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Literature During The Restoration And In The 18th /19th Century
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Literature During The Restoration And In The 18th /19th Century
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1. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are?
2. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time.
3. What is Shakespeare's longest play?
4. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer?
5. Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary?
6. What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet?
7. Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time?
8. In which work do you read: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'?
9. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
10. Horace's doctrine 'ut pictura poesis'was interpreted to mean:
11. Who applied the term 'Romantic' to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830?
12. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text?
13. In which county was Jane Austin born?
14. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic.
15. Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet?
16. Who wrote: 'Reader, I married him.'?
17. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era?
18. What was the name of the Bronte sister's only brother?
19. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?
20. In the late seventeenth century, a 'battle of the books' erupted between which two groups?
21. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
22. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties?
23. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations?
24. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832?
25. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?