Exam on the Romantic Period

1. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of English Romantic poetry?

(a) Ordinary life
(b) Everyday language
(c) Expression of feelings rather than action or plot
(d) Inane and gaudy phraseology

2. Who said, “Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her”?

(a) Byron
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Coleridge
(d) None of these

3. How many poems of Wordsworth are included in Lyrical Ballads?

(a) 4
(b) 12
(c) 17
(d) 19

4. Who called Wordsworth a “moral eunuch”?

(a) Arnold
(b) Coleridge
(c) Shelley
(d) Browning

5. “Motiveless malignity” is a phrase from —

(a) Eliot
(b) Donne
(c) Coleridge
(d) Keats

6. After whom did Wordsworth become the Poet Laureate of England?

(a) Coleridge
(b) Scott
(c) Southey
(d) Dryden

7. Who gave birth to the historical novel?

(a) Shakespeare
(b) Austen
(c) Smollett
(d) Scott

8. Shelley’s To a Skylark came out with —

(a) Epipsychidion
(b) Adonais
(c) Cenci
(d) Prometheus Unbound

9. Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for the publication of —

(a) The Mask of Anarchy
(b) The Revolt of Islam
(c) On the Necessity of Atheism
(d) Hellas

10. Who is not a Lake Poet?

(a) Coleridge
(b) Keats
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Southey

11. Which work of Keats deals with the murder of a lady’s lover by her two wicked brothers?

(a) Endymion
(b) Hyperion
(c) Lamia
(d) Isabella

12. The term negative capability was given by —

(a) Coleridge
(b) Eliot
(c) Keats
(d) Wordsworth

13. Who said: “If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all”?

(a) Keats
(b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Spenser

14. “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” This epitaph is on whose tombstone?

(a) Sidney
(b) Byron
(c) Keats
(d) Shelley

15. According to William Wordsworth’s ‘A man speaking to man’- what is the central idea of poet?

a. Poet is a very sensible religious person.
b. Poet has different idea about present life
c. Poet has greater knowledge of modern technology.
d. Poet is a man who speaks to men.

16. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility …” is a statement ascribed to—

(a) Coleridge
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) T. S. Eliot
(d) I. A. Richards

17. The killing of the albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was indicative of—

(a) A trigger-happy Mariner
(b) The essential irrationality of man
(c) A superstitious Mariner
(d) The Mariner as a skilful fowler

18. Who is the anti-romantic novelist belonging to the Romantic Age?

a. Charles Lamb
b. Jane Austen
c. William Hazlitt
d. Emile Bronte

19. What is the surname of the five sisters in Pride and Prejudice?

(a) Barratt
(b) Bartram
(c) Bennet
(d) Burrell

20. 'Bright Star' was a famous love sonnet by Keats. To whom was the poem addressed?

(a) Lady Jennings
(b) Isabella
(c) Queen Elizabeth
(d) Fanny Brown