This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Romantic Poetry – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romantic Poetry Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "They flash upon that inward eye" it is A) A simile. B) A personification. C) A metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A metaphor. 2. What is 'Their bare boughs weighed with snow.' An example of? A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. Complete the quotation:'getting and spending we lay waste our ..... ' A) Money. B) Powers. C) Honey. D) Flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Powers. 4. What is the tone of the poem? "How does the author feel about the topic of using children as chimney sweeps? A) Accusatory and angry. B) Unbiased and calm. C) Reflective and Optimistic. D) Tranquil and critical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Accusatory and angry. 5. How can we define Wordsworth's view of nature? A) Futuristic. B) Artistic. C) Privileged. D) Pantheistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pantheistic. 6. What is a rhetorical question? A) A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. B) A question asked in order to specifically get an answer. C) It's not really a question but a statement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. 7. Shakespeare's theatre was called ..... A) The Globe. B) The Odeon. C) The Grand. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Globe. 8. What does Keats help us to imagine in his poem? A) How the daffodils are dancing in the breeze. B) That the daffodils are bright and golden. C) That autumn is a dull and dreary season. D) Things we can see, hear and smell during the season of autumn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Things we can see, hear and smell during the season of autumn. 9. Why would you use an expert quote in a piece of logos writing? A) To make your writing more credible. B) To tell their reader what you have experienced and to make yourself relatable. C) To make the reader feel a specific emotion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make your writing more credible. 10. Why would you use an anecdote in a piece of logos writing? A) To tell their reader what you have experienced and to make yourself relatable. B) To spread the truth and make yourself trustworthy. C) To inform the reader of facts and make them more knowledgeable on a topic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To tell their reader what you have experienced and to make yourself relatable. 11. Themes the Romantics liked to explore include ..... A) Animals. B) Beauty of nature, innocence, power of imagination. C) The sea. D) Adventure, excitement and love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beauty of nature, innocence, power of imagination. 12. How many generations of Romantic poets were there? A) 1. B) 3. C) 2. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 13. Who was William Wordsworth very close with? A) Edmund Burke. B) James Joyce. C) Samuel Coleridge. D) Raffaele Di Maso. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Samuel Coleridge. 14. Who wrote the poem, "Darkness?" A) John Keats. B) Willam Wordsworth. C) William Blake. D) Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Byron. 15. Complete the quotation:'Old John with white hair, does laugh away ..... ' A) Care. B) Pear. C) Fair. D) Rare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Care. 16. What is the oak tree, which the old people sit under in 'The Echhoing Green', a symbol of? A) The temporary nature of power. B) The power of the elderly. C) Wisdom, steadfastness, and strength. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wisdom, steadfastness, and strength. 17. Who is the West Wind's "azure sister" ? A) Leaves. B) Seeds. C) Autumn. D) Spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spring. 18. The Enlightenment meant people moved away from traditional religious beliefs and towards ..... A) PE-a healthy body leads to a healthy mind. B) Science-provable facts. C) History-you have to know where you have been to know where you are going. D) Art-creativity is good for the soul. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Science-provable facts. 19. At the beginning of the poem, how does the poet feel? A) Happy and joyful. B) Melancholic and lonely. C) Sad and pensive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Melancholic and lonely. 20. The title of the poem explicitly prohibits A) Grief about saying goodbye. B) Farewells. C) Morning. D) Valedictions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grief about saying goodbye. 21. "Continuous as the stars that shine" it is a A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 22. What 'blasts the new-born infant's tear' in 'London'? A) The polluition. B) The establishment. C) The government. D) A curse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A curse. 23. How would you describe the rhyming pattern in the poem 'My Last Duchess'? A) AABB. B) ABCABC. C) Father. D) Irregular rhyme / free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) AABB. 24. Complete the quotation:'to this, to everything, we are out of ..... ' A) Moon. B) Tune. C) Sorts. D) Eggs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tune. 25. True or False:Romanticism has virtually everything to do with romantic love. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 26. 'The Echhoing Green' ends, 'The sun does descend, / And our sports have an end.' On first reading, this suggests simply that night has fallen. However, an alternative reading might suggest that this is a metaphor for ..... A) The end of life as it is known, and the beginning of an apocalyptic wasteland of death and destruction. B) The end of the innocence and purity of childhood, and the beginning of the adults being corrupted by society. C) Death. . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The end of the innocence and purity of childhood, and the beginning of the adults being corrupted by society. 27. What element in nature best thrills the speaker in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" ? A) Waves. B) Loneliness. C) Clouds. D) Daffodils. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Daffodils. 28. According to the Bible, what creature told Eve to take the apple? A) Wolf. B) Snake. C) Leopard. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Snake. 29. What time period was Romanticism? A) 1750-1837. B) 1890-1930. C) 1600-1700. D) 1850-1900. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1750-1837. 30. In this poem Wiordsworth describes again A) The union between Man and Nature. B) The union between Man and Environment. C) The union between Man and Faith. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The union between Man and Nature. 31. In "The Chimney Sweeper, " when does Tom Dacre start crying? A) When he thinks of home. B) When he enters a dark chimney. C) When his head is shaved. D) When he gets up in the morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When his head is shaved. 32. 'Divergence' is ..... A) Bringing your listeners together with you. B) Turning your listeners away from you. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turning your listeners away from you. 33. What happened after the Duke 'gave commands'? A) 'all smiles stopped together'. B) 'she liked whatever she looked on'. C) She was 'lessoned'. D) She rode a 'white mule' round the terrace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'all smiles stopped together'. 