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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) E. M. Forster
C) Virginia Woolf
D) F. R. Leavis
  • 2. What is the primary focus of 'The Great Tradition'?
A) American history
B) Russian poetry
C) English literature
D) French philosophy
  • 3. In which year was 'The Great Tradition' published?
A) 1948
B) 1968
C) 1958
D) 1938
  • 4. Which novel is frequently referenced in 'The Great Tradition'?
A) Wuthering Heights
B) Pride and Prejudice
C) Middlemarch
D) Great Expectations
  • 5. Which genre is primarily examined in 'The Great Tradition'?
A) Drama
B) Poetry
C) Essays
D) Novel
  • 6. F. R. Leavis is associated with which literary theory?
A) Psychoanalytic Criticism
B) New Criticism
C) Marxist Criticism
D) Feminist Criticism
  • 7. Which of these authors wrote in the 'great tradition' according to Leavis?
A) Henry James
B) Stephen King
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Mark Twain
  • 8. Which work by Leavis criticizes the decline of the English novel?
A) D.H. Lawrence
B) Culture and Environment
C) Revaluation
D) The Great Tradition
  • 9. Leavis viewed literature as an expression of?
A) Commercial interests
B) Artistic styles
C) Personal whims
D) Cultural values
  • 10. Leavis believed that great literature reflects what?
A) Scientific principles
B) Historical facts
C) Philosophical ideas
D) Human experience
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