Deck 16: The Restoration, 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

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

Answer 2

  False

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

Comedy of manners

Question 4

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 5

____ called Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro a "dangerous folly" and initially banned it from being performed.

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

Question 6

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 7

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 in the United States.
E)He was a general in the American army and fought with Washington.

Question 8

The most famous Restoration-era female playwright was...

Question 9

This Enlightenment philosopher said that in government there should be a system of checks and balances,a division of power,and a separation of church and state.

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

Question 10

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 11

?Named for the background music that often accompanied the performances,__________included sensational subjects,stock characters,virtuous heroes,dastardly villains,and striking spectacles.

Question 12

This Romantic playwright was also a 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 13

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 14

Which German play had two parts and was about a man searching for personal fulfillment and ideal loveliness?

Question 15

A common nickname for the Puritans was...

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

Question 16

Enlightenment theatre differed from earlier forms of theatre in that it fully explored the lives of the…

A)Aristocracy
B)Middle class
C)?Clergy
D)?Monarchy

Question 17

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 18

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

Question 19

This author of Candide was recognized internationally as a novelist,poet,playwright,and essayist.

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

The United States was "born" in the Enlightenment.What characteristics define the Enlightenment?

Question 22

There were many pamphlets published during the Restoration,such as Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage and others like The Evil and Dangers of Stage-Plays that attacked the theatre.What was the basis for their attacks?

Question 23

This actor was forced to leave the United States because of bigotry and went on to become one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of his day.

Question 24

The best-known Romantic play today is ____________________,written by Victor Hugo.

Question 25

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

Question 26

Beaumarchais and Lessing were two important playwrights writing during the Enlightenment.Identify one major play by each playwright and discuss how these two plays reflect the values of the period in which they were written?

Question 27

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

Question 28

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...

Question 29

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 30

____________________,such as Diderot's The Natural Son,showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love.