English Literature MCQs

Option A: “Pale Fire”

Option B: “A Passage to India”

Option C: “Daniel Deronda”

Option D: “On the Road”

Correct Answer: “A Passage to India” ✔

Option A: Incest

Option B: Trauma

Option C: Taboo

Option D: Love

Correct Answer: Trauma ✔

Option A: “The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever”

Option B: A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user

Option C: “A confession and a complaint”

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The “Bloomsbury Group” consists of a group of English writers, thinkers, and artists who met in the Bloomsbury district of London.

Option B: The group consisted of survivors of World War II.

Option C: The Bloomsbury group included E.M. Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf.

Option D: A and C only

Correct Answer: A and C only ✔

Option A: “We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.”

Option B: “The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.”

Option C: “We want to sing the man who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.”

Option D: “We want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.”

Correct Answer: “We want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.” ✔

Option A: Stream of consciousness often relies upon “free association” of ideas.

Option B: Stream of consciousness is the capturing of the interior monologue of the narrator.

Option C: Stream of consciousness attempts to accurately capture the external dialogue of various characters in a realistic setting by an objective observer.

Option D: A and B only

Correct Answer: A and B only ✔

Option A: Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet

Option B: T.S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis

Option C: Claude Monet and édouard Manet

Option D: George Braque and Pablo Picasso

Correct Answer: George Braque and Pablo Picasso ✔

Option A: Linda Hutcheon

Option B: Homi Bhabha

Option C: Jacques Derrida

Option D: Fredric Jameson

Correct Answer: Homi Bhabha ✔

Option A: Genteel

Option B: Symbolist

Option C: Impressionist

Option D: Decadent

Correct Answer: Impressionist ✔

Option A: Dadaist period

Option B: Blue period

Option C: Synthetic cubism

Option D: Rose period

Correct Answer: Dadaist period ✔

Option A: Conservative modernism came to look to the past for inspiration and hope, while progressive modernism looked to the future.

Option B: Conservative modernism supported the status quo, while progressive modernism was deeply engaged in political and social amelioration.

Option C: Conservative modernism celebrated aesthetic formalism, while progressive modernism celebrated innovation and attacked aesthetic formalism.

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A radical project of experimentation with literary and artistic form

Option B: A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth

Option C: The use of irony and parody

Option D: Both A and B

Correct Answer: A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth ✔

Option A: Beckett’s work expresses a certain frustration with the inability of language to fully capture the human condition.

Option B: Beckett’s play explores how language helps to form one’s notion of self.

Option C: Beckett’s work captures an almost transcendent melancholy as it explores human

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: It begins with the famous line: “Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…”?

Option B: It is a semi-autobiographical account of Joyce’s “coming of age” as an artist.

Option C: It captures the conflict that Stephen Dedalus has with his Irish and Catholic heritage.

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: “Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family”

Option B: “A protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action”

Option C: “Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity”

Option D: “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

Correct Answer: “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” ✔

Option A: “The Sun Also Rises”

Option B: “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”

Option C: “The Cantos”

Option D: “To the Lighthouse”

Correct Answer: “The Cantos” ✔

Option A: A poetic movement which hoped to offer clear expression of ideas and feelings through the use of specific visual images

Option B: An attempt to use the “exact word” instead of flowery, excessive descriptive language in poetry

Option C: A and B only

Option D: B and C only

Correct Answer: A and B only ✔

Option A: It is a dramatic monologue.

Option B: Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a natural setting as an occasion for philosophical reflection.

Option C: It has a melancholic tone.

Option D: It envisions Christianity as eternal.

Correct Answer: It envisions Christianity as eternal. ✔

Option A: Their conservative poetics

Option B: Their frank depiction of sexuality

Option C: Their radical politics

Option D: Their nationalistic tone

Correct Answer: Their frank depiction of sexuality ✔

Option A: his use of the heroic couplet.

Option B: an Enlightenment focus on useful knowledge.

Option C: a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and knowing limitations.

Option D: a radical questioning of revealed religion

Correct Answer: a radical questioning of revealed religion ✔

Option A: Women should wear more makeup in order to attract husbands.

Option B: Women should make sure to receive an education in order to secure their own futures.

Option C: Women should take pains to remain generous, modest, and capable.

Option D: Women should be given the right to vote immediately.

