5) The Rise of the Novel

Question 1

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 1

Leviathan

Question 2

John Locke

Answer 2

The Reasonableness of Christianity, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government

Question 3

In which of John Locke’s work can we find the “human mind at birth is a white paper” thought?

Answer 3

Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Question 4

Who was the most important women writer of the 17th century?

Answer 4

Aphra Behn

Question 5

Aphra Behn

Answer 5

Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave

Question 6

Why did Aphra Behn started to write?

Answer 6

because of the early death of her Dutch husband

Question 7

Who is Oroonoko?

Answer 7

an African prince (likely present-day Ghana)

Question 8

When was Oroonoko published?

Answer 8

1688

Question 9

What is the name of Oroonoko’s love?

Answer 9

Imoinda

Question 10

In which country does Oroonoko end up as a slave?

Answer 10

in Suriname

Question 11

What are the slave names of Oroonoko and Imoinda?

Answer 11

Caesar and Clemene

Question 12

How does Oroonoko end?

Answer 12

Oroonoko kills Imoinda to spare her and their unborn child from further suffering, he is then executed

Question 13

Periodization of Age of Reason

Answer 13

17th and 18th century

Question 14

What is the change of literary heroes in the Rise of the Novel?

Answer 14

ordinary people, you can identify with them

Question 15

What were coffee houses?

Answer 15

spread all over the country, different from pubs, alcohol was prohibited, women not allowed, you talked with people about what happened in the world, opened to all social classes

Question 16

Why was most society of the 18th century illiterate?

Answer 16

because literacy was necessary only for middle-class occupations like administration

Question 17

Name some of the limits on readerships in the 18th century

Answer 17

high cost of books, long working hours, little privacy, light, gin cheaper than books

Question 18

journal Tatler

Answer 18

by Richard Steele

Question 19

journal Spectator

Answer 19

by Addison and Steele

Question 20

Gentleman’s Magazine

Answer 20

Edward Cave

Question 21

What were the predecessors of novels?

Answer 21

romances, journalistic stories

Question 22

Daniel Defoe

Answer 22

Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, The Journal of Plague Year, The True-Born Englishman, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters

Question 23

When was Moll Flanders first published?

Answer 23

1722

Question 24

When was Moll Flanders born?

Answer 24

in Newgate Prison

Question 25

How many husbands in total did Moll Flanders have?

Answer 25

five

Question 26

How does Moll Flanders end?

Answer 26

she reunites with her final husband in prison, and eventually they rebuild their lives in America

Question 27

Which two books did Alexander Pope translate?

Answer 27

The Illiad of Homer, The Odyssey of Homer

Question 28

Oliver Goldsmith

Answer 28

Vicar of Wakefield

Question 29

Samuel Richardson

Answer 29

Pamela, Clarissa

Question 30

Name some of the female authors of romances

Answer 30

Eliza Heywood, Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox