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Category: Ages, era, period
Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?
A. Hunnish epic
B. Gothic fiction
C. epistolary novel
D. meta-novel
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
Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
A. Elizabeth I
B. James II
C. George II
D. William and Mary
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
Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
A. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
D. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled_______________?
A. with an absolute prerogative his father would have envied.
B. through a system of draconian military courts.
C. with deference to Parliament’s legislative supremacy.
D. only a small area around London and Oxford.
Who was Edmund Spenser’s patron ?
A. The Earl of Leicester
B. Elizabeth
C. Lord Burleigh
D. Francis Bacon
Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?
A. Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public
B. Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.
C. A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.
D. all of the above
Wordsworth described all good poetry as______________?
A. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the polite patter of a corrupted age
D. the divine gift of grace
What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeth’s court ?
A. Swimming
B. Gambling
C. Jousting
D. Backgammon
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