LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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The voyages of discovery made by the Beagle and other scientific survey-related journeys influenced fiction-particularly early science fiction. Which of the following BEST explains why?
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Few people were classically educated, so there was no call for reviving the mythology of the Greeks.
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The pursuit of material values, even worldly success itself, seemed somehow to invite catastrophe. Authors used the voyages as a means of distraction from real problems.
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Seeing foreign lands and strange people and animals, and witnessing new geological formations or strange biological processes, renewed the age-old quest for new worlds and the “fantastic.”
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The voyages of discovery suggested new possible colonies that would aid in the expansion of the British Empire.
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