101. Keat's Endymion has 111.

How do we classify Shelley's

(a) 3,000 lines Prometheus Unbound? As
(b) 4,000 lines (a) an epic
(c) 2500 lines (b) a legendary story
(d) 4,500 lines (c) mythological story
102. Which is the pair of lovers (d) a lyrical drama
Endymion does not meet in Keat's 112. Who wrote this: "He prayed well,
Endymion? who loved well both man and bird
(a) Venus and Adonis and beast"?
(b) Romeo and Juliet (a) William Wordsworth
(c) Glaucus and Scylla
(d) Arcthusa and Alpheus (b) S.T Coleridge
103. Who wrote the famous Preface (c) Leigh Hunt
to the Lyrical Ballads? (d) Cardinal Newman
(a) Coleridge 113. Name the journal to which
(b) Southey Southey contributed regularly.
(c) Wordsworth (a) The Quarterly Review
(d) Byron (b) The Backwoods Magazine
104. When were the Lyrical Ballads (c) The Edinburgh Review
published? (d) The Westminster Review
(a) 1797 114. Sir Walter Scott collected
(b) 1798 Scottish ballads, and published them
(c) 1800 along with his own, in
(d) 1801 (a) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
105. The Lyrical Ballads opens with (b) Marion
(a) Kubla Khan (c) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
(b) Ode to Duty (d) The Lord of the Isles
(c) Rime of the Ancient Mariner 115. How old was Byron when he
(d) Immortality Ode published Hours of Idleness, a
106. The Lyrical Ballads closes with collection of poems in heroic couplet?
(a) Kubla Khan (a) 19 (b) 29
(b) Immortality Ode (c) 18 (d) 30
(c) Cristobel 116. When Hours of Idleness was
(d) Lines Written above Tin tern Abbey criticized by the Edinburgh Review,
107. Who was the third person with Lord Byron retaliated by writing a
Coleridge and Wordsworth at satiric piece. What was the title of
Quantico Hills when the Lyrical this satire?
Ballads were composed? (a) The Vision of Judgment
(a) Robert Southey (b) Mazeppa
(b) Walter Scott (c) The Giaour
(c) Dorothy Wordsworth (d) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
(d) Mary Lamb 117. How many cantos could Byron
108. William Wordsworth was born in complete of Childe Harold's
(a) 1770 (b) 1771 Pilgrimage during his two years tour
(c) 1768 (d) 1769 of the continent?
109. Who of the following is known (a) All four
for his Hellenic Spirit? (b) First two
(a) Lord Byron (c) One and three
(b) RB. Shelley (d) Only one
(c) Southey 118. The first two cantos of Childe
(d) John Keats Harold take a reader to
110. Who wrote: (a) Spain
"Our Sweetest songs are those that (b) Portugal
tell our saddest thoughts"? (c) Greece and Albania
(a) RB. Shelley (d) All of the above.
(b) Robert Southey 119. What is the tone of the ending of
(c) Cardinal Newman the second canto of Childe Harold?
(d) S.T. Coleridge (a) Joyous
(b) Melancholy
(c) Self-pitying (c) Childe Harold
(d) Optimistic (d) Lara
120. In which canto does the 130. Where do we meet these
description of the "Battle of characters? Don Alfonso, Julia,
Waterloo" appear? Sultana? In
(a) Canto I (a) Lara
(b) It is an independent poem (b) Don Juan
(c) Canto III (c) Childe Harold
(d) Canto IV (d) Beppo
121. Who is the hero of Childe 131. When he wrote Queen Mab,
Harold? Shelley was only
(a) Nature (a) 19 (b) 18
(b) An unnamed traveler (c) 21 (d) 22
(c) A legendary king 132. Which of Shelley's poems has a
(d) The poet himself story from Greek mythology?
122. "Michael", "The Solitary Reaper," (a) Prometheus Unbound
"To a Highland Girl" - all these poems (b) Alastor
depict (c) Queen Mab
(a) the poet's joy at the beauty of nature (d) Julian and Maddalo
(b) simple common folk 133. Which poem was inspired by the
(c) poet's awe at the spiritual presence Greek proclamation of independence,
(d) deep sense of music followed by Greek revolt against
123. What was Wordsworth's Turkish rule?
professed aim in the Lyrical Ballads? (a) Epipsychidion (b) Queen Mab
(a) Purge poetry of all conceit (c) Hellas (d) Prometheus
(b) Simplicity of diction 134. Who is Adonais of the poem
(c) Make it intelligible to common people Adonais?
