This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Romanticism > English Romantic Poetry – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Romantic Poetry Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which poet would most likely express an adherence to atheism in his writing? A) William Wordsworth. B) William Blake. C) John Keats. D) Percy Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Percy Shelley. 2. Which Romantic poet would be the least likely to write a piece of literary criticism? A) Lord Byron. B) Percy Shelley. C) William Hazlitt. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Byron. 3. 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. 4. Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it? A) Lord Byron. B) Percy Shelley. C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Blake. 5. 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. 6. Which poet would be least likely to write about the beauty of nature? A) William Wordsworth. B) John Keats. C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D) Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Byron. 7. Which action served to ignite the French Revolution? A) The rise of King William. B) The execution of King Louis XVI. C) The ruling of Bonaparte. D) The madness of King George. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The execution of King Louis XVI. 8. 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. 9. To whom does the Ancient Mariner tell his story in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" ? A) Coleridge. B) Dorothy Wordsworth. C) The Wedding Guest. D) Life-in-Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Wedding Guest. 10. 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". 11. Who refers to poetry as "an imitation of nature" ? A) Percy Shelley. B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. C) William Hazlitt. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Hazlitt. 12. Which of the following authors would be most likely to use the supernatural in his poems? A) William Wordsworth. B) John Keats. C) Percy Shelley. D) William Blake?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Blake?. 13. The lines "The loveliest and the last\textbackslash The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew\textbackslash Died on the promise of the fruit" are from a poem honoring: A) Percy Shelley. B) John Keats. C) Lord Byron. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Keats. 14. Who was the co-author of "Lyrical Ballads" with William Wordsworth? A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) John Keats. C) William Blake. D) Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 15. Which poet would have been most likely to compose a poem examining his own childhood? A) Percy Shelley. B) John Keats. C) William Wordsworth. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 16. Which of the following is a love poem? A) John Clare's "To Elia". B) Wordsworth "Peter Bell". C) Byron's "Don Juan". D) Coleridge's "Kubla Kahn". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Clare's "To Elia". 17. A neoclassical poet would be most likely to compose a poem celebrating which of the following ideals? A) Passionate love. B) Emotional restraint. C) Revolution against tyranny. D) Communion with the natural world. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional restraint. 18. In "Of Poetry in General, " William Hazlitt contends that good poetry comes from ..... A) The intellect. B) The author's personal pain. C) Strong feeling. D) Rewriting Homer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strong feeling. 19. Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem? A) William Blake. B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. C) Lord Byron. D) Percy Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Percy Shelley. 20. In "Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " what kind of animal does the Mariner kill? A) A hawk. B) A nightingale. C) A dove. D) An albatross. 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