625. In the late seventeenth century, a 'battle of the books' | PG TRB ENGLISH

625. In the late seventeenth century, a "battle of the books" erupted between which two groups?

a)abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
b)round-earthers and flat-earthers
c)the Welsh and the Scots
d)champions of ancient and modern learning
e)Oxfordians and Baconians

626. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?

a)All knowledge is derived from experience.
b)Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.
c)The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
d)The sensory world is an illusion.
e)God is the center of an ordered and just universe.

627. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh?

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a)theoretical science
b)metaphysics
c)abstract logical deductions
d)a and b only
e)a, b, and c

628. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations?
a)William Hogarth
b)Jonathan Swift
c)Samuel Johnson
d)Ben Jonson
e)James Boswell

629. According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for...:
a)love."
b)honor."
c)money."
d)his party."
e)fun."

630. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?
a)Augustan
b)Metaphysical
c)Romantic
d)Neo-Romantic
e)Caesarian

631. Horace's doctrine "ut pictura poesis" was interpreted to mean:
a)A picture is worth a thousand words.
b)Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
c)Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
d)Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
e)Paintings of poets should be prized over those of kings.

632. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets?
a)civilization
b)woman
c)God
d)alcohol
e)nature

633. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike?
a)wit
b)sprezzatura
c)naturalism
d)gusto
e)metaphysics

634. Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry?
a)verdant mead
b)checkered shade
c)simian rivalry
d)shining sword
e)bounding main

635. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
a)the heroic couplet
b)blank verse
c)free verse
d)the ode
e)the spondee

636. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
a)Addison
b)Bunyan
c)Crabbe
d)Dryden
e)Equiano

637. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
a)Etherege's The Man of Mode
b)Wycherley's The Country Wife
c)Behn's The Rover
d)Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
e)Congreve's Love for Love

638. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?

a)the Behnites
b)the bluestockings
c)the coteries of plenty
d)the Pre-Raphaelites
e)the tattlers and spectators

639. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London?
a)Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
b)Swift's Gulliver's Travels
c)Behn's Oroonoko
d)Richardson's Clarissa
e)Pope's The Rape of the Lock

640. What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers?
a)Elephant and Castle
b)Grub Street
c)Covent Garden
d)Cheapside
e)Piccadilly Circus

641. With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre?
a)the revenge tragedy
b)the Gothic romance
c)the epistolary novel
d)the comedy of manners
e)the mystery play

642. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?
a)William Beckford's Vathek
b)Matthew Lewis's The Monk
c)Tobias Smollett's Roderick Randsom
d)Ann Radcliffe's The Italian
e)William Godwin's Caleb Williams

643. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?
a)a history of everyday life
b)an instructional manual for manners
c)a book of devotion
d)a book of model letters
e)a chapbook