Interactive Literature MCQs

Q1. People became increasingly familiar with the notions of...

Q2. Which great French writer launched passionate attacks upon civilization and all its idols?

Q3. Rousseau's fiery gospel was...

Q4. Across the Atlantic, a new Republic sprang into being on the principle that men are...

Q5. A little later, a great storm burst over France known as the...

Q6. The literature of this half-century exhibits a struggle between the powerful traditions of the Augustan age and...

Q7. Who was the greatest English man of letters between Pope and Wordsworth?

Q8. Where was Samuel Johnson born?

Q9. Who was Johnson's late pupil who traveled with him to London and became a famous actor?

Q10. In 1738, Johnson published a poem called...

Q1. What was the name of the magazine Johnson regularly contributed parliamentary reports to?

Q2. What tragedy did Johnson produce in 1749?

Q3. Which periodical did Johnson start in March 1750?

Q4. How long did Johnson work on his 'Dictionary of the English Language'?

Q5. To whom did Johnson write a magnificent letter that dealt a deathblow to the system of patronage?

Q6. What title did Smollett give to Johnson?

Q7. When did Johnson publish his didactic tale, 'Rasselas'?

Q8. What is the title of Johnson's largest and greatest work published in 1779-81?

Q9. Where was Johnson buried?

Q10. Who said 'the memory of other authors is kept alive by their works, but the memory of Johnson keeps many of his works alive'?

Q1. Who is Johnson's hero-worshipping biographer?

Q2. What was Johnson's general attitude as a critic of literature?

Q3. Whose poetry did Johnson fail to appreciate due to antipathy towards his politics and religion?

Q4. Which school of poetry did Johnson hold fast to?

Q5. Broadly speaking, Johnson's philosophy was that of a...

Q6. Which work is an adaptation of the tenth satire of Juvenal?

Q7. 'Rasselas' is historically significant as a reply to the flimsy optimism of...

Q8. The protagonist of 'Rasselas' is a young prince from...

Q9. As a moralist, Johnson is characterized by remarkable...

Q10. In his major works, Johnson's conclusions show he was saved from hopelessness by his...

Q1. What did Macaulay call Johnson's prose style?

Q2. Johnson's style is highly Latinized in vocabulary and marked in sentence structure by...

Q3. Where was Oliver Goldsmith born?

Q4. What profession did Goldsmith ostensibly go to Edinburgh and Leyden to study?

Q5. In 1755, Goldsmith set out to make the Grand Tour of Europe equipped with one clean shirt, a guinea, and a...

Q6. From which of Goldsmith's novels can we learn about his continental wanderings?

Q7. Which poem by Goldsmith is also thought to reflect his European experiences?

Q8. In what year did Goldsmith reach London penniless and friendless?

Q9. After arriving in London, Goldsmith acted as an assistant to an...

Q10. At what age did Goldsmith drift into literature?

Q1. Much of Goldsmith's literary output belongs to the class popularly known as...

Q2. Which of the following is a poem by Goldsmith?

Q3. What is the title of Goldsmith's one novel?

Q4. Which of the following is a comedy by Goldsmith?

Q5. What was the title of Goldsmith's series of essays?

Q6. Who said of Goldsmith that he 'wrote like an angel' but 'talked like poor Poll'?

Q7. How did Johnson describe Goldsmith in his Latin epitaph?

Q8. Though Johnson often bullied Goldsmith, what did he not allow?

Q9. When did Goldsmith die?

Q10. What state was Goldsmith in when he died?

Q1. Goldsmith's comedies mark a reaction against...

Q2. Who was Goldsmith's fellow-countryman that also played an equal part in reviving the true comic spirit?

Q3. Which of the following is a comedy by Sheridan?

Q4. A striking feature of Goldsmith's original writings is the strong...

Q5. Dr. Primrose in 'The Vicar of Wakefield' is modeled after Goldsmith's...

Q6. The good priest in 'The Deserted Village' is modeled after Goldsmith's...

Q7. Moses, young Honeywood, and Tony Lumpkin are humorous studies of...

Q8. Though Goldsmith keeps near to actual life, he is in no sense a...

Q9. Everything Goldsmith takes out of experience undergoes what in his hands?

Q10. In his prose style, Goldsmith carried on the traditions of...

Q1. David Hume is better known as a...

Q2. What major historical work did David Hume write?

