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The characters in James' fiction enjoy an unlimited freedom in acting;
they are not pressed by the circumstances; neither are Thomas
Hardy's characters.
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In James' fiction, a favorite theme is the collision of European
innocence and American experience.
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Jane Austen's narrators are ironic about Gothic imaginings and
Romanticized sensibility.
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Who are the "international Americans" (Americans living in Europe
and adopting 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
descriptions objectifying the characters' moods.
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In The Mill on the Floss, the crisis of the narrative turns on Maggie's
need to choose between her fidelity to:
Red Deeps and her love for Philip.
the rural society of St Ogg's and her love for Stephen.
the Cloven Tree and her love for Tom
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In the Preface to The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne's metaphors for
romantic 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
settle down in America
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In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale believes that Hester's sin is
greater than his own.
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In the metaphysical novel, the symbolic setting is often used as a
mirror to reflect:
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.
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In Jane Austen's world of economic survival and genteel propriety,
the person getting married to a mate marries society as well.
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Characteristically, a Jane Austen novel starts:
at the outset of the protagonist's adulthood.
in the protagonist's mid childhood.
in ripe maturity of the protagonist's emotional intelligence.
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Isabel has a typically American hunger for experience coupled with
a puritanical fear of her ego, which means that her freedom remains
abstract and unreal.
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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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In The Mill on the Floss, the crisis of the narrative turns on Maggie's need to choose between her fidelity to:
Dorlcote Mill and her love for Philip.
the river Floss and her love for Tom.
the rural society of St Ogg's and her love for Stephen.
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In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale are, ultimately,
Archetypes of sinning and that is why their moral development is frozen in
Stereotyped patterns.
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Match 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!" (The
Portrait of a Lady
Henrietta Stackpole
Pansy Osmond
Madame Merle
Ralph Touchett
Lord Warburton
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In James' fiction, most of the protagonists are cultured, educated, and aristocratic.
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At the end of the novel The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale found the
resolve to admit in public that:
he hated Chillingworth.
he wanted to leave New England.
he was Pearl's father.
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In Eliot's 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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Along with other American writers, Mark Twain and W. D. Howells, Henry James satirized the European manners.
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In Hawthorne's vision ... is the neutral territory between reality
and fairy land, where the Actual and the Imaginary meet and fuse.
the window
the ceiling
the floor
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In The Scarlet Letter, Hester's husband, Arthur Dimmesdale,returns incognito
and settles in the town under the name of Richard Chillingworth.
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James' admiration for European culture led him to an interest in the
conflict of the American and European personalities.
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Hardy's descriptions of his native Wessex nature are achieved both
from a close proximity and from a cosmic distance.
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In Hawthorne's vision, romance transforms the ordinary world into cold
allegory and then back into the impression of life.
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The past tense in which events are narrated in fiction is transferred
by the reader into:
dramatic showing (scene), dialogue.
summary.
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The masculine pen-name of Marian Evans disguises the distance
separating herself as the moral, serious author, favourably reviewed and read, from
herself as an adulteress and an agnostic.
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The theme of James' The Portrait of a Lady is the dangerously deceptive
disregard of the correlation of ethics and aesthetics.
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What 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.
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Hawthorne's ROMANCES differ from NOVELS in their preference for
allegory and psychological exploration.
realistic social observation.
artificial constrains of commercial civilization.
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In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie Tulliver is a girl who needs love from her
family since she never deserved it.
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Tess's 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 D'Urbevilles (i.e. the green fertile vale of
Blackmoor, 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 to human protagonists.
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Hardy's descriptions of solitary spots or of expanses of nature are often loaded with:
denotative significance only; he is the perfect realistic regional novelist.
symbolic, archetypal connotations, betraying a poet's sensibility.
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When Hardy describes the heath from close proximity he is a realist,
when he does it from Olympian distances he is an impressionist and
a thoughtful skeptic.
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The cosmic dimension of his characters is the novelty Hardy brought to the
century's fiction.
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In Austen's fictional world the protagonist lives only by the dictates
of her emotional intelligence, leaping over the society's ethics.
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St. Ogg, the legendary patron of the town bearing his name in The
Mill on the Floss, was a poor boater rewarded for his pity by the
Blessed Virgin herself.
