U7 L8 Jonathan Swift

Question 1

What occupations did Jonathan Swift take up?

Answer 1

• poet
• satirist
• political writer
• clergyman

Question 2

What did Jonathan Swift call himself?

Answer 2

misanthrope

Question 3

What is a misanthrope?

Answer 3

person who hates all people

Question 4

When and where was Swift born?

Answer 4

1667, Dublin, Ireland

Question 5

In 1694, Swift was ordained in which church?

Answer 5

Anglican church

Question 6

Swift began his satiric writing while being a secretary to who and where?

Answer 6

Sir William Temple, England

Question 7

What did ‘A Tale of A Tub’ satirize?

Answer 7

corruption in religion and learning

Question 8

What does ‘A Tale of A Tub’ desrcibe?

Answer 8

adventure 3 brothers care for coat in diff ways

Question 9

What do the 3 brothers in ‘A Tale of A Tub’ represent, and how do they care for the coat?

Answer 9

Peter- Roman Catholics, adorns until not recognized
Jack- dissenters, tears coat, taking off Peter’s decorations quickly
Martyn- Anglicans, changes slowly, preserves according to father’s will

Question 10

What happens in the satire ‘The Battle of the Books’?

Answer 10

the Ancients win a battle begun by Moderns

Question 11

What are the Ancients in ‘The Battle of the Books’?

Answer 11

books by:

• Homer
• Pindar
• Euclid
• Aristotle
• Plato

Question 12

What are the Moderns in ‘The Battle of the Books’?

Answer 12

Swift’s contemporaries

Question 13

What do the first 4 Drapier’s Letters protest?

Answer 13

use of low value copper coins produced outside of Ireland without Irish permission

Question 14

Did Swift use his real name at the time he wrote the Drapier’s Letters?

Answer 14

no

Question 15

What did the satire ‘A Modest Proposal’ emphasize?

Answer 15

• English indifference toward starving Irish

- poor Irish living conditions

Question 16

From 1710 to 1714, Swift wrote for who?

Answer 16

Tories

Question 17

Under what conditions would Swift approve or powerful political groups?

Answer 17

members reasonable and responsible for behaviour

Question 18

Swift believed that enemies of the Tories were also enemies of what?

Answer 18

culture and morality

Question 19

What forms of disappointment did Swift encounter because of his work?

Answer 19

• Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin and not bishop office, England
• Queen Anne disapproved some satire in A Tale of a Tub
• Anne’s death, Whig government

Question 20

In 1726, Swift published what book with Alexander Pope?

Answer 20

Gulliver’s travels

Question 21

What is Gulliver’s Travels a satire of?

Answer 21

• political satire

- abuses of reason and vanity

Question 22

In 1727 and 1728, what did Swift publish with Pope?

Answer 22

Miscellanies

Question 23

What was Swift suffering from in 1738?

Answer 23

Meniere’s syndrome

Question 24

When did Swift die?

Answer 24

1748

Question 25

What does burlesque mean?

Answer 25

mockery by exaggerated literary imitation

Question 26

By 1700, England owned what percentage of Ireland?

Answer 26

90%

Question 27

When did Swift write ‘A Modest Proposal’?

Answer 27

1729

Question 28

What form of language is most effective to deliver a satire?

Answer 28

formal

Question 29

What are the reasons for the long sentences in ‘A Modest Proposal’?

Answer 29

• sound serious

- style of 1700s