Q3. Hume's History of England is greatly marred by carelessness and strong bias in favor of the...

Q4. Following the lead of Voltaire, Hume combined his political narrative with information concerning...

Q5. William Robertson wrote a History of Scotland, a History of America, and a History of...

Q6. Who was incomparably the greatest historian of the time?

Q7. What is Edward Gibbon's acknowledged masterpiece?

Q8. The idea of writing the decline and fall of Rome first started in Gibbon's mind while he sat musing amongst the ruins of the...

Q9. Gibbon's record begins with the reign of Titus (AD 98) and closes with the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in...

Q10. The late E. A. Freeman noted that modern research has not set Gibbon aside. Which of the following is a fault found with him?

Q1. Who is the great name in the political prose of the period?

Q2. Burke carried passionate moral earnestness and splendid logical powers into political controversy. His principles were those of...

Q3. Which cause did Burke support in his speeches in 1774 and 1775?

Q4. In 'Reflections' (1790), what did Burke bitterly oppose?

Q5. Who answered Burke's 'Reflections' with 'Rights of Man'?

Q6. Which work is considered the first important English treatise on aesthetics by Burke?

Q7. Who is generally attributed as the author of the seventy letters filled with fierce invective under the signature 'Junius'?

Q8. Who was the most conspicuous philosophical supporter of the French Revolution in England?

Q9. What did William Godwin write?

Q10. The letters of Chesterfield, addressed to his son, were intended as a manual in...

Q1. Horace Walpole's letters are described as a lively chronicle of social doings, small talk, and...

Q2. In what kind of circles did Horace Walpole play his part?

Q3. What gives a rather poor impression of Walpole's character according to the text?

Q4. According to Footnote 1, where was Rousseau born?

Q5. Despite his birthplace, among which country's writers is Rousseau always classed?

Q6. Walpole's letters are described as having a triviality of...

Q7. Which author's name is mentioned to come up again in connection with the novel?

Q8. The letter writers cultivated their work both as a pastime and as an...

Q9. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters are particularly interesting when dealing with her varied experiences...

Q10. Chesterfield's tone in his letters is that of a typical...

Q1. The firm establishment and assured popularity of the novel dates from the age of...

Q2. The establishment of the novel may be accounted the greatest achievement of the...

Q3. It may be fairly contended that prose fiction passed definitely into its modern form with...

Q4. Most of the prose fiction produced during the age of Shakespeare was purely...

Q5. Which of the following writers produced purely romantic fiction during Shakespeare's age?

Q6. A slight tendency to realism was shown in the picaresque work of...

Q7. What long-winded form of romance was imported from France?

Q8. The Heroic Romance was a strange compound of sham chivalry, pseudo-history, and sham...

Q9. The Heroic Romance enjoyed a temporary vogue on...

Q10. The Heroic Romance reflected the extravagant gallantry of a...

Q1. In reaction against the prolixity and unreality of Heroic Romance, who began to cultivate a form of story marked by brevity?

Q2. Aphra Behn and several other women-writers showed a desire to get back to...

Q3. What extraneous influence contributed to the transformation of prose fiction?

Q4. The work of Addison and Steele in the periodical essay was an important influence on the...

Q5. Whose marvellously effective use of fiction as allegory has to be recognized?

Q6. What kind of narrative became increasingly popular, whose forms and methods could easily be carried over into fictitious narrative?

Q7. Who adopted the manner and tone of actual biography with studious preciseness?

Q8. Why did Defoe just miss his way to creating the genuine novel?

Q9. No one before Richardson had written a novel of contemporary social and domestic life where interest depended on...

Q10. With what novel did Richardson produce a story of contemporary social and domestic life?

Q1. The popularity of the novel coincided with the growth of a reading public where who were becoming increasingly numerous?

Q2. As a new form of art, the novel abandoned the cramping limitations of...

Q3. The rise of the novel was one result of the...

Q4. The romance, like tragedy, had been almost consistently...

Q5. The novel's sympathetic handling of middle-class and low life is evidence of its...

Q6. Under whose firm rule was England settling down when the novel appeared?

Q7. As commerce and industry grew, the prestige of the old feudal nobility was on the...

Q8. Who said of Pamela that it was the 'landmark of a great social, no less than a great literary transition'?

Q9. What did Lord Morley say all England went mad with enthusiasm over?

Q10. The novel tended from the first to take a peculiar place as the typical art-form of the...

