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Category: Restoration and 18th Century
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
Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
A. Elizabeth I
B. James II
C. George II
D. William and Mary
Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?
A. Macpherson
B. Merlin
C. Decameron
D. Ossian
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