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ENGL412 Final Exam - Restoration & Eighteenth-century Drama
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ENGL412 Final Exam - Restoration & Eighteenth-century Drama
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1. The 'Prelude in the Theater' of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Faust' presents a conversation between an audience member, a theater owner, and a playwright. The audience member wants to be entertained, and the theater owner wants money. What does the playwright want?
2. In William Wycherly's play 'The Country Wife,' Lady Fidget, Mrs. Squeamish, and Mr. Horner substitute talk about 'sex' with talk about 'china.' What literary convention are they using?
3. What is the distinguishing characteristic of political satire?
4. A farce is a(n):
5. Which of the following was an integral part of Restoration musical theater?
6. The difference between a satire and a comedy is that:
7. In Friedrich von Schiller's 'The Death of Wallenstein,' why does Butler choose to kill Wallenstein?
8. A typical plot of 'Sturm und Drang' drama involves:
9. Voltaire was the most accomplished French playwright of his generation. His plays reflected what theme?
10. In the play 'Emilia Galotti,' the prince Hettore Gonzaga is almost as affected by an artistic rendering of Emilia as he is of her in person. What art form moves Hettore's emotions?
11. What is the distinguishing characteristic of pathetic drama?
12. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 'Emilia Galotti' presents the audience with a man in love. How does the character of the prince reflect the ideas behind 'Sturm und Drang'?
13. The Glorious Revolution was:
14. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said that the main theme of Friedrich von Schiller's writing was:
15. All of the following are the objects of satire in John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' EXCEPT:
16. In England in the 18th century, women's rights:
17. William Congreve's 'The Way of World' opens with a game of cards. How does this game offer an indirect comment on the play?
18. In Voltaire's 'Socrates,' what do these lines from Melitus reveal about the charges against Socrates?
MELITUS: 'Silence. Listen, Socrates, you are accused of being a bad citizen; of corrupting the youth; of denying the plurality of the gods; of being a heretic, deist, atheist. Answer.'
19. When it comes to the subject of marriage in William Congreve's 'The Way of the World,' what do the main characters Mirabell and Millamant value most above anything else?
20. In William Wycherly's play 'The Country Wife,' how does Mrs. Pinchwife almost expose Mr. Horner's plan?
21. According to Everett Ward Olmsted, Pierre de Marivaux's masterpiece was:
22. Henry Fielding's 'The Author's Farce' satirizes all of the following EXCEPT:
23. Richard Steele's 'The Conscious Lovers' changes the formula of Restoration drama in all of the following ways EXCEPT that:
24. Jonathan Swift once wrote that satire is:
25. The conclusion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Faust' has been called confusing. What exactly happens at its end?

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