Romantics Quiz - 1
1. Keat's Endymion
has
(a) 3,000 lines
(b) 4,000 lines
(c) 2500 lines
2. Which is the pair
of lovers Endymion does not meet in Keat's Endymion?
(a) Venus and Adonis
(b) Romeo and Juliet
(c) Glaucus and Scylla
(d) Arcthusa and Alpheus
3. Who wrote the
famous Preface to the Lyri¬cal Ballads?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Southey
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Byron
4. When were the
Lyrical Ballads published?
(a) 1797
(b) 1798
(c) 1800
(d) 1801
5. The Lyrical
Ballads opens with
(a) Kubla Khan
(b) Ode to Duty
(c) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(d) Immortality Ode
6. The Lyrical
Ballads closes with
(a) Kubla Khan
(b) Immortality Ode
(c) Cristobel
(d) Lines Written above Tin tern Abbey
7. Who was the third
person with Coleridge and Wordsworth at Quantico Hills when the Lyrical Ballads
were composed?
(a) Robert Southey
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Dorothy Wordsworth
(d) Mary Lamb
8. William Wordsworth
was born in
(a) 1770
(b) 1771
(c) 1768
(d) 1769
9. Who of the
following is known for his Hel¬lenic Spirit?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) RB. Shelley
(c) Southey
(d) John Keats
10. Who wrote:
"Our Sweetest
songs are those that tell our saddest thoughts"?
(a) RB. Shelley
(b) Robert Southey
(c) Cardinal Newman
(d) S.T. Coleridge
11. How do we
classify Shelley's Prometheus Unbound? As
(a) an epic
(b) a legendary story
(c) mythological story
(d) a lyrical drama
12. Who wrote this:
"He prayed well, who loved well both man and bird and beast"?
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) S.T Coleridge
(c) Leigh Hunt
(d) Cardinal Newman
13. Name the journal
to which Southey contributed regularly.
(a) The Quarterly Review
(b) The Backwoods Magazine
(c) The Edinburgh Review
(d) The Westminster Review
14. Sir Walter Scott
collected Scottish ballads, and published them along with his own, in
(a) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(b) Marion
(c) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
(d) The Lord of the Isles
15. How old was Byron
when he published Hours of Idleness, a collection of poems in heroic couplet?
(a) 19
(b) 29
(c) 18
(d) 30
16. When Hours of Idleness
was criticized by the Edinburgh Review, Lord Byron retaliated by writing a
satiric piece. What was the title of this satire?
(a) The Vision of Judgment
(b) Mazeppa
(c) The Giaour
(d) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
17. How many cantos
could Byron complete of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage during his two years tour of
the continent?
(a) All four
(b) First two
(c) One and three
(d) Only one
18. The first two
cantos of Childe Harold take a reader to
(a) Spain
(b) Portugal
(c) Greece and Albania
(d) All of the above.
19. What is the tone
of the ending of the second canto of Childe Harold?
(a) Joyous
(b) Melancholy
(c) Self-pitying
(d) Optimistic
20. In which canto
does the description of the "Battle of Waterloo" appear?
(a) Canto I
(b) It is an independent poem
(c) Canto III
(d) Canto IV
21. Who is the hero
of Childe Harold?
(a) Nature
(b) An unnamed traveler
(c) A legendary king
(d) The poet himself
22.
"Michael", "The Solitary Reaper," "To a High¬land
Girl" - all these poems depict
(a) the poet's joy at the beauty of nature
(b) simple common folk
(c) poet's awe at the spiritual presence
(d) deep sense of music
23. What was
Wordsworth's professed aim in the Lyrical Ballads?
(a) Purge poetry of all conceit
(b) Simplicity of diction
(c) Make it intelligible to common people
(d) All of the above
24. Which work
inspired Coleridge's Kubls Khan?
(a) Holinshed's Chronicle
(b) Plutarch's Lives
(c) Travels in Scotland
(d) Purchas's Pilgrimage
25. The name of the
prisoner of Chillon was
(a) Beppo
(b) Giaour
(c) Francois de Bonnivard
(d) Pasha
26. The Vision of
Judgment is
(a) an attack on Jeffrey, the editor
(b) satire on Southey
(c) satire on a young man of Seville
(d) satire on society
27. Don Juan has
(a) 5 cantos (b) 15 cantos
(c) 16 cantos (d) 20 cantos
28. Who is Halide in
Don Juan?
(a) Wife of Don Alfonso
(b) Daughter of an old pirate
(c) Princess of Constantinople
(d) A Duchess
29. Where do we find
these lines? "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's
whole existence...."?
(a) Don Juan
(b) Bipod
(c) Childe Harold
(d) Lara
30. Where do we meet
these characters? Don Alfonso, Julia, Sultana? In
(a) Lara
(b) Don Juan
(c) Childe Harold
(d) Beppo
31. When he wrote
Queen Mab, Shelley was only
(a) 19
(b) 18
(c) 21
(d) 22
32. Which of
Shelley's poems has a story from Greek mythology?
(a) Prometheus Unbound
(b) Alastor
(c) Queen Mab
(d) Julian and Maddalo
33. Which poem was
inspired by the Greek proclamation of independence, followed by Greek revolt
against Turkish rule?
(a) Epipsychidion
(b) Queen Mab
(c) Hellas
(d) Prometheus
34. Who is Adonais of
the poem Adonais?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) John Keats
(c) Shelley himself
(d) None of the above
35. We meet
characters such as Asia, Hercules, Jupiter in
(a) Hellas
(b) Prometheus Unbound
(c) Adonais
(d) Queen Mab
Answers:
- B
- B
- C
- B
- C
- D
- C
- A
- D
- A
- D
- B
- A
- C
- A
- D
- B
- D
- B
- C
- D
- B
- D
- D
- C
- B
- C
- B
- A
- B
- B
- A
- C
- B
- B
