1. The Wreck of the Deutschland is a 35-stanza ode by Gerard Manley Hopkins with Christian themes, composed in 1875 and 1876, though not published until 1918. The poem depicts the shipwreck of the SS Deutschland. Among those killed in the shipwreck were five Franciscan nuns forced to leave Germany by _____?
A:) the Civil Laws
B:) the Falk Laws
C:) Civil Rights Act
D:) Falloux Law
springline- Correct option: B:) the Falk Laws
2. The Wreck of the Deutschland ;The poem plays a major role in Anthony Burgess' third ‘Enderby’ novel, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End. It also makes a notable appearance in Muriel Spark's novella The Girls of Slender Means, recited by the character Joanna, a budding teacher of elocution in ____?
A:) World War I
B:) World War II
C:) Civil War
D:) Gulf War
springline- Correct option: B:) World War II
3. Both Hopkins's efforts to write the poem and the real-life events on the Deutschland are the subject of Simon Edge's novel The Hopkins Conundrum. The first several lines of the ode are part of a relief sculpture above the door inside the Palace of Nations, the home of the United Nations Office at _____?
A:) Bern
B:) Spain
C:) Geneva
D:) Madrid
springline- Correct option: C:) Geneva
4. Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame placed him among leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and _____?
A:) morality
B:) modernism
C:) truth
D:) nature
springline- Correct option: D:) nature
5. Hopkins; After his death did Robert Bridges publish a few of Hopkins's mature poems in anthologies, hoping to prepare for wider acceptance of his style. By 1930 Hopkins's work was seen as one of the most original literary accomplishments of his century. It strongly influenced such leading 20th-century poets as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis and____?
A:) W. H. Auden
B:) D.H. Lawrence
C:) Ted Hughes
D:) Robert Graves
springline- Correct option: A:) W. H. Auden
6. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History is a book by Thomas Carlyle, published by James Fraser, London, in 1841. It is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840 about prominent historical figures. It lays out Carlyle's belief in the importance of heroic leadership. Between 1837 and 1840, Carlyle delivered four such courses of lectures, the final of which was on ‘Heroes’. His lecture notes were transformed into the book, with the effects of the spoken discourse still discernible in ____?
A:) drama
B:) Philosophy
C:) prose
D:) fiction
springline- Correct option: C:) prose
7. Carlyle was one of the few philosophers who lived through the British industrial revolution but maintained a non-materialistic view of historical development. The book included lectures discussing people ranging from the field of religion through to literature and ________?
A:) Society
B:) Medicine
C:) Science
D:) Politics
springline- Correct option: C:) Science
8. The figures chosen for each lecture were presented by Carlyle as archetypal examples of individuals who, in their respective fields of endeavour, had dramatically impacted history in some way. The prophet of Islam Muhammad found a place in the book in the lecture titled ‘_______?
A:) The Hero as Guider
B:) The Hero as King
C:) The Hero as Prophet
D:) The Hero as Monk
springline- Correct option: C:) The Hero as Prophet
9. Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a British historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher. In his book On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1841), he argued that the actions of the ‘Great Man‘ play a key role in history, claiming that ‘the history of the world is but the biography of great men’. A noted polemicist, Carlyle coined the term ‘the dismal science‘ for____?
A:) Philosophy
B:) Politics
C:) Science
D:) Economics
springline- Correct option: D:) Economics
10. The Wreck of the Deutschland, ode by Gerard Manley Hopkins, written in the mid-1870s and published posthumously in 1918 in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. One of Hopkins’s longest poems, comprising 35 eight-line stanzas, it commemorates the death of five Franciscan nuns, exiled from Germany, who drowned when their ship, the Deutschland, ran aground near Kent, England, on December 6–7________?
A:) 1875
B:) 1876
C:) 1877
D:) 1878
springline- Correct option: A:) 1875
11. The Wreck of the Deutschland ; Following a general invocation at the beginning of the work, the bulk of the poem describes the shipwreck, focusing on one particular nun whose final agony is compared to the Passion of Jesus Christ. The ode concludes with a prayer for the religious conversion of _____?
A:) Rome
B:) England
C:) Germany
D:) Italy
springline- Correct option: B:) England
12. Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex (now in Greater London), as the eldest of probably nine children to Manley and Catherine Hopkins, née Smith. The Wreck of the Deutschland was the first poem Hopkins wrote in seven years, having abstained from verse writing upon his decision to become a ______?
A:) Diocesan Priest
B:) Catholic Priest
C:) Geneva Priest
D:) Jesuit priest
springline- Correct option: D:) Jesuit priest
13. Gerard Manley Hopkins was christened at the Anglican church of St John's, Stratford. His father founded a marine insurance firm and at one time served as Hawaiian consul-general in London. He was also for a time churchwarden at St John-at-Hampstead. His grandfather was the physician John Smith, a university colleague of _______?
A:) John Milton
B:) John Dryden
C:) John Keats
D:) Wordsworth
springline- Correct option: C:) John Keats
14. The Hero as a Man Of Letters; Carlyle held that ‘Great Men should rule and that others should revere them, a view that for him was supported by a complex faith in history and evolutionary progress. Heroes are those who affirm this life process, accepting its cruelty as necessary and thus good. For them courage is a more valuable virtue than love; heroes are noblemen, not ______?
A:) Priest
B:) Saints
C:) God
D:) Monks
springline- Correct option: B:) Saints
15. The Hero as a Man Of Letters; The hero functions first as a pattern for others to imitate, and second as a creator, moving history forwards not backward (history being the biography of great men). For Carlyle's creed Bentley proposes the name ‘heroic vitalism,’ a term embracing both a political theory, aristocratic radicalism, supernatural naturalism and_____?
A:) naturalism
B:) philosophy
C:) metaphysic
D:) spiritualism
springline- Correct option: C:) metaphysic
16. The Hero as a Man Of Letters ;The heroic vitalists feared that the recent trends toward democracy would hand over power to the ill-bred, uneducated, and immoral, whereas their belief in a transcendent force in nature directing itself onward and upward gave some hope that this overarching force would overrule in favor of the strong, intelligent, and_______?
A:) noble
B:) failures
C:) Victory
D:) greed
springline- Correct option: A:) noble
17. However, for Carlyle, unlike Aristotle, the world was filled with contradictions with which the hero had to deal. All heroes will be flawed. Their heroism lay in their creative energy in the face of these difficulties, not in their moral perfection. To sneer at such a person for their failings is the philosophy of those who seek comfort in the conventional. Carlyle called this _____?
A:) baletism
B:) valetism
C:) vates
D:) moralism
springline- Correct option: B:) valetism
18. Whose book is ‘The truculent genius of Thomas Carlyle’, had a review in Books and Bookmen in 1983, says: ‘The standard view, which is that Carlyle was so poisonous it's a wonder his mind didn't infect his bloodstream.’ On Carlyle's attitude to slavery he adds: ‘Carlyle was a racist, with a rare talent for misreading historical trends.’ ?
A:) George Peter
B:) Robert Bridges
C:) John Bayley
D:) John Carey
springline- Correct option: D:) John Carey
19. Carlyle's thinking became heavily influenced by German idealism, in particular, the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte. He established himself as an expert on German literature in a series of essays for Fraser's Magazine, and by translating German works, notably Goethe's novel ______?
A:) Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
B:) Elective Affinities
C:) Hermann and Dorathea
D:) The Essential Goethe
springline- Correct option: A:) Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
20. In 1826, Thomas Carlyle married fellow intellectual Jane Baillie Welsh, whom he had met through Edward Irving during his period of German studies. In 1827, he applied for the Chair of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews University but was not appointed. They moved to the main house of Jane's modest agricultural estate at Craigenputtock, Dumfriesshire,____?
A:) England
B:) Scotland
C:) Africa
D:) Arabia
springline- Correct option: B:) Scotland
21. Hopkins was the eldest of the nine children of Manley Hopkins, an Anglican, who had been British consul general in Hawaii and had himself published verse. Hopkins won the poetry prize at the Highgate grammar school and in 1863 was awarded a grant to study at Balliol College, Oxford, where he continued writing poetry while studying _____?
