English 2323: British Literature II

Ms. Esther Marie Guenat

Romantic Period Exam
Part I: Authors and their works
Fill in the blank with the letter of the best answer.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.

Paradise Lost
Coleridge
Don Juan
Feminism
Keats
George Eliot
Lyrical Ballads

H. Mutability
I. To P. Bysshe Shelley
J. The Prelude
K. Blake
L. Albatross
M. Byron
N. Ozymandias

O. She Walks in Beauty

P. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Q. Wordsworth
R. Darwin
S. Songs of Experience
T. Shelley
U. Ode on a Grecian Urn

____1. This is a prominent symbol in Coleridges Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

____2. This poem by Byron is motivated by his admiration for Shelley.
____3. Wordsworth became estranged from this poet due to the poets addiction to opium.
____4. This poet is famous for, not only his writing, but for his celebrity lifestyle, his scandalous
love affairs, and his Greek nationalism.
____5. This poet is regarded as one of the finest lyric poets in history; this talent is evident in
works such as Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.
____6. This poets work is categorized by elaborate word choice and sensory imagery.
____7. This poet is known for the idea that in humanity, the divine is surely present.
____8. This poem, published posthumously, is considered Wordsworths autobiographical
masterpiece.
____9. This collection by Blake parallels his Songs of Innocence collection in many ways.
____10. The Byronic hero fully and fantastically emerged in this work.
____11. Coleridge and Wordsworth collaborated together to produce this work.
____12. Keats famous Beauty is truth, truth beauty can be found in this work.
____13. This epic poem by Coleridge is a moral take on the consequences of judgment.
____14. This work by Byron is said to have been written about his first meeting with his cousin
who was dressed in a mourning gown at the time.
____15. This work by Shelley is a commentary on the inevitability of time and is written in a
man of the world tone.
____16. Shelley was very absorbed in Greek tragedy, the Bible, and this work by Milton.

____17. This poem ends with the famous line Nought may endure but Mutability.
____18. Wollstonecrafts work is considered a cornerstone for this political and social ideology.
Part II: Multiple Choice
19. Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true?
a. Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.
b. Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.
c. Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.
d. Both a and c
e. a, b, and c
20. What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural
holdings?
a. partition
b. segregation
c. enclosure
d. division
e. subtraction
22. What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems to the working
classes A Song: "Men of England" and England in 1819?
a. the organization of a working class mens choral group in Southern England
b. the battle of Waterloo
c. the Peterloo massacre
d. the storming of the Bastille
23. Who applied the term "Romantic" to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830?
a. Wordsworth, because he wanted to distinguish his poetry, and the poetry of his
friends, from that of the ancien rgime, especially satire
b. English historians half a century after the period ended
c. The Satanic School of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
d. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)
24. Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only
the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the
government should not interfere in any person's pursuit of their personal interests?
a. economic independence
b. the Rights of Man
c. laissez-faire
d. enclosure
25. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on
Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the
individual poet as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"?
a. the lyric poem written in the first person
b. the sonnet
c. doggerel rhyme
d. the political tract
e. the ode

26. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798?

a. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
b. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
c. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
27. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to "'Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and
'Wagons'!"?
a. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden
b. the clumsiness of Shakespeares plots
c. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
d. Wordsworths devotion to the ordinary and everyday
e. Blakes apocalyptic visions
28. Wordsworth described all good poetry as
a. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
b. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling
c. the polite patter of a corrupted age
d. the divine gift of grace
29. 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. Mary Wollstonecraft
e. William Wordsworth
30. Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social
thinking stimulated by the French Revolution?
e. Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Man
f. Paines Rights of Man
g. Godwins Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
h. Burkes Reflections of the Revolution in France
31. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
a. opium
b. dreams
c. childhood
d. all of the above
32. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?
a. Aristotle
b. Duns Scotus
c. David Hume
d. Immanuel Kant

Part III: Fill in the blank/Short-Short Answer/True*False

33. True or False? Wordsworth became enamored of nature during his childhood and young
adulthood.
34. True or False? Despite their close friendship, there are no similarities between Wordsworth
and Coleridge.
35. What national honor did Wordsworth receive later in his life?
36. Coleridge was addicted to ____________ .
37. True or False? Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the opening poem to Lyrical
Ballads.
38. True or False? Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Man was written in direct
response to Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France.
39. The ______________ hero, found in much of Byrons work, is a ruling protagonist that
readers want to admire.
40. Byrons affair with his ____________ proved to be his undoing.
41. Shelley was kicked out of Oxford in his first year for writing a pamphlet called The Necessity
of ____________ .
42. True or False? Shelley was looked on as an atheist, a revolutionary, and an immoralist, thus
he was immensely popular.
43. Before deciding on a career in poetry, when he was in school, Keats was pushed into a career
in ____________ by his guardian.
44. Keats is known for his imaginative use of the 5______________ in his poetry.
45. _____________ Poetry was marked with heightened emotion and sentiment, a strong sense of
individualism, a respect for nature and history, a celebration of mysticism, and a return to the
first-person lyric poems.

Part IV: Short Answer/Essay (Each question is worth up to 11 points; each question must
be answered in fully developed paragraph for full credit.)
46. Describe the purpose behind Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. What
main social change is she demanding of society?

47. Describe the elements of the Byronic hero. Describe a contemporary Byronic hero.

48. It is said that Shelley had a very confident, man of the world tone and language in his
poetry. Give examples of this from the short poem Ozymandias.

49. Describe the purpose behind Wordsworths preface to Lyrical Ballads.

50. Briefly explain the idea of nature poetry in regards to the Romantics.