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LLS_SEM1_AN2_ISTORIA LITERATURII ENGLEZE
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The characters in James fiction enjoy an unlimited freedom in acting; theyare not pressed by the circumstances; neither are Thomas Hardyscharacters.
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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;they
simply delight or repel.
outward signs of inward life.
irrelevant of the inward identity; they exist to simply facilitate thereaders
memorizing them.
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In James fiction, a favorite theme is the collision of European innocenceand American experience.
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The time space ofPride and Prejudice is
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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 Europe andadopting the European ways) in the novel The Portrait of a Lady:
Henrietta Stackpole, Ralph Touchett, Isabel Archer?
Isabel Archer, Madame Merle, Gilbert Osmond?
Pansy Osmond, Caspar Goodwood, Isabel Archer?
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As a realist novelist, Austen is generous, lavish in landscape descriptionsobjectifying
the characters moods.
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In The Mill on the Floss, the crisis of the narrative turns on Maggies need
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to choosebetween 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.
ntrebarea nr. 9
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
moonlight and firelight
moonlight and torchlight.
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In James fiction, protagonists, European by extraction, choose to settledown in America
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In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale believes that Hesters sin is greaterthan 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 cruel husband,resumed hermaiden 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.
ntrebarea nr. 14
In the metaphysical novel, the symbolic setting is often used as a mirror toreflect:
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.
ntrebarea nr. 15 In Jane Austens world of economic survival and genteel propriety, theperson getting married to a mate marries society as well.
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ntrebarea nr. 16
Characteristically, a Jane Austen novel starts:
at the outset of the protagonists adulthood.
in the protagonists mid childhood.
in ripe maturity of the protagonists emotional intelligence.
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Isabel has a typicallyAmerican hunger for experience coupled with apuritanical fear of her ego, which means that her freedom remains abstract
and unreal.
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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is the same girl
whoassisted 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.
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ntrebarea nr. 20In 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.
ntrebarea nr. 21
In The Mayor of Casterbridges, agrarian world of the 1830s, the roadat the opening of chapter 1 justifies the picaresque pattern of the plot.
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ntrebarea nr. 22Henry Fielding had an in-depth knowledge of human nature so he conceived hischaracter,Tom Jones,:
with his vices and virtues.perfectly virtuous, never erring.
ntrebarea nr. 23In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale are, ultimately,archetypes
of sinning and that is why their moral development is frozen instereotyped
patterns.
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ntrebarea nr. 24Match 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 StackpolePansy Osmond
Madame Merle
Ralph Touchett
Lord Warburton
ntrebarea nr. 25 A notorious case of fiction told mostly in omniscient narrative voiceinterspersed with authorial intrusions, in disciplined or irregular ways, is:
Tom Jones
The Portrait of a Lady.
The Scarlet Letter.
ntrebarea nr. 26In the traditional romance, love stories or historical, e.g. W. Scotts, J. F.Coopers, character is:
complex, unpredicatable, developing.
shallow, stereotyped, polarized.
ntrebarea nr. 27In James fiction, most of the protagonists are cultured, educated, andaristocratic.
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ntrebarea nr. 28
In Tom Jones, to his great surprise, Mr. Allworthy finds out that Tomsmother 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.
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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.
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The picaresque novel and the detective novel are patterned upon plots of:
fortune.
thought.
character.
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In Joseph Andrew, Fielding burlesqued his own novel, Tom Jones.
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ntrebarea nr. 33Along with other American writers, Mark Twain and W. D. Howells, HenryJames satirized the European manners.
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The space setting ofPride and Prejudice, can be measured in:
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.
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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.
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Dickens provides traditional novel endings marriage, coming into
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fortune, socialsettlement a comic world vision i.e. the reordering of temporary
disintegration orconfusion.
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In Hawthornes vision is the neutral territory between reality andfairy land, where the Actual and the Imaginary meet and fuse.
the windowthe ceiling
the floor
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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is a cousin ofthe initial Elisabeth Jane, who has borrowed her name.
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ntrebarea nr. 39Sophia'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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ntrebarea nr. 40
In The Scarlet Letter, Hesters husband, Arthur Dimmesdale, returnsincognito
and settles in the town under the name of Richard Chillingworth.
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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is the daughterof 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 deliberately misunderstanding her.
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Hardys descriptions of his native Wessex nature are achieved both from a
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close proximity and from a cosmic distance.
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ntrebarea nr. 45In Hawthornes vision, romance transforms the ordinary world into cold allegoryand then back into the impression of life.
