Historical-Geographic Arc of Lit Readings

Question 1

When was the Odyssey written?

Answer 1

725 - 675 BC

BC meaning Before Christ

Question 2

Where was the Odyssey written?

Answer 2

Ionia

Modern day Northern Turkey

Question 3

When was Antigone written?

Answer 3

441 BC

BC meaning Before Christ

Question 4

Where was Antigone written?

Answer 4

Athens, Greece

Question 5

Who spread a lot of Greek Literature?

Answer 5

Alexander the Great

Question 6

When did Alexander the Great die?

Answer 6

320 BC

Question 7

What year was Jesus born in?

Answer 7

0 AD

Question 8

What year was the rise of the Roman Empire?

Answer 8

625 BC

BC meaning Before Christ

Question 9

What year was the fall of the Roman Empire?

Answer 9

476 AD

AD meaning Anno Domini (Year of the Lord)

Question 10

What year was the rise of the Middle Ages?

Answer 10

476 AD (aka the fall of Rome)

(This is an approximation)

Question 11

What year was the fall of the Middle Ages?

Answer 11

1000

Question 12

When was the English Reformation?

Answer 12

1510 AD

AD meaning Anno Domini (Year of the Lord)

During Henry the 8th’s reign

Question 13

Where was Hamlet written?

Answer 13

London, England

Question 14

What year was Hamlet written in?

Answer 14

1600

During Elizabeth the 1st’s reign

Question 15

What year was the rise of the Early Modern Period?

Answer 15

1450

Question 16

What year was the fall of the Early Modern Period?

Answer 16

1650

Question 17

What years did the English Civil War span?

Who was a writer that we learned about from this time?

Answer 17

1642 - 1651

John Milton

Question 18

What year was the start of Enlightenment?

Answer 18

1685

Question 19

What year was the end of Enlightenment?

Answer 19

1815

Question 20

What year was the start of British Romanticism?

Who was a writer we studied from this period?

Answer 20

1785

Williams Wordsworth

Question 21

What year was the end of British Romanticism?

Answer 21

1832

Question 22

What year was the start of the British Victorian Era?

Who were some poets from this time period?

Answer 22

1837

A. E. Housman and Lord Tennyson

Question 23

What year was the end of the British Victorian Era?

Answer 23

1901

Question 24

What year was the start of American Romanticism?

Who were some writers of this period?

Answer 24

1830

Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 25

What year was the end of American Romanticism?

Answer 25

1870

Question 26

What year was The Scarlet Letter written?

Answer 26

1850

Question 27

Where was The Scarlet Letter written?

Answer 27

Boston, Massachusetts

Question 28

What year was the start of Literary Realism?

Who was a writer of this period?

Answer 28

1865

Henry James

Question 29

What year was the end of Literary Realism?

Answer 29

1900

Question 30

What year was Daisy Miller written?

Answer 30

1878

Question 31

Where was Daisy Miller written?

Answer 31

London, England

Question 32

When was the Renaissance?

Answer 32

1450 - 1650

Question 33

Whose reign was Thomas Wyatt under?

Answer 33

Henry VII

Question 34

Whose reign was Michael Drayton under?

Answer 34

Elizabeth I

Question 35

Whose reign was Mary Wroth under?

Answer 35

Elizabeth I

Question 36

When was the English Civil War?

Answer 36

1642 - 1651

Question 37

When was the Restoration?

Answer 37

1667

Question 38

When was Paradise Lost written?

Answer 38

1667