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