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Category: Restoration and 18th Century
The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?
A. New York City
B. Stanford, Connecticut
C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
D. Boston, Massachusetts
Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?
A. The Bahagavad Gita
B. The Odyssey
C. The Illiad
D. The Aeneid
Who wrote: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive.” ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Robert Browning
D. William Wordsworth
Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
A. William Beckford’s Vathek
B. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
C. Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Randsom
D. Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
Who wrote: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold ” ?
A. William Butler Yeats
B. James Joyce
C. Thomas Moore
D. Edgar Allan Poe
Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ?
A. a field of daffodils
B. the “Orient”
C. a graveyard
D. All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.
Who wrote: “Reader, I married him.” ?
A. Jane Austen
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Edith Wharton
D. Emily Bronte
Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period ?
A. Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of the working classes
B. Labor reform, improving working conditions for industrial laborers
C. Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase in literacy
D. A and C only
A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to ?
A. Heroine
B. Cocaine
C. Alcohol
D. Opium
What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
A. partition
B. segregation
C. enclosure
D. division
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