1. Thomas Gray’s first published work was:
2. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” was completed while Gray stayed at:
3. What whimsical event inspired Gray's 1748 poem Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat?
4. What was Gray's unfinished dramatic work from his law studies period?
5. The Elegy's opening scene features the ploughman heading home as:
6. What natural sounds accompany the evening hush in the poem?
7. Gray warns against scorning the poor's lives because:
8. The Elegy consists of how many quatrains?
9. The line "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" critiques:
10. The death of which close friend in 1742 "deeply affected him and inspired a fresh burst of poetry"?
11. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat (1748) was inspired by the death of the cat belonging to whom?
12. In what year was Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard published, leading to instant celebrity?
13. Which three poems were inspired by Norse and Welsh traditions, showing the beginnings of Romantic enthusiasm?
14. The stanzaic form of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is the:
15. What is the total number of lines in the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
16. The meter of each line in the Elegy is consistently:
17. The specific rhyme scheme of the heroic quatrain used in the Elegy is:
18. What auditory image is given in the summary as signaling the end of the day?
19. The speaker warns the reader not to laugh at the plain lives of the villagers because:
20. The Elegy's treatment of death as 'the great equaliser' is achieved by:
