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Literary Timeline

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Literary Timeline game quiz
"Take this quiz to get the big picture! It will give you a feel for who wrote when, and it will provide an overview of many literary periods. But fear not; there are no specific dates."

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1. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after:
    The leading characteristic of the age
    The language of the age
    The primary author of the age
    Monarchs or political events


2. Which period of literature came first?
    Regency
    Victorian
    Romantic
    Restoration


3. In what language did Shakespeare write?
    German
    Middle English
    Modern English
    Old English


4. Jane Austen wrote during this period.
    Regency
    Middle English
    Restoration
    Victorian


5. Which work was published first?
    Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"
    Lord Byron's "Don Juan"
    Blake's "Songs of Innocence"
    Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"


6. Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
    The Domesday Book
    Sons and Lovers
    Canterbury Tales
    Beowulf


7. Who wrote first?
    George Eliot
    Christopher Marlowe
    Howard, Earl of Surrey
    William Shakespeare


8. Which work was completed last?
    John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
    George Herbert's "The Temple"
    William Shakespeare's "Tempest"
    Ben Jonson's "Volpone"


9. One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who?
    Sir Walter Scott
    John Dryden
    Thomas Otway
    John Milton


10. The Bronte sisters wrote during this period.
    Victorian
    Romantic
    Regency
    Restoration


11. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century?
    Christina Rossetti
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    Elizabeth Barret Browning
    Ted Hughes


12. This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century.
    Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
    E.M. Forster's "A Room With A View"
    Henry James's "The Ambassadors"
    Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"


13. Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century?
    Thomas Carew
    Sir Thomas Wyatt
    John Skelton
    William Shakespeare


14. Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period?
    The Exclusion Bill Crisis
    Charles II was restored to the throne
    The French Revolution
    The Great Fire of London


15. He was not a Renaissance writer.
    William Shakespeare
    Sir Thomas Malory
    Christopher Marlowe
    Sir Philip Sidney


16. Which of the following literary sub-periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period?
    The Restoration
    Jacobean Age
    The Augustan Age
    The Age of Sensibility


17. Which of the following periods of English literature came last?
    The Middle English Period
    The Elizabethan Age
    The Commonwealth Period
    The Jacobean Age


18. This work was written before the other three choices.
    Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
    Bede's "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
    Julian of Norwich's "Book of Showings"
    Sir Thomas More's "Utopia"


19. Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on "The Literature of the British Empire"?

    Rudyard Kipling
    Any of these
    Charlotte Bronte
    Edward Fitzgerald


20. World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event?
    Siegfried Sassoon
    T.S. Eliot
    Oscar Wilde
    Wilfred Owen


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Compiled Apr 04 13