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Întrebarea nr. 1 0 points SaveThe characters in James’ fiction enjoy an unlimited freedom in acting;they are not pressed by the circumstances; neither are ThomasHardy’s characters.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 3 0 points SaveIn James’ fiction, a favorite theme is the collision of Europeaninnocence and American experience.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 5 0 points SaveJane Austen’s narrators are ironic about Gothic imaginings andRomanticized sensibility.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 6 0 points SaveWho are the “international Americans” (Americans living in Europeand adopting the European ways) in the novel The Portrait of aLady:Henrietta Stackpole, Ralph Touchett, Isabel Archer?Isabel Archer, Madame Merle, Gilbert Osmond?Pansy Osmond, Caspar Goodwood, Isabel Archer?

Întrebarea nr. 7 0 points SaveAs a realist novelist, Austen is generous, lavish in landscapedescriptions objectifying the characters’ moods.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 8 0 points SaveIn The Mill on the Floss, the crisis of the narrative turns on Maggie’sneed 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.Întrebarea nr. 10 0 points SaveIn the Preface to The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne’s metaphors forromantic realism and romance are:moonlight and stage lightmoonlight and firelightmoonlight and torchlight.

Întrebarea nr. 11 0 points SaveIn James’ fiction, protagonists, European by extraction, choose tosettle down in AmericaAdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 12 0 points SaveIn The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale believes that Hester’s sin is

greater than his own.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 14 0 points SaveIn the metaphysical novel, the symbolic setting is often used as amirror 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.

Întrebarea nr. 15 0 points SaveIn Jane Austen’s world of economic survival and genteel propriety,the person getting married to a mate marries society as well.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 16 0 points SaveCharacteristically, 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.

Întrebarea nr. 17 0 points SaveIsabel has a typically American hunger for experience coupled witha puritanical fear of her ego, which means that her freedom remainsabstract and unreal.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 19 0 points SaveThe world George Eliot gives birth to in her novels isa fast advancing world of change.a slowly changing world originating in past links.

Întrebarea nr. 20 0 points SaveIn 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.

Întrebarea nr. 23 0 points SaveIn The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale are, ultimately,Archetypes of sinning and that is why their moral development is frozen inStereotyped patterns.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 24 0 points SaveMatch the following "point of view" regarding Isabel's identity with the name ofthe character who has uttered it: “I think you are my guardian angel!” (ThePortrait of a Lady)Henrietta StackpolePansy OsmondMadame MerleRalph TouchettLord Warburton

Întrebarea nr. 27 0 points SaveIn James’ fiction, most of the protagonists are cultured, educated, and aristocratic.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 29 0 points SaveAt the end of the novel The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale found theresolve to admit in public that:he hated Chillingworth.he wanted to leave New England.he was Pearl’s father.

Întrebarea nr. 30 0 points SaveIn Eliot’s novels the idea of ………… is a key oneabsolute freedom of the individual.kinship.the conflict between kinship and the freedom of the individual.

Întrebarea nr. 31 0 points SaveThe picaresque novel and the detective novel are patterned uponplots of:fortune.thought.character.

Întrebarea nr. 33 0 points SaveAlong with other American writers, Mark Twain and W. D. Howells, Henry James satirized the European manners.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 37 0 points SaveIn Hawthorne’s vision ……… is the neutral territory between realityand fairy land, where the Actual and the Imaginary meet and fuse.the windowthe ceilingthe floor

Întrebarea nr. 40 0 points SaveIn The Scarlet Letter, Hester’s husband, Arthur Dimmesdale,returns incognitoand settles in the town under the name of Richard Chillingworth.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 42 0 points SaveJames’ admiration for European culture led him to an interest in theconflict of the American and European personalities.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 44 0 points SaveHardy’s descriptions of his native Wessex nature are achieved bothfrom a close proximity and from a cosmic distance.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 45 0 points SaveIn Hawthorne’s vision, romance transforms the ordinary world into cold

allegory and then back into the impression of life.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 46 0 points SaveThe past tense in which events are narrated in fiction is transferredby the reader into:dramatic showing (scene), dialogue.summary.

