A) 1727 B) 1737 C) 1717 D) 1707
A) Tom Jones B) Emma C) 1984 D) Moby Dick
A) The Adventures of Tom Jones B) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling C) Tom Jones and the Adventure of a Lifetime D) Tom Jones: A Love Story
A) Ship Captain B) Magistrate C) Physician D) Architect
A) The Historical Register for the Year 1736 B) The Critic C) The Government Inspector D) Theatre of the Absurd
A) 1784 B) 1754 C) 1774 D) 1764
A) The Boston Tea Party B) The Great Plague C) The French Revolution D) The Licensing Act of 1737
A) Shamela B) Miranda C) Sophia D) Lucinda
A) Joseph Andrews B) Shamela C) Jonathan Wild D) Amelia
A) Joseph Addison B) John Dryden C) John Fielding D) Alexander Pope
A) Middle Temple B) University of London C) Leiden University D) Eton College
A) The Bow Street Runners B) The Westminster Watch C) The Eton Guards D) The Middle Temple Police
A) Charles Spencer B) William Pitt the Elder C) Ralph Allen D) George Lyttelton
A) Pastoral poetry B) Tragic drama C) Historical fiction D) Comic epic poem in prose
A) Charles Spencer B) Lord Chesterfield C) George Lyttelton D) William Pitt the Elder
A) A satire equating Walpole with a gang leader and highwayman B) A biography of Jonathan Wild C) A historical account of British politics D) A romantic adventure
A) The Etonians B) The Whig Party C) The Scriblerus Club D) The Cobhamites
A) Pasquin B) The Universal Gallant C) Don Quixote in England D) Tom Thumb
A) The Craftsman B) Pasquin C) The Champion; or, British Mercury D) Common Sense
A) An adventure story B) A case involving a female transvestite and marriage fraud C) A political satire D) A romantic comedy
A) Mr. Partridge B) Sophia Western C) Squire Allworthy D) Blifil
A) The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Adams B) Amelia C) An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews D) A Journey from this World to the Next
A) The Covent-Garden Tragedy B) Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap C) Tom Thumb the Great: A Burlesque Tragedy D) Don Quixote in England
A) Tom Thumb the Great B) The Universal Gallant C) The Sot D) Don Quixote in England
A) The Universal Gallant B) Tom Thumb C) Don Quixote in England D) Pasquin
A) Satirical burlesque with a diminutive hero B) Historical drama C) Political commentary D) Romantic adventure
A) 1742 B) 1751 C) 1743 D) 1741
A) The Intriguing Chambermaid B) The Modern Husband C) Eurydice, A Farce D) The Universal Gallant
A) 1732 B) 1728 C) 1731 D) 1730
A) He wrote legal textbooks B) He founded the Bow Street Runners, London's first professional police force C) He established the Eton School of Law D) He served as a judge in the Middle Temple
A) William Fielding B) John Fielding C) Henry Fielding D) James Gabriel Montresor
A) They co-authored several plays B) They were lifelong friends from their time at Eton College C) Pitt was Fielding's patron D) Pitt was a rival playwright
A) The Author's Farce B) Tom Thumb the Great: A Burlesque Tragedy C) The Lottery D) The Old Debauchees
A) 1744 B) 1749 C) 1753 D) 1734
A) 1746 B) 1743 C) 1751 D) 1749
A) Molière B) Thomas Arne C) Jean-François Regnard D) Juvenal
A) Ten B) Twenty-five C) Fifty D) Above thirty
A) Eurydice Hiss'd, or A Word to the Wise B) The Universal Gallant C) Miss Lucy in Town D) The Miser
A) Farce B) Closet drama C) Ballad opera D) Burlesque tragedy
A) Lisbon, Portugal B) Oxford, England C) London, England D) Wells, England
A) Historical account B) Satire C) Poetry collection D) Travel narrative
A) M. Gustaf Adlerfelt (Gustavus Adlerfeld) B) Voltaire C) Charles XII himself D) John Dryden
A) 1752 B) 1743 C) 1755 D) 1740
A) 1743 B) 1760 C) 1752 D) 1755
A) Henrietta Fielding B) Mary Daniel C) Sarah Fielding D) Charlotte Craddock
A) Five B) Four C) Three D) Two
A) It led him to write more comedies B) It boosted his popularity as a novelist C) It ended his career as a playwright due to restrictions on political satire D) It had no significant impact
A) Tom Thumb the Great: A Burlesque Tragedy B) Don Quixote in England C) Rape Upon Rape D) The Old Debauchees
A) William Holcroft's adaptation of The Covent-Garden Tragedy B) Thomas Arne's incidental music for The Miser C) Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett's Opera of Operas D) Oliver Goldsmith's The Good-Natur'd Man
A) Public hangings B) Capital punishment C) Prison sentences D) The death penalty
A) Biographies of political figures B) Opposition to bribery and corruption in British politics C) Celebration of Whig heroes D) Support for Sir Robert Walpole
A) 1753 B) 1749 C) 1752 D) 1754
A) Jonathan Wild B) Squire Allworthy C) Captain Hercules Vinegar D) H. Scriblerus Secundus |