Having emerg’d from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro’ Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be imitated ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which long Romantic poem opens with the line “oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze” ?

   A. “The Prelude”
   B. “Don Juan”
   C. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
   D. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

2. _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. William Apess

3. With which genre is “The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity” most closely associated ?

   A. medieval lay
   B. courtly love
   C. hagiography
   D. romance

4. Which speaker said that “God is more nearer to us than our own soul ?”

   A. Julian of Norwich
   B. Margery Kempe
   C. Catherine of Siena
   D. Catherine de Pizan

5. “Can this be so!” cried goodman Brown, with a stare of amazement at his undisturbed companion. Howbeit, I have nothing to do with the governor and council – they have their own ways, and are no rule for a simple husbandman, like me. But, were I to go on with thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbathday and lecture-day!” The word “husbandman” usually means farmer, but in this context it means something else – what ?

   A. Rancher
   B. Male partner in a marriage
   C. Cowboy
   D. Man of ordinary status

6. Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s ________ exercised considerable influence upon its author’s contemporaries?

   A. “Euphues”
   B. “Paradise Lost”
   C. “Utopia”
   D. “Zelauto”

7. A person who writes about his own life writes ______________?

   A. a diary
   B. a biography
   C. an autobiography
   D. a chronicle

8. Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne of England ?

   A. Elizabeth II
   B. Henry IX
   C. James I
   D. Charles I

9. Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, establishing the Stuart dynasty ?

   A. James IV of Scotland
   B. James VI of Scotland
   C. Mary, Queen of Scots
   D. Anne Boleyn
    

10. Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________?

    A. George IV
    B. George III
    C. William IV
    D. Edward VII