The short poem 'Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog' appears in which eighteenth-century novel?
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Correct answer: C. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Explanation
Goldsmith inserts the comic 'Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog' in Chapter 17 of The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), sung by one of the Primrose children; it ends with the dog dying, not the man it bit.
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