Istoria literaturii engleze

1. Which of the following statements about Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is true?
A) It can be read as a metaphor of colonialism, because the relationship between Robinson and Friday is the archetype of colonial relations.
B) Robinson lacks the psychological elements that would make him a full-fledged character; he is therefore a persona.
C) Defoe’s novel is a complex and multilayered satire directed against the social, religious and political conflicts that were dividing British society at the time.
D) In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe constructs a meta-novel, because in it he experiments with the mechanisms of novel-writing, thus revolutionizing the genre

Răspuns corect: A

2. Which of the following statements about Laurence Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy is true?
A) It is a novel written in the third person, having an impersonal and omniscient narrator, who knows everything about all his characters.
B) It is a meta-novel, because it is an extended meditation on story-telling, having as central premise the idea that what the story is about is of secondary importance to how it is told.
C) It is a Bildungsroman, because it follows the story of the development of Tristram as an individual, through the multiple adventures he has, which shape his personality and ultimately help him find his place in society.
D) It explores the dramatic situation of women in the eighteenth century, and comments on the double pressure exerted upon them by an oppressive patriarchal society.

Răspuns corect: B

3. Which of the following statements is true of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy?
A) It is a Bildungsroman.
B) In it Sterne constructs a critique of the patriarchal 18th century society.
C) In his construction of the plot, Sterne manipulates time, playing with order,duration and frequency.
D) In his development of his characters, Sterne uses pre-Freudian techniques.

Răspuns corect: C

4. Which of the following statements is true?
A) The Bildungsroman is a literary genre that started in Germany,and is equivalent to a fictional autobiography. One example is Robinson Crusoe.
B) Bildungsroman is a literary genre that started in Germany, and is in fact an adventure novel, a travel narrative. One example is Gulliver’s Travels
C) Bildungsroman is a literary genre that started in France, and it ultimately is an extended meditation on story-telling, having as central premise the idea that what the story is about is of secondary importance to how it is told. One example is Tristram Shandy

Răspuns corect: A

5. Why does Robinson leave home?
A) Because he wants to discover America.
B) Because his family had arranged a marriage for him with Clarissa
C) Because his father had destined him to a profession he didn’t like
D) By accident
E) Because of the rivalry between him and his older brother.

Răspuns corect: C

6. Why is Gulliver’s Travels still a universal satire, enjoyed today as much as it was enjoyed 200 years ago?
A) Because it deals with the universal problem of growing up in the world, and of finding one’s place as an adult individual in an oppressive society.
B) Because its objects are man’s moral nature and the defective political, economic and social institutions which human imperfections create.
C) Because it represents an extended metaphor of colonialism, and offers the reader a small version of the larger processes that were reshaping the face of the world at the time.

Răspuns corect: B

7. Why is it said that Gulliver is a persona?
A) Because of the personal tone of this fictional autobiography, in fact a first person narrative;
B) He does not have the consistency and solidity of a character, lacks a coherent psychology, there is no element of growth.
C) Because in him Swift realizes his personal satire of the political conflicts that were dividing England at the time.
D) Because in creating Gulliver, the author is following the inner development of an individual as a result of the multiple adventures and experiences he has.

Răspuns corect: B

8. Why is Laurance Sterne considered to be the precursor of the modernist novel?
A) Because of his interest in the drama of women in the 18th century.
B) Because of his attention to subjectivism, psychological time, and of his temporal manipulations of the plot.
C) Because of his use of the persona.
D) Because of his criticism of colonialism, economic exploitation and racial discrimination.

Răspuns corect: B

9. Why is Robinson Crusoe considered to be an odyssey of a middle class individual, and by extension, a founding myth of bourgeois society?
A) Because of the powerful impact it exerted on the reading public at the time of its publication.
B) Because it is a story of a process of colonization similar to the colonization of the world by the British Empire.
C) Because it offers the reader a small version of the larger processes that were reshaping the face of the world everywhere in the 18th century.
D) Because it was an accurate satirical representation of the political conflicts that were dividing British society at the time.

Răspuns corect: C

10. With Hardy, the freedom of will is
A) felt as a deeply rooted innate desire.
B) imposed by external circumstances but not a matter of an inner need.

Răspuns corect: A

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