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4- The Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period (1660-1790)

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

D. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations?

A. William Hogarth
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Samuel Johnson
D. Ben Jonson

C. Samuel Johnson

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

D. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

Neoclassicists tended to view poetry as the result of genius overflowing from the mind out onto the page. They also considered po- etry to be an expression of the individual, inner self.

A. True
B. False

B. False

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

D. Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel

Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?

A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode

A. the heroic couplet

Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?

A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode

A. the heroic couplet

His “To Penthurst” is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement.

A. Sir John Denham
B. Ben Jonson
C. Thomas Carew
D. John Dryden

B. Ben Jonson

Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”

A. William Shakespeare
B. John Donne
C. Abraham Cowley
D. John Dryden

C. Abraham Cowley

4- The Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period (1660-1790)

Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?

Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations?

Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London?

Neoclassicists tended to view poetry as the result of genius overflowing from the mind out onto the page. They also considered po- etry to be an expression of the individual, inner self.

What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration?

Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?

Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?

His “To Penthurst” is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement.

Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”

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