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In The Mill on the Floss, after an expedition down the Floss with
Stephen he offers to marry her, and Maggie:
accepts and goes home immediately.
returns alone to St. Oggs's.
asks her brother for permission.
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In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie's wit, impetuosity, compassionate
nature, intellectual and sensuous curiosity are associated with:
her cousin Lucy's traits of character.
her brother Tom's.
her father's.
her mother's.
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One character in the list below does not belong to the world of James' The
Portrait of a Lady. Who is he?
Gaspar Goodwood
Gilbert Osmond
Lord Wellington
Ralph Touchett
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From Hardy's point of view, the protagonist gives up struggling at
the first signs of disillusionment.
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The Portrait of a Lady is a tragedy, like Tess or The Mayor of
Casterbridge.
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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 time and of his own time.
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Hardy's logical reasoning shows him that it is impossible to reconcile the
benevolence of an omnipotent and omniscient force with one's freedom of choice.
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Match the following 'point of view', regarding Isabel's identity, with the name
of the character who has uttered:"Isabel's changing every day. She's not the bright American girl she was.She's taking different views, a different colour, and turning away from her old ideals.I've got a fear in my heart that she's going to marry one of theseEuropeans, and I want to prevent it." (The Portrait of a Lady)
Henrietta Stackpole
Pansy Osmond
Madame Merle
Ralph Touchett
Lord Warburton
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With Hardy the tragic is necessarily related to: the excellence of human nature, irrespective of the social extraction.
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Hardy's characters are neither absolutely good nor absolutely wicked.
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Reduction and exaggeration are devices used by:
a caricaturist
a sensational novelist?
a history-oriented novelist?
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Hardy's descriptions of the heath are always achieved from close proximity.
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Austen's flat characters e.g. Mr. Woodhouse, Charlotte Lucas, Mrs
Bennet may be seen as reducible to dominant ideas such as: sense,
pride, snobbery and prejudice but they are not simply:
flat.
round.
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In The Mill on the Floss the conflict is generated by:
the protagonist's irreparably damaging her relationship with the community by a moment's free choice.
the community living by amoral codes.
the community, as repository of long shared moral values.
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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
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In The Scarlet Letter, Pearl, although only a small child, embarrasses Dimmesdale by asking him if:
he will allow her to call him "father".
he will love her mother as long as he lives.
he will stand on the pillory with her and her mother the following day.
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In The Mill on the Floss, the Tullivers are placed against the Dodsons.
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Match the following 'point of view' about Isabel with the name of the character who has uttered it:
"I like her very much. She's 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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In The Mill on the Floss, within a world controlled by financial security or bankruptcy, the life of the Tullivers is a series of:
financial crises.
comfortable equilibriums between financial gains and losses
from investment.
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In The Scarlet Letter, Hester's husband reveals his true identity to her as 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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The time-setting of a romance is:
remote.
specifically historicized.
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In The Mill on the Floss, by whisking her off the river, Stephen is depriving Maggie of her right:
to sell Dorlcote Mill.
to see her brother.
to decide for her own future.
to talk to Philip.
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Hawthorne's pictorial analogies for his verbal art of the ROMANCE can be
associated with the Romantics' cult of the picturesque.
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Match the following 'point of view' about Isabel with the name of the character who has uttered it:
"She's beautiful, generous and, for an American, well-born. She's also very clever and she has a handsome fortune. I want you of course to marry her" (The Portrait of a Lady)
Henrietta Stackpole
Pansy Osmond
Madame Merle
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The provincial society of The Mill on the Floss is located in:
-the paternalistic, feudal relationships among the squire as the top of the local hierarchy and tenant farmers, artisans, field labourers.
the money governed social and economic (in)security controlled by 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 Austen's fictional world the individual is made of the substanceof the social environment exactly as in a romance.
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Hawthorne modified the traditional romance into psychological romance.
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In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie loves to live in her world of imaginations and illustrations, however, her brother, Tom, likes to socialize and shapes a big contrast with Maggie. Maggie's family loves Tom's way of living, hates Maggie.
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The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot's unsparing analysis of philistinism.
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In The Portrait of a Lady, initially, Isabel Archer's quest is:
generous; a quest of self-forgetfulness and devotion to the welfare of her family
selfish; a quest of self-fulfilment, personal happiness.
