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Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 4 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are?
2. A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
3. What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings?
4. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
5. The poem 'The Battle of Maldon' celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who was it between
6. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form?
7. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
8. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
9. What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called "mesmerism, " one of the "occult" practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness?
10. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties?
11. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?
12. In which work do you read: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." ?
13. The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch?
14. Wordsworth described all good poetry as
15. Who exemplified the role of the "peasant poet" ?
16. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
17. Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: "Who think too little, and who talk too ....."
18. In the late seventeenth century, a "battle of the books" erupted between which two groups?
19. Who wrote: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." ?
20. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes.
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