Brit. Lit. 2- Exam 2

What does the Lady of Shalott see that makes her willing to risk the curse?

Sir Lancelot

What does the Sea of Faith, mentioned in the third stanza of "Dover Beach," have in common with the sea the speaker describes in the first stanza?

The Sea of Faith has become more distant, as the actual sea does at low tide.

Arnold's "Memorial Verses" is an elegy written to commemorate the death of

Wordsworth

Darwin identifies anything that limits the increase in numbers of a species as which of the following?

a check

Mr. Utterson is

a lawyer

Mill discusses China to provide an example of

a nation that has stagnated

What is the speaker in Browning's "My Last Duchess" trying to arrange for himself?

a second marriage

What type of poem is "In an Artist's Studio"?

a sonnet

To what animal is Hyde compared?

an ape

In Sonnet #43, Browning repeats the phrases "i love thee" throughout the poem, typically at the beginning of the line. What is the correct term for this literary device?

anaphora

According to Arnold in Culture and Anarchy, religious organizations—like the Puritans—are key to people overcoming which of the following?

animality

Throughout most of the text (and arguably, even through the end), how does Jekyll view himself?

as an inherently good and moral person with a dark side

In "Dover Beach," how does the speaker's tone change through the first stanza?

at first he seems peaceful and happy, but the sound of the waves saddens him

Mill suggests that achieving a true diversity in society requires a willingness reject mainstream thinking. Why does Mill believe diversity of thought is unlikely?

because collective opinion dominates society and people are to oppose the public/mass population

Why does Lady Bracknell reject Jack as a prospective suitor for Gwendolyn?

because he was found in a handbag at a train station

Why does Mill believe that we cannot only learn from the experiences of others?

because other people's experiences will be limited and their interpretations will be biased

Cecily explains to Algernon that, to be serious, an engagement must be

broken off at least once

What Victorian-era social issue does Barrett Browning address in "cry of the children?"

child labor

So that Gwendolen and Cecily will forgive and marry them, Jack and Algernon ask Dr. Chausable to

christen them Ernest

When Dante Rossetti's poem begins, the "blessed damozel" is

dead and in heaven

Darwin explains that every being "must suffer destruction during some period of its life" (608). Why does he believe this is so?

destruction limits poverabundance

Victorian poets were often uneasy with the general public expectation that poetry be

didactic

`Queen Victoria is generally associated with

domestic propriety

"Ulysses" reflects a type of poetry common to the Victorian era, the

dramatic monologue

What type of poem is Browning's "My Last Duchess?"

dramatic monologue

How is the Victorian era usually divided?

early, mid, and late periods

What does fin de siecle mean?

end of the century

The 1832 Reform Bill

extended voting rights

How long does Ulysses plan to be gone?

forever; he will probably die alone

Mill's biggest problem with Calvinism is its rejection of

free will

Patmore celebrates women who are

good wives

In The Descent of Man, Darwin argues that modern man most likely

has a common ancestor with monkeys

When Algernon meets Cecily for the first time, they

have already been engaged for three months

What happens to Jekyll after Hyde murders Sir Danvers Carew?

he becomes more social and devotes himself to doing good works

What does the auditor of "My Last Duchess" actually say in the poem?

he does not speak any lines in the poem

The Duke in "My Last Duchess" implies that he will assert the same control over his future bride as he did over his previous one in all of the following ways except

he is planning a commission a painting of his new wife, just as he did before

That the artist in "In an Artist's Studio" paints his model as a "queen," "saint, [and] an angel" (5, 7) implies that

he ses her a perfect/ideal

Why does Ulysses want to leave Ithaca?

he's bored with domestic life

When Lancelot see the Lady of Shalott, he compliments

her beauty

What is the term Arnold used to describe his belief that poetry should evoke joy and serenity as it attempted to answer life's important philosophical questions?

high seriousness

Jekyll says that when he transformed into Hyde, "one part to me remained." What is the one feature of Jekyll that remains when he is Hyde?

his handwriting

In "Memorial Verses," for what quality does Arnold praise Goethe?

his profound intelligence

Higher criticism approached the Bible in terms of

history

Newman believes that a true gentleman will never

hurt or harm another person

Whom does Jekyll's will originally specify as his heir?

hyde

What horrifying event does Lanyon write about having witnessed?

hyde transforming into jekyll

Whose dead body does Utterson discover after breaking down the door to Jekyll's laboratory?

hyde's

What word is Huxley arguing should be disassociated with Agnosticism?

infidel

Darwin believed which of the following about the evolution of species?

it would continue into the future towards perfection

What does Cardinal Newman believe is power (or can provide power)

knowledge

In the excerpt from The Origin of Species, in which sense does Darwin not use the phrase "struggle for existence"?

natural selection

At the end of The Importance of Being Earnest, Jack learns that he is really Algernon's

older brother

What does Arnold argue will inevitably create a drift towards anarchy?

people doing as they like with no clear reason or purpose

In On Liberty, John Stuart Mill argues that

people should be permitted and even encourages not to conform

According to the subjection of women, Mill wants personal and societal gender relationships to be governed a principle of...

perfect equality

Dante Gabriel Rossetti cofounded the

pre-raphealite brotherhood

The Chartists fought for

working class rights

Over the course of Queen Victoria's reign, London's population grew from about 2 million to

6 million

CLAIM: In "In an Artist's Studio," Christina Rossetti implies that the identity of the artist's model is unclear, unknown, and perhaps even irrelevant. Three of the following lines support the above claim. Choose the quotation that does not provide support for the claim.

