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