Search
.Management Sciences
Category: Restoration and 18th Century
Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?
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
Who wrote: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Robert Browning
D. Henrik Ibsen
Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
A. Republicans
B. Liberals
C. Radicals
D. both B and C
Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
A. Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. William Wordsworth
C. George Gordon, Lord Byron
D. all of the above
Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
A. William Blake
B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
C. Samuel Johnson
D. William Wordsworth
What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
A. Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
B. Butler’s Hudibras
C. Fielding’s Jonathan Wild
D. Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
Who wrote: “I would prefer not to.” ?
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Herman Melville
C. Thomas Gray
D. Henry David Thoreau
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
Who composed The Preludes ?
A. S T Coleridge
B. William Wordsworth
C. William Shakespeare
D. William Blake
Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
A. London Magazine
B. The Spectator
C. The Edinburgh Review
D. A and C only
Recent Comments