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