War Against Time: A 17th and 18 century Practice Exam
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1. This was a very troubled time for the English people, and the writings displayed these troubles.
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2. Lucifer was the Angel of light
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3. According to Milton: Adam and Eve are the British people, for it is through them and not any reigning
monrach that England will regain the "Paradise" they lost.
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4. It can be interpreted that Milton's epic states that it was not God's fault that "Paradise" was lost, but it was
the failure of the people to govern themselves according to the will of God that caused the fall.
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5. The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, because he was the most artistic of the
group
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6. Jefferson was a British national, a colonist of the Americas, thus this document is also considered a British
document.
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7. We do have certain unalienable rights given to us at birth, and we willingly relinquish those rights to a
person/s who will represent our beliefs, values and morals (the opportunity to enjoy life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness) when we vote.
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8. Jefferson emphasized the contractual justification for independence, arguing that when the tyrannical
government of King George III of England repeatedly violated "natural law, " the colonists had not only the
right but the duty to revolt.
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9. The Essay on Man is a clear affirmation of a Christian faith: even though life seems chaotic and patternless
to man, man simply needs to remember that all events happen as part of God's divine plan.
____ 10. Two things rule man in this Enlightenment age. Reason and Passion. Reason is the energy of the now based
on emotions, while passion determines what is good for the future. Passion is the guide for reason, as it
directs us.
____ 11. An epic is a long narrative poem which celebrates the deeds of a hero, who is the epitome of a culture's
values and morals, while he battles evil in the name of all that is good.
____ 12. Your reading of Milton's tale speaks of Lucifer being called satan (Hebrew for advesary) and his second in
command Beelzebub (Hebrew for lord of the flies). It also mentions his daughter, Sin & his son, Death.
____ 13. Loosely speaking, John Milton is considered one of the best writers in English Literature, his style follows that
of William Shakespeare who was inspired by the great works of Geoffrey Chaucer
____ 14. Based on An Essay on Man: God allows evil to exist allowing mankind to define good and evil, so that with
the God given right of free will mankind has the opportunity to choose right from wrong.
____ 15. The literal tranlation for "Carpe diem" is to cease the day
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____ 16. What is the message of “Holy Sonnet 10”?
a. Death can never triumph because faith grants eternal life.
b. Death is meant only to bring pleasure to humankind.
c. Were it not for death, humans could never appreciate life.
d. Death is part of life and is both good and evil.
____ 17. Why is the seemingly contradictory phrase “Death, thou shalt die” actually true within the context of “Holy
Sonnet 10”?
a. The speaker believes he can kill Death.
b. After death, a Christian awakes to eternal life.
c. It is impossible for Death to do anything except die.
d. Death can have no physical existence.
____ 18. Which of the following pairs are the subjects of John Donne’s “Song”?
a. love and faith
c. love and death
b. faith and death
d. faith and immortality
____ 19. What is the theme of “On My First Son”?
a. the death of a child
b. the responsibilities of fatherhood
c. the birth of a child
d. the purpose of suffering
____ 20. In “On My First Son,” what is the “best piece of poetry” referred to in the lines “. . . say here doth lie / Ben
Jonson his best piece of poetry”?
a. the poem “On My First Son” itself
c. Jonson’s early writings
b. Jonson’s son
d. the epitaph on Jonson’s grave
____ 21. An epigram is characterized by
a. parallelism, clarity, brevity, and rhyme.
b. parallelism, wit, brevity, and humor.
c. truthfulness, permanence, and serious subject matter.
d. permanence, brevity, clarity, and wit.
____ 22. In “To His Coy Mistress,” to what does Marvell allude in the line “Time’s winged chariot hurrying near”?
a. a gathering of angels
c. the approach of death
b. his love’s acceptance of him
d. unwanted attentions from his rival
____ 23. The rosebuds in the first line of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” are a symbol of
a. the beauty of nature.
c. the joys of youth.
b. early childhood.
d. love and marriage.
____ 24. What does the flower symbolize in these lines from “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”?
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
a. the length of human life
b. a prosperous garden
c. the innocence of life
d. disappointment in love
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____ 25. What is the main theme of the 270 line excerpt from Paradise Lost you were assigned?
a. service to God
c. consequences of rebellion
b. good and evil
d. historical relationships
____ 26. Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost expresses values of seventeenth-century Christian England in that it
reflects a prevalent belief in
a. Greek and Roman classical gods.
c. serpents and sea monsters.
b. earthly angels.
d. Heaven and Hell.