Întrebarea nr. 47 0 points SaveThe masculine pen-name of Marian Evans disguises the distanceseparating herself as the moral, serious author, favourably reviewed and read, fromherself as an adulteress and an agnostic.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 48 0 points SaveThe theme of James’ The Portrait of a Lady is the dangerously deceptivedisregard of the correlation of ethics and aesthetics.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 49 0 points SaveWhat 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.

Întrebarea nr. 52 0 points SaveHawthorne’s ROMANCES differ from NOVELS in their preference forallegory and psychological exploration.realistic social observation.artificial constrains of commercial civilization.

Întrebarea nr. 53 0 points SaveIn The Mill on the Floss, Maggie Tulliver is a girl who needs love from herfamily since she never deserved it.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 58 0 points SaveTess’s fate is metaphorically dramatized when associated with:doomed snakes, rats, pheasants.the plight of sea faring people.still-born babies.

Întrebarea nr. 59 0 points SaveThe earth in Tess of the D’Urbevilles (i.e. the green fertile vale ofBlackmoor, 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.

Întrebarea nr. 61 0 points SaveHardy’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.

Întrebarea nr. 63 0 points SaveWhen Hardy describes the heath from close proximity he is a realist,when he does it from Olympian distances he is an impressionist anda thoughtful skeptic.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 64 0 points SaveThe cosmic dimension of his characters is the novelty Hardy brought to thecentury’s fiction.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 66 0 points SaveIn Austen’s fictional world the protagonist lives only by the dictatesof her emotional intelligence, leaping over the society’s ethics.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 67 0 points SaveSt. Ogg, the legendary patron of the town bearing his name in TheMill on the Floss, was a poor boater rewarded for his pity by theBlessed Virgin herself.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 68 0 points SaveIn The Mill on the Floss, after an expedition down the Floss withStephen he offers to marry her, and Maggie:accepts and goes home immediately.returns alone to St. Oggs’s.asks her brother for permission.

Întrebarea nr. 70 0 points SaveIn The Mill on the Floss, Maggie’s wit, impetuosity, compassionatenature, intellectual and sensuous curiosity are associated with:her cousin Lucy’s traits of character.her brother Tom’s.her father’s.her mother’s.

Întrebarea nr. 71 0 points SaveOne character in the list below does not belong to the world of James’ The Portrait of a Lady. Who is he?Gaspar GoodwoodGilbert OsmondLord WellingtonRalph Touchett

Întrebarea nr. 73 0 points SaveFrom Hardy’s point of view, the protagonist gives up struggling atthe first signs of disillusionment.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 74 0 points SaveThe Portrait of a Lady is a tragedy, like Tess or The Mayor of

Casterbridge.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 76 0 points SaveA 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.

Întrebarea nr. 79 0 points SaveHardy’s logical reasoning shows him that it is impossible to reconcile thebenevolence of an omnipotent and omniscient force with one’s freedom of choice.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 82 0 points SaveMatch the following "point of view", regarding Isabel's identity, with the nameof 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 StackpolePansy OsmondMadame MerleRalph TouchettLord Warburton

Întrebarea nr. 85 0 points SaveWith Hardy the tragic is necessarily related to: the excellence of human nature, irrespective of the social extraction.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 86 0 points SaveHardy’s characters are neither absolutely good nor absolutely wicked.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 87 0 points SaveReduction and exaggeration are devices used by:a caricaturista sensational novelist?a history-oriented novelist?

Întrebarea nr. 90 0 points SaveHardy’s descriptions of the heath are always achieved from close proximity.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 91 0 points SaveAusten’s flat characters e.g. Mr. Woodhouse, Charlotte Lucas, MrsBennet may be seen as reducible to dominant ideas such as: sense,pride, snobbery and prejudice but they are not simply:flat.round.

Întrebarea nr. 94 0 points SaveIn 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.

