Intro to the Restoration & Enlightenment

Question 1

In what year did the Restoration & Enlightenment begin?

Answer 1

1660

Question 2

In what year did the Restoration & Enlightenment end?

Answer 2

1798

Question 3

What English monarch returned from exile to restore the Monarchy?

Answer 3

King Charles II

Question 4

Charles II was a member of what house?

Answer 4

Stuart

Question 5

In what country did Charles II spend most of his exile?

Answer 5

France

Question 6

What religion did Charles II re-establish in England?

Answer 6

Anglicanism

Question 7

What new political party wanted to limit royal authority?

Answer 7

Whigs

Question 8

What new political party supported royal authority?

Answer 8

Tories

Question 9

After Charles II died, who became King?

Answer 9

King James II

Question 10

What do we call the forced abdication of the throne by James II?

Answer 10

The Glorious Revolution

Question 11

After James II abdicated the throne, who became King?

Answer 11

King William III

Question 12

After James II abdicated the throne, who became Queen?

Answer 12

Queen Mary II

Question 13

What royal decree barred Catholics from the English throne?

Answer 13

The Act of Settlement

Question 14

What protestant sister of Mary established Great Britain?

Answer 14

Queen Anne

Question 15

What distant German cousin of Queen Anne was next in line to obtain the throne?

Answer 15

King George I

Question 16

George I was a member of what house?

Answer 16

Hanove

Question 17

What son of George I was the next King of England?

Answer 17

King George II

Question 18

To which monarch does “The Madness of King George” refer?

Answer 18

King George III

Question 19

What is The Enlightenment also known as?

Answer 19

The Age of Reason

Question 20

What is the literary movement that focused on order, balance, logic and reason known as?

Answer 20

Neoclassicism

Question 21

What political philosopher taught the rights of citizens to revolt against an unfair government?

Answer 21

John Locke

Question 22

What scientist developed the Scientific Method, as well as explaining gravity and motion?

Answer 22

Sir Isaac Newton

Question 23

When was the “Golden Age of Satire?”

Answer 23

17th-18th Century

Question 24

What is satire?

Answer 24

A literary technique in which behaviors or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society

Question 25

Where did satire begin?

Answer 25

Greece

Question 26

Where did satire "come into its own?"

Answer 26

Rome

Question 27

It was believed that satirists were the guardians of the what?

Answer 27

The culture

Question 28

What is horatian satire?

Answer 28

Playfully amusing and refined. It seeks to correct vice or foolishness with gentle laughter and understanding

Question 29

What is juvenalian satire?

Answer 29

Provokes a darker kind of laughter. It is often bitter, or even angry, and criticizes corruption or incompetence with scorn and outrage

Question 30

Who wrote the first English dictionary?

Answer 30

Robert Cawdrey

Question 31

What is the (shortened) title of the first English dictionary?

Answer 31

A Table Alphebeticall

Question 32

Approximately how many entries were in A Table Alphabeticall?

Answer 32

2,500

Question 33

Who single-handedly wrote A Dictionary of the English Language?

Answer 33

Samuel Johnson

Question 34

Approximately how many entries were in A Dictionary of the English Language?

Answer 34

42,773

Question 35

What is a Lexicographer?

Answer 35

Someone who writes and studies dictionaries

Question 36

Who wrote A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language?

Answer 36

John Walker

Question 37

What American published An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828?

Answer 37

Noah Webster

Question 38

In 1857, what society resolved to promote a "New English Dictionary?"

Answer 38

The Philological Society

Question 39

James A.H. Murray was the first editor of what dictionary?

Answer 39

The Oxford English Dictionary

Question 40

Approximately how many entries were in the first edition of The Oxford English Dictionary?

Answer 40

414,000