____ 27. Since he tried to write like Shakespeare, which of the following describes the style in which Milton wrote
Paradise Lost?
a. unrhymed iambic pentameter
c. quatrains of varying rhyme schemes
b. rhymed couplets
d. run-on lines
____ 28. The lines “With loss of Eden, till one greater Man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat” from Paradise
Lost allude to the
a. power of God.
c. coming of Christ.
b. punishment of Satan.
d. joy of the angels.
____ 29. In the story from Gulliver’s Travels of how the dispute arose between the Big-Endians and the Little-Endians,
the chief objects of Swift’s satire are
a. triviality and pettiness.
c. arrogance and pomposity.
b. ignorance and superstition.
d. principle & morality
____ 30. The Lilliputian wars in Gulliver’s Travels are a satire on
a. political institutions.
c. religious conflict.
b. table manners.
d. political fighting.
____ 31. A central idea of the excerpt from An Essay on Man is that human beings
a. control their hearts but not their minds.
b. have many powers but also many weaknesses.
c. being rational is pointless.
d. resemble beasts more than angels.
____ 32. Pope’s images in this excerpt from An Essay on Man suggest the view that intellect and emotion are
a. fundamentally similar.
c. mutually complementary.
b. equally valuable.
d. strongly opposing.
____ 33. When Pope refers to “a middle state,” in An Essay on Man he is referring most likely to a state between
a. birth and death.
c. knowledge and doubt.
b. god and animal.
d. Heaven and Hell.
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____ 34. What can be inferred from The Declaration of Independence about Jefferson’s general attitude toward
revolution and rebellion?
a. All cases of injustice vindicate revolution and rebellion.
b. People frequently use revolution and rebellion as their first course of action.
c. Revolution and rebellion are methods of last resort.
d. Revolution and rebellion are poor ways of dealing with conflict.
____ 35. After identifying the details of his “Modest Proposal, the narrator points out "one other collateral
advantage.” What is that advantage?
a. reducing noise pollution in the vicinity of c. freeing fathers from the burden of caring
playgrounds
for their children
b. lessening the number of papists (i.e.,
d. improving the diets of adults
Catholics)
____ 36. What is the one objection that the narrator thinks might "possibly be raised against this proposal"?
a. It will reduce the number of people in the c. It is morally repugnant.
kingdom.
b. It will deprive landlords of some
d. It will reduce the country's dependence
much-needed income.
on lamb and other meat products.
____ 37. Toward the end of the essay, the narrator rejects alternative solutions. Which one of the following is not
one of the “other expedients” that he considers and immediately rejects?
a. taxing absentee landlords at five shillings c. putting children to work at a young age
a pound
b. quitting animosities and factions, and
d. requiring shopkeepers to buy only goods
learning to love “our country”
that have been made in Ireland
____ 38. When Jefferson ends The Declaration of Independence by stating his “firm reliance on the protection of
divine providence,” what is he suggesting?
a. American does not need to act, since God will protect the new nation.
b. He is secure in his belief that God will bless America’s fight for independence.
c. Americans will be rewarded in Heaven for breaking from Britain.
d. He hopes that God will protect America’s interests.
____ 39. Jefferson’s list of self-evident truths in The Declaration of Independence is effective because it
a. helps his audience understand the truths.
b. creates a connection between these truths and the colonists’ attempts at reconciliation
with Britain.
c. draws his readers’ attention to his personal opinions about humanity.
d. imparts a sense of reasonableness to the beginning of his argument.
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40. In The Declaration of Independence, Jefferson uses the charged word tyrant to characterize the king of
Britain. What emotion is Jefferson appealing to by using this word?
a. sorrow
c. hatred
b. scorn
d. pride
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____ 41. What name has history given to the time period which we have completed studying?
a. The Industrial Revolution
c. the Renaissance
b. The Romantic Period
d. The Enlightenment
____ 42. Who is the author of The Declaration of Independence?
a. An English colonist
c. A highly educated and literate man
b. Thomas Jefferson
d. All of the above
____ 43. Choose the name given to the style of poetry which linked objects or ideas not commonly associated, thus
creating a paradox of emotions and ideas.
