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1. Keats was most famous for__________________?
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A. His extensive writings

B. His odes

C. His wild lifestyle

D. His popularity with readers

2. In her essay Wordsworth Balladry: Real Men Wanted, Elizabeth Fey argues that the Romantics were interested in the medieval focus upon _______________?
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A. Violence

B. Nature

C. Courtly love and modern-seeming emotion

D. Death and disease

3. Which of the following would probably NOT be the topic of a Romantic poem ?
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A. The French Revolution

B. Mans relationship to nature

C. The experience of common people

D. A celebration of the aristocratic

4. Which Romantic poet would be most likely to feature a main character or narrator in a poem who is heroic, tortured, cynical, highly emotional, and intelligent ?
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A. Lord Byron

B. John Keats

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. William Blake

5. With whom did John Keats have a love affair ?
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A. Mary Keats

B. Mary Shelley

C. Fanny Brawne

D. Dorothy Wordsworth

6. Which Romantic author is the subject of Paul OBriens essay Prophet of the Revolution ?
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A. William Blake

B. William Wordsworth

C. Lord Byron

D. Percy Shelley

7. Which of the following was NOT a primary cause of the Industrial Revolution ?
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A. The population increase in Europe

B. The European economy shifting into a global economy

C. Europes shift into being a manufacturing economy

D. The popularity of Romantic poetry

8. Ode to a Nightingale focuses on ______________?
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A. The futility of artistic creation

B. The fall of man into sin

C. How pleasures are fleeting and life cannot continue forever

D. The unfortunate conclusion of the French Revolution

9. Which action served to ignite the French Revolution ?
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A. The execution of King Louis XVI

B. The rise of King William

C. The madness of King George

D. The ruling of Bonaparte

10. The line It is an honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind appears in which essay ?
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A. An Essay on Dramatic Poetry

B. Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads

C. The Rights of Man

D. A Defense of Poetry

11. According to the essay A Defense of Poetry, which of the following is one of the two classes of mental action ?
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A. Fear

B. Illogic

C. Indifference

D. Reason

12. In Rime of the Ancient Mariner, what kind of animal does the Mariner kill ?
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A. A dove

B. A nightingale

C. A hawk

D. An albatross

13. Which poet would be most likely to write a poem reflecting upon the psychological changes he has undergone since his youth ?
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. William Wordsworth

C. John Keats

D. William Blake

14. Percy Shelleys poem Mont Blanc presents nature as ________________?
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A. Depressing and miserable

B. Controlled by gods

C. A peaceful force

D. A powerful, sublime force

15. Which of the following was a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry ?
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A. Engagement with the natural world

B. Political conservatism

C. Rationality

D. Emotional restraint

16. In A Defense of Poetry, Percy Shelley argues that humans have an impulse to ____________________?
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A. Strive to express love

B. Reproduce rhythm and order

C. Resist understanding poetry

D. Write stories

17. Which poem is considered Wordsworths magnum opus ?
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A. Lyrical Ballads

B. The Prelude

C. Lines Written in Early Spring

D. We Are Seven

18. In Mont Blanc, Shelley likens the power of the mountain to the power of human imagination in order to __________________?
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A. Demonstrate how the human imagination is fragile

B. Demonstrate the power of the French Revolution on the British Romantic consciousness

C. Demonstrate the intrinsic connection between imagination and death

D. Demonstrate how the human mind comprehends and perceives truth

19. A Romantic poet would be LEAST likely to celebrate __________________?
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A. The imagination

B. Rationality

C. The natural world

D. Love

20. Which event marked the defeat of Napoleon ?
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A. The Reign of Terror

B. The execution of the King of France

C. The battle at Waterloo

D. Napoleons coronation as Emperor of France

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