Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?

A. Wollstonecraft’s vindication of the rights of men
B. Paine’s rights of MAN
C. Godwin’s enquiry concerning political justice
D. Burke’s reflections on the revolution in france

Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?

A. Troubadour
B. Skald
C. Chorister
D. Bard

While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?

A. A history of everyday life
B. An instructional manual for manners
C. A book of devotion
D. A book of model letters

Who wrote: “I would prefer not to.” ?

A. Edgar allan poe
B. Herman melville
C. Thomas gray
D. Henry david thoreau

Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?

A. Fanny burney
B. Mary wollstonecraft
C. Anna letitia barbauld
D. Jane austen

Who wrote: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?

A. Henry david thoreau
B. Benjamin franklin
C. Robert browning
D. Henrik ibsen

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. Elosia to abelard

Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?

A. Theoretical science
B. Metaphysics
C. Abstract logical deductions
D. A, b, and c

Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: “Who think too little, and who talk too __________” ?

A. Often
B. Long
C. Much
D. Fast

In which work do you read: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?

A. The MAN of feeling
B. In memoriam
C. Song to aella
D. Ozymandias