a. Transfiguratory Poetry
c. Metaphysical Poetry
b. Divination Poetry
d. Romantic Poetry
____ 44. Complete the following poem by choosing the words that best fit into the blank spaces.
Gather ye _____ while ye may / ______ is still a flying
And this same _______ that smiles today/ Tomorrow will be _____
a. souls, Cherubs, angel, falling
c. flowers, Your time, beauty, rising
b. rosebuds, Old time, flower, dying
d. roses, Time, flowers, pasing
____ 48. Which English monarch was invloved in the Glorious Revolution?
a. James I son of Mary Queen of Scots
c. Mary daughter of James II
b. Charles I son of James I
d. Charles II son of Charles I
____ 45. Which traditonal style of governemnt did Charles I use when he ruled England in the mid 1600s?.
a. Constitutional Monarchy
c. Parliament
b. Monarchy
d. Congress
____ 46. Which monarch escaped to France only to return as King of England decades later.
a. Charles II
c. Louis XIV
b. James I
d. William of Orange
____ 47. This government was formulated by the Puritan leader, Oliver Cromwell.
a. Constitutional Monarchy
c. Oligarchy
b. Commonwealth
d. Republic
____ 48. Which era preceeded this time period which we have just completed?
a. Restoration
c. Middle Ages
b. Renaissance
d. Romatic Period
____ 49. Who were the ruling Monarchs prior to this time period which we just completed studying?
a. Henry V, Macbeth, Elizabeth I
c. Edward II, William I, Elizabeth II
b. Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I
d. Elizabeth II, James I, Charles du Gall
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____ 50. What was the title given to Cromwell during his reign over England?
a. Lord Protector
c. People's King
b. Supreme Chancellor
d. Lionhearted
____ 51. Who wrote the Lycidas & Paradise Regained?
a. John Milton
c. Andrew Marvell
b. Ben Johnson
d. John Donne
____ 52. Which of the following people was not part of the Stuart family?
a. William of Orange
c. Charles I of England
b. James II of England
d. James VI of Scotland
____ 53. Oliver Cromwell lead the Puritans against this group of people who supported the King
a. Royalist
c. Whigs
b. Loyalist
d. Tories
____ 54. At the age of 30 Milton's goal was to create an epic revolving around this legendary hero.
a. Arthur Pendragon
c. Arthur of Normandy
b. Arthur of Cambria
d. Arthur dux Cerwiden
____ 55. Which of the following people did not live during the Jacobean Era?
a. Elizabeth I
c. Chalres I
b. James I
d. William Shakespeare
____ 56. What is the Metaphysical conceit of Holy Sonnet 10?
a. Death thou shalt die
c. Death be not proud
b. Death thou art kind
d. Death? what death? I'm not dead yet.
____ 57. If Lucifer is the epic hero and God is the antagonist, who is the protagonist (main character) of Milton's epic?
a. Adam and Eve
c. Angels
b. Beelzebub
d. Jesus
____ 58. According to Milton, why did he want to write Paradise Lost?
a. to justify the ways of God to man
c. to explain the 'middle state' of mankind
b. to find the redemtion in man
d. to recognize society's flawed nature
____ 59. What name has history given to the time period which we have completed studying?
a. The Industrial Revolution
c. the Renaissance
b. The Romantic Period
d. The Enlightenment
____ 60. Who is the author of The Declaration of Independence?
a. An English colonist
c. A highly educated and literate man
b. Thomas Jefferson
d. All of the above
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____ 61. Choose the name given to the style of poetry which linked objects or ideas not commonly associated, thus
creating a paradox of emotions and ideas.