Q1. What was Samuel Richardson's profession before he drifted into authorship?

Q2. At what age did Richardson begin his authorship?

Q3. Richardson was asked by publishers to prepare a little volume of...

Q4. What was the underlying purpose of Richardson's suggested volume of letters?

Q5. What was the title of Richardson's first epoch-making book?

Q6. What is the profession of the protagonist in 'Pamela'?

Q7. What happens at the end of the story to Pamela?

Q8. To a modern reader, the moral teaching in Pamela seems to the last degree...

Q9. What was Richardson's masterpiece?

Q10. What is the name of Richardson's third novel published in 1753?

Q1. Who is the scoundrel character in 'Clarissa' whose name has become proverbial?

Q2. How are Richardson's books structured?

Q3. What is one disadvantage of Richardson's epistolary method?

Q4. For what does Richardson still hold a pre-eminent place despite his prolixity?

Q5. In many of its fundamental characteristics, Richardson's genius was rather...

Q6. From boyhood up, Richardson sought by preference the society of...

Q7. What did the moral element in Richardson's work suffer greatly from?

Q8. Whose ethical traditions did Richardson carry on?

Q9. The atmosphere of Richardson's books is compared to that of a...

Q10. Richardson's moralising is said to sometimes sink into wearisome...

Q1. Who was the second of the eighteenth-century novelists and by far the greatest?

Q2. How did Richardson judge Fielding's writings?

Q3. Before he took up the novel, what had Fielding been writing for some ten years?

Q4. Fielding's long training in drama taught him valuable lessons in the art of...

Q5. What feeling did Fielding have towards 'Pamela'?

Q6. What was Fielding's first novel, originating as a burlesque of 'Pamela'?

Q7. In 'Joseph Andrews', the hero is supposedly the brother of...

Q8. After parodying 'Pamela' for ten chapters, 'Joseph Andrews' becomes an epic of the...

Q9. What is Fielding's greatest novel, published in 1749?

Q10. Who is the squire that brings up the foundling hero in 'Tom Jones'?

Q1. What was Fielding's third great novel, published in 1751?

Q2. In 'Amelia', Fielding centered the interest in the character of a...

Q3. 'Amelia' is described as far less vigorous and humorous than its predecessors, exhibiting signs of...

Q4. Fielding was much concerned about the structural principles of prose fiction, which he treated as a form of...

Q5. Where does Fielding present a skilled craftsman's essays on questions connected with his craft?

Q6. Which two writers lavished wildly extravagant praise upon the plot of 'Tom Jones'?

Q7. As a social satirist and teacher, Fielding's place is close beside his friend...

Q8. In depicting vice, Fielding assumed limitless...

Q9. What was the name of the third writer usually associated with Richardson and Fielding in the eighteenth-century novel?

Q10. How did Smollett gain first-hand knowledge of the sea and sailors?

Q1. In what profession did Tobias Smollett spend some years early in his life?

Q2. What major historical work did Smollett produce as a publisher's opposition venture to Hume's?

Q3. Which of the following is a novel by Tobias Smollett?

Q4. Smollett conceived the novel as a 'large diffused picture' of life and made little attempt to organize his materials into an...

Q5. Smollett's stories revert to which type of fiction?

Q6. Smollett loves to dwell upon the most foul and nauseating phases of life, making the world he depicts a...

Q7. Which of Smollett's novels is considered an exception for being finer in tone and richer in genuine comedy?

Q8. Smollett's sickening realism of the ship scenes in 'Roderick Random' led directly to drastic changes for the better in the...

Q9. Smollett was the real creator of the English novel of the...

Q10. Smollett was the first of our novelists to exploit systematically the national peculiarities of the...

Q1. What was Goldsmith's one excursion into the field of fiction?

Q2. In 'The Vicar of Wakefield', the plot is described as ill-concocted and full of glaring...

Q3. Which character in 'The Vicar of Wakefield' is portrayed with delightful subtlety?

Q4. 'The Vicar of Wakefield' made the novel directly...

Q5. Who is the author of 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'?

Q6. How many volumes of 'Tristram Shandy' were published from 1759 to 1767?

Q7. 'Tristram Shandy' is described as less of a novel and more of a...

Q8. Sterne's method in writing 'Tristram Shandy' was that of deliberate oddity and carefully cultivated...

Q9. Why did Sterne leave 'Tristram Shandy' incomplete?