(d) All of the above (a) Lord Byron
124. Which work inspired Coleridge's (b) John Keats
Kubls Khan? (c) Shelley himself
(a) Holinshed's Chronicle (d) None of the above
(b) Plutarch's Lives 135. We meet characters such as
(c) Travels in Scotland Asia, Hercules, Jupiter in
(d) Purchas's Pilgrimage (a) Hellas
125. The name of the prisoner of (b) Prometheus Unbound
Chillon was (c) Adonais
(a) Beppo (d) Queen Mab
(b) Giaour 136. In which novel Scott projects
(c) Francois de Bonnivard Scotland under Robert Bruce, King
(d) Pasha and national hero?
126. The Vision of Judgment is (a) Quentin Durward
(a) an attack on Jeffrey, the editor (b) Kenilworth
(b) satire on Southey (c) Castle Dangerous
(c) satire on a young man of Seville (d) St. Ronan's Well
(d) satire on society 137. Which of the following is not
127. Don Juan has written by Walter Scott?
(a) 5 cantos (b) 15 cantos (a) The Black Dwarf
(c) 16 cantos (d) 20 cantos (b) The Legend Montrose
128. Who is Halide in Don Juan? (c) The Talisman
(a) Wife of Don Alfonso (d) None of the above
(b) Daughter of an old pirate 138. What is the background of
(c) Princess of Constantinople Ivanhoe?
(d) A Duchess (a) The first crusade of Constantinople
129. Where do we find these lines? (b) Contemporary life in the Scottish span
"Man's love is of man's life a thing of St. Ronan's well
apart, "Tis woman's whole (c) Enmity of Saxon and Norman
existence...."? (d) Wales under Henry II
(a) Don Juan 139. Who wrote the following?
(b) Bipod
Castle Rackrent, the Absentee, (d) William Wordsworth
Ormond? 146. Where do we find Bingley?
(a) Fanny Burney (a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Jane Poster (b) Sense and Sensibility
(c) Thomas Peacock (c) Mansfield Park
(d) Maria Edge worth (d) Persuasion
140. This woman novelist wrote 147. When was the unfinished dream
"Scotch" novels: Thaddeus of Warsaw poem 'Kubla Khan' published?
and The Scottish Chiefs. Who is she? (a) 1816 (b) 1810
(a) Jane Porter (c) 1820 (d) 1821
(b) Susan Ferrier 148. Read the line: "About thirty
(c) Marry Russell Mitford years age, Miss Maria Ward of
(d) Maria Edge worth Huntingdon, with only seven
141. Who wrote Headlong Hall, Maid thousand pounds, had the good luck
Marian, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram ".
Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle This is the beginning of a novel by
and Gryll Grange? Jane Austen. Which one?
(a) Thomas Peacock (a) Mansfield Park
(b) G.P.R. James (b) Emma
(c) George Meredith (c) Sense and Sensibility
(d) Charles Lever (d) Northanger Abbey
142. One of the following was not 149. "It is a truth universally
associated with the 'Edinburgh acknowledged that a single man in
Review'. Identify him. possession of a good fortune must be
(a) Sidney Smith in want of a wife." Which of Jane
(b) William Blackwood Austen's novels begins with these
(c) Henry Brougham words?
(d) Francis Jeffrey (a) Sense and Sensibility
143. One of the characters of Jane (b) Northanger Abbey
Austen remarks, "A lady's (c) Pride and Prejudice
imagination is very rapid; it jumps (d) Emma
from admiration to love, from love to 150. Which of Scott's novels depicts
matrimony in a moment." Who said the conflict between the Puritans, the
this and in which novel? Covenanters, and the royal forces
(a) Mr. Woodhouse in Emma under Culverhouse"?
(b) Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (a) Old Morality
(c) Catherine in Northanger Abbey (b) Castle Dangerous
(d) None of the above (c) Heart of Midlothian
144. His sonnet was rejected by a (d) Talisman
magazine Gem, on the plea that it Answers:
would "shock mothers". At this he
wrote to a friend, "I am born out of 101. b) 102. b) 103. 104. b) 105. (c)
time .... When my sonnet was (c)
rejected, I exclaimed 'Hang the age, I
will write for antiquity.' Who is he?
106. d) 107. c) 108. 109. d) 110.
