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Cultural and Literary 18t/19th Centuries
Question 51 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
"Do we now live in an enlightened age? The answer is, 'no, ' but we do live in an age of enlightenment."
Immanuel Kant | |
John Locke | |
David Hume | |
Denis Diderot |
Question 52 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Which writer is most closely associated with the serialized novel?
William Congreve | |
Ann Radcliffe | |
Matthew Lewis | |
Charles Dickens |
Question 53 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth's advocacy of poets drawing on the "language really used by men" in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents:
a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction. | |
a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope. | |
a rejection of nature in favor of society. | |
a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language. |
Question 54 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar:
devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters. | |
emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration. | |
reliance on classical scholarship. | |
defense of violent emotions as natural. |
Question 55 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffe's medieval settings:
indicates her longing for the older aristocracy. | |
suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church. | |
is at odds with her explicit socialist politics. | |
implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience. |
There are 55 questions to complete.