Correct Answer: Women should take pains to remain generous, modest, and capable. ✔

Option A: More magazines on the market

Option B: The rise in serialized fiction

Option C: Lower prices for magazines

Option D: The passage of the Reform Bills

Correct Answer: The passage of the Reform Bills ✔

Option A: Checks and balances

Option B: Social contract

Option C: Enlightened monarchy

Option D: Socialism

Correct Answer: Socialism ✔

Option A: The poet’s changing relationship to nature as fount of meaning and significance

Option B: The falsity of human art as opposed to the immediate truth of nature

Option C: The failure of the poet when a youth to imagine his future

Option D: The utter rejection of youthful folly in favor of mature rationality

Correct Answer: The poet’s changing relationship to nature as fount of meaning and significance ✔

Option A: Darwin’s work echoed Victorian thought with its emphasis on struggle while disrupting Victorian faith by decentering humans.

Option B: Darwin’s work was almost universally accepted from its first appearance.

Option C: Darwin’s work had little initial influence on Victorian society and culture.

Option D: Almost all religious authorities rejected Darwin’s work completely.

Correct Answer: Darwin’s work echoed Victorian thought with its emphasis on struggle while disrupting Victorian faith by decentering humans. ✔

Option A: Ideas about chastity

Option B: The institution of marriage

Option C: The aristocracy

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: The common man

Option B: The promises of technology

Option C: The outcast figure

Option D: The movement of time

Correct Answer: The promises of technology ✔

Option A: An identical rhyme structure

Option B: The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages

Option C: The sense of hope that death will come soon

Option D: A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life

Correct Answer: A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life ✔

Option A: rejection of Renaissance optimism.

Option B: rejection of traditional models.

Option C: emphasis on order, logic, and universal truths.

Option D: emphasis on the corrupt nature of the aristocracy.

Correct Answer: emphasis on order, logic, and universal truths. ✔

Option A: It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.

Option B: It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.

Option C: It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.

Option D: It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

Correct Answer: It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility. ✔

Option A: folklore.

Option B: nationalism.

Option C: parody.

Option D: exoticism

Correct Answer: parody. ✔

Option A: They enabled discussion about important literary texts.

Option B: They created a space for the exchange of pamphlets.

Option C: They offered people a private place in which they could plan political revolts.

Option D: Both A and B

Correct Answer: Both A and B ✔

Option A: Familiar essays

Option B: Comedies of manners

Option C: Romanticism

Option D: Medievalism

Correct Answer: Comedies of manners ✔

Option A: its mocking tone.

Option B: its absurd response to a real issue.

Option C: its sentimental plea to its audience.

Option D: its attempt to shock readers into acting.

Correct Answer: its sentimental plea to its audience. ✔

Option A: His Promethean striving to exceed human limitations as explored by Byron and Percy Shelley

Option B: Its suggestion that the natural order has laws beyond human control

Option C: His desire to create a political revolution

Option D: Both A and B

Correct Answer: Both A and B ✔

Option A: it thematizes the importance of choosing action over complacency.

Option B: it reflects a Victorian attitude of continuing to fight against loss of hope or faith.

Option C: it uses Greek mythology to comment on contemporary questions.

Option D: it emphasizes the internal life of the mind over social action.

Correct Answer: it emphasizes the internal life of the mind over social action. ✔

Option A: Ann Radcliffe

Option B: William Wordsworth

Option C: John Keats

Option D: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Correct Answer: William Wordsworth ✔

Option A: scientific emphasis on detailed observation.

Option B: the political focus on individuals and their rights.

Option C: philosophical theories of sympathy and human emotions.

Option D: the continuing importance of mythological stories.

Correct Answer: the continuing importance of mythological stories. ✔

Option A: devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.

Option B: emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration.

Option C: reliance on classical scholarship.

Option D: defense of violent emotions as natural.

Correct Answer: emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration. ✔

Option A: William Congreve

Option B: Ann Radcliffe

Option C: Matthew Lewis

Option D: Charles Dickens

Correct Answer: Charles Dickens ✔

Option A: Immanuel Kant

Option B: John Locke

Option C: David Hume

Option D: Denis Diderot

Correct Answer: Immanuel Kant ✔

Option A: Romanticism continued the Enlightenment’s focus on a universal order best apprehended through reason.

