Which of the following skills is usually not encouraged in a middle-class young woman in the 19th century Britain?
A. Conversational French.
B. Playing piano and dancing.
C. How to behave and how to manage her physical presence properly.
D. Reading classics in their original language like Greek, Latin or Hebrew.
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Concerning the writer's family, which of the following statements is wrong?
A. The family lived in York in England.
B. The only boy of whom the family expected much turned out to be a degenerate.
C. The writer lost her mother at a very young age.
D. The writer's father was a professor from the Oxford University.
Which of the following statements is not a life experience shared by Bronte and Jane?
A. Both had the experience of attending a boarding school.
Both had the experience of being a governess.
C. Both were adopted by their uncles after losing parents at a very young age.
D. Both had a love affair with a married man.
To what genre of fiction, defined by the development of the protagonist's mind and character, through varied experiences from childhood to adulthood, does Great Expectations belong?
A. Bildungsroman.
B. Picaresque fiction.
C. Gothic fiction.
D. Realistic fiction.
Who is the narrator of the novel?
A. the young Pip
B. the adult Pip
Charles Dickens
D. An unknown omnipotent narrator