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  • 1. What is the literary form of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater?
A) Biography
B) Memoir
C) Novel
D) Epic poetry
  • 2. Who is the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater?
A) Margaret Simpson
B) The London Magazine editor
C) Thomas De Quincey
D) An anonymous writer
  • 3. What specific substance is the author addicted to in the memoir?
A) Morphine
B) Alcohol
C) Laudanum
D) Heroin
  • 4. In what year was Thomas De Quincey born?
A) 1804
B) 1793
C) 1821
D) 1785
  • 5. In what year did Thomas De Quincey's father die?
A) 1802
B) 1793
C) 1817
D) 1785
  • 6. In what year did De Quincey's opium years begin?
A) 1804
B) 1793
C) 1821
D) 1802
  • 7. What is the name of the farmer's daughter De Quincey married?
A) Mary Shelley
B) Margaret Simpson
C) Jane Austen
D) Elizabeth Bennet
  • 8. In what year did De Quincey marry Margaret Simpson?
A) 1817
B) 1821
C) 1804
D) 1856
  • 9. When was the first edition of Confessions completed and published?
A) 1817
B) 1821
C) 1856
D) 1822
  • 10. In which periodical were the Confessions originally published?
A) The London Magazine
B) The Spectator
C) The Oxford Review
D) Blackwood's Magazine
  • 11. How many parts did the original magazine publication have?
A) Two
B) Three
C) One
D) Four
  • 12. In which months did the original parts appear in the magazine?
A) June and July
B) November and December
C) September and October
D) January and February
  • 13. When was the book edition with a new appendix published?
A) 1817
B) 1856
C) 1822
D) 1821
  • 14. In what year was a greatly expanded and revised edition published?
A) 1856
B) 1822
C) 1804
D) 1821
  • 15. How was the work initially published in terms of authorship?
A) Under a pseudonym
B) Under his real name
C) Co-authored
D) Anonymously
  • 16. What effect did the disclosure of authorship have on De Quincey?
A) Immediate poverty
B) Total obscurity
C) Immediate fame
D) Legal prosecution
  • 17. Aside from Confessions, what else was De Quincey known for being?
A) A prolific essayist and translator
B) A practicing physician
C) A professional painter
D) A famous poet and playwright
  • 18. For which work is De Quincey primarily renowned?
A) His translations
B) His poetry
C) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
D) His political essays
  • 19. What is the title of the section that follows the initial notice in Part I?
A) Preliminary Confessions
B) The Pleasures of Opium
C) The Pains of Opium
D) Introduction to the Pains
  • 20. What is the focus of Preliminary Confessions?
A) His career as a translator
B) His marriage to Margaret Simpson
C) His later years in 1856
D) Childhood, youth, and emotional/psychological factors
  • 21. Where did De Quincey spend time as a homeless runaway in his late teens?
A) Cambridge University
B) Edinburgh streets
C) Piccadilly Circus
D) Oxford Street in London
  • 22. During which years was De Quincey a homeless runaway in London?
A) 1802 and 1803
B) 1816 and 1817
C) 1804 and 1805
D) 1793 and 1794
  • 23. Which section discusses the early and largely positive phase of the author's experience with opium?
A) The Pains of Opium
B) Notice to the Reader
C) The Pleasures of Opium
D) Preliminary Confessions
  • 24. During what years does 'The Pleasures of Opium' cover the author's experience?
A) 1793 until 1817
B) 1802 until 1803
C) 1804 until 1812
D) 1821 until 1856
  • 25. What does the 'Introduction to the Pains of Opium' deliver?
A) A critique of other essayists
B) A medical analysis of laudanum
C) A second installment of autobiography taking him from youth to maturity
D) An apology to his wife Margaret
  • 26. What does 'The Pains of Opium' recount?
A) Insomnia, nightmares, frightening visions, and physical symptoms
B) His peaceful childhood in 1793
C) His wedding in 1817
D) His travels through Oxford Street
  • 27. What did critics later fault De Quincey for regarding the balance of his book?
A) Giving too much attention to his childhood
B) Giving too much attention to the pleasure of opium and not enough to negatives
C) Focusing too heavily on his marriage
D) Ignoring his time in London entirely
  • 28. Which is significantly longer: The Pleasures of Opium or The Pains of Opium?
A) The Pains of Opium
B) The Pleasures of Opium
C) They are equal in length
D) Preliminary Confessions
  • 29. Which two human perceptions were powerfully affected by opium according to the text?
A) Sight and sound
B) Hunger and fatigue
C) Space and time
D) Taste and touch
  • 30. How did buildings and landscapes appear to De Quincey under the influence?
A) Normal and unchanged
B) Completely invisible
C) In proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to conceive
D) Shrunken and microscopic
  • 31. What happened to the perception of time while on opium?
A) Time seemed to move twice as fast
B) Time stood completely still without dreams
C) Vast expansion, living for 70 or 100 years in one night
D) He forgot all memories of the past
  • 32. Whose work did De Quincey model his apostrophe to opium on?
A) John Dryden
B) Sir Thomas Browne
C) Alexander Pope
D) Sir Walter Raleigh
  • 33. What activity does De Quincey describe taking under the influence of opium in London?
