Category: Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries

A. They enabled discussion about important literary texts.
B. They created a space for the exchange of pamphlets.
C. They offered people a private place in which they could plan political revolts.
D. Both A and B

A. Congreve’s The Way of the World
B. Richardson’s Pamela
C. Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
D. Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto

A. Alexander Pope
B. Percy Shelley
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Alfred Tennyson

A. Women should wear more makeup in order to attract husbands.
B. Women should make sure to receive an education in order to secure their own futures.
C. Women should take pains to remain generous, modest, and capable.
D. Women should be given the right to vote immediately.

A. He created a radically new form.
B. He used unusual, arcane words.
C. He made obscure allusions.
D. All of these answers

A. its references to Shakespeare.
B. its commitment to an elevated taste, its use of classical imagery, and its evocation of classic forms.
C. its scientific ethos and setting in London.
D. its refusal to mention Shadwell directly.

A. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.
B. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.
C. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.
D. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

A. They are somewhat jaded, but all are finally good at heart.
B. They are almost universally selfabsorbed and willing to do anything to get what they want.
C. They tend to value love above money and honor.
D. They provide a moral example for the lower classes.

A. The government
B. Marriage
C. Organized religion
D. All of these answers

A. scientific emphasis on detailed observation.
B. the political focus on individuals and their rights.
C. philosophical theories of sympathy and human emotions.
D. the continuing importance of mythological stories.