Option B: Romanticism challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on objectivity as the basis of truth.

Option C: Romanticism largely abandoned the

Option D: Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism deemed the natural world unimportant

Correct Answer: Romanticism challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on objectivity as the basis of truth. ✔

Option A: A return to neoclassical aesthetics

Option B: Disassociating painting and poetry

Option C: Lavish attention to the sensuous elements of life

Option D: Rejecting English poetic tradition

Correct Answer: Lavish attention to the sensuous elements of life ✔

Option A: The effect of the sublime on the physical body

Option B: The distinction between the sublime and beauty

Option C: An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting

Option D: The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure

Correct Answer: The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure ✔

Option A: Repeal of the corn laws

Option B: Opium Wars

Option C: Great Exhibition

Option D: French Revolution

Correct Answer: French Revolution ✔

Option A: It emphasizes emotion over reason.

Option B: It has a didactic moral focus.

Option C: There is a focus on a central love story.

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: England’s power to overcome the recent plague and the great fire of London

Option B: The monarch’s ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance

Option C: The church’s potential to unify the populace after the English revolution

Option D: Parliament’s ability to restrain the power of the King

Correct Answer: England’s power to overcome the recent plague and the great fire of London ✔

Option A: Its use of a medieval setting to reflect on rational progress

Option B: Its focus on having readers vicariously experience the dangers that a heroine faces

Option C: Its ambivalent treatment of its leading villain

Option D: Its use of the sublime

Correct Answer: Its focus on having readers vicariously experience the dangers that a heroine faces ✔

Option A: It has a speaker as well as an implied reader.

Option B: It includes elements of parody.

Option C: There is a “spontaneous overflow of emotion.”

Option D: It is written in common, ordinary language.

Correct Answer: It has a speaker as well as an implied reader. ✔

Option A: By dismissing all knowledge from outside Europe

Option B: By questioning the nature of scientific method

Option C: By rejecting the divine right of kings

Option D: By emphasizing the idea that gathering knowledge together can lead to human improvement

Correct Answer: By emphasizing the idea that gathering knowledge together can lead to human improvement ✔

Option A: Sonnet 43 is similar to most other sonnets in its focus on love.

Option B: Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”

Option C: Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like other sonnets.

Option D: Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the same way Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is a romantic poem.

Correct Answer: Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the same way Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is a romantic poem. ✔

Option A: Literature that relies on devices like irony, sarcasm, and humor

Option B: A work of literature that attempts to improve society

Option C: A text that exposes serious flaws under the veil of comedy

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: A period in the 18th century that celebrated industry

Option B: The revelation of religious truths through meditation

Option C: The power given to absolute monarchs by God

Option D: A period in which reason was celebrated as enabling human knowledge and possibly human perfection

Correct Answer: A period in which reason was celebrated as enabling human knowledge and possibly human perfection ✔

Option A: its references to Shakespeare.

Option B: its commitment to an elevated taste, its use of classical imagery, and its evocation of classic forms.

Option C: its scientific ethos and setting in London.

Option D: its refusal to mention Shadwell directly.

Correct Answer: its commitment to an elevated taste, its use of classical imagery, and its evocation of classic forms. ✔

Option A: They raised the question of whether women should be able to vote.

Option B: They allowed new colonization and imperialism efforts.

Option C: They established new standards for Victorian morality.

Option D: They allowed women to divorce their husbands.

Correct Answer: They raised the question of whether women should be able to vote. ✔

Option A: rejection of traditional form.

Option B: portrayal of the power of art to speak truth.

Option C: rejection of art’s political role.

Option D: attempt to link poetry with music.

Correct Answer: portrayal of the power of art to speak truth. ✔

Option A: A debate about whether women should be able to vote

Option B: A discussion of women’s roles inside and outside the home

Option C: A conversation about women’s work as a product of the Industrial Revolution

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: Competition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners.

Option B: Colonizers were no longer necessarily interested in reforming indigenous populations.

Option C: People found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority.

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: To help drive his ideas across the universe

Option B: To help him reach the afterlife

Option C: To help him hear nature’s music

Option D: To help him start a new revolutionary war

Correct Answer: To help drive his ideas across the universe ✔

Option A: social contract theory of government.

Option B: blank slate or tabula rasa.

Option C: divine authority of kings.

Option D: natural political rights.

