MCQ ON ROMANTIC PERIOD

 

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1. Lyrical Ballads was first published in:

1. 1789
2. 1798
3. 1812
4. 1832

Answer: (b) 1798

2. The famous Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) was written by:

1. Coleridge
2. Southey
3. Wordsworth
4. Shelley

Answer: (c) Wordsworth

3. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” is a statement by:

1. Wordsworth
2. Keats
3. Byron
4. Blake

Answer: (a) Wordsworth

4. Which poem opens the 1798 edition of Lyrical Ballads?

1. Tintern Abbey
2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
3. Kubla Khan
4. Christabel

Answer: (b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

5. Biographia Literaria was written by:

1. Wordsworth
2. Hazlitt
3. Coleridge
4. Lamb

Answer: (c) Coleridge

6. Which of these is NOT counted among the Lake Poets?

1. Wordsworth
2. Coleridge
3. Southey
4. Byron

Answer: (d) Byron

7. Wordsworth’s long autobiographical poem on “the growth of a poet’s mind” is:

1. The Excursion
2. The Prelude
3. Michael
4. The Recluse

Answer: (b) The Prelude

8. The Prelude was published posthumously in:

1. 1805
2. 1832
3. 1850
4. 1870

Answer: (c) 1850

9. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is better known as:

1. The Solitary Reaper
2. Daffodils
3. The World Is Too Much with Us
4. Tintern Abbey

Answer: (b) Daffodils

10. “The Child is father of the Man” occurs in Wordsworth’s poem:

1. My Heart Leaps Up
2. Michael
3. Resolution and Independence
4. Lucy Gray

Answer: (a) My Heart Leaps Up

11. Who became Poet Laureate in 1843?

1. Southey
2. Wordsworth
3. Tennyson
4. Coleridge

Answer: (b) Wordsworth

12. “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink” is from:

1. Christabel
2. Kubla Khan
3. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
4. Frost at Midnight

Answer: (c) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

13. In “Kubla Khan”, Coleridge’s composition was said to be interrupted by:

1. A person from Porlock
2. Robert Southey
3. Dorothy Wordsworth
4. A storm

Answer: (a) A person from Porlock

14. Coleridge’s phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” relates to:

1. Satire
2. Poetic faith in the supernatural
3. Poetic diction
4. Pastoral convention

Answer: (b) Poetic faith in the supernatural

15. According to Coleridge, the mechanical combining of fixed images is the work of:

1. Primary imagination
2. Secondary imagination
3. Fancy
4. Reason

Answer: (c) Fancy

16. Songs of Innocence and of Experience is by:

1. William Blake
2. Robert Burns
3. Wordsworth
4. Keats

Answer: (a) William Blake

17. “Tyger Tyger, burning bright” begins Blake’s poem:

1. The Lamb
2. The Tyger
3. London
4. The Chimney Sweeper

Answer: (b) The Tyger

18. Blake’s poem “London” belongs to:

1. Songs of Innocence
2. Songs of Experience
3. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
4. Milton

Answer: (b) Songs of Experience

19. After Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage appeared, Byron is said to have “awoke one morning and found himself”:

1. Rich
2. Exiled
3. Famous
4. Laureate

Answer: (c) Famous

20. Don Juan is written in the stanza form called:

1. Spenserian stanza
2. Rhyme royal
3. Ottava rima
4. Terza rima

Answer: (c) Ottava rima

21. Which Byron poem begins “She walks in beauty, like the night”?

1. Lara
2. She Walks in Beauty
3. Manfred
4. The Prisoner of Chillon

Answer: (b) She Walks in Beauty

22. Byron died in 1824 at:

1. Rome
2. Venice
3. Missolonghi
4. Geneva

Answer: (c) Missolonghi

23. “Ode to the West Wind” is written in:

1. Ottava rima
2. Heroic couplets
3. Blank verse
4. Terza rima

Answer: (d) Terza rima

24. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is by:

1. Keats
2. Shelley
3. Byron
4. Coleridge

Answer: (b) Shelley

25. Adonais is Shelley’s elegy on the death of:

1. Byron
2. Keats
3. Southey
4. Blake

Answer: (b) Keats

26. Prometheus Unbound is by:

1. Byron
2. Keats
3. Shelley
4. Mary Shelley

Answer: (c) Shelley

27. “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” appears in:

