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