Banha University
Faculty of Arts
Dept. of English Language& Literature
A Guiding Model Answer for
Third Grade
Literary Criticism 18& 19 Centuries
Model (3)
January 10, 2016
Faculty of Arts
Prepared by
Associate Prof. Iman Adawy
Dr. Eman Kash-Koush
1
Benha University
Third Grade
Faculty of Arts
(First Term 2015-2016)
Dept. of English Language& Literature
Time: 2hrs
Literary Criticism 18&19 Centuries
Exam consists of 4 pages
The exam will be answered in MCQ answer sheet
Model (3)
1- Coleridge agrees with ……………….view that the characters of poetry must be universal
and typical.
a- Plato’s
b- Shelly’s
c- Aristotle’s
2- For Coleridge, metre is……………….of a poem
a- A superficial decoration
b- essential organic part
c- a rustic element
3- For Keats, ………………is the true voice feeling.
a- Beauty
b- nature
c- imagination
4- Who said, “A poetry of indifference towards moral ideas is a poetry of indifference towards
life.”
a- William Wordsworth
b- Samuel Coleridge
c- John Keats
5- For Wordsworth, poetry is……………..
a- Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
b- Emotions recollected in tranquility
c- Both (a) and (b)
6- For …………. Poetry “should be a friend to soothe the cares, and left the thoughts of men.”
a- John Keats
b- John Dryden
c- William Wordsworth
7- Wordsworth’s aim of writing the Preface is to convince his readers of a new style of poetry.
a- True
b- False
8- The view of the …………… is that the function of poetry is to give pleasure to its readers
irrespective of the moral ideas.
a- Moralists
b- empiricists
c- aesthetes
9- For Romantics, imagination is…………… power.
a- Combining
b- creative
c- inferior
10- Descriptive Sketches is a long poem by Coleridge recounting his walking tour from England
through France and the Alps.
a- True
b- False
2
Model (3)
11- …………..is a poetical work by Keats in which he combines mythological, poetical, and
artistic imagery.
a- Endymion
b- The Lyrical Ballads
c- Kubla Khan
12- For Coleridge, secondary imagination is the mysterious power which extracts from stored
data hidden ideas and meaning.
a- True
b- False
13- For the Romantics, Alexander Pope is great because his works are the product of
imagination.
a- True
b- False
14- “Esemplastic” is a Greek word which explained the ……………..property of imagination.
a- Mechanical
b- creative
c- involuntary
15- For Coleridge, primary imagination and secondary imagination are identical in the kind of
agency and different in ………………
a- Sense
b- degree
c- perception
16- Coleridge was the first to introduce ……………….. to literary criticism.
a- Psychology
b- sociology
c- mythology
17- Neoclassical principles embodied a group of attitudes toward art………
a- Reason, feeling, decorum
b- Order, restraint, decorum
c- Order, restraint, imagination
18- Neoclassical period can be divided into three………parts.
a- Incoherent
b- unintelligible
c- coherent
19- Neoclassicism is a movement that looked to the classical text for their creative inspiration.
a- True
b- false
20- “Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature” Who
said these words?
a- John Dryden.
b- Alexander Pope
c- Samuel Johnson
21- Neoclassicist critic emphasizes the individual over the common sense of society.
a- True
b- false
22- John Dryden is an ………..critic
a- American
b- English
c- Irish
23- “An Essay on Dramatic Poesy” is written by……
a- Pope
b- Dryden
c- Coleridge
24- Dryden’s great writing consists in the originality of his own principles.
a- True
b- false
25- Dryden was a………..neoclassicist.
a- conformist
b- liberal
c- conservative
26- Dryden trusts fancy in literary composition.
a- True
b- false
27- Dryden believes that art is imitation.
a- True
b- false
3
Model (3)
28- For Dryden, the goal of art is to delight and……….
a- Instruct
b- transport
c- teach
29- Rhyme is for Dryden is a mere ornament.
a- True
b- false
30- Dryden disagrees with Aristotle that the core of play is found in its plot.
a- True
b- false
31- Dryden is conscious of two different tendencies present in the work…….
a- Imitative and structural
b- Form and content
c- Decorum and rule
32- …………said that comedy is a “malicious pleasure”.
a- Pope
b- Dryden
c- Johnson
33- Dryden’s Essay on Criticism discusses the ways literary critics can actually cause harm.
a- True
b- false
34- An Essay on Criticism is written in ………….
a- Heroic couplet
b- blank verse
c- prose
35- Bad judgement is the result of pride. Who said so?
a- Dryden
b- Pope
c- Johnson
36- Samuel Johnson is the first important critic of the neoclassicism.
a- True
b- false
37- Samuel Johnson states that poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling…….to
the help of……..
a- Imagination…reason
b- Imitation…….reason
c- Imagination……imitation
38- According to…………..,the poet must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of
mankind.
a- Dryden
b- Pope
c- Johnson
39- Poetry, for Johnson, depends on ………., and not to………….
a- Particulars………..fundamentals
b- Essentials……….details
c- details…………essentials
40- For Johnson, poetry creates an image of the mind by making familiar things new and new
things familiar.
a- True
b- false
41- Johnson states that to works, of which the excellence is not………no other test can be
applied than…….
a- definite…………….continuance of reverence
b- absolute…………..good judgment
c- definite…………..sound criticism
4
Model (3)
42- For Wordsworth, the language of poetry is “a selection of the ordinary language of men.”
a- True
b- False
43- For Coleridge, the language of poetry should be different from the language of any other of
common sense.
a- True
b- False
44- The rise of Romanticism was helped by the social and political events
in…………………….
a- France
b- England
c- Switzerland
45- Wordsworth and Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature through
their joint publication of………………………..
a- Ode to the Nightingale
b- The Lyrical Ballads
c- Biographia Literaria
46- For Keats, Shakespeare is “a Man of Achievement” because he possessed the quality
of…………..
a- Whole knowledge
b- negative capability
c- truth
47- For Coleridge, imagination is a tabula rasa on which external experiences and sense
impressions were imprinted, stored, recalled and combined through a process of association.
a- True
b- False
48- Fancy, in Coleridge eyes, was employed for tasks that were…………….
a- Passive
b- creative
c- transformative
49- Romanticism is concerned with the fundamentals such as style, diction, and literary genres.
a- True
b- False
50- Romantic criticism is neither legislative nor judicial.
a- True
b- False
51- For Coleridge, secondary imagination is a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of
creation in the infinite I AM.
a- True
b- False
52- For …………., suffering is a necessary experience in the processes of personality
development and soul making.
a- Keats
b- Wordsworth
c- Both (a) and (b)
53- According to Coleridge, …………….. represents man’s ability to learn from nature.
a- Fancy
b- primary imagination
c- secondary imagination
54- Romanticism is an artistic and literary movement originated in Europe from………….
a- 1798 to 1850
b- 1879 to 1850
c- 1897 to 1950
55- For Coleridge, Wordsworth’s Ruth is a good example of the choice of poetic characters from
“low and rustic life.”
a- True
b- False
May Allah Put You On the Right Path
Dr. Iman A. Hanafy
Good Luck
Dr. Eman Kash-Koush
5
6