Unit quiz: Modes of the real and the discipline of the essay

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Question 1

A student objects that a story about an unremarkable clergyman cannot carry moral weight. Which response best follows Eliot's practice in ‘Amos Barton’?The moral weight is carried by selected particulars — a grave, a child's silent grip, a contrast with a wealthy visitor — which make an ordinary life visible rather than by a heroic subjectWeight comes from the narrator's commentary, which tells the reader what to feel about ordinary people

Question 2

An essay claims Jane Eyre forms herself through choices alone. Which evidence in the novel most complicates that claim?Jane refuses Rochester, which shows that her choices have real costs and therefore real agencyThe inheritance and the fire remove obstacles and change Rochester's condition, so the settlement depends partly on arrangement rather than on Jane's decisions

Question 3

A reader insists A Modest Proposal is simply a cruel joke with no target. Which evidence best answers the reader?The proposal's own logic contradicts its stated aim of relieving the poor, and the sentence about landlords who ‘have already devoured most of the parents’ marks the policy the pamphlet attacksThe proposal is exaggerated beyond belief, which shows that the author cannot have meant it

Question 4

A draft compares two novels by devoting one paragraph to each and a third to the observation that both are Gothic. What repair does the lesson require?Add a fourth paragraph listing further similarities so that the comparison is more completeRecast it as one claim about both texts with matched evidence units and a named difference in mechanism or consequence

Question 5

An essay includes the paragraph ‘Some readers think Macbeth was fated, but I believe he chose freely.’ What must be added?The rival reading at full strength with its best evidence, its implications if true, a located rebuttal, and an explicit concession of what it gets rightA quotation from the play to demonstrate that fate is a theme the essay has noticed

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