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644. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer?
a)Macpherson
b)Merlin
c)Decameron
d)Taliesin
e)Ossian
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645. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry?
a)William Wordsworth
b)Alexander Pope
c)Ben Jonson
d)George Herbert
646. Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet?
a)John Dryden
b)Henry Vaughan
c)Alexander Pope
d)Ben Jonson
647. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry?
a)Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology
b)An effort to represent human nature
c)Use of the rhymed couplet
d)Fantastic comparisons
648. Neoclassicists tended to view poetry as the result of genius overflowing from the mind out onto the page. They also considered poetry to be an expression of the individual, inner self.
a)True
b)False
649. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called?
a)The Way of the World
b)The Foundational Ladder
c)The Order of Angels
d)The Great Chain of Being
650. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time.
a)Ben Jonson
b)Alexander Pope
c)Robert Herrick
d)John Dryden
651. Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English university?
a)He lived in Italy until the age of 27
b)Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid
c)He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending
d)He just wasn’t bright enough
652. Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him?
a)To err is human, to forgive divine
b)Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
c)A little learning is a dangerous thing
d)Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
653. John Dryden wrote “Absalom and Achitophel.” Who was Achitophel, historically speaking?
a)King David’s son
b)A Judge of Israel
c)Bathsheba’s first husband
d)Absalom’s advisor
654. Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire “Absalom and Achitophel”?
a)The Duke of Monmouth
b)Charles II
c)The Earl of Shaftesbury
d)Cromwell
655. Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: “Who think too little, and who talk too ____”
a)often
b)long
c)much
d)fast
656. What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal's veins?”
a)The Rape of the Lock
b)Solitude: An Ode
c)The Dunciad
d)Eloisa to Abelard
657. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic.
a)The Bahagavad Gita
b)The Odyssey
c)The Illiad
d)The Aeneid
658. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes.
a)Alexander Pope
b)William Collins
c)Thomas Gray
d)Ben Jonson
659. His “To Penthurst” is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement.
a)Sir John Denham
b)Ben Jonson
c)Thomas Carew
d)John Dryden
660. Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”
a)William Shakespeare
b)John Donne
c)Abraham Cowley
d)John Dryden
661. What mock epic begins: “What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things”?
a)Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”
b)Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”
c)Pope’s “The Dunciad”
d)Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”
662.When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was
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a)The closing of theatres
b)The return of the King.
c)King Arthurs' dead
d)King to exile
