2nd Sem Test 1

Question 1

Which work was written for the purpose of defending the freedom of the press?

Answer 1

Areopagitica

Question 2

Which of the following elements did not contribute to or embody the Cavaliers’ beliefs?

Answer 2

their lack of courage

Question 3

Which of the following elements does not characterize Cavalier poetry?

Answer 3

excessively ornamented style

Question 4

What device is present in the following excerpt from “To the Virgins”?

“And while ye may, go marry”

Answer 4

Alliteration

Question 5

What device is present in the following excerpt from “To the Virgins”?
“And this same flower that smiles to-day”

Answer 5

personification

Question 6

What two competing affections are revealed in “To Lucasta: Going to the Wars”?

Answer 6

love and honor

Question 7

What elements define metaphysical poetry?

Answer 7

rational argument, wit, and striking imagery to explore a

Question 8

What life event is Milton discussing in Sonnet 19?

Answer 8

his loss of sight

Question 9

According to the romantics, the hero of Paradise Lost is..

Answer 9

Sata/n

Question 10

In Paradise Lost Milton invokes whom as his muse?

Answer 10

The Holy Spirit

Question 11

Which “apostate Angel” gives the opening speech in Paradise Lost?

Answer 11

Sata/n

Question 12

Which of the following does not describe the epic conventions present in Paradise Lost?

Answer 12

written in blank verse

Question 13

T/F-The literature of the early Enlightenment is often referred to as Augustan because of its classical tendencies

Answer 13

True

Question 14

T/F-Neoclassical literature subscribed to the general obligations of art: to teach and to delight.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

T/F-Milton’s Sonnet 19 follows the Italian sonnet form by presenting the problem in the first eight lines and the answer or resolution in the last six.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Given the excerpt in your text, what does Robinson Crusoe seem to miss the most on his island?

Answer 16

conversation with other people

Question 17

How does Robinson Crusoe credit his deliverance from his difficult time in the boat away from the island?

Answer 17

He credits God.

Question 18

Besides entertaining readers, what were two enduring purposes of early novels?

Answer 18

didacticism and satire

Question 19

What is the topic that Steele satirizes in The Tatler excerpt in the text?

Answer 19

the practice of dueling

Question 20

What was the point of the woman’s plucking her husband’s hair in the excerpt from The Spectator?

Answer 20

It illustrated the many issues and groups that people did not want Addison to satirize.

Question 21

What fundamental question does An Essay on Man seek to answer?

Answer 21

Why does evil exist?,

Question 22

What, according to Pope in An Essay on Criticism, is “the never-failing vice of fools”?

Answer 22

Pride

Question 23

T/F-Literacy increased during the eighteenth century.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

T/F-Robinson Crusoe’s outlook is generally unbiblical and without thought of God, mirroring the spirituality of his age.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

T/F-In the eighteenth century, novelists increasingly sought to portray characters and their inner lives more realistically.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

T/F-Both Addison’s and Steele’s excerpts in this unit illustrate Juvenalian satire.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

T/F-According to Pope in An Essay on Criticism, it is safe to attempt “a little learning.”

Answer 27

False

Question 28

T/F-Progressive sanctification refers to how the believer’s character will be changed after his or her bodily resurrection.

Answer 28

False

Question 29

What is the term for the lifelong process of the Holy Spirit making believers like Christ?

Answer 29

Progressive Sanctification

Question 30

What is the term for the moment the Christian receives the gift of the Holy spirit, enjoys union with Christ, is washed from all his or her sins, and experiences regeneration?

Answer 30

Definite Sanctification

Question 31

List two tools the Spirit uses to support a believer’s Christian life.

Answer 31

• Prayer
  -word of God
• other Christian