What was \restored\in 1660 ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What was “restored” in 1660 ?

   A. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
   B. the dominance of the Tory Party
   C. the “Book of Common Prayer”
   D. toleration of religious dissidents

2. Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled_______________?

   A. with an absolute prerogative his father would have envied.
   B. through a system of draconian military courts.
   C. with deference to Parliament’s legislative supremacy.
   D. only a small area around London and Oxford.

3. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?

   A. Addison
   B. Bunyan
   C. Crabbe
   D. Dryden

4. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?

   A. Addison
   B. Bunyan
   C. Crabbe
   D. Dryden

5. In 1660, after the Restoration, Milton suffered which of the following punishments ?

   A. He was imprisoned.
   B. His left index finger was chopped off.
   C. He was placed in the stocks for a week.
   D. A and B

6. The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as___________________?

   A. The Age of Classicism
   B. The Restoration
   C. The age of Milton
   D. None of these

7. Which of the following monarchs was “restored” to the British throne during the Restoration ?

   A. Charles I
   B. Charles II
   C. Henry VIII
   D. Charles III

8. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

   A. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
   B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   C. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
   D. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë

9. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?

   A. William Beckford’s Vathek
   B. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
   C. Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Randsom
   D. Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian

10. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?

    A. Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
    B. Butler’s Hudibras
    C. Fielding’s Jonathan Wild
    D. Pope’s Dunciad