Restoration Period
Biography of Jonathan Swift
Impact of Author
Most Famous Works
Things Mrs. Rehkopf knows about Swift
100
What are the years of the Restoration Era?
What is 1660-1798.
100
When was the month and year of Swift's birth?
When is November 30, 1667.
100
Satire is very important in Swift's works. What is the definition of Satire?
What is demeaning... to change something.
100
What was considered Jonathan Swift's most famous masterpiece?
What is Gulliver's Travels.
100
Where did he always want to live?
What is London.
200
What king was restored during the Restoration Era?
Who is Charles II.
200
How did Jonathan Swift feel about religion, or act to people who weren't religious?
What is loyalty to the Anglican church, and mocking people that weren't religious.
200
What part of Jonathan's Swift would have suggested that he could have had OCD?
What is near perfect.
200
What did Swift propose in A Modest Proposal?
What is suggesting that the children of the Irish poor be put to good use, providing sustenance to the rich English.
200
Why did he want to improve the Irish?
What is he had to be with them all the time.
300
What is sexual explicitness?
What is a major part of the rebirth of Restoration comedy?
300
State two things that people said about him in his last years?
What is Meniere's disease, insanity, bad temper, and no self-control.
300
What form of writing was Swift well known for?
What is poetry.
300
What was the defense of the Temple's stance on the importance of ancient literature over modern literature?
What is Battle of the Books in 1704.
300
What is most shocking about Swift's most renowned poems?
What is they employ scatology.
400
What did the 18th century journalists consider themselves?
What are reformers.
400
What was Stella Johnston's (his lover) real name?
Who is Esther.
400
What did Jonathan Swift inspire as far as something that nobody had seen?
What is sequels.
400
What was Swift's protest of the unfair treatment of the Irish on the part of the English government?
What are Drapier Letters.
400
What is Scatology?
What is excrement.
500
What is the Anglican Church or Church of England.
What church was reestablished during the Restoration era?
500
Name two pseudonyms for Jonathan Swift?
What is the Shoe Boy, Simon Wagstaff, The Great Dean, or Lemuel Gulliver.
500
Swift's writing impacted almost the national literature of continental _________?
What is Europe.
500
Who was the patent granted to for the mint inferior copper coin?
What is William Wood.
500
To whom did Swift leave what little wealth he had?
What is to incurables, fools, and mad men.
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