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2nd Sem Test 2 Flashcards

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1
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Which two British heroes won significant victories at sea and on land against Napoleon?

A

Horatio Nelson

Arthur Wellesley

Duke of Wellington

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2
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The Reform Act of 1832 accomplished all of the following except

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that a secret ballot was established in voting procedures.

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3
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Philosophical idealism promotes which of the following concepts?

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A.Humanity is unable to fully or accurately observe reality

b. All knowledge = creation of the individual’s mind.

Both

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Rousseau, the promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by

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society.

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Christians would agree with romantics on all the following points except that

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intuition has some validity.

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6
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London replaced which city as the hub of European civilization?

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Paris

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Which two political parties dominated the Victorian era?

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Conservative and Liberal

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Which two prime ministers dominated the Victorian era?

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Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone

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9
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T/F-A common dement in all areas of romantic thinking political, philosophical, and artistic is freedom from
limits.

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True

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10
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T/F-Within the context of romanticism, a nation’s literature is the primary instrument of transformative change
and improvement.

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True

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T/F-Romanticism’s goal was to change society by addressing the group, not the individual.
Thic

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False

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T/F-Steam power was a major factor in the communication revolution in England.

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True

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13
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Steam power was a major factor in the communication revolution in England.

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True

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14
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The policy of laissez faire advocated what role for government?

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Hands off

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15
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What book embodied the most culturally si feant result of interest in natural science?

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On the origins of species by Darwin

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16
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Which colony of the British Empire was known as the “jewel in the crown?”

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India

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Philosophical idealism promotes which of the following concepts?

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  • Humanity is unable to fully or accurately observe reality.
  • All knowledge is in some way a creation of the individual’s mind
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Rousseau, the promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by

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Society

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19
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London replaced which city as the hub of European civilization?

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Paris

20
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Which two middle-class and self-educated writers were ahead of their time and took their writing in entirely new directions

A

Robert Burns and William Blake

21
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According to your textbook, which two authors exhibited in their writings a transitional stage between neoclassicism and romanticism?

A

Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen

22
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Burns’s “To a Mouse” uses which of the following to communicate his perspective on man’s hopes and, more broadly, his nationalism and devotion to the common man and nature?

A

A rural dialect and colorful images

23
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Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” exhibits what literary device in the following excerpt?

A

Hyperbole

24
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Burns’s use of what literary device is evident in the following excerpt from “A Red, Red Rose”?
“O my luv’s like the melodie / That’s sweetly play’d in tune.”

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Simile

25
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The following excerpt from Blake’s “The Lamb” illustrates what syntactical device?
“He is meek and he is mild.”

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parallelism

26
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What device does Blake use in the following excerpt from “London”?
“In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.”

A

anaphora

27
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Blake’s “London” condemns all the following institutions of society except

A

education.

28
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In the following excerpt from A Vindication, Wollstonecraft makes what kind of rhetorical appeal?
“Thanks to that Being who impressed them on my soul, and gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my own reason.”

A

ethos

29
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Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, argues that in both men and women, true virtue is preceded by

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a life of service.

30
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In A Vindication, what does Wollstonecraft call for?

A

women to be considered equal with men and to have equal access to education

31
Q

In Pride and Prejudice, which of Lizzy’s characteristics does Mr. Bennet distinguish as setting her apart from
her sisters?

A

her intelligence

32
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Aside from the obvious focus on nature, what do “I wandered lonely as a cloud” and “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” have in common?

A

an emphasis on the memory of experiences with nature

33
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Beyond his work with poetry, what genre of literature is Coleridge best known for?

A

literary criticism

34
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written in what poetic form?

A

ballad stanza

35
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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, how does the mariner kill the albatross?

A

with a crossbow

36
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What was the preeminent genre of Victorian literature?

A

novels

37
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The Byronic hero is characterized by all of the following except

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remorse and repentance.

38
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Byron resurrected Spenser’s stanza form, Spenserian stanza, characterized by which of the following?

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eight lines in iambic pentameter and one in iambic hexameter

39
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“Ode to the West Wind” uses which poetic form?

A

terza rima

40
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Which genre, popular among Romantic poets, is characterized by exaltations or meditations in which the speaker works through a problem in his mind?

A

ode

41
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“England in 1819” was inspired by which historical event?

A

the Battle of Peterloo

42
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VIn “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats lists all of the following that will not fade except

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the lovers’ marriage.

43
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What do the sailors mean by hanging the albatross around the Mariner’s neck? What does the albatross symbolize?

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Guilt as they blame him

44
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At what point does the mariner’s guilt subside? What happens as a result of his “confession”?

A

when the albatos falls due to the mariner confessing natures beauty

45
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Adonais is Shelley’s elegy on the death of whom?

A

Keats

46
Q

Fill in the blanks to complete this famous line from “Ode on a Grecian Urn” which encapsulates
Keats’s philosophy. “Beauty is
beauty.”

A

Truth

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