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The Enlightenment epoch in English literature may be divided into three periods.
Three periods
Four periods
Two periods
Five periods
How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
36
37
39
38
Hamlet is?
A passionate lover
A man of action
An intellectual
An over ambitious man
The dates of Shakespeare’s life put him firmly in the middle of which period?
Medieval
Classical
Baroque
Renaissance
When was Jonathan Swift born?
30 November 1667
14 April 1656
3 June 1663
11 January 1660
Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
French
Celtic
Dutch
Latin
Daniel Defoe is the author of:
An Essay on Projects
All of the above
Hymn to the Pillory
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
Which of the following books was written by Jonathan Swift?
Gulliver’s Travels
Vanity Fair
Daffodils
First Impression
The music performed during Shakespeare’s plays was meant to:
Provide an interlude between acts
All of the above
Establish the mental or emotional state of characters
A part of a silly comedy act performed at the end of tragic plays
Create a mood or atmosphere
Which school did Jonathan Swift attend?
Stradford Grammar School
Kilkenny Grammar School
Trinity College
Kilmanock School
The Song of Beowulf is written by:
Chaucer
Moore
Unknown writer
Shakespeare
Where was Jonathan Swift born?
Dublin
London
Manchester
New Delhi
The main features of Shakespeare’s comedies are:
Love of young men and women
Exotic setting
Misunderstanding to create comic situation
All of the above
In the 14th century, the most important writer is:
Chaucer
Gower
Wyclif
Langland
When a major character in a Shakespeare play sings, it is most likely because:
They are in love
They are entertaining friends or guests
They are suffering from mental illness
They are speaking their innermost thoughts
In what century was William Shakespeare active as a playwright?
17th century
16th century
15th century
B and C
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Shakespeare was the first to introduce over 3,000 words and expressions to the English language… words that we still use today. Which of these words do you think that Shakespeare did NOT coin?
Birthplace
Eyeball
Joyous
Scuffle
Zany
In 1066, ____ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.
Claudius
Alfred the Great
William the Conqueror
Julius Caesar
In Elizabethan England, people believed that this instrument could improve people’s emotional state by turning sadness into art:
Viols (an earlier version of the violin)
Oboes
Trumpets
In addition to writing plays, William Shakespeare was also:
An actor who performed for royalty
A poet who wrote over 150 sonnets
A, B, and C
A successful businessman
A and B
From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous line: ‘Did my heart love till now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night’?
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Othello
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
What kinds of characters generally sing in Shakespeare’s plays?
Servants, clowns, fools, and other minor characters with low status
Kings and queens
Fairies
Noblemen
The Song of Beowulf tells of some events from a people's history, sings:
His desire for justice, his love for his people
All of the above
The heroic deeds of a man, his courage
Self-sacrifice for the sake of his country
What is the subtitle of the play Twelfth Night?
Or, What You Think
Or, What is Your Will
Or, What You Will
Or, What You Like It
____ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.
The Chartist Movement
The Religious Reformation
The Renaissance
The Enlightenment
In which language were the stories of Canterbury Tales written?
English
French
Middle English
Latin
Thomas More’s masterpiece Utopia was written in ____
French
Latin
English
Greek
Swift’s realism was different from Defoe’s in:
Swift’s criticism was hidden away in a whole lot of allegorical pictures
Swift gave very realistic descriptions
All of the above
Swift used his laughter to mock bourgeois reality
The main features of Romanticism in English literature are:
Exotic themes came into being
Attention was paid to the spiritual life of man
All of the above
Great attention was dedicated to nature and its elements
Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Macbeth
Othello
Hamlet
None of the above
Titus Andronicus