Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 3 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text?
2. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London?
3. According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for.....:
4. Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" ?
5. When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was
6. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse?
7. In which work do you read: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree....." ?
8. Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel?
9. Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold "?
10. In which work do you read: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ?
11. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration?
12. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
13. In which work do you read: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. "?
14. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?
15. What was "restored" in 1660?
16. His "To Penthurst" is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement.
17. Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing?
18. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution?
19. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?
20. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the "founding" of neoclassical poetry?