1. Preface to Lyrical Ballads
2. A Defence of Poetry
3. Biographia Literaria
4. Essays of Elia

Answer: (b) A Defence of Poetry

28. “Ozymandias” is a sonnet by:

1. Shelley
2. Keats
3. Wordsworth
4. Byron

Answer: (a) Shelley

29. Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in 1822 off the coast of:

1. France
2. Greece
3. Italy
4. Spain

Answer: (c) Italy

30. “Negative Capability” is a concept of:

1. Keats
2. Coleridge
3. Wordsworth
4. Hazlitt

Answer: (a) Keats

31. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” opens Keats’s poem:

1. Hyperion
2. Endymion
3. Lamia
4. Isabella

Answer: (b) Endymion

32. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is the conclusion of:

1. Ode to a Nightingale
2. To Autumn
3. Ode on a Grecian Urn
4. Ode on Melancholy

Answer: (c) Ode on a Grecian Urn

33. “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” begins:

1. Ode to Psyche
2. To Autumn
3. Ode on Indolence
4. The Eve of St. Agnes

Answer: (b) To Autumn

34. In “Ode to a Nightingale”, the poet ends by asking:

1. Is it Spring?
2. Do I wake or sleep?
3. Where are the songs of Spring?
4. What is truth?

Answer: (b) Do I wake or sleep?

35. La Belle Dame sans Merci is a:

1. Sonnet
2. Ode
3. Ballad
4. Epic

Answer: (c) Ballad

36. Keats died in 1821 in:

1. London
2. Rome
3. Florence
4. Naples

Answer: (b) Rome

37. Which of these is NOT a feature of Romanticism?

1. Emphasis on imagination
2. Love of nature
3. Strict adherence to reason and order
4. Interest in the individual

Answer: (c) Strict adherence to reason and order

38. The French Revolution began in:

1. 1776
2. 1789
3. 1798
4. 1815

Answer: (b) 1789

39. The Reform Act, often used to mark the end of the Romantic period, was passed in:

1. 1815
2. 1820
3. 1832
4. 1837

Answer: (c) 1832

40. Frankenstein was published in:

1. 1798
2. 1814
3. 1818
4. 1831

Answer: (c) 1818

41. The subtitle of Frankenstein is:

1. The Modern Prometheus
2. The Last Man
3. A Gothic Tale
4. The Creature

Answer: (a) The Modern Prometheus

42. Who wrote The Castle of Otranto (1764), regarded as the first Gothic novel?

1. Ann Radcliffe
2. Horace Walpole
3. Matthew Lewis
4. William Beckford

Answer: (b) Horace Walpole

43. The Mysteries of Udolpho is by:

1. Ann Radcliffe
2. Mary Shelley
3. Jane Austen
4. Fanny Burney

Answer: (a) Ann Radcliffe

44. The historical novel Waverley (1814) was written by:

1. Jane Austen
2. Maria Edgeworth
3. Sir Walter Scott
4. Thomas Love Peacock

Answer: (c) Sir Walter Scott

45. Ivanhoe (1819) is a novel by:

1. Scott
2. Dickens
3. Byron
4. Hazlitt

Answer: (a) Scott

46. Pride and Prejudice was published in:

1. 1811
2. 1813
3. 1818
4. 1847

Answer: (b) 1813

47. Essays of Elia is by:

1. Hazlitt
2. De Quincey
3. Charles Lamb
4. Leigh Hunt

Answer: (c) Charles Lamb

48. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was written by:

1. Coleridge
2. De Quincey
3. Lamb
4. Byron

Answer: (b) De Quincey

49. The Spirit of the Age (1825) is a work by:

1. William Hazlitt
2. Thomas Carlyle
3. Matthew Arnold
4. John Ruskin

Answer: (a) William Hazlitt

50. Which poet is known for the “Byronic hero” type?

1. Wordsworth
2. Shelley
3. Byron
4. Keats

Answer: (c) Byron

Answer key

Q	Ans	Q	Ans	Q	Ans	Q	Ans	Q	Ans
1	b	11	b	21	b	31	b	41	a
2	c	12	c	22	c	32	c	42	b
3	a	13	a	23	d	33	b	43	a
4	b	14	b	24	b	34	b	44	c
5	c	15	c	25	b	35	c	45	a
6	d	16	a	26	c	36	b	46	b
7	b	17	b	27	b	37	c	47	c
8	c	18	b	28	a	38	b	48	b
9	b	19	c	29	c	39	c	49	a
10	a	20	c	30	a	40	c	50	c