This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Augustan Age – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Augustan Age Quiz 3 (5 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A Journal of the Plague Yearis an account of the plague which struck London in 1675 A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. Who was the Augustan Age named after? A) Roman emperor. B) Greek warrior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roman emperor. 3. In eighteenth-century England, Neoclassicism is divided in TWO main periods ..... A) From 1660 to 1700, with the Restoration of Charles II. B) 1700-1750 & 1750-98, the Enlightenment or Age of Reason. C) 1700-1750 & 1750-98, the ages of Dryden and Pope, plus a transitional period (William Blake). D) 1660-1798, with the Comedies of Manner of the Restoration and the novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1700-1750 & 1750-98, the ages of Dryden and Pope, plus a transitional period (William Blake). 4. The style of the narrative is ..... A) Simple and straightforward. B) Ornate and elegant. C) Witty and satirical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple and straightforward. 5. This period is also called "The Enlightenment" or "The Age of Reason" because ..... A) Science played a huge role in shaping this period, with its emphasis in rational thinking, in which writing had to follow exact rules and avoid sentimentality. B) Isaac Newton presented his new scientific method to test everything. C) Isaac Newton, John Locke, Samuel Johnson, Edward Gibbon, among others, wrote logical and exact prose, following scientific precepts. D) The Augustans/ Neoclassicals didn't trust imagination or feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Science played a huge role in shaping this period, with its emphasis in rational thinking, in which writing had to follow exact rules and avoid sentimentality. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesAugustan Age Quiz 1Augustan Age Quiz 216Th Century Quiz20Th Century QuizAges Era Period QuizContemporary Literature QuizCultural And Literary In Modernity QuizEarly 17Th Century QuizEarly Middle Ages QuizElizabethan Drama QuizElizabethan Era QuizElizabethan Period QuizJacobean Era QuizMedieval Literature And Culture QuizMedieval Women Writers QuizMiddle Ages QuizRenaissance Literature QuizRestoration And 18Th Century QuizRestoration Eighteenth Century Drama QuizRomantic Era English Literature QuizRomantic Period QuizThe English Romantic QuizThe Renaissance QuizVictorian Age QuizVictorian Literature QuizVictorian Period Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books