Que- In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
a. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein
b. William Worsworth's Lyrical Ballads
c. John Keats's "To Autumn"
d. all but C
Answer- all but C
Que- Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?
a. a French revolutionary
b. a Greek or Roman mythological figure
c. a monster fabricated in a laboratory
d. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.
Answer- All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.
Que- Who is termed as "The Morning Star of Renaissance" ?
a. Spenser
b. John Gower
c. Chaucer
d. Langland
Answer- Chaucer
Que- In which work do you read: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree…" ?
a. Kubla Khan
b. Hellas
c. The Phoenix and the Turtle
d. The Castaway
Answer- Kubla Khan
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 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 was the name of the Bronte sister's only brother ?
a. Anderson
b. Branwell
c. Richard
d. Pearson
Answer- Branwell
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 a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
a. formal diplomatic relations with China
b. the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade
c. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
d. the union of England and Wales with Scotland
Answer- the union of England and Wales with Scotland
Que- How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
a. 10
b. 16
c. 14
d. 22
Answer- 14
Que- With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre ?
a. the revenge tragedy
b. the Gothic romance
c. the epistolary novel
d. the comedy of manners
Answer- the Gothic romance
Que- A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to ?
a. Heroine
b. Cocaine
c. Alcohol
d. Opium
Answer- Opium
Que- Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?
a. Vanity Fair
b. Sense and Sensibility
c. Pride and Prejudice
d. Mansfield Park
Answer- Vanity Fair
Que- Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
a. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
b. Swift's Gulliver's Travels
c. Behn's Oroonoko
d. Pope's The Rape of the Lock
Answer- Pope's The Rape of the Lock
Que- What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
a. Gay's Beggar's Opera
b. Butler's Hudibras
c. Fielding's Jonathan Wild
d. Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
Answer- Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
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- Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the "spirit of the age," which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
a. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
b. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
c. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
Answer- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Que- Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
a. the heroic couplet
b. blank verse
c. free verse
d. the ode
Answer- the heroic couplet
Que- Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
a. William Beckford's Vathek
b. Matthew Lewis's The Monk
c. Tobias Smollett's Roderick Randsom
d. Ann Radcliffe's The Italian
Answer- Tobias Smollett's Roderick Randsom
Que- In the late seventeenth century, a \battle of the books\erupted between which two groups ?
a. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
b. round-earthers and flat-earthers
c. the Welsh and the Scots
d. champions of ancient and modern learning
Answer- champions of ancient and modern learning
Que- Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
a. the heroic couplet
b. blank verse
c. free verse
d. the ode
Answer- the heroic couplet
Que- According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
a. love."
b. honor."
c. money."
d. his party."
Answer- money."
Que- In which work do you read: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." ?
a. Adonais
b. Bright Star
c. Ode on a Grecian Urn
d. La Bell Dame Sans Merci
Answer- Ode on a Grecian Urn
Que- Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as "Old Chaucer" who, "like the morning star", descends "to the shades," so that "Darkness again the Age invades."
a. William Shakespeare
b. John Donne
c. Abraham Cowley
d. John Dryden
Answer- Abraham Cowley
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- Horace's doctrine \ut pictura poesis\was interpreted to mean______________?
a. A picture is worth a thousand words.
b. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
c. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
d. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
Answer- Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
Que- He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?
a. Ben Jonson
b. Alexander Pope
c. Robert Herrick
d. John Dryden
Answer- Robert Herrick
Que- This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
a. Alexander Pope
b. William Collins
c. Thomas Gray
d. Ben Jonson
Answer- Thomas Gray
Que- Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold " ?
a. William Butler Yeats
b. James Joyce
c. Thomas Moore
d. Edgar Allan Poe
Answer- William Butler Yeats
Que- Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
a. Coleridge's Dejection: An Ode
b. Blake's "Prophetic Books"
c. Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman
d. all but C
Answer- all but C
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- 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- Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill ?
a. Seagull
b. Albatross
c. Humming Bird
d. Crow
Answer- Albatross
Que- What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
a. Augustan
b. Metaphysical
c. Romantic
d. Neo-Romantic
Answer- Augustan
Que- In the late seventeenth century, a "battle of the books" erupted between which two groups ?
a. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
b. round-earthers and flat-earthers
c. the Welsh and the Scots
d. champions of ancient and modern learning
Answer- champions of ancient and modern learning
Que- Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet ?
a. John Dryden
b. Henry Vaughan
c. Alexander Pope
d. Ben Jonson
Answer- Henry Vaughan
Que- What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
a. Augustan
b. Metaphysical
c. Romantic
d. Neo-Romantic
Answer- Augustan
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 trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
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- William and Mary
Que- Who wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ?
a. William Carlos Williams
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. Hart Crane
Answer- T.S. Eliot
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 work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
a. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
b. Swift's Gulliver's Travels
c. Behn's Oroonoko
d. Pope's The Rape of the Lock
Answer- Pope's The Rape of the Lock
Que- Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ?
a. a field of daffodils
b. the "Orient"
c. a graveyard
d. All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.
Answer- All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.
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 Behnites
b. the bluestockings
c. the coteries of plenty
d. the Pre-Raphaelites
Answer- the bluestockings
Que- Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him ?
a. To err is human, to forgive divine
b. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
c. A little learning is a dangerous thing
d. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Answer- Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
Que- The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?
a. New York City
b. Stanford, Connecticut
c. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d. Boston, Massachusetts
Answer- New York City
Que- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities ?
a. London and Rome
b. Paris and Rome
c. London and Paris
d. Berlin and London
Answer- London and Paris
Que- Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person's pursuit of their personal interests ?
a. economic independence
b. the Rights of Man
c. laissez-faire
d. enclosure
Answer- laissez-faire
Que- Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?
a. Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public
b. Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.
c. A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.
d. all of the above
Answer- all of the above
Que- Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
a. William Hogarth
b. Jonathan Swift
c. Samuel Johnson
d. Ben Jonson
Answer- Samuel Johnson