Întrebarea nr. 96 0 points SaveIn The Mill on the Floss, as Maggie drifts down the river with………, she repudiates her own moral will.TomPhilipStephen

Întrebarea nr. 97 0 points SaveIn 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.

Întrebarea nr. 98 0 points SaveIn The Mill on the Floss, the Tullivers are placed against the Dodsons.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 100 0 points SaveMatch 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 WarburtonGilbert OsmondRalph Touchett

Întrebarea nr. 102 0 points SaveIn 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 lossesfrom investment.

Întrebarea nr. 106 0 points SaveIn 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.

Întrebarea nr. 108 0 points SaveThe time-setting of a romance is:remote.specifically historicized.

Întrebarea nr. 109 0 points SaveIn 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.

Întrebarea nr. 112 0 points SaveHawthorne’s pictorial analogies for his verbal art of the ROMANCE can beassociated with the Romantics’ cult of the picturesque.

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Întrebarea nr. 113 0 points SaveMatch 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 StackpolePansy OsmondMadame Merle

Întrebarea nr. 114 0 points SaveThe 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.

Întrebarea nr. 115 0 points SaveHawthorne considered himself a romantic realist, much like Dickens.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 116 0 points SaveIn Austen’s fictional world the individual is made of the substanceof the social environment exactly as in a romance.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 118 0 points SaveHawthorne modified the traditional romance into psychological romance.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 119 0 points SaveIn 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 120 0 points SaveThe Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s unsparing analysis of philistinism.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 121 0 points SaveIn The Portrait of a Lady, initially, Isabel Archer’s quest is:generous; a quest of self-forgetfulness and devotion to the welfare of her familyselfish; a quest of self-fulfilment, personal happiness.

Întrebarea nr. 122 0 points SaveThe sequence of events reconstructed from a fictional arrangementof 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

Întrebarea nr. 124 0 points SaveG. Eliot voiced her doctrine of realism in chapter 17 of The Mill on the Floss.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 127 0 points SaveThe 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.

Întrebarea nr. 130 0 points SaveOne 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”.

Întrebarea nr. 136 0 points SaveOvertly the Austen society keep up civilized conventions; covertly they live on hunting for the appropriate man.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 137 0 points SaveIn Hardy’s view, man is ultimately still an animal as may be readily observed when his passions are aroused.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 140 0 points SaveIn The Mill on the Floss, Philip Wakem makes Maggie feel she finally finds one person that knows inside of her and appreciate her quality.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 141 0 points SaveIn 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.

Întrebarea nr. 142 0 points SaveTess’ pendulum-like swing between Alec and Angel is a swing between:selfishness and altruism.wealth and poverty.flesh and spirit.pride and modesty.

Întrebarea nr. 143 0 points SaveThe picaresque plays an important role in George Eliot’s novels.

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Întrebarea nr. 145 0 points SaveThe illusion of the readers’ involvement in the fiction’s present immediacy is ensured by the:omniscient point of view.lavish use of dialogue.

Întrebarea nr. 146 0 points SaveIn 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 147 0 points SaveIn his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne describes the customsof the 19th century Puritan New England.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 150 0 points SaveThe 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.

Întrebarea nr. 152 0 points SaveIn 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 155 0 points SaveIn The Mill on the Floss, seeking an intellectual as her equal, Maggie forms a closeattachment to Stephen Guest, the crippled son of a local lawyer.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 156 0 points SaveHawthorne’s New England is rendered for:historical veracity of the facts.historical setting.romantic distance and picturesque effects.

Întrebarea nr. 157 0 points SaveSelf-conscious narrators i.e. aware of themselves as tellers, narrate thestory in:Pride and Prejudice.The Portrait of a Lady.The Mill on the Floss.

Întrebarea nr. 158 0 points SaveGeorge 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

Întrebarea nr. 162 0 points SaveIn 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 164 0 points SaveTo Maggie Tulliver, in The Mill on the Floss, the past is aninherent part of the character; loyalty to it, as to oneself, is a must.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 165 0 points SaveIn the acquisitive society and culture of James’ fiction money symbolizes:control of action.obstruction of action.freedom of action.