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The past tense in which events are narrated in fiction is transferred by thereader into:
dramatic showing (scene), dialogue.
summary.
ntrebarea nr. 47
The masculine pen-name of Marian Evans disguises the distanceseparating herself as
the moral, serious author, favourably reviewed and read, from herselfas an
adulteress and an agnostic.
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The theme of James The Portrait of a Lady is the dangerously deceptive
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disregard of the correlation of ethics and aesthetics.
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ntrebarea nr. 49What 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.
ntrebarea nr. 50The style ofTom Jones can be best described as:
comic and ironic.
awkward but quite moving.grand and majestic in tone.
ntrebarea nr. 51Charles 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.
ntrebarea nr. 53In 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 as acts.
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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 his inferiorsocially.
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In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen analyses the outcome of theIndustrial Revolution: the economic, cultural and social rise of the middle
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class.
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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, on remarrying Susan, Michael Henchardchose to return to a woman
he had always loved.
he did not love anymore but felt compelled to marry out of guilt.
whose beauty he was very proud of although he despised herhumble origin.
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Tesss fate is metaphorically dramatized when associated with:
doomed snakes, rats, pheasants.
the plight of sea faring people.
still-born babies.
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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.
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ntrebarea nr. 60
In Tom Jones, one character in the list below is not the narrators comicobject:
Mr. Allworthy.
Lady Bellaston.
Thwackum.
Square.
Blifil.
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Hardys descriptions of solitary spots or of expanses of nature are oftenloaded with:
denotative significance only; he is the perfect realistic regionalnovelist.
symbolic, archetypal connotations, betraying a poets sensibility.
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Dickens is a metaphysical novelist because his fiction fuses:
realism and myth.
philosophical thought and realism.
realism and romance.
ntrebarea nr. 63 When Hardy describesthe heath from close proximity he is a realist,when he does it from Olympian distances he is an impressionist and athoughtful skeptic.
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ntrebarea nr. 64The 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 dictates of heremotional
intelligence, leaping over the societys ethics.
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St. Ogg, the legendary patron of the town bearing his name in The Mill onthe Floss, was a poor boater rewarded for his pity by the Blessed Virginherself.
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ntrebarea nr. 68
In The Mill on the Floss, after an expedition down the Floss with Stephenhe 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.
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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.
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One character in the list below does not belong to the world of James ThePortrait of a Lady. Who is he?
Gaspar Goodwood
Gilbert Osmond
Lord Wellington
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Ralph Touchett
ntrebarea nr. 72 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.
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From Hardys point of view, the protagonist gives up struggling at the firstsigns of disillusionment.
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The Portrait of a Lady is a tragedy, like Tess or The Mayor ofCasterbridge.
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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.
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Blifil.
Tom Jones.
Squire Western.
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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 fictional timeand of his own time.
ntrebarea nr. 77Picaresque 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 routeof his journey.
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The narrative point of view in David Copperfield and GreatExpectations is:
the omniscient.
the first person.
the multiply-selective omniscient.
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Hardys logical reasoning shows him that it is impossible to reconcile thebenevolence of an omnipotent and omniscient force with ones
freedom 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 of people ina comic way.
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In Great Expectations, who else apart from Pip was subjected to Mrs. JoeGargerys bringing up by hand?
her child
Estella
Joe
her sister
ntrebarea nr. 82Match the following "point of view", regarding Isabel's identity, with the name of
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 these
Europeans, and I want to prevent it. (The Portrait of a Lady)
Henrietta Stackpole
Pansy Osmond
Madame Merle
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Ralph Touchett
Lord Warburton
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In Pride and Prejudice, before Darcy admitted his fault of snobbery, heand Elisabeth
could not communicate as sensibilities on a par.
could communicate perfectly easily.
avoided any private intercourse.
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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 of humannature, irrespective of the social extraction.
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Hardys characters are neither absolutely good nor absolutely wicked.
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ntrebarea nr. 87 Reduction and exaggeration are devices used by:
a caricaturist?
a sensational novelist?
a history-oriented novelist?
ntrebarea nr. 88Dickens work exhibits a strong link between Romantic imagination and.., which renders his fictional world as stylized perception of thereal world.
reality
fairy-tale fancy
pessimism
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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.
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Hardys descriptions of the heath are always achieved from closeproximity.
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Austens flat characters e.g.Mr. Woodhouse, Charlotte Lucas, MrsBennet may be seen as reducible to dominant ideas such as: sense, pride,snobbery and prejudice but they are not simply:
flat.
round.
ntrebarea nr. 92How 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.