Q10. Which scene towards the end of 'The Vicar of Wakefield' notably shows Goldsmith's large sympathy and human feeling?

Q1. Which of the following is a character in Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy'?

Q2. A new mood that arose during this period was the 'melting' mood of heightened...

Q3. What fresh type of man appeared upon the scene as a result of the new emotionalism?

Q4. Sterne was the first English writer to employ this new emotionalism as part of his regular...

Q5. Who was the first writer on the Continent to employ this new emotionalism?

Q6. What word did Sterne make classic and current to describe this tearful mood?

Q7. In what book did Sterne make the word 'sentimental' classic?

Q8. Who is one of Sterne's direct followers mentioned in the text?

Q9. What is Henry Mackenzie's principal novel?

Q10. How is Mackenzie's 'The Man of Feeling' described from beginning to end?

Q1. In his later life, Henry Mackenzie opposed the...

Q2. Writers who had a message soon began to perceive that the novel could be used as a means of popularising their...

Q3. Who wrote the powerful novel 'Caleb Williams, or Things as They are' (1794)?

Q4. Almost from the first, who began to take part in the growth of the novel?

Q5. Whose novel 'Evelina' laid the real foundations of the woman's novel?

Q6. In what year was Frances Burney's 'Evelina' published?

Q7. What did Samuel Johnson affectionately call Frances Burney?

Q8. 'Evelina' was reckoned the greatest success since which novel?

Q9. Frances Burney may be regarded as the founder of which school of fiction?

Q10. What was Frances Burney's second, more ambitious book?

Q1. One important new movement was initiated when the novel began to respond to a growing interest in the...

Q2. Who is the most conspicuous name in the revival of romance?

Q3. Walpole bought a small house near Twickenham which he transformed into a miniature...

Q4. What was the name of Walpole's toy castle?

Q5. What was the title of Walpole's 'Gothic' romance published in 1765?

Q6. Walpole claimed 'The Castle of Otranto' was inspired by a dream of a...

Q7. Which famous poet was so frightened by 'The Castle of Otranto' that he dreaded to go upstairs to bed?

Q8. Who called 'The Castle of Otranto' 'the first romance in the language'?

Q9. Who wrote 'The Old English Baron' (1777)?

Q10. Ann Radcliffe gained an immense public by which of the following books?

Q1. Matthew Gregory Lewis achieved a great success with his first book titled...

Q2. At what age did Lewis publish 'The Monk'?

Q3. 'The Monk' owes much to which earlier Gothic works?

Q4. How does 'The Monk' compare to its predecessors?

Q5. Lewis is now best remembered for his personal relations with...

Q6. What is the historical significance of works by writers like Lewis and Radcliffe?

Q7. These writers appealed to the imagination by the free use of...

Q8. The works of these Gothic writers did much to stimulate and fertilise the genius of...

Q9. According to the text, is there much in the productions of Lewis or Radcliffe to interest us much today?

Q10. Lewis and Radcliffe were part of the general movement called the...

Q1. The history of later eighteenth-century poetry is the history of a struggle between...

Q2. Writers who followed the general practice of the school of Pope represent the continuance of the...

Q3. The breaking up of the Augustan tradition was marked by writers seeking fresh subjects, forms, and modes of...

Q4. Who wrote an 'Essay on Pope' in 1756?

Q5. In his 'Essay on Pope', Joseph Warton took the ground that Pope was a great 'wit', but not a great...

Q6. Why did Warton argue Pope was not a great poet?

Q7. Who wrote 'Conjectures on Original Composition' (1759)?

Q8. To whom was 'Conjectures on Original Composition' addressed?

Q9. What did Young maintain poets should depend upon instead of imitating classic models?

Q10. The Age of Johnson in respect of its poetry is obviously an age of...

Q1. Classical poetry was mainly the product of the intelligence and was strikingly deficient in...

Q2. Classical poetry was almost exclusively a poetry of the...

Q3. During the reaction, poetry ceased to concern itself exclusively with the 'town' and began to deal with...

Q4. A most important feature in the reaction against classical poetry is the growth of the sense of the...

Q5. Efforts were made to break away from the stereotyped conventions of...

Q6. What was substituted for 'poetic diction'?

Q7. The supremacy of which poetic form was attacked?

Q8. Which two writers are associated with the continuance of the Augustan tradition?

