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 language of the age The leading characteristic of the age Monarchs or political events The primary author of the age

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

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

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

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

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? William Shakespeare's "Tempest" John Milton's "Paradise Lost" George Herbert's "The Temple" Ben Jonson's "Volpone"

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

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? Gerard Manley Hopkins Elizabeth Barret Browning Christina Rossetti Ted Hughes

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

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

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

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? Jacobean Age The Augustan Age The Restoration The Age of Sensibility

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

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

19. Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on “The Literature of the British Empire”? Edward Fitzgerald Rudyard Kipling Any of these Charlotte Bronte

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