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In David Copperfield, David walked penniless to Dover to throw himselfon the mercy of his aunt, Betsy Trotwood after
he entered Doctors Commons, being articled to Mr. Spenlow, ofthe firm of Spenlow
and 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.
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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.
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In the novel David Copperfield, the characterAgnes Wickfieldis a pretty
empty-headed girl; Davids attempts to turn her into a competent 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
ntrebarea nr. 97 In The Scarlet Letter, Pearl, although only a small child, embarrassesDimmesdale by
asking him if:
he will allow her to call him father.
he will love her mother as long as he lives.
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he will stand on the pillory with her and her mother thefollowing day.
ntrebarea nr. 98In The Mill on the Floss, the Tullivers are placed against the Dodsons.
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Charles Dickens is preeminently a novelist of self-contained, provincialplaces.
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Match the following "point of view" about Isabel with the name of the characterwho has uttered it:I like her very much. Shes all you described her She has only one fault.
()
She has too many ideas". (The Portrait of a Lady)
Lord Warburton
Gilbert Osmond
Ralph Touchett
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Smolletts and Dickens delight in human eccentricity converged.
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ntrebarea nr. 102 In The Mill on the Floss, within a world controlled by financial securityor bankruptcy, the life of the Tullivers is a series of:
financial crises.
comfortable equilibriums between financial gains and lossesfrom investment.
ntrebarea nr. 103In Great Expectations, when Pip becomes a gentleman he starts actingheartlessly and snobbishly towards Drummle, Herbert and Orlick.
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ntrebarea nr. 104 In his relation with Dora, David seems to be torn between wishing hiswife 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 tosee all of them married.
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ntrebarea nr. 106
In The Scarlet Letter, Hesters husband reveals his true identity to heras he tries:
to shun some evil men who are searching for him.
to practice his job of a physician.
to find out who her lover is.
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In the novel David Copperfield, the characterDora Spenlow is a girl ofexceptionally sweet and high-minded disposition, who exercises apowerful influence on the rest of Davids life.
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The time-setting of a romance is:
remote.
specifically historicized.
ntrebarea nr. 109In The Mill on the Floss, by whisking her off the river, Stephen is deprivingMaggie of her right:
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to sell Dorlcote Mill.
to see her brother.
to decide for her own future.
to talk to Philip.
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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 ofquestions because he is genuinely interested in what his wife is talkingabout.
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Hawthornes pictorial analogies for his verbal art of the ROMANCE canbe
associated with the Romantics cult of the picturesque.
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ntrebarea nr. 113Match the following "point of view" about Isabel with the name of the characterwho has uttered it:Shes beautiful, generous and, for an American, well-born. Shes also very
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cleverand she has a handsome fortune I want you of course to marry her
(ThePortrait of a Lady)
Henrietta StackpolePansy Osmond
Madame Merle
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The provincial society ofThe Mill on the Floss is located in:
the paternalistic, feudal relationships among the squire as the topof the local hierarchy and tenant farmers, artisans, fieldlabourers.
the money governed social and economic (in)security controlledby impersonal economic forces in late 1820s and early 1830s.
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Hawthorne considered himself a romantic realist, much like Dickens.
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In Austens fictional world the individual is made of the substance of thesocial
environment exactly as in a romance.
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ntrebarea nr. 117
A third-person omniscient narrator tells the story in:
David Copperfield.
The Portrait of a Lady.Great Expectations.
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Hawthorne modified the traditional romance into psychological romance.
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ntrebarea nr. 119In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie loves to live in her world of imaginations andillustrations, however, her brother, Tom, likes to socialize and shapes a bigcontrast 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:
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generous; a quest of self-forgetfulness and devotion to thewelfare of her family
selfish; a quest of self-fulfilment, personal happiness.
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The sequence of events reconstructed from a fictional arrangement ofepisodes and happenings, is a:
story.
plot.
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The message concluding The Scarlet Letter could be: to develop onesmoral potential one must:
plunge into the depth of experiential knowledge in order toascend.
protect ones moral worth because it is irreparable
ntrebarea nr. 124
G. Eliot voiced her doctrine of realism inchapter 17ofThe Mill on theFloss.
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David Copperfield is preeminently:
a picaresque novel?
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a Bildungsroman?
a romance?
a utopia?
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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the mature Elisabeth Jane is another girlthan the one we encounter at the beginning of the book.