Correct Answer: divine authority of kings. ✔

Option A: Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.

Option B: Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.

Option C: Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.

Option D: Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

Correct Answer: Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers. ✔

Option A: Congreve’s The Way of the World

Option B: Richardson’s Pamela

Option C: Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho

Option D: Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto

Correct Answer: Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto ✔

Option A: Alexander Pope

Option B: Percy Shelley

Option C: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Option D: Alfred Tennyson

Correct Answer: Alfred Tennyson ✔

Option A: Where Oroonoko foregrounds supernatural agents, Robinson Crusoe avoids religion completely.

Option B: Both are largely set in South America, reflecting the relationship between empire and the early English novel.

Option C: Oroonoko seems to defend the aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates the struggles of the middle class.

Option D: Both make claims to historical veracity.

Correct Answer: Where Oroonoko foregrounds supernatural agents, Robinson Crusoe avoids religion completely. ✔

Option A: The pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions

Option B: The burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands

Option C: The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations

Option D: The concept that all white men do not share the same imperial duties

Correct Answer: The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations ✔

Option A: The lyric poem is a popular form in the Romantic era.

Option B: The lyric poem has a song-like quality.

Option C: The lyric poem creates a personal sense of emotion.

Option D: The lyric poem focuses on action.

Correct Answer: The lyric poem focuses on action. ✔

Option A: reason can help man understand beauty.

Option B: civilization comes through beauty.

Option C: language shows humanity’s impulse towards order.

Option D: poetry has no effect on society.

Correct Answer: poetry has no effect on society. ✔

Option A: Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

Option B: Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”

Option C: Richardson’s Pamela

Option D: Lewis’s The Monk

Correct Answer: Richardson’s Pamela ✔

Option A: It functions as a metaphor for the women’s rights movement.

Option B: It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

Option C: It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

Option D: It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period.

Correct Answer: It foreshadows a negative shift in mood. ✔

Option A: traveled to America.

Option B: believed in God.

Option C: emphasized the importance of human emotions as guiding behavior.

Option D: rejected Newton’s view of the universe.

Correct Answer: emphasized the importance of human emotions as guiding behavior. ✔

Option A: Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre addresses the power of wealth and class.

Option B: Like “Dover Beach,” Jane Eyre mourns the diminishing power of Christian faith.

Option C: Through Rochester, Jane Eyre develops a Byronic hero.

Option D: Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre can be read as a bildungsroman.

Correct Answer: Like “Dover Beach,” Jane Eyre mourns the diminishing power of Christian faith. ✔

Option A: Walton, a failed poet who is attempting to discover the North Pole.

Option B: the creature, after he has killed Victor Frankenstein.

Option C: Victor Frankenstein’s diary.

Option D: Mrs. Saville, Frankenstein’s cousin.

Correct Answer: Walton, a failed poet who is attempting to discover the North Pole. ✔

Option A: like a romance, it focuses on an aristocratic character considered superior to average individuals.

Option B: like a novel, it tells its story with an emphasis on realistic detail and the everyday passage of time.

Option C: like an epic, it involves gods and goddesses.

Option D: like a novel, it makes claims to historical realism.

Correct Answer: like an epic, it involves gods and goddesses. ✔

Option A: revealing his interest in Chaucer.

Option B: enabling his 18th-century readers access to a world they would see as less rational.

Option C: promoting the rise of museums.

Option D: commenting on the French and Indian War.

Correct Answer: enabling his 18th-century readers access to a world they would see as less rational. ✔

Option A: Witty banter

Option B: Epic heroes

Option C: Sexual promiscuity

Option D: Hidden identities

Correct Answer: Witty banter ✔

Option A: Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven”

Option B: Pope’s Rape of the Lock

Option C: Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”

Option D: Benn’s Oroonoko

Correct Answer: Pope’s Rape of the Lock ✔

Option A: Like the novel, it focused on romantic relationships.

Option B: Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion.

Option C: Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings.

Option D: Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy.

