ENGL 216 Quiz 1 Questions & Answers Exam (elaborations)

ENGL 216 Quiz 1 Questions & Answers Question 1 This work can be classified as pre-Romantic: Question 2 This author was encouraged to stop writing in a journal. Question 3 Who gives the Baron scissors in The Rape of the Lock? Question 4 Swift provides several serious arguments as to how the problems in Ireland could be solved, including: Question 5 In Rambler No. 4 Johnson suggests that earlier romances were not realistic and therefore not dangerous: Question 6 The main argument in “A Modest Proposal,” that children should be used for food, is a serious proposal. Question 7 Which work posits that all men are equal in death? Question 8 The Elizabethan Age is often called the Golden Age of England, when all arts flourished. Question 9 “For pride, which produces quickness of resentment, will obstruct gratitude, by unwillingness to admit that inferiority which obligation implies; and it is very unlikely that he who cannot think he receives a favour, will acknowledge or repay it” comes the following work: Question 10 What ascends comet-like to the starry heavens to assume its place among other constellations? Question 11 Swift argues that skin can be used by the thrifty for: Question 12 Types of Novels during Restoration include: Question 13 Why does Montagu compare the baths to a ‘women’s coffee-house’? Question 14 This work hypothesizes that there must be geniuses among the poor. Question 15 Johnson defines “works of fiction” as ordinary events happening to real people. Question 16 This work is known as the greatest mock epic poem ever written: Question 17 The Rape of the Lock mocks ancient epics. Question 18 Swift seriously proposes cannibalism in “A Modest Proposal.” Question 19 In her letter to Lady Mar, Montagu states that the Turkish women are the only free people in the Empire. Question 20 Belinda’s protector sprite is: Question 21 What best describes Lady Montagu’s attitude toward the women she observes? Question 22 Machinery in The Rape of the Lock consists of: Question 23 In Rambler No. 4 Johnson writes, “They are the entertainment of minds unfurnished with ideas, and therefore easily susceptible of impressions; not fixed by principles, and therefore easily following the current of fancy; not informed by experience, and consequently open to every false suggestion and partial account” which means: Question 24 For this author, fiction is didactic and authors have the moral responsibility of selecting characters and situations carefully: Question 25 Lady Montagu does not undress for a bath; rather, she visits and observes. Question 26 This Neoclassical author, who suffered from tuberculosis and was only 4 ½ feet tall, translated the Odyssey and Iliad: Question 27 This Neoclassical author was considered a hero in Ireland for going against English oppression of Ireland: Question 28 “The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense” was written by: Question 29 “I think it as scandalous for a woman not to know how to use a needle, as for a man not to know how to use a sword” was written by: Question 30 The early centuries of England were very turbulent times and a struggle between Protestants and Catholics. Question 31 Ombre is: Question 32 This author addresses a journal to “Nobody.” Question 33 Swift relies on logic, statistics, and facts to present his proposal. Question 34 Which work states, “The boasts of heraldry, the pomp of power…The paths of glory lead but to the grave”? Question 35 The Restoration Period occurs from: Question 36 This work asks, “[B]ut why, permit me to ask, must a female be made Nobody?” Question 37 This work was based on an actual quarrel between two Catholic families: Question 38 Swift satirizes the domestic values of the Irish, who had a lack of self respect, while at the same time admonishes the inhumane lack of compassion by those who saw the poor as animals. Question 39 Montagu warns Lady Bute that languages are representative of learning and what a woman has learned she should share with all. Question 40 Characteristics of an Epic include the following: Question 41 This author’s father found her journal and warned her to be more careful about leaving it out: Question 42 Arming for battle The Rape of the Lock is equated with primping for the party. Question 43 The two main British political parties during the eighteenth century were: Question 44 This author was a hero in Ireland for speaking out against the English oppression of Ireland. Question 45 What is the primary goal of fiction, according to Johnson? Question 46 Belinda wears a sparking __________ on her breast. Question 47 Montague’s revelation of her “stays” to the Turkish women in the baths suggests that she is not as free as they are. Question 48 In “A Modest Proposal,” Swift argues that infants are most plentiful in March because: Question 49 Montague suggests that the Turkish women at the baths were more polite to a stranger than the European court would have been. Question 50 The work is essentially a metaphor that ‘The English are devouring the Irish