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The omniscient obtrusive narrator interrupts the narrative and uses it as astarting point for:
a new chapter of the book.
some comment or generalization he/she wishes to make.
a change in the plot.
ntrebarea nr. 128In the world ofDavid 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 sense that:
they are not episodically structured.
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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, the
symbolic setting Hardy chose for Tesss last appearance before she is
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.
ntrebarea nr. 131In 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.
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Even if David is younger than Dora, he feels sympathy for her much inthe same way as an adult feels sympathy for a child. (DavidCopperfield)
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ntrebarea nr. 133
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen focuses on a type of marriage likethat of which fuses the individuals sentiment with the
individuals welfare.
Jane and Mr Bingley
Charlotte and Mr Gardiner
Lydia and Mr Forster
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TheRoman ruins about the town of Casterbridge could metaphoricallysuggest the heroism of famous Roman leaders of the Empire.
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Fielding conceived the novel as a comic romance, meant to expose theRidiculous arisen from:
Selfishness and Meanness.
Self-sufficiency and Foolishness.
Affectation, Vanity and Hypocrisy.
ntrebarea nr. 136Overtly the Austen society keep up civilized conventions; covertly theylive on hunting for the appropriate man.
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ntrebarea nr. 137
In Hardys view, man is ultimately still an animal as may be readilyobserved
when 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.
ntrebarea nr. 139
Dickens plots, in the picaresque tradition, are loose and episodic, ratherthan 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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In Hardys view, destiny subjecting humans to a number of externalinfluences
(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.
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Tess pendulum-like swing between Alec and Angel is a swing between:
selfishness and altruism.
wealth and poverty.
flesh and spirit.
pride and modesty.
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The picaresque plays an important role in George Eliots novels.
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Fielding responded to the challenge of the romance and of the classicepic by:
a lyric introspection in the ambiguities of heroism.
a melodramatic assertion of the heros rights to greatness.
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a comic redefinition of the epic protagonist and plot.
ntrebarea nr. 145 The illusion of the readers involvement in the fictions presentimmediacy is ensured by the:
omniscient point of view.
lavish use of dialogue.
ntrebarea nr. 146In the novel The Mill on the Floss, Tom Tulliver, a man from upper class addscolor in Maggie's life and lets her experience the beauty of love.
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In his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne describes the customs ofthe 19th century Puritan New England.
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Dickens romantic fancy coheres with fairy-tales imagination.
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ntrebarea nr. 149
In the novel David Copperfield, the character Clara Copperfieldis agirl of exceptionally sweet and high-minded disposition, who exercises apowerful 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 a
chronological order.the particular selection and chronological or not chronological(re)ordering of fictional events.
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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.
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In The Mill on the Floss, the almost anthropologic analysis of theDodsons, portraits and routines, is achieved in the playfully humoroustone, 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 comic portrait of ajilted woman.
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In The Mill on the Floss, seeking an intellectual as her equal, Maggieforms a close
attachment to Stephen Guest, the crippled son of a local lawyer.
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ntrebarea nr. 156HawthornesNew Englandis rendered for:
historical veracity of the facts.
historical setting.
romantic distance and picturesque effects.
ntrebarea nr. 157Self-conscious narrators i.e. aware of themselves as tellers, narrate the story in:
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Pride and Prejudice.
The Portrait of a Lady.
The Mill on the Floss.
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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.
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Is one of Hardys recurrent terms forfate:
The Immanent Will?
the given?
The President of the Immortals?
ntrebarea nr. 160Young Maggie Tullivers favourite books, Daniel Defoe'sHistory of the Devil,Esop'sFables, orPilgrim's Progress , as were illustrated; she liked thembecause:
of the colorful images; she particularly liked the green and yellowpictures.
she could imagine stories of her own to accompany the pictures.
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In Pride and Prejudice, almost every character exhibits too muchprideor too little
pride. Decide what kind of prideMr Collinsexhibits
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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, spinelessly
lets himself bemanaged by others.
he glories in what are mere reflections from the rank of histitled patroness and from
his status.
ntrebarea nr. 162In his preface "The Custom House" of the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel
Hawthorne talking about ROMANCE says "If a man ... cannot dream strangethings 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.
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To Maggie Tulliver, in The Mill on the Floss, the past is an inherent partof the
character; loyalty to it, as to oneself, is a must.
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ntrebarea nr. 165 In the acquisitive society and culture of James fiction moneysymbolizes:
control of action.
obstruction of action.
freedom of action.
ntrebarea nr. 166Master Blifil (Tom Jones) is
a neighbouring irascible fox-hunting squire.
