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