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1
Who wrote the book A Dictionary of theEnglish Language?
Samuel Johnson
John Bunyan
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
2
Which if these writers did NOT establish themselves during the Middle English/ Medieval period?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Dante
Boccaccio
3
Who wrote the book Gulliver’s Travels?
Daniel Defoe
John Bunyan
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Johnson
4
Which if these were Epic poets during the Classical Grecian Period?
Cicero
Homer
Hesiod
Plautus
5
When was the Caroline Age?
1603-1625
1586-1603
1649-1660
1625-1649
6
The Nicene Creed is associated with which period?
Patristic
The Renaissance
Medieval
Roman Classical
7
Which of these was NOT a popular theme during the Renaissance (1484-1660)?
World view shifts from religion to stressing humans on Earth
all aspects of love
Strong belief in Fate
Development of human potential
8
Which if these works belongs in the Middle English/ Medieval period?
Canterbury Tales
Beowulf
Don Quixote
Exeter Book
9
Which of these are popular genres during the Middle English/ Medieval period?
Diaries
Moral tales
Epistolary Novels
Frame stories
10
The sonnet became popular during the Renaissance
true
false
11
Which of these was not a popular genre during the MiddleEnglish/Medieval (1066-1485roughly)?
Oral tradition
Folk ballads
the Sonnet
Mystery & miracle plays
12
St. Augustine and St. Jerome (Christian writers) are associated with which period?
Patristic
Victorian
Neoclassical
Romantic
13
Which of these was not a popular genre during the Patristic Period (70 -749 CE)?
Sermon
Pastoral poetry
Church History
Bible commentaries
14
Which of these were playwrights during the Classical Grecian Period?
Euripides
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Sophocles
15
Who was a Metaphysical poet?
Ben Jonson
Robert Herrick
John Donne
AndrewMarvell
16
When was the Jacobean Period?
1649-1660
1625-1649
1603-1625
1586-1603
17
Which of these was not a popular genre during the Neoclassical period?
Letters/diaries
novels
plays
biographies
18
Which of these was NOT a philosopher during the Classical Grecian Period?
Plato
Socrates
Aurelius
Aristotle
19
Miguel Cervantes was a Renaissance writer. What did he write?
The Book of Common Prayer
Don Quixote
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hamlet
20
Who were the rhetoricians of the Roman Classical Period?
Beowulf
Plato
Quintillian
Cicero
21
Which of these did did not write during the Neoclassical period?
John Bunyan
Alexander Pope
John Dryden
Mary Shelley
22
Which of these was were poets during the Classical Roman Period?
Juvenal
Ovid
Virgil
Cicero
23
Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, &Wheatley were all...
colonial writers
Gothic Writers
Renaissance writers
revolutionary writers
24
When was the Commonwealth Period?
1649-1660
1625-1649
1603-1625
1586-1603
25
Which if these was not common for Renaissance Dramas?
Contained mysterious or mythical elements
tragedies, comedies, histories
supported by royalty
written in verse
26
What period is known for unique verse forms caesura, alliteration, repetition, four-beat rhythm
Roman Classical
Old English/AngloSaxon
MiddleEnglish/Medieval
Romantic
27
Which of these was not a revolutionary writer?
Franklin
Jefferson
Paine
Wheatley
28
What do we call the period just prior to the Old English period in Britain (CE 70 -749)?
Medieval
Anglo Saxon
Classical
Patristic
29
Who were the Satirists of the Roman Classical Period?
Martial
Juvenal
Boccaccio
Terence
30
What was the dominant genre of the Old English/AngloSaxon Period (499-1066)?
Morality Plays
Moral Tales
Prose
Poetry
31
Which of these did not write during the Neoclassical period?
Moliere
Voltaire
Dante
Racine
32
Who were the philosophers of the Roman Classical period?
Aurelius
Dante
Ovid
Marcus
33
What was not a main component of metaphysical poetry during the Renaissance?
lyrical ballads
incongruous imagery/ complexity and subtlety of thought
elaborate & unexpected metaphors called conceits
greater emphasis on spoken rather than lyrical quality
34
which of these was not a popular theme during the Neoclassical period?
Emphasis on the individual
Stresses harmony, stability, & wisdom
Emphasis on reason & logic; disdain for superstition
Religious revival
35
Which if these works does not belong in the Middle English/ Medieval period?
Domesday Book
L’Morte de Arthur
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Sir Gawain and theGreen Knight
36
Which of these was not a popular genre during the Neoclassical Period?
Satire
Essays
Dramas
Novel
37
which of these is not a common style of the Classical Grecian Period (800-200 BCE)
Poetry
Drama
Prose
Oral tradition
38
Which of these themes was not common during the Classical Grecian Period?
Dominance of Fate
Honoring gods
Dangers of arrogance and hubris
Christian Faith
39
Which if these was NOT a popular theme during the Middle English/ Medieval Period?
Poverty
Plays that instruct the illiterate masses in morals/religion
Romances
Chivalric code of honor/ Religious devotion
40
Who wrote the book Robinson Crusoe?
John Bunyan
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Johnson
41
Which of these was NOT popular theme of literature during the Classical Roman Period?
Religious devotion
Influenced by Greeks
Imaginative reworking of classical myths
The greatness of Rome/Propaganda/mockery of public folly
42
Which of these was NOT a popular theme during the Patristic period?
Battle against infidelity:apostasy, heresy, schism
Unorthodox Doctrine
Faith “apologies” – defending the faith
Exegesis – analysis &explanation of scriptures
43
John Locke was a philosopher during the Neoclassical period? What is NOT attributed to him?
Belief that all governments are evil = a need to restart
A social contract exists between the gov’t. & the people.
Gov should guarantee“natural rights”(Life/liberty/property)
Two Treatiseson Government
44
Which of these were playwrights during the Roman Classical Period?
Plautus
Andronicus
Terence
Livius
45
Who was a Cavalier poet?
John Donne
Ben Jonson
Robert Herrick
AndrewMarvell
46
which of these s not a name for the Neoclassical period?
Age of Reason
The Restoration
Romantic Period
Age of Enlightenment
47
When was the Elizabethan Period?
1586-1603
1625-1649
1603-1625
1649-1660
48
Which of these genres were not popular during the Classical Roman Period (200 BCE-350 CE)?
Biblical commentary
Poetry
Satire
Drama
49
Which of these was not a popular genre during the MiddleEnglish/Medieval Period?
Stock epithets
Essays
Morality plays
Kennings
50
Which if these did not write during the Renaissance?
John Milton
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Christopher Marlow
John Dryden
51
What period did Shakespeare write in?
Jacobean
Caroline
Renaissance
Elizabethan