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WorksheetsENGLISH HISTORY & LITERATURE QUIZ - 4TH YEAR
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
When Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, the new king was...
Charles I Stuart
Charles II Stuart
James I Stuart
James II Stuart
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" is a famous line from.....
The Satanic Verses
Satan's Rebellion
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
The Bill of Rights was signed in 1689 and it established
religious toleration
universal suffrage
a Constitutional Monarchy
the birth of the Parliament
During the 17th century the supporters of the king were also called...
Roundheads
Puritans
Lords
Cavaliers
The first English novel was...
Gulliver's Travels
Robinson Crusoe
Frankenstein
A Modest Proposal
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was issued in..
1945
1946
1947
1948
Before becoming a novelist, Daniel Defoe founded his journal. The name was...
The Tatler
The Spectator
The Review
The Daily Mail
Robinson Crusoe remained in the desert island for....
27 years
28 years
29 years
30 years
Which of the following is NOT true about Robinson Crusoe?
Robinson is taken prisoner by pirates
Robinson buys a plantation in Brazil
Robinson abandons his wife in search for adventure
Robinson kills a few savages to rescue Friday
Gulliver visits the Academy of Lagado during his...
first voyage
second voyage
third voyage
fourth voyage
Which of the following is NOT true about the series of pictures "Mariage à la Mode" by William Hogarth?
It is about an arranged marriage
Both husband and wife suffer from syphilis
The wife's lover kills the husband
The husband dies in prison
Unlike the Romantic poets of the second generation, the poets of the first generation....
travelled extensively
died young
became more conservative as they grew older
opposed the society of the time
Which of the following is NOT true about the story of Frankenstein?
The novel does not follow a chronological order
The characters are flat
There is a first person narrator
There is more than one narrator
In the Romantic Age the poet is
a recorder
a teacher
an ordinary man
a mirror of his time
In Worsdworth's Composed Upon Westminster Bridge...
it is early morning
it is midday
it is afternoon
it is night
Which of the following poems contain Wordsworth's idea of poetic composition?
I wandered Lonely as a Cloud
My Heart leaps Up
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
The Solitary Reaper
Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner is different from the traditional ballad because...
it tells a story
there is a morale
there are a lot of repetitions
there are supernatural events and characters
Besides being a poet, William Blake was
an engraver
a teacher
a politician
an Anglican priest
Byron takes the character of Don Juan from a work by....
Mozart
Molière
Cervantes
Tirso de Molina
Which of these adjectives do NOT apply to the Byronic hero:
easy going
arrogant
solitary
mysterious
