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The Restoration + Alexander Pope
Candide
Don Quixote
A Modest Proposal
Literary Terms
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According to Pope, what emotion can never be quenched in the human heart?
Hope
100
How did Candide get his name?
He had an honest, simple nature.
100
Don Quixote is fighting what in the famous scene at the beginning of this selection?
Windmills
100
What does the narrator of A Modest Proposal suggest as a solution to the poor beggars in Ireland?
Using poor children as food.
100
What does satire do?
It ridicules weakness, vice, or folly.
200
In "An Essay on Man", Pope recommends that people . . .
Examine themselves.
200
Who is Pangloss?
The Baron's family tutor.
200
What explanation does Don Quixote give for losing the battle?
A magician has turned giants into windmills.
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The narrator claims that landlords will benefit from his proposal because they will be able to what?
Sell excess children
200
What is the ultimate purpose of satire?
to change society for the better.
300
British writing of the Augustan era is often called "neoclassical" because it. . .
Imitates the Latin classics.
300
What is Candide banished for?
Kissing the Baron's daughter, Cunegonde.
300
After his spear is broken, what does Don Quixote use instead?
A tree branch
300
The narrator claims to have no personal motive behind his proposal because he . . .
does not have any children to sell.
300
The difference between parody and satire is that parody . .
Imitates works of literature.
400
King Charles II reestablished the . . .
Anglican Church as the official church of England.
400
Rather than be shot in the head, what does Candide choose to do?
Run the gauntlet of the regiment thirty-six times.
400
What does Sancho Panza promise to respect "as I would the Sabbath day"?
Dono Quixote's warning about not fighting with gentlemen.
400
What does A Modest Proposal satirize?
English policy in Ireland.
400
Antithesis in rhetoric is . . .
A contrast of ideas presented in grammatically balanced statements.
500
What did the choice of writers at the end of the eighteenth century to choose topics such as natural landscapes and humble life reflect?
Dismay at changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution.
500
In Candide, what is satirized, and for what purpose?
Ignorance, weakness, and folly are satirized in order to improve humanity.
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What is Don Quixote mainly a parody of?
Tales of chivalry
500
Wsift uses irony to satirize people who . . .
have a cold-blooded attitude toward human suffering.
500
What is verbal irony?
What is said is the opposite of what is meant.