Que- Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?
a. Byron's Manfred
b. Coleridge's Remorse
c. P.B. Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
d. P.B. Shelley's The Cenci
Answer- Coleridge's Remorse
Que- Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
a. the fractal
b. the figment
c. the fragment
d. the aubade
Answer- the fragment
Que- According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by \legitimate\ drama ?
a. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.
b. All of the actors were male.
c. All of the actors were British.
d. The play was spoken.
Answer- The play was spoken.
Que- Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
a. opium
b. dreams
c. childhood
d. A, B and c
Answer- A, B and c
Que- Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?
a. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
b. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
c. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
Answer- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Que- Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
a. William Blake
b. Alfred Lord Tennyson
c. Samuel Johnson
d. William Wordsworth
Answer- William Wordsworth
Que- What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
a. partition
b. segregation
c. enclosure
d. division
Answer- enclosure
Que- Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
a. Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.
b. Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.
c. Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.
d. both A and C
Answer- both A and C
Que- What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?
a. the organization of a working class men's choral group in Southern England
b. the Battle of Waterloo
c. the Peterloo Massacre
d. the storming of the Bastille
Answer- the Peterloo Massacre
Que- Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
a. Too many of its readers were women.
b. It required less skill than other genres.
c. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.
d. all of the above
Answer- all of the above
Que- Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ?
a. Jane Austen's Emma
b. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
c. William Godwin's Caleb Williams
d. Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
Answer- William Godwin's Caleb Williams
Que- Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler's edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?
a. the expurgation of indelicate language
b. the modernization of archaic vocabulary
c. the insertion of bawdy songs
d. the misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and\
Answer- the expurgation of indelicate language
Que- Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
a. Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men
b. Paine's Rights of Man
c. Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
d. Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
Answer- Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
Que- Wordsworth described all good poetry as______________?
a. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
b. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
c. the polite patter of a corrupted age
d. the divine gift of grace
Answer- the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
Que- Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?
a. troubadour
b. skald
c. chorister
d. bard
Answer- bard
Que- Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
a. Prometheus
b. Satan
c. Cain
d. George III
Answer- George III
Que- Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
a. Maria Edgeworth
b. Sir Walter Scott
c. Thomas De Quincey
d. Jane Austen
Answer- Jane Austen
Que- Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
a. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
b. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
d. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
Answer- Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
Que- Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?
a. the lyric poem written in the first person
b. the sonnet
c. doggerel rhyme
d. the political tract
Answer- the lyric poem written in the first person
Que- Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
a. about half of middle class men
b. almost all working class men
c. all women
d. A, B and C
Answer- A, B and C
Que- Who exemplified the role of the \peasant poet\ ?
a. John Clare
b. John Keats
c. Robert Burns
d. A and C only
Answer- A and C only
Que- Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
a. Aristotle
b. Duns Scotus
c. David Hume
d. Immanuel Kant
Answer- Immanuel Kant
Que- While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
a. a history of everyday life
b. an instructional manual for manners
c. a book of devotion
d. a book of model letters
Answer- a book of model letters
Que- How would "Natural Supernaturalism" be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?
a. a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits
b. a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being
c. a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
d. the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium
Answer- a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
Que- Who wrote: "I would prefer not to." ?
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b. Herman Melville
c. Thomas Gray
d. Henry David Thoreau
Answer- Herman Melville
Que- Who wrote: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." ?
a. Henry David Thoreau
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Robert Browning
d. Henrik Ibsen
Answer- Henrik Ibsen
Que- Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
a. Fanny Burney
b. Mary Wollstonecraft
c. Anna Letitia Barbauld
d. Jane Austen
Answer- Jane Austen
Que- Who composed The Preludes ?
a. S T Coleridge
b. William Wordsworth
c. William Shakespeare
d. William Blake
Answer- William Wordsworth
Que- Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
a. theoretical science
b. metaphysics
c. abstract logical deductions
d. A, B, and C
Answer- A, B, and C
Que- What Pope poem begins, "In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal's veins ?"
a. The Rape of the Lock
b. Solitude: An Ode
c. The Dunciad
d. Eloisa to Abelard
Answer- Eloisa to Abelard
Que- Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: "Who think too little, and who talk too __________" ?
a. often
b. long
c. much
d. fast
Answer- much
Que- Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
a. Addison
b. Bunyan
c. Crabbe
d. Dryden
Answer- Dryden
Que- Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
a. theoretical science
b. metaphysics
c. abstract logical deductions
d. A, B, and C
Answer- A, B, and C
Que- Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
a. verdant mead
b. checkered shade
c. simian rivalry
d. shining sword
Answer- simian rivalry
Que- Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?
a. Macpherson
b. Merlin
c. Decameron
d. Ossian
Answer- Ossian
Que- What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
a. the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
b. the Toleration Act
c. the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada
d. the Act of Union
Answer- the Act of Union
Que- Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
a. Elizabeth I
b. James II
c. George II
d. William and Mary
Answer- James II
Que- In which work do you read: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" ?
a. The Man of Feeling
b. In Memoriam
c. Song to Aella
d. Ozymandias
Answer- Ozymandias
Que- Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
a. Aristotle
b. Duns Scotus
c. David Hume
d. Immanuel Kant
Answer- Immanuel Kant
Que- Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?
a. Goethe's Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
b. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence
c. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods
d. A and C only
Answer- A and C only
Que- In which work do you read: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." ?
a. A Doll's House
b. Riders to the Sea
c. A Handful of Dust
d. The Fatal Curiosity
Answer- A Doll's House
Que- Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
a. the bluestockings
b. the coteries of plenty
c. the Pre-Raphaelites
d. the tattlers and spectators
Answer- the bluestockings
Que- What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
a. partition
b. segregation
c. enclosure
d. division
Answer- enclosure
Que- The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
a. supernatural phenomenon
b. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden's persecution
c. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
d. all of the above
Answer- all of the above
Que- Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" ?
a. Lord Byron
b. Percy Bysshe Shelley
c. William Woodsworth
d. Emily Dickinson
Answer- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Que- Who became the first "prime minister" of Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
a. Henry St. John
b. Robert Harley
c. John Churchill
d. Robert Walpole
Answer- Robert Walpole
Que- Who applied the term "Romantic" to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
a. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien régime, especially satire
b. English historians half a century after the period ended
c. The Satanic School of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
d. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770) ?
Answer- English historians half a century after the period ended
Que- In which work do you read: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ?
a. Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock
b. Sonnets from the Portuguese
c. Prelude
d. The Last Decalogue
Answer- Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock
Que- What was "restored" in 1660 ?
a. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
b. the dominance of the Tory Party
c. the "Book of Common Prayer"
d. toleration of religious dissidents
Answer- the dominance of the Tory Party
Que- What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
a. wit
b. sprezzatura
c. naturalism
d. gusto
Answer- wit