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