Cards

Question 1

In “The Hero as Divinity” Carlyle’s controlling image is that the hero is like what?

Answer 1

lighting acting on kindling

Question 2

Thomas Carlyle’s areas of religious thought and social criticism had the greatest impact on ______________

Answer 2

Victorian England

Question 3

John Henry Newman found religious satisfaction in religious what?

Answer 3

traditionalism

Question 4

Newman firmly opposed all attempts to separate ________________

Answer 4

formal religion from public life, especially schools

Question 5

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poetry was deepened and enriched by what?

Answer 5

The death of his best friend

Question 6

William Wordsworth preceded as a _______

Answer 6

poet laureate

Question 7

Thomas Carlyle was the main influence upon who’s religios thought

Answer 7

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Question 8

Thomas Carlyle’s spiritual autobiography is ______________

Answer 8

“Sartor Resartus”

Question 9

is a personal record of the experience that shaped Tennyson into the poet-
prophet predicted by Carlyle.

Answer 9

Memoriam

Question 10

A celebration of the hero as a doubter and the insistence on truths deeper than those which
are grasped by reason is mirrored in the poem In Memoriam. It also offers

Answer 10

reassurance of
immorality through mystic insight.

Question 11

In Morte de Arthur, Tennyson expresses optimism concerning

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Victorian faith in human
progress.

Question 12

In Crossing the Bar, the “pilot” is the

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“divine and unseen Who is always guiding us.”

Question 13

The basis for Tennyson’s beliefs is intuition rather than

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reason or revelation.

Question 14

Prospice” expresses Browning’s faith in .

Answer 14

immorality

Question 15

Browning Created the new poetic genre of

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dramatic monologue.

Question 16

“Oh, to be in _______ / Now that ______ here.”

Answer 16

England, April’s

Question 17

Brownings view of creation is closest to that of

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theistic evolution.

Question 18

Carroll He was an effective lecturer in

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mathematics

Question 19

Carroll He was an

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ordained Anglican deacon.

Question 20

Carroll He was known for his

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treatises in symbolic logic.

Question 21

Most of his poems in the Alice books are best described as .

Answer 21

parodies

Question 22

Characteristics of an effective parody:

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• A close relation in form between the original and the parody.
• A distinct difference in tone between the original and and the parody.

Question 23

Carroll’s “Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow” reflects his ability to compose

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serious verse.

Question 24

Hardy taught Sunday school as a youth and planned to

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enter the ministry.

Question 25

Hardy studied .

Answer 25

architecture

Question 26

The fictional setting for his novel is .

Answer 26

Wessex

Question 27

What reflects the lingering pain of rejecting Christianity and the futility of trying
to purge the miraculous from Christianity?

Answer 27

“The Darking Thrush”

Question 28

“The Darking Thrush” also shows the hopelessness of finding a

Answer 28

replacement for the Christian
faith.

Question 29

Higher criticism is presented as the chief cause of religious doubt in

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“The Respectable
Burgher”.

Question 30

The apprehension of the third stranger by the villagers in “The Three Strangers” is the

Answer 30

climax
of the story.

Question 31

It is ironic that Hardy spent much of his early life employed in the physical restoration of
churches because

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he was antagonistic toward Christianity.

Question 32

Hardy viewed peasantry as

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“noble” rustics or contented pagans.

Question 33

was the first successful novel and one which enabled him to
support his family through his writing.

Answer 33

“Far From the Maddening Crowd”

Question 34

Gerard Manley Hopkins Characteristics of his poetic style

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• Strong-stress meter.
• Extreme condensation.
• Unusual diction.
• Multiple meanings.

Question 35

Hopkin’s “sprung rhythm” which is based on natural speech rhythms instead of syllable
divisions, is like the rhythm pattern of

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old English poetry.

Question 36

By becoming a priest, Hopkins found he did not have the assurance he had been seeking
while at Oxford. He turned to ______ for help in his spiritual struggles.

Answer 36

Newman

Question 37

Born in 1859 (same year as Francis Thompson) and also when Darwin’s Origin of Species was published.

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Housman

Question 38

“To An Athlete Dying Young” shows that the youth is praised for dying young and keeps his honor even in death. It also demonstrates that

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fame dies more quickly than beauty does.

Question 39

Housman’s poetry challenges

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God’s justice and His purposeful control of the universe.

Question 40

The reluctance of the clock to strike in “Eight O’Clock” suggests .

Answer 40

regret

Question 41

Thompsons says that modern man cannot see the angels because in “The. Kingdom of God.”

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mans unredeemed nature prevents him from seeing them

Question 42

“The Hound of Heaven” masterfully recounts

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the pursuit of the sinner by God.

Question 43

Kipling was the last british writer of fiction and poetry

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to appeal to all levels of society.

Question 44

Kipling can be considered a successor to .

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Dickens

Question 45

The Conversation of Aurelian McGoggin” is a ____ (specific form of literature)

Answer 45

tract

Question 46

“The Conversation of Aurelian McGoggin” seems to target not religious zealots in general but

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a kind of zealot who does not think of himself as religious.

Question 47

According to the doctor, McGoggin’s conversation was caused by .

Answer 47

overwork