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Restoration Literature: But is it Restoration Literature? Identifying Quotes Quiz

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Restoration Literature? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which poem contains the lines "For his Religion, it was fit/ To match his learning and his wit"?


Paradise Lost
Hudibras
Mac Flecknoe
The Pilgrim's Progress
Q. Which poem opens with the lines "Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit/ Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast/ Brought Death into the World, and all our woe"?


Love for Love
The Rover
The Pilgrim's Progress
Paradise Lost
Q. In which play does a "quack" say: "I have undone you for ever with the Women, and reported you throughout the whole Town as bad as an Eunuch , with as much trouble as if I had made you one in earnest"?


The Country Wife
The Way of the World
Marriage à-la-Mode
The Rover
Q. Which poem contains the lines "Shadwell alone, of all my Sons, is he/ Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity"?


Oroonoko
Hudibras
Mac Flecknoe
Samson Agonistes
Q. In which play does a character say, "Have a care how you venture with me, Sir, lest I pick your Pocket, which will more vex your English Humour, than an Italian Fortune will please you"?


The Rover
The Plain-Dealer
The Misanthrope
Love for Love