THE AGE OF SATIRE

I have created this quiz for my fellow students of English Literature 2 in the hope that you will all create one and then we can all learn loads. It would be fun for other people who want to learn about The Age of Satire.

This quiz includes materials on Swift, Gay and Pope and their works. Although is very short in condenses some of the key points to the texts. Some questions are easier than others but if you happen to know them all, then you know you are doing well.

Created by: PATRICIA
  1. What was happening to England's population at the end of the 17th century?
  2. What two political parties were at the time?
  3. Who proclaimed that absolute government was the only kind of government that would work?
  4. Who proposed the essential goodness of human nature?
  5. What was the nationality of Swift?
  6. What did Swift want to denounce with his satire?
  7. Who wrote The Beggar's Opera?
  8. Which of the following is a satirical comedy, written as a ballad?
  9. What seem to mean the name of Peachum?
  10. How is called the literary work that was provoked by an innocent incident between two catholic families?

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