"and she with true eyes looks back on him"

Which of the following phrases from "The Angel in the House" does NOT demonstrate Patmore's depiction of women as perfect, ideal creatures?

"the nuptial contrasts are the poles" (63)

Who ends up engaged to whom by the end of the play?

Algernon is engaged to Cecily, Jack is engaged to Gwendolen, Dr. Chausable is engaged to Miss Prism (all of the above)

In The Importance of Being Earnest, who is Bunbury?

Algernon's imaginary friend

Which of the following statements expresses a theme of Browning's Sonnet #43?

Browning suggests that deep, true love for another person must be connected to that individual's love for God

What poem is Dante Rossetti responding to in "The Blessed Damozel"? (Hint: Be sure to read footnotes and glossing when analyzing literature.)

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

What convinces Gwendolen to accept Jack's marriage proposal?

Gwendolyn believes that Jack's name is Ernest, and she loves that name

What is to be the intended effect on men with regard to women is the poet's hymn is successful?

Men will be in awe of women's perfection

Who left Jack in the handbag when he was a baby?

Miss Prism

What European city was the center if culture immediately prior to the Victorian period?

Paris

Based on his writing, which of the following statements would Mill most agree with?

we do not really know women's potential because they have never been allowed to develop socially or intellectually

How do the characters in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde describe Hyde?

They all describe him as small and ugly; he seems deformed, but they cannot say why.

In "The Blessed Damozel," Rossetti uses parentheses to signal

when the damsel's lover is speaking

What was the rest of the world doing while the battle was taking place?

wondering

What relationship did Darwin believe his theory of the mutability of species—i.e., evolution—to have with religion?

religion and evolution could coexist

Which of the following has a major effect on the Victorian narrative fiction

serial publication

According to Darwin, what is the chief mechanism by which organisms, including man, evolve?

sexual selection

Why is the speaker in Browning's Sonnet #32 surprised that her husband loves her?

she believes that he's too good for her and that she's not deserving of him

What is the Lady of Shallot doing at the moment of her death?

singing

Mill repeatedly compare the status of women to that of

slaves

Mill argues that women are raised "from the very earliest of years" to think that they must

submit to and live for others

Patmore describes his late wife as

sweet, gentle, meek (all of the above)

Arnold invokes the figures of Shakespeare and Virgil as ideals of what?

sweetness and light

In modern terms, what does Newman believe is the essence of an effective university-level liberal education?

teaching critical thinking in a well-rounded curriculum

For what is the damsel in "The Blessed Damozel" praying?

that her lover will die

Which war is commemorated in "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?

the Crimean war

In "Memorial Verses," what quality of Wordsworth's does Arnold worry will never exist in the world again?

the ability to make people feel powerful emotions

The central topic of Stevenson's novella is

the dual nature of man

What is the subject of "My Last Duchess?"

the power that accompanies wealth, jealousy and its negative effects, the objectification of women (all of the above)

What happened to the speaker's last duchess?

the speaker had her killed

In the second stanza of "Dover Beach," what does the allusion to Sophocles convey?

the universality of human suffering

What is the Victorian phrase for the conflict to which is Mill responding to the Subjection of Women?

the woman question

According to the poem, why did the six hundred die in the battle?

their commander made a mistake

What happens when Gwendolen and Cecily first meet each other?

they believe they are both engaged to the same man and get into an argument over tea

In William Rossetti's preface to his brother Dante's letters, he explains the essential principles of Pre-Raphaelitism. In what way were the Pre-Raphaelites similar to the Romantics?

they looked to nature for answers and insights, they were revolutionary, they rejected traditional artistic conventions (all of the above)

The Lady of Shalott is cursed an locked in a tower; what is the only way she can look at the world outside?

through a mirror

What does Patmore say that all women really want?

to be desired and praised

What does William Rossetti, in his preface to his brother Dante's letters, say was the primary aim of the Pre-Raphaelites?

to create good visual art

Newman believes that the "practical end" of a college education is

to develop a good, well-functioning society with an intelligent and refined populace

In The Idea of a University, Cardinal Newman argues that the primary mission of a university should be

to provide a liberal education

In Agnosticism and Christianity, Huxley associates agnosticism with

uncertainty

How does Huxley use or understand the term ecclesiasticism?

unchallenged acceptance in a particular religion and its teaching