Întrebarea nr. 168 0 points SaveWhat point of view does Hardy use in Tess of the D’Urbervilles?Omniscient.Selective omniscient.Subjective.

Întrebarea nr. 169 0 points SaveThe Reform Bill of 1884enfranchised all male voters.gave rights to women voters.enfranchised the working classes of towns.

Întrebarea nr. 176 0 points SaveGeorge Eliot used suggestive names in her novels, such as: Uriah Heep,Mr. Bounderby, Mr. Veneering, Mr. Murdstone, Pecksniff.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 178 0 points SaveThe Mill on the Floss is set ina provincial town.the countryside.Floss.

Întrebarea nr. 187 0 points SaveThe 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, ancientrituals.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 188 0 points SaveWhich 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 authorsand 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. Theauthor 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.

Întrebarea nr. 190 0 points SaveWhat 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 itcan also consist of diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents.A novel which is constructed as a fictional voyage, and is provided withdetailed descriptions of the hero’s life and background, in order to create the illusion of reality.

Întrebarea nr. 191 0 points SaveWhose Victorian novelist’s motto is that of “writing as a witness in a box onoath”?Charles DickensGeorge EliotHenry FieldingJane Austen

Întrebarea nr. 195 0 points SaveIn Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Talbothay’s Farm isa drab and desolate place, with exhausted natural resources.a warm, fertile, rich place.

Întrebarea nr. 199 0 points SaveThomas Hardy’s fictionrejected the link to the past, either the immemorial or local one.sided with tradition, nostalgically recreating a rural landscape.

Întrebarea nr. 208 0 points SaveRoger Chillingworth is in Hawthorne’s romance, The Scarlet Letter,an Indian doctor.a clergyman.Hester’s husband.Pearl's father.

Întrebarea nr. 209 0 points SaveCoincidence and accidental occurrence are beside the point in:George Eliot’s fiction.Thomas Hardy’s fiction.

Întrebarea nr. 211 0 points SaveThomas Hardy wasa poet.a novelist.a poet and novelist.

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According to Hawthorne’s philosophical tenets, the Unpardonable Sinner isan individual who tries to separate his intellect from the heart, in a lack ofreverence for the human soul, looking on mankind as the subject of hisexperiment. What character can be considered as such:Arthur DimmesdaleRoger ChillingworthRobert Hollingworth.

Întrebarea nr. 217 0 points SaveThe historical period to which Hawthorne often resorted in his fiction was:the medieval legendary age.his contemporary society.the colonial, Calvinist past.

Întrebarea nr. 218 0 points SaveThomas Hardy’s plots are considered to berealistic.improbable, melodramatic.

Întrebarea nr. 221 0 points SaveNineteenth century American fiction has a kinship withsymbolism (traditional allegory included).the novel of manners (Jane Austen, J. Fielding, W. Thackeray).

Întrebarea nr. 222 0 points SaveIn 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 223 0 points SaveThe typical Victorian novelist isisolated from his reading public.reader-oriented.uncompromising as to his writing manner.

Întrebarea nr. 225 0 points SaveHawthorne projects Pearl in his romance, The Scarlet Letter, asan orphan girl, adopted by Hester.a vivid representation, an embodiment of the allegorical letter.Roger Chillingworth's daughter.

Întrebarea nr. 228 0 points SaveWhich 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 DickensGeorge EliotJane AustenThomas Hardy

Întrebarea nr. 229 0 points SaveThomas Hardy’s pessimistic novels were influenced by Darwin, Huxley,Spencer, Mill, Schopenhauer.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 236 0 points SaveIn Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Tess murdersAlec d'Urberville.Angel Clare.both of them.

Întrebarea nr. 237 0 points SaveFictional heroes are built on the pattern of classical (Greek) models byCharles Dickens.Thomas Hardy.George Eliot.

