The Neoclassical Period

1. The period after 1660 is called the

(a) Restoration Period
(b) Elizabethan Period
(c) Jacobean Period
(d) Victorian Period

2. “Mac Flecknoe” is a personal satire directed against a fellow poet of Dryden’s time.

(a) Thomas Shadwell
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Shaftesbury
(d) Dr. Johnson

3. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel” allegorically refers to

(a) Shaftesbury and Monmouth
(b) the Tory and Whig parties
(c) Dryden and Charles II
(d) Shaftesbury and the Duke of York

4. In Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe, the word Mac means

(a) father of
(b) son of
(c) teacher of
(d) none of these

5. The age of ____ is called the classical age of England.

(a) Augustus
(b) Queen Elizabeth
(c) Queen Anne
(d) Louis XIV

6. What is a picaresque novel?

(a) A novel whose hero is a villain
(b) A novel whose hero is a knight
(c) A novel whose hero is a wandering rogue
(d) A novel whose hero is subordinate to the heroine

7. “What oft was thought but nev’er so well expressed” is an epigram which can be associated with

(a) Alexander Pope
(b) John Dryden
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) Jonathan Swift

8. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is written in:

(a) Spenserian stanza
(b) blank verse
(c) free verse
(d) heroic couplet

9. “Laugh where we must, be candid where we can / But vindicate the ways of God to man.” This line is from:

(a) The Essay on Man
(b) The Essay on Criticism
(c) The Dunciad
(d) Windsor Forest

10. Which of the following works of Swift is a religious allegory?

(a) Gulliver's Travels
(b) Journal to Stella
(c) Polite Conversation
(d) A Tale of a Tub

11. In Robinson Crusoe, Man Friday is a:

(a) Hero
(b) Whiteman
(c) Cannibal
(d) Sailor

12. The period of the French Revolution was:

(a) 1779–1789
(b) 1784–1794
(c) 1789–1799
(d) 1794–1804

13. In Songs of Innocence, the poem “The Chimney Sweeper” addresses:

(a) Political tyranny
(b) Child labor and social injustice
(c) Nature and the pastoral life
(d) Philosophical abstractions

14. In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake presents the idea that:

(a) Evil is the ultimate reality
(b) Good and Evil are equally necessary for progress
(c) Hell is more powerful than Heaven
(d) Only reason leads to truth

15. Who popularized epistolary novels in the 18th century?

(a) Defoe
(b) Richardson
(c) Smollett
(d) Fielding

16. Which novel is an epistolary tragedy?

(a) Clarissa
(b) Tom Jones
(c) Roderick Random
(d) Pamela

17. Joseph Andrews is a parody of

(a) Gothic novel
(b) Richardson’s Pamela
(c) Smollett’s picaresque
(d) Defoe’s realism

18. How many books are there in Tom Jones?

(a) 15
(b) 16
(c) 17
(d) 18

19. “One of his greatest, though of his earliest works, is the Essay on Criticism…” Who said this about Pope?

(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Boileau
(c) Bolingbroke
(d) None

20. Which author was popularly known as “The Dean”?

(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Dryden
(c) Swift
(d) Pope

21. Which author in his youth was so beautiful as to be called “The Lady of the College”?

(a) Milton
(b) Swift
(c) Dryden
(d) Pope

22. Which of the following works of Milton has been written in pastoral form?

(a) Paradise Lost
(b) Lycidas
(c) Paradise Regained
(d) Comus

23. Dr. Johnson formed the Literary Club with the help of

(a) Goldsmith
(b) Addison
(c) Steele
(d) Pitt

24. Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary was published in

(a) 1755
(b) 1776
(c) 1800
(d) None

25. Who said, “What is fit for everything can fit nothing well”?

(a) Pope
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Bacon
(d) George

26. Which poem begins with the line: “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day”?

(a) Collins’s Ode to Evening
(b) Collins’s Ode on the Passions
(c) Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
(d) Gray’s On the Death of a Favourite Cat

27. Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard was written in

(a) 1749
(b) 1750
(c) 1751
(d) 1752

28. Which work is considered the first English novel?

(a) Pamela
(b) Robinson Crusoe
(c) Tom Jones
(d) Roderick Random

29. Who wrote The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling?

(a) Smollett
(b) Fielding
(c) Richardson
(d) Defoe

30. Who remarked, “Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it”?

(a) Cowper
(b) Blake
(c) Arnold
(d) Dr. Johnson