(a) Thomas Peacock (a) (a)
(b) Hazlitt
(c) Charles Lamb
111. d) 112. b) 113. 114. c) 115.
(d) Leigh Hunt (a) (a)
145. This patriotic song is often
116. d) 117. b) 118. 119. r) 120.
prescribed for school anthologies in
India: (d) (c)
"Breathes there the man, with soul so
121. d) 122. b) 123. 124. d) 125.
dead who never to himself hath said,
this is my own, my native land." Who (d) (c)
is the poet?
126. b) 127. c) 128. 129. a) 130.
(a) Robert Southey
(b) Walter Scott
(b) (b)
(c) Lord Byron
 Bysshe Shelley's poems to the working classes
131. b) 132. a) 133. 134. b) 135. A Song: "Men of England" and England in
(c) (b) 1819?

136. c) 137. d) 138. 139. d) 140. a) the organization of a working class men's
(c) (a) choral group in Southern England
b) the Battle of Waterloo
141. a) 142. b) 143. 144. c) 145. c) the Peterloo Massacre
(b) (b) d) the storming of the Bastille
e) the first Reform Bill, passed in 1832, which
146. a) 147. a) 148. 149. c) 150. aimed to bring greater Parliamentary
(a) (b) representation to the working classes

Romantic Period
1. Which of the following English groups were 6. Who applied the term "Romantic" to the
supportive of the French Revolution during its literary period dating from 1785 to 1830?
early years?
a) Wordsworth because he wanted to
a) Tories distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his
b) Republicans friends from that of the ancien rgime,
c) Liberals especially satire
d) Radicals b) English historians half a century after the
e) both c and d period ended
c) "The Satanic School" of Byron, Percy
Shelley, and their followers
2. Which statement(s) about inventions during d) Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village
the Industrial Revolution are true? (1770)
e) Harold Bloom
a) Hand labor became less common with the
invention of power-driven machinery.
b) Velcro replaced buttons and snaps. 7. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical
c) Steam, as opposed to wind and water, Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the "spirit
became a primary source of power. of the age," which, in an era of revolutionary
d) The invention of textile processing machines thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless
marked the end of the Industrial Revolution. possibilities of the poetic imagination?
e) both a and c
a) Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
3. What is the name for the process of dividing b) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy
land into privately owned agricultural holdings? Bysshe Shelley
c) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
a) partition Coleridge
b) segregation d) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
c) enclosure e) Dorothy Wordsworth and Sally Ashburner
d) division
e) subtraction
8. Which of the following became the most
popular Romantic poetic form, following on
4. Which social philosophy, dominant during Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is
the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the contained within the inner feelings of the
free operation of economic laws would ensure individual poet as "the spontaneous overflow of
the general welfare and that the government powerful feelings"?
should not interfere in any person's pursuit of
their personal interests? a) the lyric poem written in the first person
b) the sonnet
a) economic independence c) doggerel rhyme
b) the Rights of Man d) the political tract
c) laissez-faire e) the ode
d) enclosure
e) lazy government 9. Romantic poetry about the natural world
uses descriptions of nature _________.

5. What served as the inspiration for Percy a) for their own sake; to merely describe
natural phenomenon
b) to depict a metaphysical concept of nature
by endowing it with traits normally associated
with humans
c) as a means to demonstrate and discuss the
processes of human thinking
d) symbolically to suggest that natural objects
correspond to an inner, spiritual world
e) b, c, and d
10. 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
e) an oxymoron that nobody understood and
that cannot be explained in the context of a
discussion of Romantic literature
11. Which setting could you not imagine a
work of Romantic literature employing?
a) a field of daffodils
b) the "Orient"
c) a graveyard
d) a medieval castle
e) All of the above would be appropriate
settings for Romantic literature.
12. 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
e) Mary Wollstonecraft
13. What is the term we now use for what the
Romantics called "mesmerism," one of the
"occult" practices that allowed people to
explore altered states of consciousness?
a) smoking opium
b) hypnotism
c) psychoanalysis
d) dream interpretation
e) Satanism
14. 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) all of the above
e) a and c only: Romantics were more
interested in representations of humans as
they were able to exceed their human
limitations.
15. Which of the following best describes the
sort of language and tone most often used
when Romantic writers discuss the French
Revolution?
a) snide indifference
b) biblical reverence
c) condemning censure
d) satirical derision
e) none of the above: Romantic writers had no
interest in the French Revolution.