Întrebarea nr. 238 0 points SaveIn 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 licencefrom everyday probability.

Întrebarea nr. 240 0 points SaveThe Victorian age (overlapping with the reign of Queen Victoria)stretches between:1871-19041837-19011834-1920

Întrebarea nr. 242 0 points SaveThe 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.

Întrebarea nr. 244 0 points SaveThe doctrine of the transcendental movement in American literarure(founders: Emerson, Thoreau, G. Ripley, M. Fuller) was influenced byEnglish romanticism and German idealism.Victorian realism.

Întrebarea nr. 247 0 points SaveThe human characters run into the category of “sacrificial animals” inGeorge Eliot’s fiction.Charles Dickens’s novels.Thomas Hardy’s vision.

Întrebarea nr. 248 0 points SaveN. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was meant asa Puritan indictment of sin.a moral, allegorical probing into the nature of evil and guilt.

Întrebarea nr. 251 0 points SaveIn The Scarlet Letter, at first the letter "A" refers toArthur Dimmesdale.America.Adultery.Ambition.

Întrebarea nr. 257 0 points SaveThere are descriptions of ancient monuments and customs (the mummers’play, the bonfires) inCharles Dickens’s novels.Thomas Hardy’s novels.George Eliot’s novels.

Întrebarea nr. 262 0 points SaveGeorge Eliot used in her novelspositivist, determinist, ethical concepts.sensational plots.

Întrebarea nr. 263 0 points SaveWhose writer’s vision was shaped by skepticism and cynicism?George EliotThomas HardyHenry Fielding

Întrebarea nr. 265 0 points SaveUnlike George Eliot, who avoided the extremes of social behaviour, Hardy was concerned with the radical, the rebel.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 266 0 points SaveThe 18th century novel was best suited for the tastes ofthe aristocratic audience.middle-class, bourgeois readers.

Întrebarea nr. 269 0 points SaveVictorian monthly publications includedonly scientifical and general issues.essays, poetry, fiction as well.

Întrebarea nr. 275 0 points SaveIn 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.

Întrebarea nr. 276 0 points SaveMarriage 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 277 0 points SaveThe omniscient authorreduces 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.

Întrebarea nr. 278 0 points SaveIn 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".

Întrebarea nr. 286 0 points SaveGeorge 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.

Întrebarea nr. 287 0 points SaveIn Th. Hardy’s novels, the setting isEssex.

Sussex.Wessex.

Întrebarea nr. 288 0 points SaveVictorian literature is considered to bedocumentary.self-reflexive.morally reformative.none.all variants.

Întrebarea nr. 295 0 points SaveHardy’s character is generally reintegrated in the community in most of his novels, as wisdom often comes before its downfall.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 296 0 points SaveIn George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, Lucy is presented asa subversive manner of attacking romantic illusion.a dark-haired, intelligent heroine at odds with the provincial mentality around her .

Întrebarea nr. 297 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer:The early Victorian novels were preferably published in:volume editions.weekly or monthly parts.

Întrebarea nr. 298 0 points SaveThe picaresque plays an important role in George Eliot’s novels.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 300 0 points SaveThe 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’sreligious perspectivefatalistic perspectivestoic perspective

Întrebarea nr. 301 0 points SaveFrom Hardy’s point of view, the protagonistgives up struggling at the first signs of disillusionment.aspires towards self-fulfilment.always fulfils his aspirations.

Întrebarea nr. 302 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer:In “The Mill on the Floss” the conflict is generated by:the protagonist’s irreparably damaging her relationship with the community by amoment’s free choice.the community living by amoral codes.the community, as repository of long shared moral values.

Întrebarea nr. 304 0 points SaveGeorge Eliot’s character, Maggie Tulliver, is finally defined by her self resignation, ethical responsibilityAdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 305 0 points SaveWith Hardy, the freedom of will isfelt as a deeply rooted innate desire.imposed by external circumstances but not a matter of an inner need.

