English Lit Timeline

Question 1

• Anonymous’s “Beowulf”
• Bedes “Caedmons Hymn”
• “The Wife’s Lament”

All associated with..

A. The Renaissance (1500-1660)
B. Middle English Period (1066-1500)
C. Old English (Anglo-Saxon) (450-1066)
D. The Victorian Age (1830-1901)

Answer 1

Old English (Anglo-Saxon) (450-1066)

Question 2

• Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
• Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur”
• morality play, “Everyman”
• lyric poetry, “The Cuckoo Song”

All associated with..

A. The Renaissance (1500-1660)
B. Middle English Period (1066-1500)
C. Old English (Anglo-Saxon) (450-1066)
D. The Victorian Age (1830-1901)

Answer 2

Middle English Period (1066-1500)

Question 3

• Shakespeare’s, “Twelfth Night”
• Marlowe’s “Tamburlaine and the Great”
• Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”

All associated with what aspect of the Renaissance period..

A. Jacobean Age (1603-1625)
B. Caroline Age (1625-1649)
C. Elizabethan Age (1558-1603)
D. Commonwealth Period (1649-1660)

Answer 3

Elizabethan Age (1558-1603)

Question 4

• Dryden’ “The Conquest of Granada”
• Pope’s “Rape of the Lock”
• Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government”

All associated with..

A. The Renaissance (1500-1660)
B. Restoration & the 18th Cent (1660-1785)
C. Old English (Anglo-Saxon) (450-1066)
D. The Victorian Age (1830-1901)

Answer 4

Restoration & the 18th Cent (1660-1785)

Question 5

• Keat’s “Lamia,” “Isabella, “The Eve of St. Agnes”
• Burn’s “Auld Lang Syne”
• Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”

All associated with..

A. The Renaissance (1500-1660)
B. Restoration & the 18th Cent (1660-1785)
C. Romantic Period (1785-1832)
D. The Victorian Age (1830-1901)

Answer 5

Romantic

Question 6

• Tennyson’s “Poems”
• Dickens “Great Expectations” and “Pickwick Papers”
• Browning’s “Aurora Leigh” and “Sonnets from the Portuguese”
• Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights”
• Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”

A. The Renaissance (1500-1660)
B. Restoration & the 18th Cent (1660-1785)
C. Romantic Period (1785-1832)
D. The Victorian Age (1830-1901)

Answer 6

The Victorian Age (1830-1901)

Question 7

• Dante Rossetti’s “The House of Life”
• Christina Rosetti’s “The Goblin Market”

A. The Renaissance\ Pre-Raphaelites
(1500-1660)
B. Restoration & the 18th Cent \ Pre-Raphaelites
(1660-1785)
C. Romantic Period \ Pre-Raphaelites
(1785-1832)
D. The Victorian Age \ Pre-Raphaelites (1848-1860)

Answer 7

The Victorian Age \ Pre-Raphaelites (1848-1860)

Question 8

• Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”
• Hardy’s “On the Western Circuit”
• Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”
• Orwell’s “1984”
• Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”

A. The Renaissance (1500-1660)
B. 1900-present\20th Cent & after
C. Romantic Period (1785-1832)
D. The Victorian Age (1830-1901)

Answer 8

1900-present\20th Cent & after

Question 9

During what time period did British Romantics such as Keats, Kelley, and Byron write?

A. 1880-1930
B. 1780-1840
C. 1660-1700
D. 1900-2000

Answer 9

1780-1840