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The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis
Contributed by: Hewitt
  • 1. Who is the author of 'The Great Tradition'?
A) T. S. Eliot
B) F. R. Leavis
C) E. M. Forster
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 2. What is the primary focus of 'The Great Tradition'?
A) English literature
B) French philosophy
C) American history
D) Russian poetry
  • 3. In which year was 'The Great Tradition' published?
A) 1938
B) 1958
C) 1948
D) 1968
  • 4. Which novel is frequently referenced in 'The Great Tradition'?
A) Middlemarch
B) Great Expectations
C) Wuthering Heights
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 5. Leavis viewed literature as an expression of?
A) Commercial interests
B) Personal whims
C) Artistic styles
D) Cultural values
  • 6. F. R. Leavis is associated with which literary theory?
A) Marxist Criticism
B) New Criticism
C) Psychoanalytic Criticism
D) Feminist Criticism
  • 7. Which genre is primarily examined in 'The Great Tradition'?
A) Poetry
B) Drama
C) Novel
D) Essays
  • 8. Which work by Leavis criticizes the decline of the English novel?
A) D.H. Lawrence
B) Culture and Environment
C) The Great Tradition
D) Revaluation
  • 9. Which of these authors wrote in the 'great tradition' according to Leavis?
A) Mark Twain
B) Henry James
C) Stephen King
D) J.K. Rowling
  • 10. Leavis believed that great literature reflects what?
A) Historical facts
B) Philosophical ideas
C) Scientific principles
D) Human experience
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