19th Century British Literature Question
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85. With which other poet did Samuel Taylor
Coleridge founded the Romantic Movement in English Literature?
a. Shelley b. Lord
Byron
c. William Wordsworth d. John Keats
86.Samuel
Taylor Coleridge introduced the term 'willing suspension of disbelief'’ in ----------
a. Biographia
Literaria
b. Kubla Khan c. The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner d. Christabel
87.-----------------------is
the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Coleridge.
a. Ralph
Waldo Emerson b. Ernest Holmes c. John
Locke
d. John Locke
88.
Which one is the famous prose work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
a. The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner b. Biographia Literaria c. Kubla
Khan
d. Christabel
89.With
which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ's Hospital, also
called The Bluecoat School? a. Shelley b. William
Wordsworth
c. John Keats d. Charles
Lamb
90.
Coleridge talks about ----------------- in chapter 13 of Biographia Literaria.
a. esemplastic power b. the supernatural c. biography d.
occult
91.
Who is the venerable sage of Koenigsberg?
a. Schelling b. Wordsworth c. Milton d. Immanuel Kant
92.
Primary Imagination means--------------------
a. poetic imagination b. power
of perception c. creative imagination d. pure imagination
93.Secondary
Imagination refers to------------------
a. poetic imagination b. power of
perception c. creative imagination d. pure imagination
94.
Fancy is-------------------
a.
premeditative b. unpredictable c. associative d. meditative
95.
----------------- is a result of esemplastic power.
a. imagination b. fancy c. poetry d.unity
in diversity
96.
Coleridge contends with-------------ideas of poetry.
a. Wordsworth b. Shelley c. Aristotle d. Lamb
97.Coleridge
asserts that mind is active in ----------------
a. imagination b. writing c.perception d. association
98.
Coleridge refers to the philosophy of -------------------
a. Schelling b. Wordsworth c. Spinoza d. Machiavelli
99.
Esemplastic power means ---------------------
a. Synthesising power b. imaginative
power c. poetic power d. Spiritual power
100.Biographia
Literaria is a
a. Autobiography b. biography c. meditative
autobiography d.memoir
Silas
Marner by George Eliot
214 Why are weavers objects of
suspicion in Silas’s day?
a. They are seen as doing womanly
work b. They are rootless and have specialized knowledge
c. They wear only linen clothing d. They have
bad eyesight
215.
How does Silas know about herbal medicine?
a.
His
mother taught him b. It was part of the training from his religious
sect in Lantern Yard
b. He has read up on the topic d. He doesn’t,
he only pretends to
216.
To whom does everyone in town suspect the mysterious tinder-box belongs?
a.
Silas b. Jem Rodney c. The peddler d. Mr. Lammeter
217.
Why doesn’t Silas protest his innocence when he is framed for theft?
a.
He is not allowed to speak b. He is having a cataleptic fit at the time
c. He believes God will clear him d. He believes he actually did steal
the money while having a cataleptic fit
218.
During the period in his life when all he does is work and hoard money, Silas
is likened to:
a. A spider b. A narrow, nearly dried-up
rivulet c. A handle or crooked tube
d. All of the above
219.
From where does Godfrey obtain the one hundred pounds that he lends Dunsey?
a. The sale of Godfrey’s horse, Wildfire b. The
rent paid by one of the Squire’s tenants
c. Money that Godfrey had set aside to give his wife, Molly d.
Godfrey’s winnings at cards
220.
Where does Silas go when he finds his gold missing?
a. The church b. Dolly Winthrop’s house c. The
Rainbow d. The Red House
221.
Why does Nancy refuse for so long to adopt Eppie?
a. She dislikes children b. She thinks Godfrey
will love Eppie more than he loves her
c. She thinks it is wrong for Godfrey and her
to have something that fate has denied them d. She suspects that Eppie
is Godfrey’s child and wants him to be punished
222.
What prompts Godfrey to confess his secret?
a. He finds out that he is terminally ill b. Dunsey’s
remains are discovered in the drained stone-pit c. He gets drunk d. All of the above
223.
Why does Silas decide to return to Lantern Yard for a visit?
a. He is looking for work b. He
wants to find out if he was ever cleared of theft, and to ask his old minister
about the drawing of the lots c. He wants Eppie to see where he grew up
d. He wants to show his former sect that he has succeeded in spite of his
excommunication
224.
What is Silas’s first thought when he notices that the mass of gold on his
hearth is in fact a baby girl?
a. That he should lock his door b. That he
will adopt the little girl c. That the
little girl’s mother can’t be far away d.
That
the little girl is his dead sister, coming back to him in a dream
225.
Why does Molly Farren come to the New Year’s dance?
a. She wants to announce her and Godfrey’s
marriage to everyone there b.
She thinks she can win Godfrey’s love by dancing with him c. She wants to apologize to Godfrey for something she has said d. She wants her daughter to be adopted
by Godfrey and Nancy
226.
Why does Godfrey put up with Dunsey’s bullying?
a. Dunsey can beat him up b. Dunsey has threatened to expose Godfrey’s
secret marriage c. Godfrey is
trying to set an example of good Christian forbearance d. Godfrey loves his
brother