16. Which of the following descriptions would
not have applied to any Romantic text?
a) a spiritual autobiography written in an epic
style
b) a lyric poem written in the first person
c) a comedy of manners
d) a political tract demanding labor reform
e) a novel written about the intellectual and
emotional development of a monster created
by a scientist
17. 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) Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
d) Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of
Woman
e) all but d
18. Which sorts of political reform took place
during the Romantic period?
a) Parliamentary reform, increasing
representation of the working classes
b) Labor reform, improving working conditions
for industrial laborers
c) Voting reform, extending suffrage to men
and women
d) Educational reform, producing a dramatic
increase in literacy
e) a and d only: Significant labor and voting
reform would have to wait for the Victorian era
and later.
19. 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) People had more leisure time to read and
more disposable income to spend on reading
materials.
e) all of the above
20. Which of the following periodical
publications (reviews and magazines)
appeared in the Romantic era?
a) London Magazine
b) The Spectator
c) The Edinburgh Review
d) The Tatler
e) a and c only
21. 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.
e) The play had to be a full musical or
produced in full pantomime.
22. 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) secret passages, decaying mansions,
gloomy castles, and dark dungeons
e) all of the above
23. 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
e) Mary Shelley
24. 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 Bront
e) none of the above: Romantic novelists never
wrote historical novels.
25. Which of the following texts addresses
class as a social and economic reality?
a) William Godwin's Inquiry Concerning
Political Justice
b) Percy Bysshe Shelley's England in 1819
c) William Godwin's Caleb Williams
d) Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian
e) all of the above
26. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more
than one of these popular literary forms:
essay, novel, drama, poetry?
a) Percy Bysshe Shelley
b) William Wordsworth
c) George Gordon, Lord Byron
d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
e) all of the above
 the major subject and medium for poetry in
27. Which of the following would not have general?
been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic
literary text? a) William Blake
b) Alfred Lord Tennyson
a) a French revolutionary c) Samuel Johnson
b) a Greek or Roman mythological figure d) William Wordsworth
c) a monster fabricated in a laboratory e) Mary Wollstonecraft
d) a vagrant, gypsy, or any other itinerant
social outcast
e) All would have been appropriate 33. Which of the following was a typically
protagonists for a Romantic literary text. Romantic means of achieving visionary states?

a) opium
28. In which of the following works is the b) dreams
social outcast represented and addressed? c) childhood
d) a and b
a) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein e) a, b and c
b) William Worsworth's Lyrical Ballads
c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner 34. Which philosopher had a particular
d) John Keats's "To Autumn" influence on Coleridge?
e) all but d
a) Aristotle
b) Duns Scotus
29. Looking to the ancient past, many c) David Hume
Romantic poets identified with the figure of the d) Immanuel Kant
e) Bertrand Russell
a) troubadour
b) skald 35. Which of the following was not considered
c) chorister a type of the alienated, romantic visionary?
d) minstrel
e) bard a) Prometheus
b) Satan
30. What did Byron deride with his scathing c) Cain
reference to "'Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and d) Napoleon
'Wagons'!"? e) George III

a) the neo-classical influence of Pope and

Dryden
b) the clumsiness of Shakespeare's plots
c) the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
d) Wordsworth's devotion to the ordinary and
everyday
e) Blake's apocalyptic visions
31. 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
e) the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
32. 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
36. 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) b and c
e) a, b and c
37. Which of the following charges were
commonly leveled 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) Too many of its authors were women.
e) all of the above
38. Which chilling novel of surveillance and
entrapment had the alternative title Things as
They Are? a) Paris
b) Tokyo
a) Jane Austen's Emma c) London
b) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein d) Amsterdam
c) William Godwin's Caleb Williams e) New York
d) Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
e) Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto 3. By 1890, what percentage of the earth's
population was subject to Queen Victoria?

39. Which of the following is a typically a) 1%

Romantic poetic form? b) 10%
c) 15%
a) the fractal d) 25%
b) the figment e) 95%
c) the fragment
d) the aubade
e) the comedy of manners 4. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by "Close
thy Byron; open thy Goethe"?

40. Who exemplified the role of the "peasant a) Britain's preeminence as a global power will
poet"? depend on mastery of foreign languages.
b) Even a foreign author is better than a
a) John Clare homegrown scoundrel.
b) John Keats c) Abandon the introspection of the Romantics
c) Robert Burns and turn to the higher moral purpose found in
d) a and c only Goethe.
e) b and c only d) In a carefully veiled critique of the
monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in
symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles
41. Who in the Romantic period developed a Darwin respectively.
new novelistic language for the workings of the e) Leave England and emigrate to Germany.
mind in flux?