Q9. Which poetic spirit revived during this period, bringing great changes in themes and temper?

Q10. The great general movement from old to new was the result of many forces that resolved under analysis into a number of...

Q1. In an epoch of change, Johnson and Goldsmith held fast to the...

Q2. Johnson took it for granted that the best kind of poetry was that which flourished in his...

Q3. Johnson consistently opposed every experiment in which he detected signs of...

Q4. Goldsmith was convinced that the writers of the Augustan age provided the true standard for...

Q5. For Goldsmith, who was the 'limit of classic English literature'?

Q6. To which poetic form did Goldsmith show a strong aversion?

Q7. Johnson's two chief poems, 'London' and 'The Vanity of Human Wishes', are formal, rhetorical, and adhere to the...

Q8. Goldsmith's two important poems are 'The Traveller' and...

Q9. Goldsmith's poems were described as versified pamphlets on...

Q10. In Goldsmith's poems, the didactic thesis is often an excuse for...

Q1. Though conservative, Goldsmith yielded to the growing power of...

Q2. In treating nature, Goldsmith looks back at past experiences through a haze of...

Q3. Even though Johnson was the strongest individual force in the literary world, he was unable to check the encroachments of the...

Q4. The main feature of the reaction in style was the abandonment of the...

Q5. Growing admiration for which poet was the principal cause of the rise of blank verse?

Q6. What was the first important piece of eighteenth-century blank verse?

Q7. Which of the following works is an example of blank verse?

Q8. Who wrote 'The Ruins of Rome' (1740) in blank verse?

Q9. Who wrote 'The Pleasures of the Imagination' (1744)?

Q10. What other revival began quite early in the century?

Q1. How many poems in the Spenserian stanza were published between 1730 and 1775?

Q2. Who wrote an emphatic protest in 'The Rambler' against the imitation of Spenser?

Q3. On what date was Johnson's protest published in 'The Rambler'?

Q4. What world did Spenser help open up for the new generation?

Q5. Who wrote 'The Schoolmistress' (1742, revised 1750)?

Q6. For what purpose does 'The Schoolmistress' use the language and style of Spenser?

Q7. Which poem adopts much of the Gothic machinery of the Faery Queene?

Q8. Who wrote 'The Minstrel' (1771-74)?

Q9. Until well into the 19th century, in what shape was the closed couplet mostly allowed to remain intact?

Q10. Who were the poets that eventually substituted the loose romantic type for the Popean couplet?

Q1. Between which two poets is the growth of a love of nature a marked feature in English poetry?

Q2. Who were referred to as the 'survivors of the giant race before the flood'?

Q3. Which of the following poets showed a genuine sense of natural beauty during the Augustan age?

Q4. In general terms, what was English Augustan poetry primarily concerned with?

Q5. Where did the muse of the Augustan time prefer to frequent?

Q6. How did the refined taste of the generation view nature in its wilder and more rugged aspects?

Q7. According to Addison, when are the works of nature the more pleasing?

Q8. Which group of poets in the 15th century painted landscape directly from reality rather than conventions?

Q9. Who wrote the real pastoral poem 'The Gentle Shepherd' (1725)?

Q10. In 'The Gentle Shepherd', who are the characters?

Q1. Who wrote the descriptive poem in four parts called 'The Seasons'?

Q2. In what years was Thomson's 'The Seasons' published?

Q3. How is Thomson's style in 'The Seasons' often described due to its poetic conventions?

Q4. 'The Seasons' is historically claimed as the first really important poem where:

Q5. Who wrote the descriptive poem 'Grongar Hill'?

Q6. What nationality was John Dyer?

Q7. In what year was 'Grongar Hill' published?

Q8. The 'return to nature' meant a rising sense of all that is implied in the contrast between:

Q9. What did the 'return to nature' suggest was the only way of salvation for men and nations?

Q10. Where did poets seeking more elementary themes turn to?

Q1. Which of the following was a principal object aimed at by poets of the new generation?

Q2. The utmost stress in the naturalistic reaction must be laid upon the attempt to bring poetry back to:

Q3. On the side of matter and style, simplification was much aided by the spread of an interest in:

Q4. Which Augustan critic perceived that the informality of 'Chevy Chase' gave it a wonderful power of appeal?

Q5. What old ballad did Addison praise alongside 'Chevy Chase'?

Q6. How had the Augustans 'refined' the old ballad phrase 'God rest his soul'?