A) Horseback riding
B) Writing poetry
C) Boat racing
D) Long walks
  • 34. How did De Quincey attempt to steer homewards during his walks?
A) By using a modern compass
B) Upon nautical principles
C) By asking street vendors
D) By following a stray dog
  • 35. What celestial body did De Quincey fix his eye upon to steer homewards?
A) Mars
B) The pole-star
C) The moon
D) Venus
  • 36. Whose audacity would be baffled by the London streets according to De Quincey?
A) Soldiers
B) Farmers
C) Sailors
D) Porters
  • 37. Whose intellects would be confounded by the enigmatic entries?
A) Philosophers
B) Mathematicians
C) Hackney-coachmen
D) Astronomers
  • 38. What term does De Quincey use to describe his initial effort in writing the Confessions?
A) Critical essay
B) Gothic fiction
C) Romantic poetry
D) Impassioned prose
  • 39. What kind of wounds does opium provide a balm for?
A) Wounds that will never heal
B) Minor cuts and bruises
C) Physical battle scars
D) Broken bones
  • 40. What does opium do to the purposes of wrath with its potent rhetoric?
A) Records them for history
B) Transforms them into joy
C) Amplifies them greatly
D) Stealeth them away
  • 41. When did De Quincey prepare the first collected edition of his works?
A) Early 1850s
B) Late 1820s
C) Mid 1890s
D) Early 1820s
  • 42. Who was the publisher for the first collected edition of De Quincey's works?
A) Charles Baudelaire
B) James Hogg
C) Albert Zugsmith
D) Andrew Dallmeyer
  • 43. What did De Quincey do to the length of the Confessions in the 1856 revision?
A) Cut it in half
B) Kept it exactly the same
C) More than doubled it
D) Reduced it by a third
  • 44. Which section was expanded the most in the 1856 revision?
A) The section on the medical aspects of opium
B) The appendix on the withdrawal process
C) The concluding chapter on dreams
D) The opening section on his personal background
  • 45. What proportion of the revised work was consumed by the expanded opening section?
A) More than two-thirds
B) Less than one-quarter
C) About ten percent
D) Exactly one-half
  • 46. How did critics describe the prosiness of the revised version?
A) Energetic
B) Vibrant
C) Tired
D) Brilliant
  • 47. Which English writer was NOT explicitly mentioned as being led to opium use by De Quincey's example?
A) Francis Thompson
B) James Thomson
C) William Blair
D) Charles Baudelaire
  • 48. In which Sherlock Holmes story is an opium addict inspired by reading the Confessions as a student?
A) A Scandal in Bohemia
B) The Sign of the Four
C) The Man with the Twisted Lip
D) The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • 49. When was the Sherlock Holmes story featuring an opium addict inspired by the Confessions published?
A) 1891
B) 1821
C) 1902
D) 1856
  • 50. What type of material did De Quincey insert into his 1856 revision regarding opium?
A) Political commentary on foreign trade
B) Fictional stories about smugglers
C) Legal arguments against drug prohibition
D) Significant material on the medical aspects
  • 51. Whose praise highlighted the Confessions for having "glorious imagination—deep philosophy—acute speculation"?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) James Hogg
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Albert Zugsmith
  • 52. Who wrote the play The Opium Eater based on De Quincey's work?
A) Malcolm McLaren
B) Jack Kerouac
C) Ken Kesey
D) Andrew Dallmeyer
  • 53. Which publishing company published the play The Opium Eater?
A) Capercaillie Books
B) Oxford University Press
C) James Hogg Publishers
D) Penguin Classics
  • 54. Who starred in the 1962 full-length film Confessions of an Opium Eater?
A) Sherlock Holmes
B) Vincent Price
C) Andrew Dallmeyer
D) Francis Thompson
  • 55. Who was the Hollywood producer behind the 1962 film reimagining of De Quincey's Confessions?
A) Ken Kesey
B) Malcolm McLaren
C) Albert Zugsmith
D) James Hogg
  • 56. In which 1999 documentary is De Quincey's book referred to as an influence for the Beat Generation?
A) The Man with the Twisted Lip
B) Tripping
C) On the Road
D) The Opium Eater
  • 57. Whose bus and its influence are recounted in the 1999 documentary Tripping?
A) De Quincey's personal carriage
B) Ken Kesey's Furthur bus
C) Jack Kerouac's cross-country bus
D) Malcolm McLaren's tour bus
  • 58. Who referred to De Quincey's book as the influence for the Beat Generation in the documentary Tripping?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Malcolm McLaren
C) Albert Zugsmith
D) Jack Kerouac
  • 59. Which Beat Generation book is mentioned as coming after De Quincey's influence in the documentary Tripping?
A) Advice to Opium Eaters
B) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
C) On the Road
D) Les paradis artificiels
  • 60. Who wrote the book On the Road?
A) Jack Kerouac
B) Malcolm McLaren
C) Ken Kesey
D) Thomas De Quincey
  • 61. In which 2002 video game is De Quincey's book parodied?
A) Tripping
B) The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
C) Les paradis artificiels
D) The Man with the Twisted Lip
  • 62. What is the name of the fictional drug featured in the parodied book in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind?
A) Heroin
B) Skooma
C) Opium
D) Laudanum
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