a) Maria Edgeworth 5. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend

b) Sir Walter Scott the vote on parliamentary representation?
c) Thomas De Quincey
d) Joanna Baillie a) the working classes
e) Jane Austen b) women
1)e 2)e 3)c 4)c 5)c 6)b c) the lower middle classes
7)c 8)a 9)e 10)c 11)e 12)d d) slaves
13)b 14)e 15)b 16)c 17)e 18)e e) conservative landowners
19)e 20)e 21)d 22)e 23)d 24)c
25)e 26)e 27)e 28)e 29)e 30)d
31)b 32)d 33)e 34)d 35)e 36)e
37)e 38)c 39)c 40)d 41)e 6. Elizabeth Barrett's poem The Cry of the
Children is concerned with which major issue
Victorian Age attendant on the Time of Troubles during the
1. Which ruler's reign marks the approximate 1830s and 1840s?
beginning and end of the Victorian era?
a) women's rights and suffrage
a) King Henry VIII b) child labor
b) Queen Elizabeth I c) Chartism
c) Queen Victoria d) the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of
d) King John her fellow Victorians
e) all of the above, in that order, with Victoria's e) insurrection in the colonies
reign marking the most pivotal period for
England's colonial efforts in India, Africa, and
the West Indies 7. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in
the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?

2. Which city became the perceived center of a) the rich and the poor
Western civilization by the middle of the b) Anglicans and Methodists
nineteenth century? c) England and Ireland
d) Britain and Germany
e) the industrial north and the agrarian south
8. Which of the following novelists best
represents the mid-Victorian period's
contentment with the burgeoning economic
prosperity and decreased restiveness over
social and political change?
a) Anthony Trollope
b) Charles Dickens
c) John Ruskin
d) Friedrich Engels
e) Oscar Wilde
9. Which event did not occur as part of the rise
of the British Empire under Queen Victoria?
a) Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000
emigrants left Britain, many bound for the
colonies.
b) In 1876, Queen Victoria was named
empress of India.
c) To save costs and maximize profits, the day-
to-day government of India was transferred
from Parliament to the private East India
Company.
d) From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of
investments abroad by British capitalists had
risen from 300 billion to 800 billion.
e) In 1867 the Canadian provinces were unified
into the Dominion of Canada.
10. What does the phrase "White Man's
Burden," coined by Kipling, refer to?
a) Britain's manifest destiny to colonize the
world
b) the moral responsibility to bring civilization
and Christianity to the peoples of the world
c) the British need to improve technology and
transportation in other parts of the world
d) the importance of solving economic and
social problems in England before tackling the
world's problems
e) a Chartist sentiment
11. Which of the following best defines
Utilitarianism?
a) a farming technique aimed at maximizing
productivity with the fewest tools
b) a moral arithmetic, which states that all
humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure
to the greatest number
c) a critical methodology stating that all words
have a single meaningful function within a
given piece of literature
d) a philosophy dictating that we should only
keep what we use on a daily basis.
e) a form of nonconformism
12. Which of the following discoveries,
theories, and events contributed to Victorians
feeling less like they were a uniquely special,
central species in the universe and more
isolated?
a) geology
b) evolution
c) discoveries in astronomy about stellar
distances
d) all of the above
e) tractarianism
13. Which of the following contributed to the
growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period
of the immense human, economic, and political
costs of running an empire?
a) the India Mutiny in 1857
b) the Boer War in the south of Africa
c) the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
d) the Irish Question
e) all of the above
14. Which of the following authors promoted
versions of socialism?
a) William Morris
b) John Ruskin
c) Edward FitzGerald
d) Karl Marx
e) all but c
15. Which best describes the general feeling
expressed in literature during the last decade
of the Victorian era?
a) studied melancholy and aestheticism
b) sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
c) raucous celebration mixed with self-
congratulatory sophistication
d) paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent
e) all of the above
16. Which of the following acts were not
passed during the Victorian era?
a) a series of Factory Acts
b) the Custody Act
c) the Women's Suffrage Act
d) the Married Women's Property Rights Acts
e) the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act
17. Which contemporary discussions on
women's rights did Tennyson's The Princess
address?
a) the grueling working conditions for women
in textile factories
b) the debate on women's suffrage
c) the need to enlarge and improve educational
opportunities for women, resulting in the
establishment of the first women's college in
London
d) the question of monarchical succession and
if a woman should hold royal power
e) the establishment of a civil divorce court
18. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson's The
Princess.
