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Literature During The Restoration And In The 18th /19th Century
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1. Who began the tradition of revenge play ?
2. In the late seventeenth century, a 'battle of the books' erupted between which two groups?
3. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
4. Who wrote: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'?
5. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes.
6. What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings?
7. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse?
8. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?
9. What was the name of the Bronte sister's only brother?
10. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer?
11. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by 'legitimate' drama?
12. Which book was not written by Jane Austen?
13. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years?
14. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
15. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?
16. Who wrote: 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!'?
17. What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song: 'Men of England' and England in 1819?
18. What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet?
19. Who became the first 'prime minister' of Great Britain in the reign of George II?
20. How many lines are there in a Sonnet?
21. Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire 'Absalom and Achitophel'?
22. What is Shakespeare's longest play?
23. Horace's doctrine 'ut pictura poesis' was interpreted to mean:
24. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
25. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832?

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