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The sequence of events reconstructed from a fictional arrangement
of episodes and happenings, is a:
story.
plot.
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The message concluding The Scarlet Letter could be: to develop one's moral potential one must:
plunge into the depth of experiential knowledge in order to ascend.
protect one's moral worth because it is irreparable
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G. Eliot voiced her doctrine of realism in chapter 17 of The Mill on the Floss.
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The omniscient obtrusive narrator interrupts the narrative and uses it as a starting point for:
a new chapter of the book.
some comment or generalization he/she wishes to make.
a change in the plot.
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One of the following statements does not refer to Stonehenge, the symbolic setting Hardy chose for Tess's last appearance before she is hanged:
-"A very Temple of the Winds".
-[The Temple] is "older than the centuries; older than the d'Urbervilles!"
-"The heathen temple, you mean?"
-[The Temple] was without doors and the pillars lay under the roof".
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Overtly the Austen society keep up civilized conventions; covertly they live on hunting for the appropriate man.
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In Hardy's view, man is ultimately still an animal as may be readily observed when his passions are aroused.
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In The Mill on the Floss, Philip Wakem makes Maggie feel she finally finds one person that knows inside of her and appreciate her quality.
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In Hardy's view, destiny subjecting humans to a number of external influences
(e.g. one's environment) is strongly related to:
the belief in God that most characters share.
everyone's ability to avoid all possible mistakes.
the development of one's 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 Eliot's novels.
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The illusion of the readers' involvement in the fiction's present immediacy is ensured by the:
omniscient point of view.
lavish use of dialogue
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In the novel The Mill on the Floss, Tom Tulliver, a man from upper class adds color 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
of the 19th century Puritan New England.
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The Russian formalists' concept of plot is:
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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In The Mill on the Floss, the almost anthropologic analysis of the Dodsons, portraits and routines, is achieved in the playfully humorous tone, never in the satiric.
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In The Mill on the Floss, seeking an intellectual as her equal, Maggie forms a close
attachment to Stephen Guest, the crippled son of a local lawyer.
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Hawthorne's New England is rendered for:
historical veracity of the facts.
historical setting.
romantic distance and picturesque effects.
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Self-conscious narrators i.e. aware of themselves as tellers, narrate the
story in:
Pride and Prejudice
The Portrait of a Lady
The Mill on the Floss
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George Eliot's 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 Hardy's recurrent terms for fate:
The Immanent Will?
"the given"?
The President of the Immortals
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In his preface 'The Custom House' of the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne talking about ROMANCE says 'If a man cannot dream strange things 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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To Maggie Tulliver, in The Mill on the Floss, the past is an
inherent part of the character; loyalty to it, as to oneself, is a must.
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In the acquisitive society and culture of James' fiction money symbolizes:
control of action.
obstruction of action.
freedom of action.
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What point of view does Hardy use in Tess of the D'Urbervilles?
Omniscient.
Selective omniscient.
Subjective.
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The Reform Bill of 1884
enfranchised all male voters.
gave rights to women voters.
enfranchised the working classes of towns.
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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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The Mill on the Floss is set in
a provincial town.
the countryside.
Floss.
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The Hardyesque character is rendered through a conflict between instinct and reason in a fictional world which abounds in signs of ill-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 first person; it has a very pronounced introspective and subjective character, there is direct interaction between authors
and their readers.
The literature of the 18th century is predominantly written in the third person, and uses the omniscient narrator. It has a pronounced objective character, an impersonal touch. The
author hides behind his text, and there is no direct interaction between author and reader.
The literature of the 18th century is written both in the third and in the first person, and focuses on the exploration of the inner workings of the human mind. It uses the stream of consciousness technique and the free indirect speech, and tries to explain human psychology from within.
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What is an epistolary novel?
A novel that follows the development of an individual from youth to maturity,
and his/her growth as a human being through adventures and misfortune.
A novel which is written as a series of documents, usually letters, although it
can also consist of diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents.
A novel which is constructed as a fictional voyage, and is provided with
detailed descriptions of the hero's life and background, in order to create the illusion of reality.
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Whose Victorian novelist's motto is that of "writing as a witness in a box on
oath"?