Mr. Allworthys nephew.
a pedantic philosopher and tutor.
ntrebarea nr. 167Mr. Allworthy (Tom Jones) is
a rich and benevolent lawyer.
an amiable schoolmaster.
a country squire.
ntrebarea nr. 168What point of view does Hardy use in Tess of the DUrbervilles?
Omniscient.
Selective omniscient.
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Subjective.
ntrebarea nr. 169 The Reform Billof 1884
enfranchised all male voters.
gave rights to women voters.
enfranchised the working classes of towns.
ntrebarea nr. 170 In Fieldings Tom Jones, who is Sophia supposed to marry according toher fathers will?
captain Blifils son
Tom
George Seagrim
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Who visited Crusoe on the island?
the cannibals
the wise horses
the giants
the dwarves
a group of castaways
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What is the name that Tristrams parents intended for him?
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Heracles
John
Trismegistus
Winston
Charles
ntrebarea nr. 173Which author(s) anticipates the postmodern techniques?
Hardy
Defoe
Sterne
Fielding
ntrebarea nr. 174Fieldings use of names in Tom Jones (Allworthy, Sophia, Tom Jones, LadyBellaston) is
idiosyncratic, accidental.
allegorical.
satirical, ironical, humorous.
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Why is it said that Gulliver is apersona?
Because of the personal tone of this fictional autobiography, infact 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 the politicalconflicts that were dividing England at the time.
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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 the convention ofthe novel:
Laurence Sterne
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan SwiftSamuel Richardson
ntrebarea nr. 178The Mill on the Floss is set in
a provincial town.
the countryside.
Floss.
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Miss Havisham (Dickenss Great Expectations) is generally taken as
a Gothic, Romantic character.
a Realistic description of British aristocracy.
ntrebarea nr. 180Which 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
ntrebarea nr. 181The Victorian period proved to be one of
generalised literacy and industrial development.
cultural recession.
ntrebarea nr. 182Henry Fielding compares literature to
conversational commentaries.
a feast meant to entertain the readers/guests.
ntrebarea nr. 183Which of the following are NOT novels in a strict sense:
George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss
Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels
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Daniel DefoesRobinson Crusoe
Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy.
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Dickenss panorama of characters/plots/scenes is
merely social.
universally human, having in view the whole set of humanity.
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Melville uses Queequegs image in order to
assert the value of pagan morality
warn the readers about the dangers of primitiveness
ntrebarea nr. 186In Chapter XIwe are told that, after 15 years of solitude on the island, Robinsonfinds a footprint on the sand. He is terrified by the sight and thinks that:
there are cannibals on the island.
the devil left it there to scare him.
it was his own footprint.
it was Fridays footprint.
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The Hardyesque character is rendered through a conflict betweeninstinct and reason in a fictional world which abounds in signs of ill-
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omen, accidents, unhappy coincidences, magic beliefs, ancient rituals.
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Which of the following statements is true?
The literature of the 18th century is generally written in the firstperson; it has a very pronounced introspective and subjectivecharacter, there is direct interaction between authors and theirreaders.
The literature of the 18th century is predominantly written in thethird person, and uses the omniscient narrator. It has apronounced objective character, an impersonal touch. The authorhides behind his text, and there is no direct interaction betweenauthor and reader.
The literature of the 18th century is written both in the third andin the first person, and focuses on the exploration of the innerworkings of the human mind. It uses the stream of consciousnesstechnique and the free indirect speech, and tries to explain humanpsychology from within.
ntrebarea nr. 189Which 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-Freudiantechniques.
ntrebarea nr. 190What is an epistolary novel?
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A novel that follows the development of an individual from youth tomaturity, and his/her growth as a human being through adventures andmisfortune.
A novel which is written as a series of documents, usually letters,
although it can also consist of diary entries, newspaper clippings andother documents.
A novel which is constructed as a fictional voyage, and is providedwith detailed descriptions of the heros life and background, in orderto create the illusion of reality.
ntrebarea nr. 191Whose Victorian novelists motto is that of writing as a witness in a box onoath?
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Henry Fielding
Jane Austen
ntrebarea nr. 192Moby Dick is generally viewed as
a novel proper.
an epic romance in a tragic mode.
a melodramatic travelogue.
ntrebarea nr. 193George Eliot offers a discussion of the Poetics of Realism in a preface toChapter XVII of
Silas Marner.
Adam Bede.
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Middlemarch.
ntrebarea nr. 194 Confronted with many ill-omen portents and apprehensions, Ahabchooses to
accept their message and avoid the whale
deliberately disregard them and proceed on his voyage
ntrebarea nr. 195In Tess of the DUrbervilles, Talbothays Farm is
a drab and desolate place, with exhausted natural resources.
a warm, fertile, rich place.
