Selected Whigs and
Answer: Tories
This work can be classified as pre-Romantic:
Selected “Elegy Written in a Country
Answer: Churchyard”
Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Question 3
2 out of 2 points
Swift satirizes the domestic values of the Irish, who had a lack of self respect, while at the same time
admonishes the inhumane lack of compassion by those who saw the poor as animals.
Selected Tru
Answer: e
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
In Rambler No. 4 Johnson writes, “They are the entertainment of minds unfurnished with ideas,
and therefore easily susceptible of impressions; not fixed by principles, and therefore easily
following the current of fancy; not informed by experience, and consequently open to every false
suggestion and partial account” which means:
Selected The young are easily
Answer: deceived.
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
“For pride, which produces quickness of resentment, will obstruct gratitude, by unwillingness to admit
that inferiority which obligation implies; and it is very unlikely that he who cannot think he receives a
favour, will acknowledge or repay it” comes the following work:
Selected Rambler No.
Answer: 4
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
This author addresses a journal to “Nobody.”
Selected Burne
Answer: y
, Question 7
2 out of 2 points
What ascends comet-like to the starry heavens to assume its place among other
constellations?
Selected Lock of