WorksheetsLiterary Periods Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
When I wrote, an epic must include the Christian God and Charlemagne, my liege and king (who was the best and most wonderful of monarchs). My Song of Roland was based on the heroic, doomed Battle of Roncevaux in 778. But I wrote it in 1017, I am from the
a)
Patristic Period
b)
Medieval Period
c)
Renaissance Period
d)
Classial Roman Period
2.
Arguably one of Gwendolyn Brooks' best poems is only eight (8) lines long, "We Cool" and it was published in her volume called The Bean Eaters in 1960.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Brooks belongs to the group of writers known as
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Brooks belongs to the group of writers known as
a)
Naturalists
b)
Lost Generation
c)
Harlem Renaissance Writers
d)
Magical Realists
3.
My name is Rev. Jonathan Edwards, and I wrote a very rousing sermon called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Here is a small excerpt:
The Expression that I have chosen for my Text, Their Foot shall slide in due Time; seems to imply the following Things, relating to the Punishment and Destruction that these wicked Israelites were exposed to. (July 8, 1741)
A contemporary to me was
The Expression that I have chosen for my Text, Their Foot shall slide in due Time; seems to imply the following Things, relating to the Punishment and Destruction that these wicked Israelites were exposed to. (July 8, 1741)
A contemporary to me was
a)
Voltaire, from the Augustan Age of the Enlightenment Period
b)
Benjamin Franklin, from the Colonial Period and Age of Johnson
c)
John Dryden from the Restoration Period of the Age of Enlightenment
d)
William Wordsworth of the Romantic Period
4.
I wrote: "Thirty-five years ago I was out prospecting on the Stanislaus, tramping all day long with pick and pan and horn, and washing a hatful of dirt here and there, always expecting to make a rich strike, and never doing it. It was a lovely season, woodsy, balmy, delicious, and had once been populous, long years before, but now the people had vanished and the charming paradise was a solitude. They went away when the surface diggings gave out. In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse of emerald turf, with not even the faintest sign that human life had ever been present there. This was down toward Tuttletown. In the country neighborhood thereabouts, along the dusty roads, one found at intervals the prettiest little cottage homes, snug and cozy, and so cobwebbed with vines, snowed thick with roses that the doors and windows were wholly hidden from sight--sign that these were deserted homes, forsaken years ago by defeated and disappointed families who could neither sell them nor give them away." ("Californian's Tale," 1867)
My place in history is pretty firmly entrenched in
My place in history is pretty firmly entrenched in
a)
the Romantic Period
b)
the Colonial Period of the Age of Englightenment
c)
the Victorian Period
d)
the Modern Period
5.
My highly publicized lifestyle may make you mistakenly put me in the wrong literary period, I mean I was accused of being a "posing sodomite" and reviled for my flamboyant dress. My surname, Wilde, also suggests something of my behaviour, especially as I was known as a champion of aestheticism; however, if you read my seminal work The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), you will know that this is my period:
a)
the Romantic Period
b)
the Modern Period
c)
the Age of Johnson in the Enlightenment Period
d)
the Victorian Period
6.
I dreamed these lines for most of my life and dictated them to my humble servants. God elevated me to “justify the ways of God to man.”
Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view
Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause
Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State,
Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off
From thir Creator, and transgress his Will
For one restraint, Lords of the World besides?
Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride
Had cast him out from Heav'n, with all his Host
Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring
To set himself in Glory above his Peers,
He trusted to have equal'd the most High,
If he oppos'd; (1598)
These lines firmly establish my identity. If you ken, you know I am from the
Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view
Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause
Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State,
Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off
From thir Creator, and transgress his Will
For one restraint, Lords of the World besides?
Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride
Had cast him out from Heav'n, with all his Host
Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring
To set himself in Glory above his Peers,
He trusted to have equal'd the most High,
If he oppos'd; (1598)
These lines firmly establish my identity. If you ken, you know I am from the
a)
the Colonial Period of the Age of Enlightenment
b)
Renaissance and Reformation Period
c)
Late or "high" Medival Period
d)
Restoration Period of the Age of Enlightenment
7.
My rousing tale at a Wedding certainly captivates the audience, but more importantly, I created a symbol about the unluckiness of an Albatross that has endured the test of time. You will know from this small selection of my verse that all Albatrosses in literature are allusions to my doomed crew:
“And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo!” (1834)
I am
“And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo!” (1834)
I am
a)
a Modern writer
b)
a post-Modern writer
c)
a Victorian writer
d)
a Transcendental Romantic
8.
I am a Colombian writer of some merit. My Hundred Years of Solitude won me many accolades and prizes, but my fans always seem to love the "unusual" in my stories, because they are so matter-of-fact, so normalized. Here is an excerpt from my short “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
“The first children to see the obscure, stealthy promontory that approached in the ocean believed that it was an enemy ship. But then they saw that it carried neither flags nor spars, and they thought it was a whale. But when it ran aground on the beach they peeled off the thickets of seaweed, the jellyfish tentacles and the rest of the tattered cloth and driftwood it carried, and only then did they discover that it was a drowned man.” (1968) My name is Marquez and I am from
My name is Marquez and I am from
“The first children to see the obscure, stealthy promontory that approached in the ocean believed that it was an enemy ship. But then they saw that it carried neither flags nor spars, and they thought it was a whale. But when it ran aground on the beach they peeled off the thickets of seaweed, the jellyfish tentacles and the rest of the tattered cloth and driftwood it carried, and only then did they discover that it was a drowned man.” (1968) My name is Marquez and I am from
My name is Marquez and I am from
a)
the Modern Era
b)
the post-Modern Era
c)
the Victorian Era
d)
the Lost Generation
9.
What is interesting is that my “Funeral Blues” is often seen as autobiographical; however, I really wrote it for my wonderful friend Hedli Anderson to perform in my co-written verse play The Ascent of F6. Here is an excerpt to help you place me in my correct period:
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. (1938)
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. (1938)
a)
the Modern Period
b)
the Post-Modern Period
c)
the Victorian Age
d)
the Romantic Period
10.
I might be hard to place, but in reality I am very simple. My lines were hardly published, mostly because I was extremely shy, really some might have described me as an agoraphobic, though such terminology did not exist in my time. Most people were compelled to act “properly” in my time, though, I hardly ever concerned myself with propriety. Here is your instructor’s favorite of my lines:
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies,
Too bright for our infirm delight
The Truth's superb surprise;
As lightning to the children eased
With explanation kind,
The truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind--” (1890s)
I am
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies,
Too bright for our infirm delight
The Truth's superb surprise;
As lightning to the children eased
With explanation kind,
The truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind--” (1890s)
I am
a)
a Modern poet
b)
a Lost Generation poet
c)
a Victorian poet
d)
a magical realist
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