Restoration Period and The eigtheenth centuary

What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?

Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century?

What was “restored” in 1660?

What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration?

Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?

Who became the first “prime minister” of Great Britain in the reign of George II?

In the late seventeenth century, a “battle of the books” erupted between which two groups?

Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?

Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh?

Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations?

According to Samuel Johnson, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for….

What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?

Horace’s doctrine “ut pictura poesis” was interpreted to mean:

What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets?  

What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike?  wit

Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry?

Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?

Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?

Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?

Which group of intellectual womenestablished literary clubsof their own around 1750under the leadeership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?