a. Transfiguratory Poetry
c. Metaphysical Poetry
b. Divination Poetry
d. Romantic Poetry
____ 62. Complete the following poem by choosing the words that best fit into the blank spaces.
Gather ye _____ while ye may / ______ is still a flying
And this same _______ that smiles today/ Tomorrow will be _____
a. souls, Cherubs, angel, falling
c. flowers, Your time, beauty, rising
b. rosebuds, Old time, flower, dying
d. roses, Time, flowers, pasing
____ 63. Which English monarch was invloved in the Glorious Revolution?
a. James I son of Mary Queen of Scots
c. Mary daughter of James II
b. Charles I son of James I
d. Charles II son of Charles I
____ 64. Which traditonal style of governemnt did Charles I use when he ruled England in the mid 1600s?.
a. Constitutional Monarchy
c. Parliament
b. Monarchy
d. Congress
____ 65. Which monarch escaped to France only to return as King of England decades later.
a. Charles II
c. Louis XIV
b. James II
d. William of Orange
____ 66. This government was formulated by the Puritan leader, Oliver Cromwell.
a. Constitutional Monarchy
c. Oligarchy
b. Commonwealth
d. Republic
____ 67. Which era preceeded this time period which we have just completed?
a. Restoration
c. Middle Ages
b. Renaissance
d. Romatic Period
____ 68. Who were the ruling Monarchs prior to this time period which we just completed studying?
a. Henry V, Macbeth, Elizabeth I
c. Edward II, William I, Elizabeth II
b. Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I
d. Elizabeth II, James I, Charles du Gall
____ 69. What was the title given to Cromwell during his reign over England?
a. Lord Protector
c. People's King
b. Supreme Commander
d. Lionhearted
____ 70. Who wrote the Lycidas?
a. John Milton
b. Ben Johnson
c. Andrew Marvell
d. John Donne
____ 71. Which of the following people was not part of the Stuart family?
a. William of Orange
c. Charles I England
b. James II of England
d. James VI of Scotland
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____ 72. Oliver Cromwell lead the Puritans against this group of people who supported the King
a. Royalist
c. Whigs
b. Loyalist
d. Tories
____ 73. Oliver Cromwell claims this title for himslef.
a. Lord Protector
b. Defender of the Faith
c. High King of Gondor
d. Mayor of England
____ 74. At the age of 30 Milton's goal was to create an epic revolving around this legendary hero.
a. Arthur Pendragon
c. Arthur of Normandy
b. Arthur of Cambria
d. Arthur dux Cerwiden
____ 75. Which of the following did not live during the Jacobean Era?
a. Elizabeth I
c. Chalres I
b. James I
d. William Shakespeare
____ 76. What is the Metaphysical conceit of Holy Sonnet 10?
a. Death thou shalt die
c. Death be not proud
b. Death thou art kind
d. Death? what death? I'm not dead yet.
____ 77. If Lucifer is the protagonist and God is the antagonist, who is the heroic tragic figure of Milton's epic?
a. Adam and Eve
c. Angels
b. Beelzebub
d. Jesus
____ 78. According to Milton, why did he want to write Paradise Lost?
a. to justify the ways of God to man
c. to explain the 'middle state' of mankind
Matching
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
James I
Charles I
Oliver Cromwell
Charles II
(AB)
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
James II
William and Mary
Louis XIV
Mary Tudor
Elizabeth II
Prince William
(AC)
(AD)
(AE)
(BC)
(BD)
(BE)
____ 79. Monarch who tried to return England to a Catholic faith prior to the Glorious Revolution.
____ 80. Monarch who was the 1st Scottish king of England; he really liked the play Macbeth
____ 81. Because of his disagreement with Parliament, England became involved in a Civil War
____ 82. Because the people were not happy with his desire to return England to a Catholic country, this glorious
Revolution leader had his daughter lead instead
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____ 83. an upset puritan who overthrew the crown and formed an English Commonwelath and was called Lord
Protector
____ 84. His personal guards were the famous Musketeers.
____ 85. He was one of the most famous of all the Tudors
____ 86. Monarch during Shakespeare's early plays, when he was part of the Lord Chamberlain's men
____ 87. Her ramage over religious non-conformists gave her name the descriptive ajective of "Bloody"
____ 88. the royal son who returned from France to rule England under a Constitutional Monarchy
____ 89. Monarch who wanted to return England to Catholicism after her father created the Anglican church
____ 90. divorced his wife by separating from the Catholic church and creating the Anglican church, he's the
grandfather for the cicil war of the 17th century
____ 91. His rule over England was more of a Dictatorship since he had no royal blood to declare himself King.
____ 92. His father will be king before him, but he is viewed as the 'return of Arthur'
____ 93. Monarch of France and builder of the Versailles palace
____ 94. Monarch who preceded the line of George I, II and III
____ 95. He housed the young Charles II's, during his exile from England's Civil War
____ 96. Monarch who reigned after James I under an Anglican church
____ 97. His reign over England brought arts and culture back into the country, thus sparking the evolution of the
Enlightenment Period.
____ 98. Monarch currently on the throne of England, AD 2008
What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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