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In Moby Dick, Melvilles character Ishmael is
a New Zealand harpooner.
the captain of the whaler.
a mysterious Parsee.
the New England narrator.
ntrebarea nr. 197What does Fielding consider his Tom Jones to be as a literary genre?
A.dramatic writingB.sublime writingC.prosaic writingD.comic writingE.epic writing
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F.romantic poemG.historical poemH.prosaic poemI.tragic poemJ.heroic poem
C+D+E+G
A+B+C+J
F+H+I
ntrebarea nr. 198
Why is RobinsonCrusoe considered to be an odyssey of a middle
class individual, and by extension, a founding myth of bourgeois society?
Because of the powerful impact it exerted on the reading publicat 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 everywherein the 18th century.
Because it was an accurate satirical representation of the politicalconflicts that were dividing British society at the time.
ntrebarea nr. 199
Thomas Hardys fiction
rejected the link to the past, either the immemorial or local one.
sided with tradition, nostalgically recreating a rural landscape.
ntrebarea nr. 200Which of these novels is considered to be a picaresque one?
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Henry Jamess The Portrait of a Lady
George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss
Henry Fieldings Tom Jones
ntrebarea nr. 201Ch.Dickenss precursors were
Jane Austen, Henry Fielding, Daniel Defoe.
foreign (Russian and French) novelists.
ntrebarea nr. 202In Tristram Shandy, Sterne uses a series of unconventional techniques. Thus,a cross appears on the page when Dr. Slop crosses himself, a black page issupposed to signify the mourning caused by the death of Yorick, blank pagesappear to represent pages torn out while an empty page is offered to the readerwho is asked to write his own description of Widow Wadmans beauty. Whatis the purpose of these technical devices in Sternes construction of thenarrative?
To illustrate the point he is trying to make.To use an omniscient narrator.
To involve the reader in the process of creation of the text.
To create the illusion of reality.
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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
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By accident
Because of the rivalry between him and his older brother.
ntrebarea nr. 204Tom Jones is described by its author as
an idle, medieval romance.
dynamic, realistic, comic, epic, heroic, prosaic.
a poem in prose.
ntrebarea nr. 205In 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.The characters are literally and spiritually big/small.
It is aesthetic; the physical monstrosity/delicacy of the characterscorresponds to their morality and generosity.
There is no relation between the two sets of attributes.
ntrebarea nr. 206David Copperfieldis mainly written in :
the 3rd person point of view.
the 1st person point of view.
the neutral omniscient perspective.
ntrebarea nr. 207The Victorian economic ideology was based on the following doctrine:
utilitarianism.
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consumerism.
socialism.
ntrebarea nr. 208Roger Chillingworth is in Hawthornes romance, The Scarlet Letter,
an Indian doctor.
a clergyman.
Hesters husband.
Pearl's father.
ntrebarea nr. 209Coincidence and accidental occurrence are beside the point in:
George Eliots fiction.
Thomas Hardys fiction.
ntrebarea nr. 210
How did the rise of the middle class influence the emergence of the novelas a literary genre?
Through the establishment of new universities and colleges, thatprovided their students with a classic education, largely destinedfor the aristocracy.
The reading public grew, through the large numbers of peoplein the trading middle class who were literate and to whom
literature offered entertainment.The authors were able to secure safe wages, which made it thatthey no longer needed wealthy patrons.
The political climate changed as well, and the state encouragedthe emergence of a new literary genre that would educate therising middle class.
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ntrebarea nr. 211Thomas Hardy was
a poet.
a novelist.
a poet and novelist.
ntrebarea nr. 212
Dickenss characters are generally described as
round, complex ones
flatly-drawn, symbolic
ntrebarea nr. 213In HardysMayor of Casterbridge as well as inThe Return of the Native,Egdon Heath is described in
a conventionally realistic manner.
a mythopoetic, symbolic, mythological one.
ntrebarea nr. 214In which of the following novels, does the main narrative line respect thechronological order of events, in other words, in which novel does the assumedsequence of events in the story correspond to their actual order of presentation
in the book?
Tristram Shandy
Robinson Crusoe
Gullivers Travels
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ntrebarea nr. 215According to Hawthornes philosophical tenets, the Unpardonable Sinner is anindividual who tries to separate his intellect from the heart, in a lack of
reverence 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.
ntrebarea nr. 216 Whose daughter is Sophia in Fieldings Tom Jones?
