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Which of the following best describes social change during the British Victorian era?

Rapid industrialization the British Empire's rise to world dominance

Which of the following is NOT associated with British Victorian poetry?

Samuel Beckett

An example of these radical Protestants' favourite genre of literature is:

Jonathan Edwards' sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of Angry God"

A key figure in British Modernism was the foreign-born writer:

Joseph Conrad

Charles Dickens' novels are known for:

combining sensationalism, sentiment and realism

The novelist D. H. Lawrence had a number of books banned for:

explicit sexuality

Two novelists who combined Genteel and Modernist elements in their work were:

Henry James and Edith Wharton

Plays that challenge the rules of traditinal drama (often with no clear plot or logical dialogue) are sometimes called:

. "Theater of the Absurd"

The "Lost Generation" included writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway who:

felt alienated from traditional values after the First World War

Douglas Coupland's novel of young North Americans living in a materialistic society is called:

Generation X

The main principle of imagism is to:

"paint with words" rather than "moaning" and "whining" about feelings

James Joyce's Ulysses is an example of:

Modernist prose

John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were important poets of this movement:

Romanticism

Victorian novels about the lives of rich, fashionable people were known as:

"silver-fork" novels

Name the artistic movement from the mid-late 20th century that emphasizes: radical questioning, experiments in new ways of writing, the idea that art can never tell the real truth (because there is no truth)

Postmodernism

Allen Ginsberg, author of the poem "Howl" was a member of this literary movement, whose members experimented with drugs and Eastern religions:

the Beats

The so-called "Golden Age of the English Novel" was caused by:

Increased literacy and growing middle-class readership

The arrival of large numbers of immigrants has led to the birth of a new genre of British writing

Postcolonial literature

The so-called "Golden Age of the English Novel" occured during the:

Victorian Age

The most sucessful of the so-called "Fireside Poets" was the author of the Evangeline and The song of Hiawatha.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The American writer, author of The Bell Jar and Ariel, is an important figure in feminist litterature:

Sylvia Plath

The slogan of Aesteteticism was:

"art for art's sake"

After World War 2, Britain experienced many changes that affected the development of litterature, including:

break-up of the Empire and immigration from former colonies

Which of the following was a major British Traditionalist novelist?

E.M. Forster, author of Howards End

The greatest of America's early novelists was Herman Melville, author of this complex, symbolic tale of adventure at sea:

Moby-Dick

The "Boston Brahmins" were

wealthy, educated New Englanders like Henry Adams and Oliver Wendell Holmes

One way to think about American literature in the 19th century is to divide it into two streams:

Genteel and distinctively American

The author of Main Street and Babbit, this Realist writer was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature:

Sinclair Lewis

Which sentence best expresses the idea of the "American Dream"

. In America, everyone has the opportunity to suceed

Which 19-century American philosophy:

Transcendentalism

Due to the influence of Puritanism and a flourishing newspaper and magazine culture, in the 18th century America was:

the most literate society in the world

Ezra Pound was the author of a famous Modernist poem called:

"In a Station of the Metro"

The increased acceptance of "new voices in literature, including Southerners, Americans, women and Jews, is characteristic of what time period in American litterature?

After World War 2

Which of the following best describes Romantic poetry?

Nature themes, rhyme, emphasis on passion

. "Genteel" writing in 19th-century America is best described as:

Writing modelled after British Victorian styles and themes

At the beginning of the 20th century, the arts (including literature) changed values and patterns of past. This change is called:

Modernism

This poet was inspired by Emerson's philosophy and is sometimes known as "father of free verse". a. Frank Norris

Walt Whitman

During the Victorian Age, novels became increasingly

realistic

After World War 2, fears of nuclear weapons and ttotalitarianism led to the creation of novels like:

1984, by George Orwell

The "Angry Young Men" were:

naturalistic writers of the post-war period, critics of British elitism

Which of the following best describes Modernist poetry?

Free verse, Imagism, Symbolism

Some people have suggested that Bridget Jones's Diary is not really a feminist novel. Why?

The story has a "fairy tale" ending where the woman is rescued by a rich man

Radical Protestants who settled in the Boston area in the 17th century were known as:

Puritans

Perhaps the very first piece of "American" literature was:

John Smith's history of the Jamestown colony

The most succesful of the so-called "Fireside Poets" was the author of Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Adventures of Huckelberry Finn best fits into which genre:

Realist fiction

Benjamin Franklin is best decribed as:

. the American prototype of the "self-made man"

The most succesful professional author of early America (creator of Legend of Sleepy Hollow) was:

Washington Irving

The earliest colonial writing tends to portray America as:

all of these things

This 19th-century American writer influenced the French Symbolist poets and helped to create the detective and science

Edgar Allan Poe

. By the end of the 19th century, Naturalism had become and important sty American Fiction. Naturalism is best described as:

a form of Realism that focuses on harsh economic and social

In the years immediately World War 2 (1939-45), literature in Britain was... of:

Fear and pessimism

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne were key figures in this development

American Renaissance

. Emerson's philosophy was important to other American writers like:

. Walt Whitman

In the 19th century, some American writers began to use slang and dial folk culture of the American frontier. The most important of these writers were:

Mark Twain

Which of the following best describes Edgar Allan Poe?

a pioneer of the horror, detective, and science-fiction genres

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography expresses a philosophy of pragmatism which means:

he doesn't worry about ideology of tradition - he will do whatever is practical or effective