that best describes it.After he had slumbered, rather than slept, about half-an-hour, he awokeagain, and came out of the cave to me: for I had been milking my goatswhich I had in the enclosure just by: when he espied me he came running tome, laying himself down again upon the ground, with all the possible signsof an humble, thankful disposition, making a great many antic gestures toshow it. At last he lays his head flat upon the ground, close to my foot, andsets my other foot upon his head, as he had done before; and after thismade all the signs to me of subjection, servitude, and submissionimaginable, to let me know how he would serve me so long as he lived. Iunderstood him in many things, and let him know I was very well pleasedwith him. In a little time I began to speak to him; and teach him to speak tome: and first, I let him know his name should be Friday, which was the day Isaved his life: I called him so for the memory of the time. I likewise taughthim to say Master; and then let him know that was to be my name: I likewisetaught him to say Yes and No and to know the meaning of them.

The fragment describes the way in which Robinson sets out to civilize theisland, by recreating on it the comfort and the type of relationships he wasaccustomed to.

The fragment describes the moment when he saves Friday from death at thehands of the band of cannibals.

The fragment describes a crucial moment that establishes the nature of therelationship between Friday and Robinson that of master and slave.

The fragment deals with Robinsons inner tensions between his religiousbeliefs and the difficult situation he finds himself in, further complicated by thepresence of Friday.


In most of Hardys novels,

Fate plays a minor part.

there are a great number of comic tinges.

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Marriage is described in many of Hardys novels, such as Tess of thedUrbervillesor Jude the Obscureas a trapwhich crashes natural instinctagainst social necessity.

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The omniscient author

reduces the elements of the plot to the minimum.

involves the reader in the imaginative re-creation of the text.

knows everything about the characters, is always in possession of truth.


In the second scaffold scene (The Scarlet Letter),

the minister mounts at night the steps of the platform, joined by Hester andPearl.

shows his community a psychosomatic mark on his breast shaped like theletter "A".


The Pequod sails from the centre of American whaling activity,which is

Nantucket

New York


Gullivers Travels exploited the popular form of travel literature,parodied and adapted it to his own satiric and moral needs. Thebook starts like a real life travel journal, with detailed descriptionsof Gullivers life and background. What is the purpose of thispresentation ?

To realize a faithful copy of real events, in consonance with

the realist ideals of 18th century prose, whose aim was tomirror contemporary society in all its aspects.

To create a fictional world that seems real, in order to disruptthis illusion of reality by the later developments, that tell thereader that they are dealing not with a novel but with afantasy.

To anticipate the later developments of the story, which arealso realistic accounts of Gullivers adventures on the sea inLiliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the

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In Fieldings Tom Jones, what does Sophia discern, when veryyoung, about Master Blifil

A.that he was thoughtlessB.that he was prudent

C.that he was idleD.that he was soberE.that he was interested only in himselfF.that he was everybodys friendG.that he was interested in everybodys well-being

B+D+E

A+C+D+E

A+E+G


For its captain, the purpose of the voyage is

to kill the Leviathan-like whale

to find out the ultimate mystery of the universe

both variants


Robinson Crusoe can be interpreted as the fruit of a synthesis of

two existing traditions: the picaresque novel, and the personaljournal or the memoir. Why is that?

Because of its emphasis on the development of the individual.

Because it is written in the first person.

Because it is a story of a process of colonization similar to thecolonization of the world by the British Empire.

Because it comments on the political realities of the period.


Which novel has a symmetrical structure based on polarities (positiveversus negative characters)?

Fieldings Tom Jones

Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles

George Eliot s The Mill on the Floss


According to Fieldings opinion in Tom Jones, the novel should be written

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in a balanced, rational, useful, democratic manner.


George Eliots character Maggie Tulliver (in The Mill on the Floss) is finallydefined by:

her egotistic purposes.

self-resignation, ethical responsibility.

her extraordinary beauty.


In Th. Hardys novels, the settingis

Essex.

Sussex.

Wessex.


Victorian literature is considered to be

documentary.

self-reflexive.

morally reformative.

none.

all variants.


Which of the following statements about Daniel DefoesRobinsonCrusoe is true?

It can be read as a metaphor of colonialism, because therelationship between Robinson and Friday is the archetype ofcolonial relations.

Robinson lacks the psychological elements that would makehim a full-fledged character; he is therefore a persona.

Defoes novel is a complex and multilayered satire directedagainst the social, religious and political conflicts that weredividing British society at the time.

InRobinson Crusoe , Defoe constructs a meta-novel, becausein it he experiments with the mechanisms of novel-writing,thus revolutionizing the genre


Dickenss fictional world was characterized by Northrop Frye asfairy-tale in :




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the high-mimetic mode

the low-mimetic mode


What do the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms stand for?

They represent extremes of theoretical and s

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