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Literature Test: 4 Flashcards

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1
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What were the years of the restoration period?

A

1660-1798

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2
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What were the fashion of the day

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Whigs

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3
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Who was the merchant who was risky?

A

Daniel Defoe

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4
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Who was chaplain under James I?

A

John Donne

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5
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Who was the first poet loret?

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Ben Johnson

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6
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What were the two subjects of Caviler poetry?

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Love, and fighting for the king

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7
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Who replaced James II during the Glorious Revolution?

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William and Mary

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Where did the House of Hanover come from?

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Germany

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9
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What was the enemy city of Liliput?

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Blefescu

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What were the the two things they were divided on in Gulliver’s Travels?

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Where to crack the egg and what types of shoes to wear

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11
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What were the two literary trends of the day?

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Journals and Newspapers

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12
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What two authors were affected by tuberculosis?

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Alexander Pope - crippled
Samuel Jonson - blind, deaf in one ear, scarred

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13
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Who wrote the English dictionary?

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Samuel Jonson

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14
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Who was in rebellion against James II and a lead informant of King William?

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Daniel Defoe

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15
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What was the propose of the Act of Settlement?

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To establish that a protestant would always be on the throne

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16
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When was the great fire in London?

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1666

17
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Who battled depression?

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Johnathan Swift

18
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Which actor was bigger than Shakespeare?

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Ben Jonson

19
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What poets wrote about serious and complex topics?

A

Metaphysical poets

20
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Who rejected the position of poet loret because he did not want to be told what to write?

A

Thomas Gray

21
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Who graduated from Cambridge and stayed to become a professor?

A

Thomas Gray

22
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Who was the son of a violent father and overindulgent mother and was sent to a boarding school?

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Thomas Gray

23
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Who wrote against politics and was satyrical?

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Johnathan Swift

24
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Who was a leading architect?

A

Christopher Wren

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