Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 2 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
2. In which work do you read: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" ?
3. What mock epic begins: "What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things" ?
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?
5. In which work do you read: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive." ?
6. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832?
7. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era?
8. Why didn't Alexander Pope attend an English university?
9. Which book was not written by Jane Austen?
10. Who wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ?
11. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?
12. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic.
13. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city?
14. Who composed The Preludes?
15. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called?
16. Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire "Absalom and Achitophel" ?
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? "
18. Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet?
19. Horace's doctrine "ut pictura poesis" was interpreted to mean:
20. In the late seventeenth century, a \textbackslash battle of the books\textbackslash erupted between which two groups?