Man for the field and woman for the _____:
Man for the sword and for the _____ she:
Man with the head and woman with the _____:
Man to command and woman to _____.
a) crop; scabbard; foot; agree
b) throne; scepter; soul; decree
c) school; scalpel; pen; set free
d) hearth; needle; heart; obey
e) field; sword; head; command
19. Which of the following Victorian writers
regularly published their work in periodicals?
a) Thomas Carlyle
b) Matthew Arnold
c) Charles Dickens
d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
e) all of the above: (In addition to short fiction,
most Victorian novels appeared serialized in
periodicals.)
20. What best describes the subject of most
Victorian novels?
a) the representation of a large and
comprehensive social world in realistic detail
b) a surrealist exploration of alternate states of
consciousness
c) a mythic dream world
d) the attempt of a protagonist to define his or
her place in society
e) a and d
21. Why did the novel seem a genre
particularly well-suited to women?
a) It did not carry the burden of an august
tradition like poetry.
b) It was a popular form whose market women
could enter easily.
c) It was seen as a frivolous form where one
shouldn't make serious statements about
society.
d) It often concerned the domestic world with
which women were familiar.
e) all but c
22. What was the relationship between
Victorian poets and the Romantics?
a) The Romantics remained largely forgotten
until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the
1920s.
b) The Victorians were disgusted by the
immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
c) The Romantics were seen as gifted but
crude artists belonging to a distant, semi-
barbarous age.
d) The Victorians were strongly influenced by
the Romantics and experienced a sense of
belatedness.
e) The Victorians were aware of no distinction
between themselves and the Romantics; the
distinction was only created by critics in the
twentieth century.
23. Experimentation in which of the following
areas of poetic expression characterize
Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to
represent psychology in a different way?
a) the use of pictorial description to construct
visual images to represent the emotion or
situation of the poem
b) sound as a means to express meaning
c) perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
d) all of the above
e) none of the above: Victorians were not
experimental in their poetry.
24. What type of writing did Walter Pater
define as "the special and opportune art of the
modern world"?
a) the novel
b) nonfiction prose
c) the lyric
d) comic drama
e) transcripts of Parliamentary debates
25. What factors contributed to the increased
popularity of nonfiction prose?
a) a new market position for nonfiction writing
and an exalted sense of the didactic function of
the writer
b) a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst
for trivia
c) the forbiddingly high cost of three-volume o B.
novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in Lord Byron
bookshops outside of London o C.
d) the deconstruction of the truth-fiction John Keats
dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic 4.
sense that every opinion was of equal value Who wrote "Tinturn Abbey," "The Lucy
e) c and d Poems," "The World is too Much With
Us," and "Surprised by Joy?"
Discuss
26. For what do Matthew Arnold's moral o A.
investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater's Dorothy Wordsworth
aesthetic investment together pave the way? o B.
William Wordsworth
a) a renewed secularism in the twentieth o C.
century
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b) modern literary criticism
5.
c) latenineteenth-century and early
Who wrote the journals?
twentieth-century satirical drama
o A.
d) the surrealist movement
Thomas De Quincey
e) none of the above: Victorian prose was
o B.
mostly forgotten until recently and had little
impact on literature of or after its time. Percy Shelley
o C.
Dorothy Wordsworth
27. Which of the following comic playwrights 6.
made fun of Victorian values and pretensions? Who wrote "Kubla Khan," "The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner," "Dejection
a) W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Ode," and "The Pains of Sleep?"
b) Oscar Wilde o A.
c) George Bernard Shaw William Blake
d) Robert Corrigan o B.
e) all but d Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1)c 2)c 3)d 4)c 5)c 6)b o C.
7)a 8)a 9)c 10)b 11)b 12)d John Keats
13)e 14)e 15)a 16)c 17)c 18)d 7.
19)e 20)e 21)e 22)d 23)d 24)b
25)a 26)b 27)e
Who wrote "Confessions of an English
Questions and Answers Opium Eater?"
1. o A.
Who wrote: "Songs of Innocence," Thomas De Quincey
"Songs of Experience," and "Visions of o B.
the Daughters of Albion?" William Wordsworth
o A. o C.
