What type of writing did Walter Pater define as \the special and opportune art of the modern world ?
A. the novel
B. nonfiction prose
C. the lyric
D. comic drama
Correct Answer: nonfiction prose ✔
Last Updated: April 29, 2023
Related MCQs
- Who succeeded Elizabeth I ?
- Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth ?
- Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what royal family ?
- Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the “supreme governor” of all things spiritual. Who was it ?
- What was the nickname of Mary I ?
- Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned ?
- Staying alive was a difficult task for Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, and occupational accidents could all result in one’s untimely demise. Most people never reached the age of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom ?
- Which work did Edmund Spenser author ?
- Who was the first Tudor King ?
- Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into a social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot: they were denied basic comforts, security, and even the chance to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes one could legally wear based on rank. Which of the following could the poor wear ?
- What was Elizabeth’s nickname for Sir Walter Raleigh ?
- Who was Edmund Spenser’s patron ?
- What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeth’s court ?
- The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as__________?
- Which of the following was Elizabeth known as __________?
- What religion was Mary I ?
- A poem that deals in an idealized way with Shepherds and rustic life is known as__________?
- Which English king had several of his wives killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir ?
- Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue ?
- Which language did young Elizabeth learn in secret ?
- Who was the father of the Mary I__________?
- The term for the reaction against corruption in the Catholic Church was known as__________?
- The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
- What religion was Mary Queen of Scots ?
- Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?
- What was Elizabeth’s close circle of advisers called ?
- What is the name for a shift in tone or meaning of a sonnet__________?
- Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed ?
- Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
- What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
- For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
- Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
- The Oxford Movement was started by__________?
- What is common amongst Cardinal Newman, John Keble, Henry Newman and Stanley ?
- What does the phrase \White Man’s Burden,\ coined by Kipling, refer to ?
- From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?
- Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?
- Wild’s drama Woman of No Importance appared in __________?
- Which one is Gaskell’s first novel ?
- Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
- Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
- Which contemporary discussions on women’s rights did Tennyson’s The Princess address ?
- Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
- Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
- Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
- The Song of the Lotus is a poem by__________?
- The basic theme of Arnold’s Literature and Dogma is__________?
- What does the phrase “White Man’s Burden,” coined by Kipling, refer to ?
- Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
- Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens__________?
- Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?