Deck 16: Then and Now Version the Restration, the Enlightenment, and Romanticism

Question 1

Which Enlightenment playwright wrote Nathan the Wise?

A) Lessing
B) Voltaire
C) Shakespeare
D) Denis Diderot
E) Beaumarchais

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A common nickname for the Puritans was _____.

A) Pinheads
B) Square heads
C) Roundheads
D) Hardheads
E) Knuckleheads

Answer 2

C

Question 3

How did the French playwright Beaumarchais help the United States?

A) He taught American playwrights how to write plays
B) He lent money to help finance the American Revolution
C) He joined the Boston Tea Party
D) He introduced theatre the United States
E) He was a general in the American Army and fought with Washington

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which Enlightenment playwright met with Benjamin Franklin?

Question 5

This was an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe around 1800 and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, as well as an emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination. Pascal, the French physicist, mathematician, and philosopher who said, "The heart has its reasons that reason does not know," best expressed this:

A) Aristotelian Scholasticism
B) Naturalism
C) Romanticism
D) Dadaism
E) Expressionism

Question 6

Francis Bacon ____ a strong supporter of Aristotelian Scholasticism.

A) Was
B) Was not

Question 7

Francis Bacon felt there were certain false appearances, which he called "idols of knowledge," and that these were a hindrance to reason. Which of these "idols" is our desire to believe in ideas that are supported merely by pretty rhetoric rather than by logical, empirical reasoning?

A) Idols of the tribe
B) Idols of the cave
C) Idols of the marketplace
D) Idols of the theatre
E) Idols of acting

Question 8

He said that the universal rights of man were as he wrote, "Life, liberty and the pursuit of property."

A) Sir Isaac Newton
B) Thomas Hobbes
C) John Locke
D) Francis Bacon
E) None of the above

Question 9

Nathan the Wise is the story of the queen of Athens who accuses her son of rape.

Question 10

This Enlightenment playwright wrote such plays as The Barber of Seville and its sequel the Marriage of Figaro.

A) Lessing
B) Voltaire
C) Shakespeare
D) Denis Diderot
E) Beaumarchais

Question 11

The most famous Restoration-era female playwright was?

Question 12

The author of Candide was recognized internationally as a novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist. Who is he?

A) Beaumarchais
B) Goethe
C) Lessing
D) Swift
E) Voltaire

Question 13

Which type of Restoration play featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification, bedroom escapades, and humankind's primitive nature when it comes to sex?

Question 14

The Enlightenment was also called…

A) The false Enlightenment
B) The time of real thought
C) The age of reason
D) The synthesis
E) Aristotelian Scholasticism

Question 15

Which German play had two parts and was about a man searching for unlimited knowledge?

Question 16

Which Enlightenment playwright wrote not only plays but also books on acting and an
encyclopedia?

Question 17

This Romantic playwright was also journalist, a painter, a statesman, a poet, a philosopher, a scientist, and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse.

A) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
B) Shakespeare
C) Voltaire
D) Denis Diderot
E) Friedrich von Schiller

Question 18

Who caught the eye of Charles II when she acted in London?

Question 19

During the Reign of Terror, _____ was executed by guillotine.

A) Louis XVI
B) Charles I
C) Ferdinand II
D) Henry VIII
E) James II

Question 20

The Enlightenment led to what two new types of theatre?

A) New comedy and Old tragedy
B) Melodramas and Freedom Skits
C) Anti-comedies and Love stories
D) Barber comedies and wig plays
E) Domestic tragedies and sentimental comedies

Question 21

Some sentimental comedies were known as _____ because their stories featured good and virtuous characters who overcame terrible misfortunes to live a happy life.

Question 22

This actor was forced to leave the United States because of bigotry.

Question 23

While the revolution in 1776 in the United States was successful, the revolution a few years later in 1789 in ____ was a disaster.

Question 24

At an estate near the Swiss border, which Enlightenment playwright wrote dozens of books, plays, and pamphlets promoting religious tolerance, making fun of religious superstitions, and calling for a theatre of ideas?

Question 25

The period from 1670-1800 was known as the Illuminati by the Italians and the Lumiere by the French. What name do we apply to this period?

Question 26

Many Enlightenment intellectuals did not identify themselves with a particular religious tradition; rather, when they discussed religion, they tended to call themselves _____.

Question 27

Nell Gwynn was one of the most popular actresses during the Restoration and her specialty was playing male characters in male clothing. These kinds of roles are called _____.