George Seagrim
Captain Blifil
Squire Western
the philosopher Square
ntrebarea nr. 217The historical period to which Hawthorne often resorted in his fiction was:
the medieval legendary age.
his contemporary society.
the colonial, Calvinist past.
ntrebarea nr. 218Thomas Hardys plots are considered to be
realistic.
improbable, melodramatic.
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ntrebarea nr. 219Volume IVof The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,Gentleman contains
a discourse on the history of noses.
a dialogue on morality.
a description of Tristrams travels to France.
ntrebarea nr. 220
Initially, the Pequodsails on her fateful voyage in order to
find a particular whale whose jaws destroyed the captains leg
hunt whales for their oil
ntrebarea nr. 221Nineteenth century American fiction has a kinship with
symbolism (traditional allegory included).the novel of manners (Jane Austen, J. Fielding, W. Thackeray).
ntrebarea nr. 222
In George Eliots fiction, the high-mimetic hero/ine (in Northrop Fryes terms)is trapped by deterministic relationships to which s/he participates and
which s/he cannot elude.
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ntrebarea nr. 223The typical Victorian novelist is
isolated from his reading public.
reader-oriented.uncompromising as to his writing manner.
ntrebarea nr. 224The novelist considered as an inexhaustible inventor of comic plots andstereotypes is
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
ntrebarea nr. 225Hawthorne projects Pearl in his romance, The Scarlet Letter, as
an orphan girl, adopted by Hester.
a vivid representation, an embodiment of the allegorical letter.
Roger Chillingworth's daughter.
ntrebarea nr. 226Charles Dickenss manner of characterization is achieved through
burlesque associations.
picaresque tradition techniques.
hyperboly, stereotypes.
none of these variants.
all variants
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ntrebarea nr. 227
Ahab can be viewed as a
truly Promethean figure
an enraged, relentless, defying, foolhardy seafarer
a sensible, efficient, dutiful officer
ntrebarea nr. 228Which 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
ntrebarea nr. 229
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 as muchas it was enjoyed 200 years ago?
Because it deals with the universal problem of growing up in the
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world, and of finding ones place as an adult individual in anoppressive society.
Because its objects are mans moral nature and the defectivepolitical, economic and social institutions which humanimperfections create.
Because it represents an extended metaphor of colonialism, andoffers the reader a small version of the larger processes that werereshaping the face of the world at the time.
ntrebarea nr. 231
What animals did Crusoe domesticate?
Goats
hares
Fowles
Kine
ntrebarea nr. 232
Which novelist changes the linearity of the narrative on purpose?
Fielding
Swift
Sterne
ntrebarea nr. 233
The white whale suggests the following attributes
destructive, annihilating power, evil.
beneficient to man.
divinity of nature.
expansiveness, indefiniteness.
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a paradoxical image, generating multiple associations
ntrebarea nr. 234 . From a technical point of view, which is the difference between theconcepts ofstory and ofplot?
The story is the sum of all the events that the author presents inhis novel, while theplotrefers to those parts of the story thatinvolve 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 structured matterof the novel.
There is no important distinction betweenplotand story, as bothrefer to the elements that form the narrative, the material thatconstitutes the novel.
The story represents the selection which the writer makesamong the information and events that constitute theplot.
ntrebarea nr. 235
Which of the following novels are Bildungsromans?
Daniel DefoesRobinson Crusoe
Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy
Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels
ntrebarea nr. 236In Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles, Tess murders
Alec d'Urberville.
Angel Clare.
both of them.
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ntrebarea nr. 237Fictional heroes are built on the pattern of classical (Greek) models by
Charles Dickens.
Thomas Hardy.George Eliot.
ntrebarea nr. 238In 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 alicence from everyday probability.
ntrebarea nr. 239Charles Dickens transforms literary conventions using symbolic connotations aswell as dramatic, often comic associations.
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ntrebarea nr. 240
The Victorian age (overlapping with the reign of Queen Victoria)stretches between:
1871-1904
1837-1901
1834-1920
ntrebarea nr. 241In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Walter Shandy
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is passioned by
science.
military sieges.
art.gardens.
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The eighteenth century is also named the Augustan Age. Which are theaesthetic 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 on moralityand virtue from the perspective of the Christian doctrine.
ntrebarea nr. 243
In Moby Dick, Queequeg is
a fortune-teller
a Polynesian harpooner
an African captain
ntrebarea nr. 244
The doctrine of the transcendental movement in American literarure (founders:Emerson, Thoreau, G. Ripley, M. Fuller) was influenced by
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English romanticism and German idealism.
