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English · UNIT 01 · MOCK TEST

Mock 8 – 18th Century: Augustans & the Novel (Part 2)

Unit 1: British Literature · 20 questions · about 24 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

With which of the following periodicals was Joseph Addison associated?

  1. A. The London Magazine
  2. B. The Spectator
  3. C. The Gentleman's Magazine
  4. D. The Tatler
  5. E. The Rambler
Q2.

Who among the following was NOT an original member of Johnson's Literary Club?
Q3.

Which of the following are works by Richard Brinsley Sheridan?

  1. A. Richelieu
  2. B. St Patrick's Day
  3. C. The Duenna
  4. D. The Citizen of the World
  5. E. Irene
Q4.

Which of the following books make up Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair?

  1. A. Sunset Song
  2. B. Brothers and Sisters
  3. C. Cloud Howe
  4. D. Men and Wives
  5. E. Grey Granite
Q5.

Who wrote that he wished to have it said that he had 'brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses'?
Q6.

Which of the following poems were written by Alexander Pope?

  1. A. The Dunciad
  2. B. Moral Essays
  3. C. Grongar Hill
  4. D. Cooper's Hill
  5. E. Absalom and Achitophel
Q7.

Arrange the following novelists in order of birth:

  1. A. Jane Austen
  2. B. Henry Fielding
  3. C. J. M. Barrie
  4. D. R. D. Blackmore
  5. E. W. M. Thackeray
Q8.

Which of the following poems was written by Oliver Goldsmith?
Q9.

Where was Robert Burns born?
Q10.

Which of the following statements about Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) are true?

  1. A. It is comic and moralistic.
  2. B. Tom and Jones are its two main characters.
  3. C. Tom is caught poaching on a neighbour's game.
  4. D. Its full title is The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
Q11.

Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is written in:
Q12.

Which two writers condemned the presence of some fifty thousand slaves brought into England by 1771?

  1. A. Samuel Johnson
  2. B. Alexander Pope
  3. C. Horace Walpole
  4. D. Thomas Gray
Q13.

Which of the following are examples of the Künstlerroman?

  1. A. The Portrait of a Lady
  2. B. David Copperfield
  3. C. Tom Jones
  4. D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Q14.

Arrange the following periodicals in chronological order:

  1. A. The Spectator
  2. B. The Tatler
  3. C. The Rambler
  4. D. The Critical Review
Q15.

Arrange the following journals in chronological order:

  1. A. The Tatler
  2. B. The Examiner (Leigh Hunt's)
  3. C. Defoe's The Review
  4. D. The Spectator
Q16.

Arrange the following prose works in chronological order:

  1. A. Carlyle, Past and Present
  2. B. Hobbes, Leviathan
  3. C. Ruskin, Unto This Last
  4. D. Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
Q17.

To which boarding school does Mrs Reed send Jane Eyre?
Q18.

Arrange the following periodicals in chronological order:

  1. A. The London Magazine
  2. B. The Quarterly Review
  3. C. The Spectator (1828)
  4. D. The Edinburgh Review
Q19.

Arrange the following novelists in order of birth:

  1. A. Anne Brontë
  2. B. Jane Austen
  3. C. Ann Radcliffe
  4. D. Fanny Burney
  5. E. Maria Edgeworth
Q20.

Which novel contains a questionnaire for the reader?
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