ages era period Mcqs
251. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
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A. almost all working class men

B. all women

C. about half of middle class men

D. A, B and C
252. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?
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A. The Bahagavad Gita

B. The Aeneid

C. The Odyssey

D. The Illiad
253. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
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A. the Irish National Theatre

B. the Independent Theatre

C. the Abbey Theatre

D. both A and C
254. Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
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A. the founding of the Jamestown settlement

B. all of the above

C. Henry Hudsons fruitless search for the Northwest Passage

D. the founding of the Plymouth colony

255. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical method in place of the old narrative method and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
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A. James Joyces Finnegans Wake

B. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

C. Virginia Woolfs The Waves

D. James Joyces Ulysses
256. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
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A. the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade

B. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity

C. formal diplomatic relations with China

D. the American and French revolutions

257. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill ?
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A. Humming Bird

B. Seagull

C. Crow

D. Albatross
258. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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A. India

B. Canada

C. Ulster

D. the southern counties of Ireland
259. Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s ?
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A. the restoration of the monarchy

B. the free circulation of ideas without prior censorship

C. the right of the people to dismiss and even execute their rulers

D. the disestablishment of the church and the removal of bishops

260. Who exemplified the role of the peasant poet ?
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A. John Keats

B. A and C only

C. Robert Burns

D. John Clare

261. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
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A. George II

B. James II

C. Elizabeth I

D. William and Mary

262. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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A. Swifts Gullivers Travels

B. Popes The Rape of the Lock

C. Defoes Robinson Crusoe

D. Behns Oroonoko

263. Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
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A. A and C only

B. shepherd and shepherdesses who fall in love and engage in singing contests

C. heroic stories in epic form

D. a celebration of the humility, contentment, and simplicity of living in the country

264. Who served as Protector under Englands first written constitution ?
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A. Praisegod Barebone

B. George Monk

C. Oliver Cromwell

D. Gerrard Winstanley

265. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?
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A. A, Band C

B. childhood

C. opium

D. dreams

266. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry ?
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A. Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology

B. An effort to represent human nature

C. Fantastic comparisons

D. Use of the rhymed couplet
267. A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to ?
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A. Cocaine

B. Opium

C. Alcohol

D. Heroine

268. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?
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A. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods

B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence

C. A and C only

D. Goethes Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality

269. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
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A. Paul Scotts Staying On

B. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

C. E. M. Forsters A Passage to India

D. Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea

270. Who wrote: Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive. ?
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A. Oscar Wilde

B. Lord Byron

C. Robert Browning

D. William Wordsworth

271. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
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A. Ben Jonson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Jonathan Swift

D. William Hogarth

272. According to Samuel Johnson, No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
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A. love.

B. his party.

C. money.

D. honor.

273. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
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A. Samuel Johnson

B. Ben Jonson

C. William Hogarth

D. Jonathan Swift

274. Which writer was not active under both Elizabeth I and James I ?
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A. Ben Jonson

B. William Shakespeare

C. John Milton

D. John Donne

275. Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists) ?
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A. the wider use of religious images in churches

B. the elimination of bishops

C. the pursuit of a more confrontational policy towards Catholic powers

D. the right of congregations to choose their own leaders

276. Horaces doctrine ut pictura poesis was interpreted to mean______________?
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A. A picture is worth a thousand words.

B. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.

C. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.

D. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.

277. Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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A. Eminent Victorians

B. Jungle Books

C. The Way of All Flesh

D. both A and C
278. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
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A. Bunyan

B. Addison

C. Crabbe

D. Dryden
279. Which poet could be described as part of The Movement of the 1950s ?
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A. Thom Gunn

B. Dylan Thomas

C. Philip Larkin

D. both A and C
280. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
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A. Behns The Rover

B. Marlowes Doctor Faustus

C. Ethereges The Man of Mode

D. Wycherleys The Country Wife

281. John Dryden wrote Absalom and Achitophel. Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?
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A. King Davids son

B. A Judge of Israel

C. Bathshebas first husband

D. Absaloms advisor
282. What was the tile of Thomas Hobbess defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
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A. The Litany in a Time of Plague

B. The Advancement of Learning

C. Utopia

D. Leviathan
283. Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?
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A. They were located outside the city limits of London.

B. The early versions were oval in shape.

C. all of the above

D. They relied on admission charges, an innovation of the period.

284. Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy ?
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A. the Fifth Monarchists

B. the Ranters

C. the Roarers

D. the Diggers

285. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?
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A. Robert Herrick

B. John Dryden

C. Ben Jonson

D. Alexander Pope

286. Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donnes conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
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A. Air and Angels

B. The Apparition

C. The Indifferent

D. \Satire 3\
287. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?
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A. woman

B. civilization

C. nature

D. God

288. In what decade did the \angry young men\come to prominence on the theatrical scene ?
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A. 1970s

B. 1930s

C. 1950s

D. 1910s

289. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
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A. Maria Edgeworth

B. Sir Walter Scott

C. Thomas De Quincey

D. Jane Austen
290. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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A. the southern counties of Ireland

B. Ulster

C. India

D. Canada

291. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrences novel Lady Chatterleys Lover, written in 1928?
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A. 1945

B. 1960

C. 2000

D. 1930

292. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
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A. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

B. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

C. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

D. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery

293. What is Shakespeares longest play ?
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A. A Midsummer Nights Dream

B. Hamlet

C. Taming of the Shrew

D. Romeo and Juliet

294. Who wrote: Beauty is truth, truth beauty. ?
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A. Samuel Butler

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. John Keats

D. William Shakespeare

295. Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any persons pursuit of their personal interests ?
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A. economic independence

B. enclosure

C. the Rights of Man

D. laissez-faire
296. Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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A. Eminent Victorians

B. Jungle Books

C. The Way of All Flesh

D. both A and C
297. Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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A. Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.

B. Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.

C. Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.

D. both A and C
298. 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 ?
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A. naturalism

B. sprezzatura

C. gusto

D. wit
299. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
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A. admiration and elegiac sympathy.

B. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

C. bewilderment and visceral loathing.

D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

300. A classic book is usually one that possesses what quality ?
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A. All of the above.

B. It makes connections.

C. It has universal appeal.

D. It can stand the test of time.