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Henry Fielding
Jane Austen
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In Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Talbothay's Farm is
a drab and desolate place, with exhausted natural resources.
a warm, fertile, rich place.
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Thomas Hardy's fiction
rejected the link to the past, either the immemorial or local one.
sided with tradition, nostalgically recreating a rural landscape.
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Roger Chillingworth is in Hawthorne's romance, The Scarlet Letter,
an Indian doctor.
a clergyman.
Hester's husband.
Pearl's father.
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Coincidence and accidental occurrence are beside the point in:
George Eliot's fiction.
Thomas Hardy's fiction.
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Thomas Hardy was
a poet.
a novelist.
a poet and novelist.
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According to Hawthorne's philosophical tenets, the Unpardonable Sinner is
an individual 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 his
experiment. What character can be considered as such:
Arthur Dimmesdale
Roger Chillingworth
Robert Hollingworth.
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The historical period to which Hawthorne often resorted in his fiction was:
the medieval legendary age.
his contemporary society.
the colonial, Calvinist past.
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Thomas Hardy's plots are considered to be
realistic.
improbable, melodramatic.
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Nineteenth century American fiction has a kinship with
symbolism (traditional allegory included).
the novel of manners (Jane Austen, J. Fielding, W. Thackeray).
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In George Eliot's fiction, the high-mimetic hero/ine (in Northrop Frye's terms)
is trapped by deterministic relationships to which s/he participates and which s/he cannot elude.
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The typical Victorian novelist is
isolated from his reading public.
reader-oriented.
uncompromising as to his writing manner.
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Hawthorne 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.
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Which writer was influenced by Fuerbach's "Essence of Christianity", Comte's sociological theories, Spencer's evolutionary's philosophy, H. G. Lewes's literary views?
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy's pessimistic novels were influenced by Darwin, Huxley,Spencer, Mill, Schopenhauer.
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In Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Tess murders
Alec d'Urberville.
Angel Clare.
both of them.
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Fictional heroes are built on the pattern of classical (Greek) models by
Charles Dickens.
Thomas Hardy.
George Eliot.
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In 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 a licence
from everyday probability.
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The Victorian age (overlapping with the reign of Queen Victoria)
stretches between:
1871-1904
1837-1901
1834-1920
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The eighteenth century is also named ' the Augustan Age'. Which are the aesthetic 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 onmorality and virtue from the perspective of the Christian doctrine.
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The doctrine of the transcendental movement in American literarure(founders: Emerson, Thoreau, G. Ripley, M. Fuller) was influenced by
English romanticism and German idealism.
Victorian realism.
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The human characters run into the category of "sacrificial animals" in
George Eliot's fiction.
Charles Dickens's novels.
Thomas Hardy's vision.
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N. Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was meant as
a Puritan indictment of sin.
a moral, allegorical probing into the nature of evil and guilt.
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In The Scarlet Letter, at first the letter 'A' refers to
Arthur Dimmesdale.
America.
Adultery.
Ambition.
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There are descriptions of ancient monuments and customs (the mummers'play, the bonfires) in
Charles Dickens's novels.
Thomas Hardy's novels.
George Eliot's novels.
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George Eliot used in her novels
positivist, determinist, ethical concepts.
sensational plots.
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Whose writer's vision was shaped by skepticism and cynicism?
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Henry Fielding
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Unlike George Eliot, who avoided the extremes of social behaviour, Hardy was concerned with the radical, the rebel.
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The 18th century novel was best suited for the tastes of
the aristocratic audience.
middle-class, bourgeois readers.
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Victorian monthly publications included
only scientifical and general issues.
essays, poetry, fiction as well.
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In most of Hardy's novels,
Fate plays a minor part.
there are a great number of comic tinges.
the tragic and ironic mythoi are predominant
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Marriage is described in many of Hardy's novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure as a trap which crashes natural instinct against social necessity.
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The omniscient author
reduces the elements of the plot to the minimum.
involves the reader in the imaginative re-creation of the text.
knows everything about the characters, is always in possession of truth.
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In the second scaffold scene (The Scarlet Letter),
the minister mounts at night the steps of the platform, joined by Hester and Pearl.
shows his community a psychosomatic mark on his breast shaped like the letter 'A'.
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George Eliot's character Maggie Tulliver (in The Mill on the Floss) is finally defined by:
her egotistic purposes.
self-resignation, ethical responsibility.
her extraordinary beauty.
