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Category: Restoration and 18th Century
The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ?
A. James I
B. Mary Tudor
C. Elizabeth Tudor
D. Henry VII
Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
A. Addison
B. Bunyan
C. Crabbe
D. Dryden
What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the “occult” practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?
A. smoking opium
B. hypnotism
C. psychoanalysis
D. dream interpretation
Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode
Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called ?
A. The Way of the World
B. The Foundational Ladder
C. The Order of Angels
D. The Great Chain of Being
The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
A. supernatural phenomenon
B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
D. all of the above
In the late seventeenth century, a “battle of the books” erupted 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
In which work do you read: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?
A. A Doll’s House
B. Riders to the Sea
C. A Handful of Dust
D. The Fatal Curiosity
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 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
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