English IV Final Exam Review

Question 1

The main character of Candide grew up in what sort of structure?

Accepted Answer

castle

Question 2

What king was exiled nine years before returning to England and taking the throne in 1660?

Accepted Answer

Charles II

Question 3

Which of these is the best definition for sonnet?

Accepted Answer

A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter

Question 4

What is the opposite of dystopian?

Accepted Answer

utopian

Question 5

Who wrote A Modest Proposal?

Accepted Answer

Jonathan Swift

Question 6

What is the author's idea to help the poor Irish?

Accepted Answer

Eat the babies

Question 7

Why does Mally seek the advice of a lawyer in "Malachi's Cove"?

Accepted Answer

Barty Gunliffe is using her path to get seaweed.

Question 8

Who wrote Don Quixote?

Accepted Answer

Cervantes

Question 9

Who is the author of "The Signalman"?

Accepted Answer

Charles Dickens

Question 10

Candide is made into a __________ because he is “of the right height."

Accepted Answer

soldier

Question 11

Which of these is NOT another name for the Restoration Period?

Accepted Answer

Middle Ages

Question 12

An exaggerated portrayal of the weaknesses or humorous aspects of people...

Accepted Answer

caricature

Question 13

What does "The Lady of Shalott" do all the time?

Accepted Answer

She weaves.

Question 14

Who wrote A Journal of the Plague Year?

Accepted Answer

Daniel Defoe

Question 15

The author of Don Quixote was of what nationality?

Accepted Answer

Spanish

Question 16

________ kept a diary in which he wrote using his own secret code language....

Accepted Answer

Samuel Pepys

Question 17

The author of Candide was of what nationality?

Accepted Answer

French

Question 18

Which of these is the author of "Malachi's Cove"?

Accepted Answer

Anthony Trollope

Question 19

What is the title of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most famous poem?

Accepted Answer

"Sonnet 43"

Question 20

What is the name of Queen Victoria's husband?

Accepted Answer

Albert

Question 21

What was life like while Oliver Cromwell ruled England?

Accepted Answer

restricted; boring

Question 22

Who was Samuel Johnson's biographer?

Accepted Answer

James Boswell

Question 23

Which of these is a poem written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

Accepted Answer

"The Lady of Shalott"

Question 24

Who wrote Candide?

Accepted Answer

Voltaire

Question 25

What term can be defined as “literary ridicule”?

Accepted Answer

satire

Question 26

The Rape of the Lock is divided into sections he called ________.

Accepted Answer

Cantos

Question 27

____________ is generally considered the first novel written in English.

Accepted Answer

Robinson Crusoe

Question 28

The Rape of the Lock is an example of a ______ _________.

Accepted Answer

mock epic

Question 29

What term can be defined as "literary ridicule"?

Accepted Answer

satire

Question 30

Queen Victoria took the throne at what age?

Accepted Answer

eighteen

Question 31

Who is the author of The Inheritance?

Accepted Answer

Louisa May Alcott

Question 32

Don Quixote has a famous battle against a group of _________.

Accepted Answer

windmills

Question 33

Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?

Accepted Answer

Jonathan Swift

Question 34

Which of these is the best definition of dramatic monologue?

Accepted Answer

a person speaking to himself or someone else to reveal specific intentions

Question 35

What man ruled England between Charles I and Charles II?

Accepted Answer

Oliver Cromwell

Question 36

What happens to the main character of "The Signalman"?

Accepted Answer

He is hit by a train.

Question 37

Which term means "a fictitious prose narrative of book length"?

Accepted Answer

novel

Question 38

Who published A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Johnson

Question 39

In 1665, eighty thousand people in London died in a violent outbreak of…

Accepted Answer

Bubonic Plague

Question 40

Which English king was publicly executed in 1649?

Accepted Answer

King Charles I

Question 41

_________ __________occurs when a character says one thing but means something else.

Accepted Answer

verbal irony

Question 42

Who wrote A Journal of the Plague Year?

Accepted Answer

Daniel Defoe

Question 43

In what year did the Great Fire of London occur?

Accepted Answer

1666

Question 44

What does Mally do when Barty falls into the sea?

Accepted Answer

She pulls him out.

Question 45

A Modest Proposal describes the people of what country?

Accepted Answer

Ireland

English IV Final Exam Review

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English IV Final Exam Review

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