Correct Answer: Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings. ✔

Option A: Samuel Richardson

Option B: Laurence Sterne

Option C: Daniel Defoe

Option D: Charles Dickens

Correct Answer: Charles Dickens ✔

Option A: Classification, order, and judgment

Option B: Romantic origins

Option C: Linguistic indeterminacy

Option D: Subjective experience

Correct Answer: Classification, order, and judgment ✔

Option A: The sublime

Option B: The explained supernatural

Option C: Its medieval settings

Option D: Its use of mysterious events to spur readers’ interests and emotional responses

Correct Answer: The explained supernatural ✔

Option A: The need for linguistic correctness as exemplified in his Dictionary

Option B: The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the Encyclopédie

Option C: The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes”

Option D: The need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like Robinson Crusoe

Correct Answer: The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes” ✔

Option A: Industrial Revolution

Option B: French Revolution

Option C: Scientific Revolution

Option D: Technological Revolution

Correct Answer: French Revolution ✔

Option A: It provides access to the heroine’s innermost reactions.

Option B: It does not cloud the novel with authorial intrusion that confuses the emotions.

Option C: It provides a sense of immediacy because the letters are written in the thick of the action.

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: are an example of antithesis to suggest the falcon’s contradictory nature.

Option B: use alliterative language to draw attention to the falcon’s importance as a symbol of Christ.

Option C: refer to the speaker’s heart.

Option D: indicate the speaker’s lack of faith.

Correct Answer: use alliterative language to draw attention to the falcon’s importance as a symbol of Christ. ✔

Option A: It focuses on a royal hero.

Option B: It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

Option C: It focuses on adventures.

Option D: It connects to poetry.

Correct Answer: It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism. ✔

Option A: His relationship to God and Christianity

Option B: His understanding of the basis of economics

Option C: His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold

Option D: Both A and B

Correct Answer: Both A and B ✔

Option A: its focus on his lost love.

Option B: its rejection of scientific progress.

Option C: its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.

Option D: its development of elements from national folklore.

Correct Answer: its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination. ✔

Option A: certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.

Option B: the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.

Option C: the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.

Option D: it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

Correct Answer: the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas. ✔

Option A: indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.

Option B: suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.

Option C: is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.

Option D: implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience.

Correct Answer: implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience. ✔

Option A: a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.

Option B: a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.

Option C: a rejection of nature in favor of society.

Option D: a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

Correct Answer: a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction. ✔

Option A: An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems

Option B: A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems

Option C: A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works

Option D: A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems

Correct Answer: An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems ✔

Option A: demonstrate the importance of the topic.

Option B: set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.

Option C: reveal the learnedness of the characters.

Option D: elicit the sympathy of elite readers

Correct Answer: set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns. ✔

Option A: Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination

Option B: The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world

Option C: The poet as special interpreter of the world

Option D: The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world

Correct Answer: The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world ✔

Option A: There should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world.

Option B: Concerts in the parks that were attended by ordinary people should be banned.

Option C: Civil servants should talk more openly and publicly about their moral work.

Option D: Members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths should be excluded from public office.

Correct Answer: There should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world. ✔

Option A: He thought it did not go far enough in granting women rights.

Option B: He opposed it in favor of supporting the king and the ancien régime.

Option C: He favored its democratic impulses but was appalled by its destructive nature.

Option D: He did not think it concerned him and his relationship to nature.

Correct Answer: He favored its democratic impulses but was appalled by its destructive nature. ✔

Option A: Pamela’s attempt to seduce her employer

Option B: Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner

Option C: Pamela’s struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work

Option D: Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer

Correct Answer: Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer ✔

Option A: They are somewhat jaded, but all are finally good at heart.

Option B: They are almost universally selfabsorbed and willing to do anything to get what they want.

Option C: They tend to value love above money and honor.

Option D: They provide a moral example for the lower classes.

Correct Answer: They are almost universally selfabsorbed and willing to do anything to get what they want. ✔

Option A: Nature loses its ability to affect human emotion over time.

Option B: Sensitivity to nature’s message comes with age.

Option C: Life experience does not have to power to alter human opinions.

Option D: It is not possible to appreciate beauty once one has aged.

Correct Answer: Sensitivity to nature’s message comes with age. ✔

Option A: Reason over emotions

Option B: The necessity for an aristocracy

Option C: The power of feelings

Option D: A sense of adventure

Correct Answer: The power of feelings ✔

Option A: The Protestant Reformation

Option B: Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans

Option C: The decline of religion’s importance in the modern West

Option D: His lover’s betrayal

Correct Answer: The decline of religion’s importance in the modern West ✔