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In Th. Hardy's novels, the setting is
Essex.
Sussex.
Wessex.
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Victorian literature is considered to be
documentary.
self-reflexive.
morally reformative.
none.
all variants.
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Hardy's character is generally reintegrated in the community in most of his novels, as wisdom often comes before its downfall.
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Fals
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In George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, Lucy is presented as
a subversive manner of attacking romantic illusion
a dark-haired, intelligent heroine at odds with the provincial mentality around her .
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The early Victorian novels were preferably published in:
volume editions.
weekly or monthly parts.
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The picaresque plays an important role in George Eliot's novels.
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Fals
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The freedom of will cannot in fact be other than an illusion, for a break in the chain of cause and effect (such as 'freedom'necessarily connotes) is unthinkable in Hardy's
religious perspective
fatalistic perspective
stoic perspective
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From Hardy's point of view, the protagonist
gives up struggling at the first signs of disillusionment.
aspires towards self-fulfilment
always fulfils his aspirations.
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In "The Mill on the Floss" the conflict is generated by:
the protagonist's irreparably damaging her relationship with the community by a
moment's free choice.
the community living by amoral codes.
the community, as repository of long shared moral values.
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George Eliot's character, Maggie Tulliver, is finally defined by her self resignation, ethical responsibility
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Fals
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With Hardy, the freedom of will is
felt as a deeply rooted innate desire.
imposed by external circumstances but not a matter of an inner need.
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Hardy seems to imply that his folk character bears the ills of life
only when one shares them with his community
by the aid of a constant inner questioning of them
by the aid of enduring acceptance
when one chooses to simply ignore them looking on the bright side of things
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The Mill on the Floss is a feminist novel to the extent it concentrates on:
historical feminist leaders.
Maggie's innate intelligence, sensitivity, imagination, condemned by St Oggs's philistinism.
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State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:
George Eliot's early novels - Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss,
Silas Marner are cast in the alert rhythms of social developments in mid 19th century.
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Fals
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George Eliot's life and work:
congenially converged i.e. she lived and wrote according to the Victorian ethic standards.
Paradoxically diverged i.e. she lived unconventionally, as an offender of Victorian ethics ;
while her characters irretrievably are not allowed to break with conventions.
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In Hardy's view, man is ultimately still an animal as may be readily observed
when his ...... is/are aroused.
misdirected curiosity
passions
prejudices
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The Victorian readers controlled:
the length of fictional works; they preferred short novels, to be read at one sitting.
the content of fiction; they preferred sentimentalism and entertainment.
the form; they did not enjoy melodramas and comedies.
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State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:
George Eliot's early novels - Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss,Silas Marner are cast in agrarian, pre-industrial England.
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Fals
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In The Mill on the Floss, the Tullivers are placed
against the Dodsons.
against the Wakems.
against the guests.
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In Hardy's major novels, plots
derive from characters, authenticate them.
derive from characters and teem with fateful incidents.
are autonomous from characters' nature.
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For George Eliot, Man is totally severed from his past.
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Fals
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State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:
In Hardy's major fiction, Tess, Jude the Oscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, the human rebellion against Fate is not essentially tragic; it simply, temporarily frustrates human wills, which
eventually prove resilient.
Adevarat
Fals
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State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:
George Eliot's deterministically structured fictional world is focused on the middling heroism of self-renunciation.
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Fals
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In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie's history contains mostly outward events
being less concerned with her inner life.
Adevarat
Fals
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George Eliot was an impressively self-taught intellectual, of countryside extraction, an equal of the most scholarly male minds of the time.
Adevarat
Fals
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The Roman amphitheatre about the town of Casterbridge could metaphorically suggest:
the heroism of famous Roman leaders of the Empire.
the leveling of humans by death and time.
the heroism of anonymous men in historical and prehistorical ages.
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The Victorian readers controlled:
the length of fictional works; they preferred short novels, to be read at one sitting.
the content of fiction; they preferred sentimentalism and entertainment
the form; they did not enjoy melodramas and comedies.
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The ordinary folk in Hardy's fiction:
heroically rebel against Fate and end up destroyed by it.
wisely rationalize coincidence or accident by admitting it as
"the given", or "what is to be".