Mary Wollstonecraft Lord Byron
o B. 8.
Lord Byron Who wrote "Childe Harold's
o C. Pilgrimage?"
William Blake o A.
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who wrote "A Vindication of the o B.
Rights of Women?" Lord Byron
o A. o C.
Joanna Baillie Percy Shelley
o B. 9.
William Wordsworth Who wrote "Hymn to an Intellectual
o C. Beauty," "To a Skylark," "A Defence of
Mary Wollstonecraft Poetry," and "To Wordworth?"
3. o A.
Who wrote "To a Mouse," "To a Percy Bysshe Shelley
Louse," and "A Red, Red Rose?" o B.
o A. John Keats
Robert Burns o C.
 Thomas De Quincey William Wordsworth
10. o C.
Who wrote "La Belle Dame Sans Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Merci," "Sonnet to Sleep," "Ode on a 16.
Grecian Urn," "A Thing of Beauty," and Who said, "Poetry is the experience of
"Ode to a Nightingale?" the spirit and life... (of the) Real Man:
o A. The Imagination which liveth forever?"
William Wordsworth o A.
o B. John Keats
John Keats o B.
o C. William Blake
William Blake o C.
11. Lord Byron
Who said, "A poem is the expression 17.
of "negative capability, that is when What are words and language that
man is capable of being in were once in regular use but are now
uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, relatively rare and suggestive of an
without any irritable reaching after earlier style or period?
fact and reason?"" o A.
o A. Archaisms
Lord Byron o B.
o B. Internal rhyme
William Blake o C.
o C. Medievalism
John Keats 18.
12. What are songs in Scots dialect
Who said, "Poetry is the record of the collected by Robert Burns?
best and happiest moments of the o A.
happiest and best minds?" Iambic pentameter
o A. o B.
Percy Bysshe Shelley Nature
o B. o C.
William Wordsworth Ayres
o C. 19.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge What is a popular four-line verse form
13. using alternating rhyme associated
Who said, "'Tis to create, and in with fold songs/hymn?
creating live / a being more intense?" o A.
o A. Heroic couplet
Lord Byron o B.
o B. Ballad
William Blake o C.
o C. Sonnet
John Keats 20.
14. What are poems written by
Who said, "Simple, sensuous, professional poets that imitate the
passionate and by its imagery elicit story-telling techniques of traditional
truth at a flash?" ballads?
o A. o A.
Percy Bysshe Shelley Art ballads
o B. o B.
William Wordsworth Incremental repetition
o C. o C.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archaisms
15. 21.
Who said, "The spontaneous overflow What is an unrhymed iambic
of powerful feelings... recollection in pentameter?
tranquility?" Discuss
o A. o A.
William Blake Platonism
o B. o B.
 Mythic pattern o C.
o C. Gothicism
Blank verse 27.
22. What are paired lines of iambic
What is a pause usually in the middle pentameter, such as Wordworth's
of a line of verse indicated by a pause "Tintern Abbey?"
in sense? o A.
Discuss Internal rhyme
o A. o B.
Enjambment Heroic couplet
o B. o C.
Gothicism Sonnet
o C. 28.
Caesura What is a verse line consisting of five
23. iambs -- an iamb being a metrical foot
What is a technique used in ballads in in which an unaccented syllable is
which the narrative is presented followed by an accented syllable?
through a question and answer o A.
exchange? Heroic couplet
o A. o B.
Dialogue format Iambic pentameter
o B. o C.
Spenserian stanza Ode
o C. 29.
Orientalism What is a ballad technique in which
24. repetition is used to advance or
What is the running over of two or amplify the narrative?
more lines of verse without end o A.
punctuation? Mythic pattern
Discuss o B.
o A. Internal rhyme
Enjambment o C.
o B. Incremental repetition
Ayres 30.
o C. What is a ballad technique in which
Pisan circle rhyming occurs within a line?
25. o A.
What is an imaginative type of essay Internal rhyme
popular during the Romantic period? o B.
E.g. Thomas De Quincey's "The Heroic couplet
Confessions of an English Opium o C.
Eater." Negative capability
o A. 31.
Iambic pentameter What is a love fo the Middle ages,
o B. especially strong in the 19th c. as an
Familar essay expression of a longing for more
o C. colorful pre-Industrial times?
Mythic pattern o A.
