This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Restoration > Restoration And 18Th Century – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text? A) A spiritual autobiography written in an epic style. B) A lyric poem written in the first person. C) A comedy of manners. D) A political tract demanding labor reform. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A comedy of manners. 2. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London? A) Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. B) Swift's Gulliver's Travels. C) Behn's Oroonoko. D) Pope's The Rape of the Lock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pope's The Rape of the Lock. 3. According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for.....: A) Love.". B) Honor.". C) Money.". D) His party.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Money.". 4. Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" ? A) Lord Byron. B) Percy Bysshe Shelley. C) William Woodsworth. D) Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Percy Bysshe Shelley. 5. When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was A) The closing of theatres. B) The return of the King. C) King Arthurs' dead. D) King to exile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The closing of theatres. 6. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse? A) The conviction that he was damned forever. B) The loss of his fortune in the \textbackslash South Sea Bubble\textbackslash. C) The vindication of Newtonian physics. D) Condemnation of his work by Jeremy Collier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The conviction that he was damned forever. 7. In which work do you read: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree....." ? A) Kubla Khan. B) Hellas. C) The Phoenix and the Turtle. D) The Castaway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kubla Khan. 8. Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel? A) Vanity Fair. B) Sense and Sensibility. C) Pride and Prejudice. D) Mansfield Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vanity Fair. 9. Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold "? A) William Butler Yeats. B) James Joyce. C) Thomas Moore. D) Edgar Allan Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Butler Yeats. 10. In which work do you read: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ? A) Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock. B) Sonnets from the Portuguese. C) Prelude. D) The Last Decalogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock. 11. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration? A) Gay's Beggar's Opera. B) Butler's Hudibras. C) Fielding's Jonathan Wild. D) Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. 12. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland? A) The trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. B) The Toleration Act. C) The failed invasion of the Spanish Armada. D) The Act of Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. 13. In which work do you read: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. "? A) The Canturbury Tales. B) The Dark Angel. C) The Wild Swans of Coole. D) The Second Coming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Second Coming. 14. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge? A) Aristotle. B) Duns Scotus. C) David Hume. D) Immanuel Kant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immanuel Kant. 15. What was "restored" in 1660? A) The monarchy, in the person of Charles II. B) The dominance of the Tory Party. C) The "Book of Common Prayer". D) Toleration of religious dissidents. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dominance of the Tory Party. 16. His "To Penthurst" is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement. A) Sir John Denham. B) Ben Jonson. C) Thomas Carew. D) John Dryden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ben Jonson. 17. Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing? A) A field of daffodils. B) The "Orient". C) A graveyard. D) All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature. 18. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution? A) Snide indifference. B) Biblical reverence. C) Condemning censure. D) Satirical derision. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biblical reverence. 19. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid? A) Augustan. B) Metaphysical. C) Romantic. D) Neo-Romantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Augustan. 20. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the "founding" of neoclassical poetry? A) William Wordsworth. B) Alexander Pope. C) Ben Jonson. D) George Herbert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ben Jonson. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesRestoration And 18Th Century Quiz 1Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 2Restoration 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