ENGL 216 Quiz 3.

QUESTION 1
1. How does Darwin define natural selection?
Man’s power of selection

Incipient species

Distinct genera

The ability of a species to preserve a profitable
variation

2 points
QUESTION 2
1. Jane Eyre’s response to how she should avoid hell is not to die.

True

False

2 points
QUESTION 3
1. At the end of A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim dies.

True

False

2 points
QUESTION 4
1. “We see beautiful adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world”
comes from this work:

Jane Eyre

A Christmas Carol

On the Origin of
Species

“The Lady of Shalott”

2 points
QUESTION 5
1. This work is both an allegory of social responsibility and a fable of individual
transformation through symbolic rebirth:
“Break, Break,
Break”

A Christmas Carol

On the Origin of

, Species

“The Lady of Shalott”

2 points
QUESTION 6
1. The majority of Victorian readers did not expect literature to delight and instruct.

True

False

2 points
QUESTION 7
1. In A Christmas Carol, The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge back to his childhood.

True

False

2 points
QUESTION 8
1. The Lady of Shalott knows what her curse is.

True

False

2 points
QUESTION 9
1. On the Origin of Species suggests that the structure of every organic being is related.

True

False

2 points
QUESTION 10
1. In “The Lady of Shalott” the mirror breaks when the Lady looks down at Camelot to
see Lancelot.

True

False

2 points
QUESTION 11
1. Jane Eyre describes Mr. Brocklehurst firstly as:
A black pillar