Q7. What was Samuel Johnson's general attitude toward the old ballads?

Q8. People began to discover that the simpler form of the old ballads was:

Q9. Who 'polished' some of the old ballads in his collection as a concession to the extreme refinement of his age?

Q10. The discovery of the superiority of natural poetry led to a change of taste that was fatal to:

Q1. Who is described as a mystic and a visionary whose effusions were inspired by the desire to restore the golden age?

Q2. Which of the following works is NOT by William Blake?

Q3. Blake is considered a leader in the poetry of ordinary things, which was later brought to perfection by:

Q4. Who was a contemporary of Blake known for uncompromising realism?

Q5. Which of these works was written by George Crabbe?

Q6. For many years, what was George Crabbe's occupation?

Q7. What was Crabbe's programmatic principle in depicting the life of the poor?

Q8. How did the romantic movement influence Crabbe?

Q9. What poetic form did Crabbe regularly employ?

Q10. The Romantic Revival was a revolt against the hard temper and dry intellectuality of which school?

Q1. Which French writer described romanticism as 'liberalism in literature'?

Q2. Who defined the romantic revival as 'the renaissance of wonder and mystery'?

Q3. Romanticism implies the assertion of individuality against:

Q4. Which of the following is considered a component element of the romantic mood and temper?

Q5. Why are the couplets of Keats's 'Endymion' called romantic?

Q6. The spirit of Gray's 'Elegy' is associated with romantic:

Q7. Byron's eastern tales are primarily noted for their romantic:

Q8. Which poem by Coleridge is cited as an example of supernaturalism?

Q9. What historical period was considered essentially romantic from all points of view?

Q10. The Lay of the Last Minstrel was written by:

Q1. Which prose fiction work's production coincided with the conspicuous influence of the medieval revival in poetry?

Q2. Who wrote 'Letters on Chivalry and Romance' (1762)?

Q3. What did Richard Hurd maintain provided far better material for poetry than classical mythology?

Q4. According to Hurd, the poet has a world of his own where experience has less to do than:

Q5. Hurd argued against the Augustan principle that the poet should:

Q6. Who published 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry' in 1765?

Q7. Who originally suggested the publication of Percy's 'Reliques'?

Q8. Percy's 'Reliques' made an epoch in the intellectual development of which famous writer?

Q9. What did Hurd claim the poet has to range in?

Q10. Classical mythology by Hurd's time was considered:

Q1. What did Percy prefix as an introduction to the ballads in his 'Reliques'?

Q2. Percy's Essay on the Ancient Minstrels was the immediate inspiration for which poem?

Q3. Thomas Chatterton was known as:

Q4. Which mythical 15th-century Bristol priest did Chatterton invent as the author of his poems?

Q5. Which famous figure did Chatterton's fabrications manage to deceive for a time?

Q6. At what age did Chatterton die by his own hand in a London garret?

Q7. Which of these works is among Chatterton's 'Rowley' poems?

Q8. Who wrote the 'Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland'?

Q9. In what year was Collins's Ode on the Popular Superstitions written?

Q10. What young Scottish schoolmaster published 'Fragments of Ancient Poetry' in 1760?

Q1. Which epic poem did Macpherson produce in six books in 1762?

Q2. Who did Macpherson claim was the actual author of his translated poems?

Q3. Who among the following denounced Macpherson's poems as gross and impudent forgeries?

Q4. In what literary form did Macpherson write his translations of Ossian?

Q5. The matter and spirit of the Ossianic poems are described as wildly:

Q6. The Ossianic poems are steeped in:

Q7. What kind of landscape is depicted in the Ossianic poems?

Q8. How did the readers of Macpherson's time view the Ossianic poems?

Q9. What was a conspicuous feature of the Ossianic poems that appealed to people?

Q10. Where did a wave of Ossianic enthusiasm sweep over, leading to children being named after its heroes?

Q1. The whole movement for the revival of the romantic past came to its head in which decade?

Q2. Which of the following works was NOT published during the 1760-1770 decade?

Q3. Which two poets grew into boyhood just in time to feel the full force of the romantic influences from the 1760s?

Q4. How is Thomas Gray described?

Q5. Which of Gray's first poetic efforts was written in the closed couplet and left unfinished?

Q6. What was Thomas Gray's first published English poem?

Q7. Who published Gray's 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' anonymously in 1747?

