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