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The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of______.

A. Philosophy.
B. Reason.
Creativity.
D. Classicism.

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by_____ is taken as a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard School.

Alexander Pope.
B. Henry Fielding.
C. Thomas Gray.
D. Robert Browning.

In the 18th century, heroic couplet as a poetic medium reached its perfection in the hands of______.

A. Jonathan Swift.
B. Thomas Gray.
C. Alexander Pope.
D. Richard Steele.

Which of the following concerns NOT the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century?

A. To promote reason, rationality and science.
B. To enlighten people with modern philosophical and artistic ideas.
C. To hold the belief that human beings are unlimited, with infinite potential for intellectual development.
D. To hold the belief that human beings are limited, dualistic, imperfect, and yet capable of rationality and perfection through education.

What is NOT TRUE about graveyard poets and Thomas Gray?

A. Images displayed in such poems include skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms, etc.
B. As a sign of pre-romanticism, elegy centers on the death of a person or persons, and they are lyrical rather than narrative.
C. They are marked by vivid reflections on the joy of living, and on the boundless possibilities of an afterlife.
D. Gray’s poem reflects on the lives of humble people buried in the cemetery of a church.

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