This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romanticism > English Romantic Poetry – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Romantic Poetry Quiz 2 (27 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which Romantic poet would be the least likely to write a piece of literary criticism? A) Percy Shelley. B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. C) Lord Byron. D) William Hazlitt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Byron. 2. The general tone and attitude of Byron's "Don Juan" would be best described as: A) Dramatic and dark. B) Ironic and satirical. C) Strange and haunting. D) Humorless and stark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ironic and satirical. 3. Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it? A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) Percy Shelley. C) Lord Byron. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Blake. 4. Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" can be best understood as a poem about ..... A) The passion between a husband and wife. B) The loss of innocence. C) The horrors of the French Revolution. D) How poets can bring about political revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How poets can bring about political revolution. 5. Which poet would be least likely to write about the beauty of nature? A) Lord Byron. B) William Wordsworth. C) John Keats. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Byron. 6. Which action served to ignite the French Revolution? A) The madness of King George. B) The ruling of Bonaparte. C) The execution of King Louis XVI. D) The rise of King William. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The execution of King Louis XVI. 7. The French Revolution had a tremendous impact on which of the following aspects of British life? A) Politics. B) Literature. C) Relations with France. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. To whom does the Ancient Mariner tell his story in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" ? A) Life-in-Death. B) Coleridge. C) The Wedding Guest. D) Dorothy Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Wedding Guest. 9. Which poem is considered Wordsworth's magnum opus? A) "Lyrical Ballads". B) "The Prelude". C) "We Are Seven". D) "Lines Written in Early Spring". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The Prelude". 10. Who refers to poetry as "an imitation of nature" ? A) William Hazlitt. B) William Wordsworth. C) Percy Shelley. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Hazlitt. 11. Which of the following authors would be most likely to use the supernatural in his poems? A) Percy Shelley. B) John Keats. C) William Blake?. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Blake?. 12. The lines "The loveliest and the lasttextbackslash The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blewtextbackslash Died on the promise of the fruit" are from a poem honoring: A) Percy Shelley. B) Lord Byron. C) John Keats. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Keats. 13. Who was the co-author of "Lyrical Ballads" with William Wordsworth? A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) Lord Byron. C) William Blake. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 14. Which poet would have been most likely to compose a poem examining his own childhood? A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) John Keats. C) Percy Shelley. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Wordsworth. 15. Which of the following is a love poem? A) Byron's "Don Juan". B) John Clare's "To Elia". C) Wordsworth "Peter Bell". D) Coleridge's "Kubla Kahn". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Clare's "To Elia". 16. A neoclassical poet would be most likely to compose a poem celebrating which of the following ideals? A) Communion with the natural world. B) Passionate love. C) Emotional restraint. D) Revolution against tyranny. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emotional restraint. 17. In "Of Poetry in General, " William Hazlitt contends that good poetry comes from ..... A) The intellect. B) Strong feeling. C) The author's personal pain. D) Rewriting Homer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strong feeling. 18. Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem? A) Lord Byron. B) Percy Shelley. C) William Blake. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Percy Shelley. 19. In "Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " what kind of animal does the Mariner kill? A) A dove. B) A hawk. C) A nightingale. D) An albatross. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An albatross. 20. Which contemporary fictional character can be understood as a Byronic hero? A) Yoda. B) Superman. C) Luke Skywalker. D) Dr. House. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr. House. 21. Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the French Revolution" ..... A) Attacks the ideals of the French Revolution. B) Celebrates the French Revolution. C) Encourages the United States to Support the French Revolution. D) Champions Napoleon's political vision. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attacks the ideals of the French Revolution. 22. During the 19th century, the term "middle class" described people who were: A) Workers. B) Aristocrats. C) Between workers and aristocrats. D) Land owners only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Between workers and aristocrats. 23. Duncan Wu discusses the presentation of "spots of time" in the poetry of: A) Percy Shelley. B) Lord Byron. C) William Blake. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Wordsworth. 24. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner could be said to be suffering from an overwhelming feeling of ..... A) Hatred. B) Guilt. C) Disbelief. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Guilt. 25. In "Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " who is the "he" referred to in the lines "A sadder and a wiser mantextbackslash He rose the morrow morn." A) The ship's captain. B) The Ancient Mariner. C) Life-in-Death. D) The Wedding Guest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Wedding Guest. 26. Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem using the language of common, ordinary people? A) William Wordsworth. B) Lord Byron. C) John Keats. D) Percy Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Wordsworth. 27. The primary subject of "Ode to Psyche" is ..... A) The possibility of sudden death. B) The expansion of consciousness. C) The relationship between art and humanity. D) The death of Byron. 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