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Category: Restoration and 18th Century
Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
A. Aristotle
B. Duns Scotus
C. David Hume
D. Immanuel Kant
Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
A. the Behnites
B. the bluestockings
C. the coteries of plenty
D. the Pre-Raphaelites
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
Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
A. theoretical science
B. metaphysics
C. abstract logical deductions
D. A, B, and C
Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
A. verdant mead
B. checkered shade
C. simian rivalry
D. shining sword
What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?
A. Capulet And Montague
B. Breslow and Felsher
C. Fuech and Goodside
D. Dawson and Hurley
What was the name of the Bronte sister’s only brother ?
A. Anderson
B. Branwell
C. Richard
D. Pearson
How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?
A. a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits
B. a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being
C. a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
D. the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium
In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
A. Bleak House
B. Great Expectations
C. A Tale of Two Cities
D. The Pickwick Papers
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 ?
A. Alexander Pope
B. William Collins
C. Thomas Gray
D. Ben Jonson
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