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1. While very well known for his poetry, like "Absalom and Achitophel", this late seventeenth-century writer is even more well known for his contributions to literary criticism. In fact, he is often referred to as "the father of English criticism". Who is this individual who authored "An Essay on Dramatic Poesy" and "A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire"?
2. This individual's "Diary" is most significant not only because of its rich detail, scrupulous accuracy, and refreshing candor but also because of the historical insight it affords us of Restoration England. What Londoner wrote this famous "Diary", which includes an entry recording "The Great Fire" of London in 1666?
3. In 1663, '64, and '78, three different parts of the highly satirical poem "Hudibras" were published. The poem ridiculed Presbyterians, Puritans, Parliament, the Cromwellian regime, and anyone else who failed to support the royalists during the English civil wars of the 17th century. The poem's unique style of couplets is still referred to as "hudibrastic verse" when it is used by other writers. Who is the poet who wrote "Hudibras"?
4. What play, written by William Congreve and considered one of the best Restoration comedies, revolves around the plotting, blackmailing, deception, and witty dialogue of various characters who are involved in a complicated scheme to gain or protect the dowry of Miss Millamant yet ends with a testament of the power of generosity and true love?
5. What libertine, who held the title of Second Earl of Rochester, wrote "The Disabled Debauchee", a poem in which the impotent and diseased speaker will live vicariously through the debauchery committed by younger men, much the way an old admiral watches from the safety of a nearby hill as two rival fleets clash in battle?
6. This seventeenth-century play was a source of controversy during its time, not only because of its lewd puns and sexual explicitness but also because of the deception perpetrated by one of the main womanizing characters--the appropriately-named Mr. Horner--who pretends he is impotent so that he is trusted by married men with their wives with whom he has affairs. What is the name of this 1675 Restoration comedy written by William Wycherly?
7. This short novel launched a massive wave of anti-slavery feeling through its story of an African prince who, with her consent, kills his pregnant lover rather than have their child be born into slavery and then is himself executed by dismemberment, a death he faces with great stoicism. What is the name of this tale, written by Aphra Behn and published in 1688?
8. What seventeenth century allegorical narrative written by John Bunyan is about a man named Christian, who travels the King's Highway and encounters various settings like the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair and does battle with various beings such as hobgoblins and Apollyon, "the angel of the bottomless pit"?
9. What was the name of the philosophical writer whose 1689 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" was both controversial and groundbreaking in its arguments that the mind was a blank slate until filled with experience and that people should empty their minds of any ideas that were not commensurate with experience, thus paving the way for Deism?
10. Satirical writing became quite popular during the Restoration and continued well into the 1700s. One of its masters was John Dryden. What is the name of the poem by Dryden that ridicules Thomas Shadwell, a playwright Dryden seemed to consider a hack and a bore, by making Shadwell the subject of a coronation ceremony in which he is crowned King of Nonsense?
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