This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Restoration > Restoration And 18Th Century – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states? A) Opium. B) Dreams. C) Childhood. D) A, b and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A, b and c. 2. In which work do you read: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" ? A) The Man of Feeling. B) In Memoriam. C) Song to Aella. D) Ozymandias. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ozymandias. 3. What mock epic begins: "What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things" ? A) Dryden's "Mac Flecknoe". B) Pope's "The Rape of the Lock". C) Pope's "The Dunciad". D) Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pope's "The Rape of the Lock". 4. With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre? A) The revenge tragedy. B) The Gothic romance. C) The epistolary novel. D) The comedy of manners. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Gothic romance. 5. In which work do you read: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive." ? A) Porphyria's Lover. B) My Last Duchess. C) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. D) Fra Lippo Lippi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My Last Duchess. 6. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832? A) About half of middle class men. B) Almost all working class men. C) All women. D) A, b and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A, b and c. 7. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era? A) Too many of its readers were women. B) It required less skill than other genres. C) It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. Why didn't Alexander Pope attend an English university? A) He lived in Italy until the age of 27. B) Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid. C) He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending. D) He just wasn't bright enough. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending. 9. Which book was not written by Jane Austen? A) Sense and Suspensibility. B) Emma. C) Pride and Prejudice. D) Mansfield Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sense and Suspensibility. 10. Who wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ? A) William Carlos Williams. B) T.S. Eliot. C) Ernest Hemingway. D) Hart Crane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T.S. Eliot. 11. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre? A) William Beckford's Vathek. B) Matthew Lewis's The Monk. C) Tobias Smollett's Roderick Randsom. D) Ann Radcliffe's The Italian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tobias Smollett's Roderick Randsom. 12. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic. A) The Bahagavad Gita. B) The Odyssey. C) The Illiad. D) The Aeneid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Illiad. 13. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city? A) New York City. B) Stanford, Connecticut. C) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. D) Boston, Massachusetts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New York City. 14. Who composed The Preludes? A) S T Coleridge. B) William Wordsworth. C) William Shakespeare. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Wordsworth. 15. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called? A) The Way of the World. B) The Foundational Ladder. C) The Order of Angels. D) The Great Chain of Being. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Great Chain of Being. 16. Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire "Absalom and Achitophel" ? A) The Duke of Monmouth. B) Charles II. C) The Earl of Shaftesbury. D) Cromwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Duke of Monmouth. 17. 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? " A) The Rape of the Lock. B) Solitude: An Ode. C) The Dunciad. D) Eloisa to Abelard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eloisa to Abelard. 18. Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet? A) John Dryden. B) Henry Vaughan. C) Alexander Pope. D) Ben Jonson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry Vaughan. 19. Horace's doctrine "ut pictura poesis" was interpreted to mean: A) A picture is worth a thousand words. B) Poetry is the supreme artistic form. C) Art should hold a mirror up to nature. D) Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art. 20. In the late seventeenth century, a \textbackslash battle of the books\textbackslash erupted between which two groups? A) Abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery. B) Round-earthers and flat-earthers. C) The Welsh and the Scots. D) Champions of ancient and modern learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Champions of ancient and modern learning. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesRestoration And 18Th Century Quiz 1Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 3Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 4Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 5Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 6Restoration Eighteenth Century Drama Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books