Victorian realism.
ntrebarea nr. 245In 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 love with
B+D+E+G
A+G+H
A+G
ntrebarea nr. 246
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.
ntrebarea nr. 247The human characters run into the category of sacrificial animals in
George Eliots fiction.
Charles Dickenss novels.
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Thomas Hardys vision.
ntrebarea nr. 248 N. Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter was meant as
a Puritan indictment of sin.
a moral, allegorical probing into the nature of evil and guilt.
ntrebarea nr. 249
In the second chapter of Robinson Crusoes adventures, we are told hewas sold as slave. When does this happen?
When he is leaving London, heading for his island where Fridaywill be expecting him.
When he is the captain of a ship heading for Guinea, and theyare 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.
ntrebarea nr. 250Which of the following statements about Laurence Sternes novel TristramShandy is true?
It is a novel written in the third person, having an impersonal andomniscient narrator, who knows everything about all his characters.
It is a meta-novel, because it is an extended meditation on story-telling,
having as central premise the idea that what the story is about is ofsecondary importance to how it is told.
It is a Bildungsroman, because it follows the story of the developmentof Tristram as an individual, through the multiple adventures he has,which shape his personality and ultimately help him find his place insociety.
It explores the dramatic situation of women in the eighteenth century,and comments on the double pressure exerted upon them by an
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oppressive patriarchal society.
ntrebarea nr. 251
In The Scarlet Letter, at firstthe letter "A" refers to
Arthur Dimmesdale.
America.
Adultery.
Ambition.
ntrebarea nr. 252Moby Dick should be critically interpreted as
an encyclopedia of whaling.
an exploratory voyage that raises ontological and epistemologicalquestions.
ntrebarea nr. 253Once arrived in the land of the Houyhnhnms, who does Gulliver feel he canidentify with:
the Yahoos.
the Houyhnhnms.
both.
neither.
ntrebarea nr. 254Mary-Ann Evans is
the main character in George EliotsAdam Bede.
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Charlotte Bronts real name.
neither of them.
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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 isRobinson Crusoe.
Bildungsroman is a literary genre that started in Germany, and isin fact an adventure novel, a travel narrative. One example isGullivers Travels
Bildungsroman is a literary genre that started in France, and itultimately is an extended meditation on story-telling, having ascentral premise the idea that what the story is about is ofsecondary importance to how it is told. One example is TristramShandy
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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+G
A+C+E+G
D+F+G
ntrebarea nr. 257There are descriptions of ancient monuments and customs (the
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mummersplay, the bonfires) in
Charles Dickenss novels.
Thomas Hardys novels.
George Eliots novels.
ntrebarea nr. 258What was the consequence of Sophias having discerned, when very young, thenature of Tom Jones?
she honoured him
she disregarded him
she despised him
she loathed him
she tolerated him
ntrebarea nr. 259
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
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What is Fieldings Tom Jones fundamentally about?
Human Vice
Human Virtue
Human Nature
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His work comments on the political realities of the day, and offers many-layered readings. Under the disguise of authentic travel narratives hisbook offers a subtle critique of British politics, while at the same timebeing enjoyed by children, as well as by sophisticated readers. Which of
the following authors fits this description?
Laurence Sterne
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
ntrebarea nr. 262
George Eliot used in her novels
positivist, determinist, ethical concepts.
sensational plots.
ntrebarea nr. 263Whose writers vision was shaped by skepticism and cynicism?
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Henry Fielding
ntrebarea nr. 264Why is Laurance Sterne considered to be the precursor of the modernist novel?
Because of his interest in the drama of women in the 18th century.
Because of his attention to subjectivism, psychological time, and ofhis temporal manipulations of the plot.
Because of his use of thepersona.
Because of his criticism of colonialism, economic exploitation andracial discrimination.
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Unlike George Eliot, who avoided the extremes of social behaviour, Hardywas concerned with the radical, the rebel.
Adevrat
Fals
ntrebarea nr. 266The 18th century novel was best suited for the tastes of
the aristocratic audience.
middle-class, bourgeois readers.
ntrebarea nr. 267The main purpose of Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy is:
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
ntrebarea nr. 268In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Dr. Slop is
the local parson.
an incompetent physician.
a relative of the Shandys.
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ntrebarea nr. 269
Victorian monthly publications included
only scientifical and general issues.
essays, poetry, fiction as well.
ntrebarea nr. 270Themetatextis 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.
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In Part IV ofGullivers Travels