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