26. Orientalism
What is a popular literary and art o B.
movement in the late 18th c. and Medievalism
19th c. aimed at evoking primal o C.
emotions of fear and wonder? It Gothicism
constituted a revival of medievalism 32.
which took the form in literature of What is a three-part organizational
"tales of terror" set in castles or principle for the mythic journey
faraway places. consisting of the separation of hero-
o A. in-the-making from the familiar;
Orientalism initiation experiences including a
o B. descent into "hell" and ascent into
Primitivism "heaven"; and a return home with
 new knowledge essential for the What is the study of the East shaped
survival of the hero's culture? E.g. by attitudes of European imperialism
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in the 18th and 19th centuries?
o A. o A.
Gothicism Orientalism
o B. o B.
Familiar essay Primitivism
o C. o C.
Mythic pattern Gothicism
33. 38.
What is, for the Neo-Classical Pope, a What is a circle of English friends
source of intelligent principles, and for centering Pisa including Byron and
the Romantic, Wordsworth, a Shelley?
nurturing mother? o A.
o A. Pisan circle
Nature o B.
o B. Sonnet
Caesura o C.
o C. Ode
Primitivism 39.
34. What is the philosophy of Plato that
What is Keats' phrase for the ability poses the existence of "The One" or
he found in Shakespeare to live with transcendental absolute as the source
mysteries and doubts without "any of perfect forms of innate ideas of
irritable grasping reachig after fact which the objects of sense are
and reason?" imperfect copies?
o A. o A.
Negative capability Pisan circle
o B. o B.
Romanticism Platonism
o C. o C.
Spenserian stanza Scot's dialect
35. 40.
What is a lyrical poem in an elevated What is the so-called cult of noble
style on a serious subject consisting of savages; a movement originating in
irregular stanzas -- that is, stanzas the 18th c. and associated with
with an irregular pattern in line Rousseau which believed in man's
lengths and rhymes? natural goodness and the corrupting
o A. of civilization?
Trochaic meter o A.
o B. Primitivism
Opium wars or anglo-chinese o B.
wars Gothicism
o C. o C.
Ode Medievalism
36. 41.
What were the wars the English What is a movement in art and
fought and won against the Chinese to literature occurring in England in the
maintain their control of the opium early 19th century in which the values
trade? of imagination, intuition, self-
Discuss expression, emotion, and non-
o A. conformity supersede Neo-classical
Nature values of reason, order, objectivity,
o B. and rules?
Platonism o A.
o C. Romanticism
Opium wars or anglo-chinese o B.
wars Gothicism
37. o C.
Orientalism
42.
 What is an English dialect spoken in o B.
the Scottish lowlands influenced by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Gaelic and Norse? o C.
o A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Scot's dialect 48.
o B. Who was the natur poet (Lake
Trochaic meter District)?
o C. o A.
Platonism Dorothy Wordworth
43. o B.
What is a verse form consisting of William Wordsworth
fourteen lines of iambic pentameter o C.
divided into an octave or eight lines Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(the "burden") and a sestet or six 49.
lines (the "release")? They are Who was the keen observer of nature
traditionally amatory in nature. ("barometer")?
o A. o A.
Ode John Keats
o B. o B.
Sonnet Dorothy Wordsworth
o C. o C.
Internal rhyme William Blake
44. 50.
What is a nine-line stanza rhyming Who is the addicted, mad poet of the
ABABBCBCC? The poem contains supernatural?
numerous archaisms, as did Spenser's o A.
poem, which give it a mock-medieval Samuel Taylor Coleridge
flavor. o B.
o A. Thomas De Quincey
Scot's dialect o C.
o B. John Keats
Pisan circle 51.
o C. Who was the imaginative essayist?
Spenserian stanza o A.
45. Robert Burns
What is the reverse of iambic meter o B.
and consisting of an accented syllable Thomas De Quincey
followed by an unaccented syllable? o C.
o A.
William Wordworth
Trochaic meter 52.
o B.
Who was the passionate idealist?
Primitivism o A.
o C.
Thomas De Quincey
Negative capability o B.
46.
Dorothy Wordsworth
Who was the visionary artist/poet? o C.
o A.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dorothy Wordsworth 53.
o B.
Who was the sensuous, passive,
William Blake yearning "singer?"
o C. o A.
Thomas De Quincey John Keats
47. o B.
Who was the farmer poet ("Heaven Robert Burns
taught plowman")? o C.
o A.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robert Burns