Q8. In what year was Gray's 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' published?

Q9. How many editions did Gray's 'Elegy' quickly go through after its publication?

Q10. Gray's early poems like 'Ode to Spring' and 'On the Death of a Favourite Cat' are described as:

Q1. Which poem is described as having features making it historically very important, including a churchyard scene and twilight atmosphere?

Q2. What Augustan poetic trick does Gray continue to use in the 'Elegy'?

Q3. Which of the following is one of Gray's two great odes?

Q4. Gray's great odes are filled with the new conception of the poet as:

Q5. Which of Gray's short poems takes its place in the history of the revival of the romantic past?

Q6. Robert Burns was a poet primarily known for being a:

Q7. In Gray's 'Elegy', the contrast is drawn between the peasants' simple life and what?

Q8. What was the ultimate basis of Robert Burns's strength as a poet?

Q9. Gray's 'Elegy' reaches out to include humble aspects of life under the influence of the spreading:

Q10. How did Gray's poetic career develop over time?

Q1. Was Robert Burns considered an unlettered plowman?

Q2. What is Robert Burns's most ambitious poem?

Q3. In what stanza is 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' written?

Q4. What were the chief literary influences behind Burns's own work?

Q5. To which political spirit of his age was Burns keenly responsive?

Q6. Who wrote the line: 'The rank is but the guinea's stamp / The man's the gowd for a' that'?

Q7. What was William Cowper's temperament described as?

Q8. Why did William Cowper begin to write poetry late in life?

Q9. In his satires, which conventional model does Cowper follow?

Q10. What is William Cowper's principal poem?

Q1. 'The Task' is often considered the poetic masterpiece of later 18th century:

Q2. What verse form is 'The Task' written in?

Q3. How is the structure of 'The Task' described?

Q4. Who wrote the line: 'God made the country and man made the town'?

Q5. In his sympathetic treatment of nature and landscape, Cowper comes nearest of all 18th century poets to:

Q6. What does 'The Task' denounce as the symbol of tyranny and irresponsible authority?

Q7. When was the passage attacking the Bastille published in 'The Task'?

Q8. In a rough way, due to indications of social unrest, Cowper's poetry points forward to which poet?

Q9. When Cowper was born, who was at the height of his power?

Q10. What did Cowper say was the real text of 'The Task'?

Q1. Where was Christopher Smart educated?

Q2. Where did Christopher Smart spend a while towards the end of his life due to poverty?

Q3. Which of Christopher Smart's poems is considered one of the greatest among English religious poems?

Q4. Robert Browning's poem 'Saul' owed much to which of Smart's works?

Q5. What is the name of Smart's remarkable work that was left as a jumble of manuscript?

Q6. Who is 'Jeoffrey' in Smart's 'Jubilate Agno'?

Q7. In what year was Richardson's 'Pamela' published?

Q8. In what year was Fielding's 'Joseph Andrews' published?

Q9. Which famous poet died in 1744?

Q10. In what year was Fielding's 'Tom Jones' published?

Q1. In what year was Johnson's Dictionary published?

Q2. Who wrote 'Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful' published in 1756?

Q3. Which history book was published by David Hume between 1754 and 1761?

Q4. In what year was Samuel Johnson's 'Rasselas' published?

Q5. Which famous English novelist, author of 'Pamela' and 'Clarissa', died in 1761?

Q6. When was Laurence Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy' published?

Q7. Which poet, famous for his 'Songs of Innocence', was born in 1757?

Q8. In what year was Horace Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto' published?

Q9. Which important ballad collection was published by Percy in 1765?

Q10. Between 1760 and 1763, James Macpherson published the poems of which supposedly ancient bard?

Q1. In what year was Goldsmith's 'The Vicar of Wakefield' published?

Q2. Which poem by Oliver Goldsmith was published in 1770?

Q3. Who was born in 1770, the same year Chatterton died?

Q4. When was Tobias Smollett's 'Humphry Clinker' published?

Q5. Which future famous novelist was born in 1771, the same year Gray and Smollett died?

Q6. Who wrote the plays 'The Rivals' (1775) and 'The School for Scandal' (1777)?

Q7. In what year was Fanny Burney's 'Evelina' published?

Q8. Between 1776 and 1788, which monumental historical work by Gibbon was published?

Q9. Which two speeches on America did Edmund Burke deliver in 1774 and 1775?

Q10. Who was born in 1772?