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State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:
Hardy's self-conscious, enduring protagonists are his mythic archetypes of human endurance.
Adevarat
Fals
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Within Victorian culture, with Art assuming the status of Religion, and with the Artist as a moral guide, Victorian fiction:
was denied a democratic inclusiveness of taboo topics, such as: the humble, the ugly, the insane, the immoral.
was meant to delightfully, or else, emotionally entertain and morally instruct the middle class readers.
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Characteristically, a Victorian novel plot concludes with:
the punishment of the hero and the reward of the villain.
a morally deserved retribution for the hero(ine) and the villain
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In G. Eliot's fictional world, conflicts and drama originate strictly in society, not in the character's inward competing drives materialized in free will choices.
Adevarat
Fals
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State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:
The Victorian novelist wrote observing his tastes, free from the constraining authorities of publishers, book-sellers, readers.
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Fals
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In E.M. Forster's vision, the 'flat' character of comic and melodramatic fiction is' 'conceptualized, undeveloping, predictable'.
(mimetically plausibile, developing, unpredictable
not individuated, just typical representatives of human nature.
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State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:
In "The Mill on the Floss", the Tullivers have a remarkable sense of humour which saves them in the moments of family tensions.
Adevarat
Fals
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In Hardy's fictional ancestral agrarian communities, the folk live by traditional pagan practices.
Adevarat
Fals
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In George Eliot's fictional world, conflicts and dramas originate strictly
in the society.
in the characters' inward competing drives materialized in free will choices.
in the interrelationship of both.
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Hardy considered that it was impossible to reconcile the immanent energy in the universe, indifferent to human endeavour, with:
the benevolence of a Christian God.
the omnipotence of a pagan Greek idol.
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State if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:
In "The Mill on the Floss", the humorous portrait of Mrs. Tulliver reveals her as deliciously unaware of her involuntary humour.
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Fals
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Focusing upon the slow but decided invasion of modern agricultural technology into a market town, like Casterbridge, Hardy refuses to side with Farfrae's success.
cannot but admit inevitable progress, with nostalgia.
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According to George Eliot's doctrine of realism, expressed in Chapter XVIIof one of her famous novels, her model of fiction rests upon:
Aristotelian mimesis.
the Dutch genre painting.
J.S. Bach's organist composition..
W. Shakespeare's variety of insight into human nature.
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With Hardy the tragic is necessarily related to:
middling human nature.
humble nature.
excellence of human nature, irrespective of the social extraction
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Hardy's Tess, Jude, or Henchard are archetypes of:
absolute virtue.
evil.
human desires constantly countered by adverse circumstances.
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A romance plot:
inflates the protagonist's illusions, self-deceiving expectations
deflates them.
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In Hardy's major novels, plots
derive from characters, authenticate them.
derive from characters and teem with fateful incidents.
are autonomous from characters' nature.
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The typical Victorian novelist is:
isolated from his reading public.
reader-oriented.
ego-oriented.
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Is Hardy's Wessex world in The Mayor of Casterbridge dimensioned:
only socially, realistically?
only cosmically, mythically?
both?
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In Eliot's novels the idea of .... is a key one
absolute freedom of the individual
kinship
the conflict between kinship and the freedom of the individual
Intrebari noi :
A 1)-o comparare intre personajul feminin a lui Slavici si cel din tess daca se aseamana ceva de genul asta.
A 2)In 'Emma' free indirect speech este folosit de autoare pentru
a-i crea impresia cititorului ca nu stie ce urmeaza si care este cursul
povestirii asa cum se intampla si in viata reala.
3)Am mai avut o intrebare legata de pseudonimul literar- Mary-Ann Evans (al lui George Eliot) cu variante diferite fata de cele din grilele de literatura :
-este numele personajului principal al lui Jane Austen
- (neither of them)
4) In The Mill on the Floss, the young Maggie Tulliver s favourite books, Daniel Defoe s History of the Devil,( intreb.160 din cele grila mare cu 363 dar putin modificata)
'SHE COULD IMAGINE STORIES OF HER OWN TO ACCOMPANY THE PICTURES.''
A 5) The patriarchal order of the XIX-th century, the woman was seen only through her husband or brother, the role as a mother was not crytalised yet
6)
