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Category: Restoration and 18th Century
What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
A. Augustan
B. Metaphysical
C. Romantic
D. Neo-Romantic
Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
A. All knowledge is derived from experience.
B. Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.
C. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
D. The sensory world is an illusion.
What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins ?”
A. The Rape of the Lock
B. Solitude: An Ode
C. The Dunciad
D. Eloisa to Abelard
Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him ?
A. To err is human, to forgive divine
B. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
C. A little learning is a dangerous thing
D. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Who became the first prime ministerof Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
A. Henry St. John
B. Robert Harley
C. John Churchill
D. Robert Walpole
Who wrote: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ?
A. John Keats
B. William Shakespeare
C. Samuel Butler
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?
A. civilization
B. woman
C. God
D. nature
The poem ’The Battle of Maldon’ celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who was it between______________?
A. Danes and English
B. Dutch and English
C. Normans and English
D. French and English
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