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
MCQs / Q&A
Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?
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. Ossian
What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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 Act of Union
Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
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
Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
A. the bluestockings
B. the coteries of plenty
C. the Pre-Raphaelites
D. the tattlers and spectators
Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
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 creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
D. the union of England and Wales with Scotland
Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
A. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
B. Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
C. Behn’s Oroonoko
D. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
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. Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode
Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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