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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
In the late seventeenth century, a battle of the bookserupted between which two groups ?
A. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
B. round-earthers and flat-earthers
C. the Welsh and the Scots
D. champions of ancient and modern learning
While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
A. a history of everyday life
B. an instructional manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
D. a book of model letters
The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties ?
A. the Republicans and the Royalists
B. the Royalists and the Whigs
C. the Tories and the Whigs
D. the Royalists and the Tories
Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode
Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract
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
Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
A. William Hogarth
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Samuel Johnson
D. Ben Jonson
Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
A. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
B. Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
C. Behn’s Oroonoko
D. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
A. Prometheus
B. Satan
C. Cain
D. George III
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