Jonathan Swift - Quiz
A) 1729 B) 1731 C) 1735 D) 1742
A) Alexander Pope B) John Gay C) Thomas Sheridan D) John Arbuthnot
A) Mental disability B) Signs of illness, possibly a stroke C) Inflammation of the left eye D) Definite symptoms of madness
A) Jonathan Swift B) John Gay C) Thomas Sheridan D) John Arbuthnot
A) A hospital for the mentally ill B) A library C) A school D) A church
A) 1739 B) 1750 C) 1742 D) 1745
A) Swift's Asylum B) Temple Hospital C) St Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles D) Dublin Mental Health Center
A) Gulliver's Travels B) A Tale of a Tub C) A Modest Proposal D) The Drapier's Letters
A) Economic proposals B) Political satire C) Travel adventures D) Critique of alterations to Christianity
A) Selling children as food B) Promoting Irish industry C) Taxing absentee landlords D) Encouraging frugality
A) Richard Bentley B) Jonathan Swift C) Sir William Temple D) Charles Boyle
A) Neutral party B) Defender of the Ancients C) Critique of both sides D) Defender of the Moderns
A) Oppose the monopoly on copper coinage B) Support the monopoly on copper coinage C) Encourage economic reform D) Promote William Wood's coinage
A) A real person who predicted Partridge's death B) A friend of Partridge C) A fictional persona used to predict Partridge's death D) A rival almanac writer
A) Adventure story B) Historical account C) Satire of human nature D) Fantasy tale
A) Ireland B) Dublin C) London D) Woodbrook House in County Laois
A) Benjamin Motte B) John Harding C) William Wood D) Sarah Harding
A) Rival B) Friend from his days in London C) Patron D) Colleague
A) In a separate chapel B) Under the pillar next to the Monument of Primate Narcissus Marsh C) Next to Esther Johnson D) In the center of the cathedral
A) The epitaph is 'a straightforward tribute' B) The theory of the epitaph is 'completely plausible' C) The epitaph is 'unrelated to Marsh' D) The epitaph is 'not plausible'
A) To build a library B) To fund education C) To found a hospital for the mentally ill D) To support the arts
A) No one turned Swift in B) Swift fled the country C) Swift was fined D) Swift was arrested
A) Definite symptoms of madness B) Great pain from the inflammation of his left eye C) Loss of ability to speak D) Mental disability
A) A neutral stance B) The cause of the Moderns C) A critique of both sides D) The cause of the Ancients
A) Trinity College Dublin B) Cambridge University C) University of London D) Oxford University
A) William Temple and Thomas Sheridan B) Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley C) Henry St John and Robert Harley D) Alexander Pope and John Gay
A) Rebecca B) Stella C) Vanessa D) Anne
A) Anne Long B) Esther Vanhomrigh C) Rebecca Dingley D) Esther Johnson
A) Bishop B) Chaplain C) Priest D) Dean
A) Kit-Cat Club B) Whig Club C) Tory Club D) Martinus Scriblerus Club
A) Supported the Jacobites B) Supported the Tories C) Supported the Whigs D) Supported the Catholics
A) Catholic Church B) Methodist Church C) Presbyterian Church D) Anglican Church
A) Tax exemptions B) Land grants C) Military protection D) First-Fruits and Twentieths
A) A song by John Arbuthnot B) Swift's poem Cadenus and Vanessa C) A novel by Alexander Pope D) A play by John Gay
A) She lost it B) She published it C) She signed it D) She destroyed it
A) Esther Vanhomrigh B) Rebecca Dingley C) Esther Johnson D) Anne Long
A) 1690 B) 1696 C) 1688 D) 1692
A) Cambridge University B) Hart Hall, Oxford C) University of London D) Trinity College, Dublin
A) 1692 B) 1696 C) 1694 D) 1690
A) Jane Waring B) Esther Johnson C) Lady Giffard D) Martha
A) About 15 B) About 100 C) About 50 D) About 25
A) 25 December 1667 B) 15 March 1667 C) 1 January 1667 D) 30 November 1667
A) Lawyer B) Playwright C) Poet D) Vicar
A) Cholera B) Smallpox C) Tuberculosis D) Syphilis
A) England B) Cumberland C) Ireland D) Leicestershire
A) Godwin's son Willoughby B) Sir William Davenant C) Sir John Temple D) George Berkeley
A) B.A. B) LL.B. C) M.A. D) Ph.D.
A) With honors B) With distinction C) After a public debate D) By special grace
A) Rhetoric B) Debate C) Science D) Mathematics
A) John Dryden B) Francis Godwin C) Sir William Davenant D) Sir Walter Raleigh
A) Writing the Declaration of Independence B) The invention of the steam engine C) The satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels D) Authoring the Magna Carta
A) Atlantis B) Hogwarts C) Narnia D) Lilliput
A) Isaac Bickerstaff B) Anonymous C) M. B. Drapier D) Lemuel Gulliver
A) 1713 B) 1704 C) 1708 D) 1726
A) Gulliver's Travels B) Moby Dick C) Great Expectations D) Pride and Prejudice
A) 1745 B) 1713 C) 1726 D) 1700
A) Gulliver's Travels B) The Canterbury Tales C) The Divine Comedy D) A Modest Proposal
A) The American Revolution B) The Glorious Revolution C) The French Revolution D) The Industrial Revolution
A) Scottish B) Irish C) British D) Anglo-Irish
A) Strangers B) Related C) Enemies D) Business partners
A) Drapier's Letters B) The Windsor Prophecy C) A Tale of a Tub D) Gulliver's Travels
A) 1720 B) 1726 C) 1724 D) 1729
A) A novel B) A poem C) A letter D) Prayers
A) 1720–22 B) 1701–03 C) 1703–10 D) 1710–12
A) The Examiner B) The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers C) The Intelligencer D) The Athenian Mercury
A) 1733 B) 1731 C) 1725 D) 1729
A) 'Strephon and Chloe' B) 'Helter Skelter' C) 'A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed' D) 'The Lady's Dressing Room'
A) 'The Day of Judgment' B) 'The Logicians Refuted' C) 'On Poetry: A Rhapsody' D) 'The Puppet Show'
A) 'On the Conduct of the Allies' B) 'Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation' C) 'A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue' D) 'The Examiner'
A) 1699 B) 1727 C) 1731 D) 1710
A) Three volumes B) Two volumes C) Five volumes D) Four volumes, plus an index volume
A) Thomas Sheridan B) A. L. Rowse C) George Orwell D) John Ruskin
A) Edith Sitwell B) Virginia Woolf C) W.H. Auden D) T.S. Eliot
A) A. L. Rowse B) Thomas Sheridan C) Frank Stier Goodwin D) Sophie Shilleto Smith
A) Mark Zakharov B) Sergei Eisenstein C) Andrei Tarkovsky D) Ivan Pyryev
A) 1731 B) 1699 C) 1727 D) 1710
A) 1940 B) 1910 C) 1982 D) 2017
A) Trim B) London C) Mars D) Dublin
A) 2022 B) 2021 C) 2020 D) 2019
A) Standard Ebooks B) Amazon Kindle C) Google Books D) Apple Books
A) LibriVox B) Audible C) YouTube D) Spotify
A) Microsoft OneDrive B) Dropbox C) Google Drive D) Internet Archive
A) LibraryThing B) Open Library C) Goodreads D) WorldCat
A) The British Library B) The Library of Congress C) The Online Books Page D) The New York Public Library |
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