Category: Restoration and 18th Century

A. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.
B. All of the actors were male.
C. All of the actors were British.
D. The play was spoken.

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6

A. Maria Edgeworth
B. Sir Walter Scott
C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Jane Austen

A. economic independence
B. the Rights of Man
C. laissez-faire
D. enclosure

A. verdant mead
B. checkered shade
C. simian rivalry
D. shining sword

A. The Duke of Monmouth
B. Charles II
C. The Earl of Shaftesbury
D. Cromwell

A. troubadour
B. skald
C. chorister
D. bard

A. Sir John Denham
B. Ben Jonson
C. Thomas Carew
D. John Dryden

A. Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence
C. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods
D. A and C only

A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Robert Browning
D. Henrik Ibsen