34. Identify the poetic devices Dickinson uses in the passages below. They shut me up in Prose-As when a little GirlThey put me in the Closet-Because they liked me "still" - A) Paradox:Girl locked in a closet. B) Slant rhyme:Girl and "still". C) Exact rhyme:Girl and "still". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slant rhyme:Girl and "still". 35. What kind of 'line' is described in 'The Prelude'? A) A straight line. B) A wavy line. C) An unswerving line. D) An erratic line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An unswerving line. 36. So would a transcendentalist want to go to school to learn? A) No, they believe you are already born with the knowledge. B) Yes, they love learning new things because it helps them worship God better. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, they believe you are already born with the knowledge. 37. In "The Nymphs Reply To The Shepherd, " what best describes the poem's central idea? (a) A) A Love, like beautiful things from nature, doesn't last. B) The men, no matter the man, lie about things. C) Women hate nature. D) Relationships between men and women are complicated by many factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Love, like beautiful things from nature, doesn't last. 38. Which Greek gods does Wordsworth allude to at the end of 'The World is too much with us'? A) Proteus. B) Zeus. C) Narcissus. D) Triton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Proteus. 39. What do the reactions of the parents and the child indicate about the moment? A) The moment was not a very joyous one. B) The moment was exhuberant. C) The moment was chilling. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The moment was not a very joyous one. 40. In "The Nymphs Reply To The Shepherd, " why does the Nymph reject the Shepherd? (a) A) A She says his promises are false because nature's beauty doesn't last. B) She just doesn't like him. C) She doesn't want to move away from her city home to live in the country and take care of sheep. D) She isn't attracted to him at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A She says his promises are false because nature's beauty doesn't last. 41. Why would the speaker in "The World is too Much with Us" prefer to be a "pagan" ? A) He just wants to be different. B) So that he can wear cooler clothes. C) So that he can be closer to nature. D) So that he doesn't have to pay tithes to the church. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) So that he can be closer to nature. 42. What tone best describes the direct speech in the final stanza of 'The Echhoing Green':'Such, such were the joys. / When we all girls & boys, / In our youth-time were seen, / On the Ecchoing Green.' A) Annoyed and angry; critical of society. B) Depressing and sad. C) Happy and peaceful; serene and calm. D) Nostalgic, but with hints of melancholy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nostalgic, but with hints of melancholy. 43. The phrase 'Band of brothers' comes from which Shakespeare play? A) 'Richard III'. B) 'Julius Caesar'. C) ' Henry V'. D) 'Macbeth'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ' Henry V'. 44. What are the two things that the shepherd says he will do for his beloved? (a) A) A make a bed of roses and a gown of wool. B) Build her a house and start a garden. C) Sing songs and give her a feast. D) Give her jewels and silken skirts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A make a bed of roses and a gown of wool. 45. What caused a rise in factories and machines? A) The Industrial Revolution. B) The plague. C) The Battle of Hastings. D) The French Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Industrial Revolution. 46. What inspired Keats to write 'To Autumn'? A) A walk he took in the evening in autumn. B) A picture he saw of autumn trees. C) His friend William Wordsworth. D) A poem he read about autumn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A walk he took in the evening in autumn. 47. "The perwinkle trail'd its wreathes ..... "it is A) A metaphor. B) A simile. C) A personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A personification. 48. The Age of Enlightenment focused on the imagination A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 49. What is an article? A) The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing. B) An argument that appeals to an audience's sense of logic or reason. C) A piece of writing (usually around 800-2000 words) about a particular topic. D) A short story that relates to the topic you are talking about. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A piece of writing (usually around 800-2000 words) about a particular topic. 50. When were the Romantic poets active? A) Late 18th-early 19th Century. B) 50 BC. C) Late 16th-early 17th century. D) Early 20th Century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Late 18th-early 19th Century. 51. Why was Rousseau an important figure for Romanticism? A) He had 3 million followers on TikTok. B) For his very good use of symbols. C) Because he started a revolution. D) For his ideas on the state of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) For his ideas on the state of nature. 52. Coleridge mentions "Alph, the sacred river" . This name is either made up or refers to the River Alpheus in Greece. What does this indicate about the poem? A) The Alpheus river stretches from Greece to China. B) Coleridge is giving a fantastical description of Xanadu, not a realistic one. C) Cloeridge is bad at geography. D) It's a figurative description of Kubla having the water physically diverted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge is giving a fantastical description of Xanadu, not a realistic one. 53. What is the purpose of a blog? A) They are written by many people all over the world, for lots of different purposes. They are often informative and interactive, enabling readers to post their thoughts or ask questions. B) They are written by one individual in the UK, to specifically discuss travel and lifestyle choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are written by many people all over the world, for lots of different purposes. They are often informative and interactive, enabling readers to post their thoughts or ask questions. 54. In the last stanza of I wandered lonely as a cloud solitude is seen as A) A necessary pre-condition for calling up memories. B) A sad condition to be counteracted by calling up happy memories. C) A consequence of being too pensive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A necessary pre-condition for calling up memories. 55. Who wrote this "La Belle Dame sans Merci" ? A) John Keats. B) Joanna Baillie. C) William Blake. D) Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Keats. 56. Romanticism is what type of movement? A) Literary. B) Artistic. C) Philosophical. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 57. Romantic Poetry usually is in awe, or holds in high regard, what? A) War. B) Society. C) Romance. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature. 58. Which poet did we NOT read in class for the Romantic unit? A) Wordsworth. B) Shelley. C) Byron. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shakespeare. 59. The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls1; Along the sea-sands damp and brownThe traveler hastens2 toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls. What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza? A) THE FATHER. B) ABABA. C) THE FATHER. D) AABBCD. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) THE FATHER. 60. What did Wordsworth believe about nature? A) It was ugly and powerful. B) It was beautiful and powerful. C) It was beautiful and weak. D) It was ugly and weak. 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