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488)Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
a)Beowulf
b)Canterbury Tales
c)The Domesday Book
d)Sons and Lovers
489)Who wrote first?
a)George Eliot
b)Christopher Marlowe
c)Howard, Earl of Surrey
d)William Shakespeare
490)Which work was completed last?
a)John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
b)George Herbert's "The Temple"
c)William Shakespeare's "Tempest"
d)Ben Jonson's "Volpone"
491)One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who?
a)John Milton
b)Thomas Otway
c)Sir Walter Scott
d)John Dryden
492)The Bronte sisters wrote during this period.
a)Regency
b)Restoration
c)Romantic
d)Victorian
493)Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century?
a)Christina Rossetti
b)Gerard Manley Hopkins
c)Elizabeth Barret Browning
d)Ted Hughes
494)This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century.
a)Henry James's "The Ambassadors"
b)Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
c)E.M. Forster's "A Room With A View"
d)Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
495)Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century?
a)John Skelton
b)William Shakespeare
c)Sir Thomas Wyatt
d)Thomas Carew
496)Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period?
a)Charles II was restored to the throne
b)The French Revolution
c)The Great Fire of London
d)The Exclusion Bill Crisis
497)He was not a Renaissance writer.
a)William Shakespeare
b)Sir Philip Sidney
c)Christopher Marlowe
d)Sir Thomas Malory
498)Which of the following literary sub-periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period?
a)The Restoration
b)Jacobean Age
c)The Augustan Age
d)The Age of Sensibility
499)Which of the following periods of English literature came last?
a)The Elizabethan Age
b)The Commonwealth Period
c)The Jacobean Age
d)The Middle English Period
500)This work was written before the other three choices.
a)Bede's "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
b)Julian of Norwhich's "Book of Showings"
c)Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
d)Sir Thomas More's "Utopia"
501)Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on “The Literature of the British Empire”?
a)Rudyard Kipling
b)Edward Fitzgerald
c)Charlotte Bronte
d)Any of these
502)World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event?
a)T.S. Eliot
b)Siegfried Sassoon
c)Wilfred Owen
d)Oscar Wilde
503)The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the:
A) aristocracy
B) New Age
C) Reformation
D) Enlightenment
504)The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as:
A) Caleron
B) Corneille
C) Couperin
D) Moliere
505)The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was:
A) Nell Gwynn
B) Aphra Behn
C) Lady Teazle
D) Ann Hathaway
The Life Of John Milton(Caroline Period-The Renaissance)
(1608-1674)
506.In which city was Milton?
a)Norwich
b)York
c)London
d)Canterbury
507. When was John Milton born?
a) 22 April 1600
b) 19 August 1604
c) 6 June 1606
d) 9 December 1608
508. Which school did Milton attend?
a)St Paul's
b)Christ's Hospital
c)Merchant Taylors'
d)Westminster
509. Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend?
a) Pembroke College
b) Trinity College
c) Christ’s College
d) St. Xavier’s College
510. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton's at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem?
a)lycidas
b)Paradise Lost
c)Il penseroso
511. In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled abroad. In which country did he spend most of the time?
a)Germany
b)France
c)Italy
d)Spain
512. How many times did Milton marry?
a)2
b)0
c)1
d)3
513. John Milton was 34 when he married Mary Powell. How old was she?
a) 48
b) 34
c) 22
d) 17
514. Milton was a royalist?
True or False
515. Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton?
