Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct ones:

1. A. Mikhail Bakhtin traces the roots of the novel back to imperial Rome and ancient Hellenistic romances.
2. B. Henry James considers the novel as the epic of a prosaic modern world.
3. C. Margaret Anne Doody locates the novel's birthplace in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.
4. D. F. R. Leavis defines the novel as 'one bright book of life'.
5. E. Georg Lukács calls the novel 'the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God'.

1. AA, C and E only
2. BA, B and D only
3. CB, C and D only
4. DC, D and E only

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Correct answer: A. A, C and E only

Explanation

A (Bakhtin's 'Epic and Novel' and chronotope essays), C (Doody, The True Story of the Novel, 1996) and E (Lukács, The Theory of the Novel, 1916) are correct. B is wrong: 'the epic of a prosaic world' is Hegel's view of the novel. D is wrong: 'the one bright book of life' is D. H. Lawrence's phrase in 'Why the Novel Matters'.