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FINAL TEACHER'S SELF-ASSESSMENT
Answer the following questions:
1. When and why did George I come to the throne?
2. What political party did he and his successor choose their ministers from and why? And what was the consequence?
3. Why did the middle-class grow in power and prestige in the Augustan Age?
4. Which values did middle- class people believe in?
5. Which are the two names normally attributed to the 18th century in England and what is their meaning?
6. What was the main feature of the time in literature?
7. How can we classify the novels produced in this period?
Answer these multiple choice questions:
8.Realistic novels create an impression of reality:
- a. by telling true stories only.
- b. by telling true stories and analysing the characters’ s thoughts and feelings.
- c. by telling true stories and using a simple, matter-of fact style.
- d. by telling true stories set in a well-defined historical context.
9. Robinson Crusoe adopts:
a. Defoe’ s method of first-person narration through personal letters.
b. Defoe’ s autobiographical form based on first-person narration.
c. Defoe’ s method of third-person narration.
d. Defoe’ s method of retrospective first-person narration.
10.Defoe ‘s A Journal of the Plague Year is an account of:
- a. the bubonic plague that attacked London in 1665.
- b. the bubonic plague that attacked London in 1722.
- c. the bubonic plague that attacked Holland in 1665.
- d. the Great Fire that destroyed London in 1666.
11. The Bourgeois Novel differs from the Realistic Novel as:
- a. It lacks a real plot and characterization, but presents psychological insight.
- b. It presents a plot and characterization, but lacks psychological insight.
- c. It presents a plot and psychological insight, but lacks characterization.
- d. It presents a plot, characterization and psychological insight.
12. Clarissa Harlowe is a collection of:
- a. letters written by a servant girl.
- b. letters written by a middle-class girls, and by her friend Anna Howe.
- c. letters written by two middle-class girls and by two gentlemen.
- d. letters written by a middle-class girl.
13. Fielding started the genre of:
- a. satirical novel.
- b. comic-epic novel.
- c. picaresque novel.
- d. epic novel.
14. Fielding’s Tom Jones is characterized by:
- a. an obtrusive third-person narrator.
- b. an unobtrusive third-person narrator.
- c. an intrusive first-person narrator.
- d. an unobtrusive first-person narrator.
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