Literary history

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10th - 12th Grade
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Hanneke Brouwers
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Age of Enlightenment. Which persons were important?
Spinoza, Voltaire, Karl Marx
Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Newton
Machiavelli, Voltaire, Spinoza, Kant
Spinoza, Socrates, Voltaire, Karl Marx
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CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.K.6
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In what century does the Age of Enlightenment take place?
16th
17th
18th
19th
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CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
what was the main event in the Age of Enlightenment?
science became more important, whilst the church's power was reduced
communism was getting more important
in this age a lot of philosophers were born
more and more people started divorcing one another
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CCSS.RL.7.9
CCSS.RL.8.9
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was a new focus of literature in the Victorian era?
upper class
religious class
children
female rights
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which class was most mostly depicted in stories from the Victorian era
upper class
middle class
working class
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CCSS.RL.7.9
CCSS.RL.8.9
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which male writer wrote about the appalling living conditions in the Victorian era?
Stephen Charles
Charles Dickens
Harry Windsor
Harriet Stowe
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CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Romantic period - and its focus on nature - followed as a response to which era of science and rationality?
the Victorian era
the 20th century
Modernism
the Age of Enlightenment
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CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
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