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Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. In which county was Jane Austin born?
2. What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet?
3. In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed?
4. A "classic" book is usually one that possesses what quality?
5. Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry?
6. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the
7. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by "legitimate" drama?
8. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux?
9. What was textbackslash restoredtextbackslash in 1660?
10. Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time?
11. Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality?
12. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh?
13. Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary?
14. Who wrote: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive." ?
15. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?
16. Horace's doctrine textbackslash ut pictura poesistextbackslash was interpreted to mean:
17. Alexander Pope coined many a modern day clich'e. Which of the following did not originate with him?
18. How many children were there in the Bronte family?
19. Who is termed as "The Morning Star of Renaissance" ?
20. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114, 000 quotations?
21. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
22. In which work do you read: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" ?
23. What mock epic begins: "What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things" ?
24. With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre?
25. In which work do you read: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive." ?
26. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832?
27. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era?
28. Why didn't Alexander Pope attend an English university?
29. Which book was not written by Jane Austen?
30. Who wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ?
31. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?
32. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic.
33. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city?
34. Who composed The Preludes?
35. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called?
36. Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire "Absalom and Achitophel" ?
37. What Pope poem begins, "In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal's veins? "
38. Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet?
39. Horace's doctrine "ut pictura poesis" was interpreted to mean:
40. In the late seventeenth century, a textbackslash battle of the bookstextbackslash erupted between which two groups?
41. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text?
42. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London?
43. According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for.....:
44. Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" ?
45. When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was
46. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse?
47. In which work do you read: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree....." ?
48. Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel?
49. Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold "?
50. In which work do you read: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ?
51. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration?
52. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
53. In which work do you read: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. "?
54. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?
55. What was "restored" in 1660?
56. His "To Penthurst" is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement.
57. Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing?
58. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution?
59. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?
60. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the "founding" of neoclassical poetry?
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