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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. Because of all of the adultery and humor of William Wycherly's 'The Country Wife,' it is easy for the reader not to see true love unfold between:
2. The conclusion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Faust' has been called confusing. What exactly happens at its end?
3. 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'?
4. All of the following are reasons why 'The Rover' is an important play EXCEPT that it:
5. One of the most memorable aspects of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Faust' is the wager between Faust and Mephistopheles. What, exactly, must occur for Mephistopheles to win the bet, and with it, Faust's soul?
6. After the deposition of Charles I and the end of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell established the:
7. A farce is a(n):
8. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's primary influence on German theatre was:
9. In a typical Pierre de Marivaux play, servants were:
10. What is pathetic drama?
11. Each theater company had a group of actors that was a mixture of:
12. A typical plot of 'Sturm und Drang' drama involves:
13. In Friedrich von Schiller's 'The Death of Wallenstein,' when Butler says the following to Gordon, what does he mean? 'Nay! let it not afflict you, that your power Is circumscribed. Much liberty, much error! The narrow path of duty is securest.'
14. Restoration drama often presents the upper classes as vapid and vain. What is the purpose of doing so?
15. John Dryden was successful in all of these roles EXCEPT as a:
16. Why did playwrights such as John Dryden and Nicholas Rowe write about subjects from the distant past?
17. In Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 'Emilia Galotti,' the prince's chamberlain Marinelli sets in motion the events that will culminate in the death of Count Appiani. What is revealed about Marinelli's loyalty?
18. 'Sturm und Drang' is a German phrase that refers to a type of drama that was predominantly:
19. The Scientific Revolution established substantial progress in existing knowledge, so much in fact, that England in the 17th century saw itself as the most advanced civilization since Ancient Rome. Satirists agreed, but they saw one discipline as never progressing or changing. Which one?
20. In William Congreve's 'The Way of the World,' why is Mrs. Millamant against marriage?
21. 'Sturm und Drang' in English means:
22. How often were the lower classes the stars of a Restoration drama?
23. Jonathan Swift once wrote that satire is:
24. In Voltaire's 'Socrates,' Socrates defends himself with the following speech. What is the essential point of the speech?
SOCRATES: 'Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence. Adore and stop disputing. If our ancestors had said that the Supreme God had descended into the arms of Alcmene, of Danae, of Semele, and that he had children with them, our ancestors were imagining dangerous fables. It's insulting to the Divinity to pretend that he had committed with a woman in whatever manner it might be what we would call amongst men an adultery. That's discouraging to the rest of men to say that to be a great man, one must be born from the mysterious coupling with one of your wives or daughters. Miltiades, Cimon, Themistocles, Arisitides, that you persecuted were perhaps worth more than Perseus, Herakles and Bacchus. There being no other way to be the children of this God than by trying to please him, and by being just. Deserve that title by never rendering iniquitous judgments.'
25. Voltaire was primarily a: