Restoration and The 18TH Century
1. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
a)the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
b)the Toleration Act
c)the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada
d)the Bishops' War
e)the Act of Union
2. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century?
a)formal diplomatic relations with China
b)the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade
c)the American and French revolutions
d)the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
e)the union of England and Wales with Scotland
3. What was "restored" in 1660?
a)the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
b)the dominance of the Tory Party
c)the "Book of Common Prayer"
d)toleration of religious dissidents
e)Irish independence.
4. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration?
a)Gay's
Beggar's Opera
b)Butler's
Hudibras
c)Fielding's
Jonathan Wild
d)Pope's
Dunciad
e)Dryden's
Absalom and Achitophel
5. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
a)Elizabeth I
b)James II
c)George II
d)William and Mary
e)Anne
6. Who became the first "prime minister" of Great Britain in the reign of George II?
a)Henry St. John
b)Robert Harley
c)John Churchill
d)Robert Walpole
e)Matthew Prior
7. In the late seventeenth century, a "battle of the books" erupted between which two groups?
a)abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
b)round-earthers and flat-earthers
c)the Welsh and the Scots
d)champions of ancient and modern learning
e)Oxfordians and Baconians
8. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?
a)All knowledge is derived from experience.
b)Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.
c)The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
d)The sensory world is an illusion.
e)God is the center of an ordered and just universe.
9. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh?
a)theoretical science
b)metaphysics
c)abstract logical deductions
d)a and b only
e)a, b, and c
10. Whose great
Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations?
a)William Hogarth
b)Jonathan Swift
c)Samuel Johnson
d)Ben Jonson
e)James Boswell
11. According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for...:
a)love."
b)honor."
c)money."
d)his party."
e)fun."
12. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?
a)Augustan
b)Metaphysical
c)Romantic
d)Neo-Romantic
e)Caesarian
13. Horace's doctrine "ut pictura poesis" was interpreted to mean:
a)A picture is worth a thousand words.
b)Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
c)Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
d)Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
e)Paintings of poets should be prized over those of kings.
14. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets?
a)civilization
b)woman
c)God
d)alcohol
e)nature
15. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike?
a)wit
b)sprezzatura
c)naturalism
d)gusto
e)metaphysics
16. Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry?
a)verdant mead
b)checkered shade
c)simian rivalry
d)shining sword
e)bounding main
17. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
a)the heroic couplet
b)blank verse
c)free verse
d)the ode
e)the spondee
18. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
a)Addison
b)Bunyan
c)Crabbe
d)Dryden
e)Equiano
19. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
a)Etherege's
The Man of Mode
b)Wycherley's
The Country Wife
c)Behn's
The Rover
d)Marlowe's
Doctor Faustus
e)Congreve's
Love for Love
20. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
a)the Behnites
b)the bluestockings
c)the coteries of plenty
d)the Pre-Raphaelites
e)the tattlers and spectators
21. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London?
a)Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe
b)Swift's
Gulliver's Travels
c)Behn's
Oroonoko
d)Richardson's
Clarissa
e)Pope's
The Rape of the Lock
22. What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers?
a)Elephant and Castle
b)Grub Street
c)Covent Garden
d)Cheapside
e)Piccadilly Circus
23. With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's
Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre?
a)the revenge tragedy
b)the Gothic romance
c)the epistolary novel
d)the comedy of manners
e)the mystery play
24. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?
a)William Beckford's
Vathek
b)Matthew Lewis's
The Monk
c)Tobias Smollett's
Roderick Randsom
d)Ann Radcliffe's
The Italian
e)William Godwin's
Caleb Williams
25. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?
a)a history of everyday life
b)an instructional manual for manners
c)a book of devotion
d)a book of model letters
e)a chapbook
26. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer?
a)Macpherson
b)Merlin
c)Decameron
d)Taliesin
e)Ossian
1)e
2)b
3)a
4)e
5)b
6)d
7)d
8)a
9)e
10)c
11)c
12)a
13)d
14)e
15)a
16)c
17)a
18)d
19)d
20)b
21)e
22)b
23)b
24)c
25)d
26)e