Întrebarea nr. 307 0 points SaveHardy seems to imply that his folk character bears the ills of lifeonly when one shares them with his communityby the aid of a constant inner questioning of themby the aid of enduring acceptancewhen one chooses to simply ignore them looking on the bright side of things

Întrebarea nr. 308 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer: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.

Întrebarea nr. 310 0 points SaveState 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 311 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer: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.

Întrebarea nr. 312 0 points SaveIn Hardy’s view, man is ultimately still an animal as may be readily observedwhen his ………….. is/are aroused.misdirected curiositypassionsprejudices

Întrebarea nr. 313 0 points SaveThe 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.

Întrebarea nr. 318 0 points SaveState 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 320 0 points SaveIn The Mill on the Floss, the Tullivers are placedagainst the Dodsons.against the Wakems.against the guests.

Întrebarea nr. 321 0 points SaveIn Hardy’s major novels, plots

derive from characters, authenticate them.derive from characters and teem with fateful incidents.are autonomous from characters’ nature.

Întrebarea nr. 322 0 points SaveFor George Eliot, Man is totally severed from his past.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 325 0 points SaveState 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, whicheventually prove resilient.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 327 0 points SaveState if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:George Eliot’s deterministically structured fictional world is focused on the middling heroism of self-renunciation.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 328 0 points SaveIn The Mill on the Floss, Maggie's history contains mostly outward eventsbeing less concerned with her inner life.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 329 0 points SaveGeorge Eliot was an impressively self-taught intellectual, of countryside extraction, an equal of the most scholarly male minds of the time.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 330 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer: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.

Întrebarea nr. 331 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer: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.

Întrebarea nr. 332 0 points SaveThe 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”.

Întrebarea nr. 334 0 points SaveState if the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:

Hardy’s self-conscious, enduring protagonists are his mythic archetypes of human endurance.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 335 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer: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.

Întrebarea nr. 336 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer: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

Întrebarea nr. 341 0 points SaveIn 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 342 0 points SaveState 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 343 0 points Save

In E.M. Forster's vision, the "flat" character of comic and melodramatic fiction is" "conceptualized, undeveloping, predictable".(mimetically plausibile, developing, unpredictablenot individuated, just typical representatives of human nature.

Întrebarea nr. 344 0 points SaveState 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 346 0 points SaveState if the following statements are True or False:In Hardy’s fictional ancestral agrarian communities, the folk live by traditional pagan practices.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 347 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer:In George Eliot’s fictional world, conflicts and dramas originate strictlyin the society.in the characters’ inward competing drives materialized in free will choices.

in the interrelationship of both.

Întrebarea nr. 348 0 points SaveHardy 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.

Întrebarea nr. 350 0 points SaveState 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.AdevaratFals

Întrebarea nr. 351 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer: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.

Întrebarea nr. 352 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer: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.

Întrebarea nr. 354 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer:With Hardy the tragic is necessarily related to:middling human nature.humble nature.excellence of human nature, irrespective of the social extraction

Întrebarea nr. 355 0 points SaveHardy’s Tess, Jude, or Henchard are archetypes of:absolute virtue.evil.human desires constantly countered by adverse circumstances.

Întrebarea nr. 357 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer:A romance plot:inflates the protagonist’s illusions, self-deceiving expectations.deflates them.

Întrebarea nr. 359 0 points SaveIn Hardy’s major novels, plotsderive from characters, authenticate them.derive from characters and teem with fateful incidents.are autonomous from characters’ nature.

Întrebarea nr. 360 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer:The typical Victorian novelist is:isolated from his reading public.

reader-oriented.ego-oriented.

Întrebarea nr. 361 0 points SaveChoose the correct answer:Is Hardy’s Wessex world in The Mayor of Casterbridge dimensioned:only socially, realistically?only cosmically, mythically?both?

Întrebarea nr. 363 0 points SaveIn Eliot’s novels the idea of ………… is a key oneabsolute freedom of the individualkinshipthe 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...

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