This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Restoration > Restoration And 18Th Century – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who became the first "prime minister" of Great Britain in the reign of George II? A) Henry St. John. B) Robert Harley. C) John Churchill. D) Robert Walpole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Walpole. 2. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer? A) Macpherson. B) Merlin. C) Decameron. D) Ossian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ossian. 3. Who became the first \textbackslash prime minister\textbackslash of Great Britain in the reign of George II? A) Henry St. John. B) Robert Harley. C) John Churchill. D) Robert Walpole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Walpole. 4. Who began the tradition of revenge play? A) Goorge peele. B) Samuel daniel. C) Phineas fletcher. D) Thomas kyd. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas kyd. 5. Who wrote: "I would prefer not to." ? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Herman Melville. C) Thomas Gray. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herman Melville. 6. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry? A) Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology. B) An effort to represent human nature. C) Use of the rhymed couplet. D) Fantastic comparisons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fantastic comparisons. 7. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time. A) Ben Jonson. B) Alexander Pope. C) Robert Herrick. D) John Dryden. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Herrick. 8. Who wrote: "Reader, I married him." ? A) Jane Austen. B) Charlotte Bronte. C) Edith Wharton. D) Emily Bronte. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charlotte Bronte. 9. What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers? A) Elephant and Castle. B) Grub Street. C) Covent Garden. D) Cheapside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grub Street. 10. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities? A) London and Rome. B) Paris and Rome. C) London and Paris. D) Berlin and London. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London and Paris. 11. In which work do you read: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." ? A) Adonais. B) Bright Star. C) Ode on a Grecian Urn. D) La Bell Dame Sans Merci. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ode on a Grecian Urn. 12. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection? A) The heroic couplet. B) Blank verse. C) Free verse. D) The ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The heroic couplet. 13. What was the name of the Bronte sister's only brother? A) Anderson. B) Branwell. C) Richard. D) Pearson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Branwell. 14. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years? A) Republicans. B) Liberals. C) Radicals. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both B and C. 15. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700? A) Addison. B) Bunyan. C) Crabbe. D) Dryden. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dryden. 16. Who wrote: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree....." ? A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) Robert Browning. C) John Keats. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 17. John Dryden wrote "Absalom and Achitophel." Who was Achitophel, historically speaking? A) King David's son. B) A Judge of Israel. C) Bathsheba's first husband. D) Absalom's advisor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Absalom's advisor. 18. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry? A) Percy Bysshe Shelley. B) William Wordsworth. C) George Gordon, Lord Byron. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era? A) London Magazine. B) The Spectator. C) The Edinburgh Review. D) A and C only. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A and C only. 20. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy? A) Etherege's The Man of Mode. B) Wycherley's The Country Wife. C) Behn's The Rover. D) Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesRestoration And 18Th Century Quiz 1Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 2Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 3Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 4Restoration And 18Th Century Quiz 6Restoration Eighteenth Century Drama Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books