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Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 2 (43 MCQs)

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1. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are?
2. A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
3. What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings?
4. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
5. The poem 'The Battle of Maldon' celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who was it between
6. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form?
7. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
8. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
9. What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called "mesmerism, " one of the "occult" practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness?
10. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties?
11. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?
12. In which work do you read: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." ?
13. The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch?
14. Wordsworth described all good poetry as
15. Who exemplified the role of the "peasant poet" ?
16. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
17. Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: "Who think too little, and who talk too ....."
18. In the late seventeenth century, a "battle of the books" erupted between which two groups?
19. Who wrote: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." ?
20. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes.
21. Who became the first "prime minister" of Great Britain in the reign of George II?
22. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer?
23. Who became the first textbackslash prime ministertextbackslash of Great Britain in the reign of George II?
24. Who began the tradition of revenge play?
25. Who wrote: "I would prefer not to." ?
26. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry?
27. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time.
28. Who wrote: "Reader, I married him." ?
29. What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers?
30. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities?
31. In which work do you read: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." ?
32. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
33. What was the name of the Bronte sister's only brother?
34. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years?
35. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
36. Who wrote: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree....." ?
37. John Dryden wrote "Absalom and Achitophel." Who was Achitophel, historically speaking?
38. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry?
39. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era?
40. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
41. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets?
42. Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as "Old Chaucer" who, "like the morning star" , descends "to the shades, " so that "Darkness again the Age invades."
43. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike?
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