Cultural and Literary 18th/19th Centuries

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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."
A
Immanuel Kant
B
John Locke
C
David Hume
D
Denis Diderot
Question 52 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which writer is most closely associated with the serialized novel?
A
William Congreve
B
Ann Radcliffe
C
Matthew Lewis
D
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
a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
B
a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
C
a rejection of nature in favor of society.
D
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:
A
devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.
B
emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration.
C
reliance on classical scholarship.
D
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:
A
indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.
B
suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.
C
is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.
D
implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience.
There are 55 questions to complete.