A:) classics
B:) modern
C:) romantic
D:) neo-classical
springline- Correct option: A:) classics
22. Hopkins; In 1866, in the prevailing atmosphere of the Oxford Movement, which renewed interest in the relationships between Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church by John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman. The following year, he left Oxford with such a distinguished academic record that Benjamin Jowett, then a Balliol lecturer and later master of the college, called him ‘the star of Balliol.’ Hopkins decided to become a ______?
A:) saint
B:) poet
C:) priest
D:) Critic
springline- Correct option: C:) priest
23. In 1874, Hopkins went to St. Beuno’s College in North Wales to study theology. Moved by the death of five Franciscan nuns in a shipwreck in 1875, he broke his seven-year silence to write the long poem ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland,’ in which he succeeded in realizing ‘the echo of a new rhythm’ that had long been haunting his ear. It was rejected, however, by the Jesuit magazine ________?
A:) The Month
B:) The Time
C:) Harper’s Weekly
D:) The Week
springline- Correct option: A:) The Month
24. According to Whom, ‘All his life Hopkins was haunted by the sense of personal bankruptcy and impotence, the straining of 'time's eunuch' with no more to 'spend'... ‘ a sense of inadequacy, graphically expressed in his last sonnets. Toward the end of his life, Hopkins suffered several long bouts of depression. His ‘terrible sonnets’ struggle with problems of religious doubt. He described them to Bridges as ‘[t]he thin gleanings of a long weary while' ?
A:) John Bayley
B:) Robert Bridges
C:) W.H. Auden
D:) John Ruskin
springline- Correct option: A:) John Bayley
25. Prior to Hopkins, most Middle English and Modern English poetry was based on a rhythmic structure inherited from the Norman side of English literary heritage. This structure is based on repeating ‘feet’ of two or three syllables, with the stressed syllable falling in the same place on each repetition. Hopkins called this structure ?
A:) Harmony rhythm
B:) Metric rhythm
C:) Flowing rhythm
D:) running rhythm
springline- Correct option: D:) running rhythm
26. Hopkins called his own rhythmic structure sprung rhythm. Sprung rhythm is structured around feet with a variable number of syllables, generally between one and four syllables per foot, with the stress always falling on the first syllable in a foot. It is similar to the ‘rolling stresses’ of Robinson Jeffers, another poet who rejected ______?
A:) Trochaic metre
B:) Spondaic metre
C:) conventional metre
D:) dactyls metre
springline- Correct option: C:) conventional metre
27. The lectures of Carlyle's are regarded as an early and powerful formulation of the Great Man theory of historical development. Friedrich Nietzsche agreed with much of Carlyle's hero worship, transferring many qualities of the hero to his concept of the Übermensch. The hero justifies himself as a man chosen by destiny to be great. For Carlyle, the hero was somewhat similar to Aristotle's _____?
A:) magnanimous’ man
B:) wisdom man
C:) magnificence man
D:) prudence
springline- Correct option: A:) magnanimous’ man
28. Carlyle moved towards his later thinking during the 1840s, leading to a break with many old friends and allies. His belief in the importance of heroic leadership found form in the book On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History, in which he was seen to compare a wide range of different types of heroes, including Odin, Muhammad, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, William Shakespeare, Dante, Samuel Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robert Burns, John Knox, and ____?
A:) Robert Browning
B:) Martin Luther
C:) Thomas Hardy
D:) George Eliot
springline- Correct option: B:) Martin Luther
29. Hopkins is considered as influential as T. S. Eliot in initiating the modern movement in poetry. His experiments with elliptical phrasing and double meanings and quirky conversational rhythms turned out to be liberating to poets such as W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas. Who called Hopkins ‘the most original poet of the Victorian age ?
A:) George Eliot
B:) Thomas Hardy
C:) Ricks
D:) Robert Bridges
springline- Correct option: C:) Ricks
30. Hopkins was a supporter of linguistic purism in English. In an 1882 letter to Whom, Hopkins writes: ‘It makes one weep to think what English might have been; for in spite of all that Shakespeare and Milton have done... no beauty in a language can make up for want of purity ?
A:) Robert Bridges
B:) Ricks
C:) John Bayley
D:) John Carey
springline- Correct option: A:) Robert Bridges