english romantic poetry MCQs – Page 3

Practise focused english romantic poetry questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

english romantic poetry Mcqs
41. The poem London can be best understood as ______________?
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A. An examination of the citys past

B. An attack on William Wordsworth

C. A protest against social inequality

D. A celebration of the citys beauty

42. The main thematic focus of Ode on a Grecian Urn is ____________________?
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A. The authors childhood experience

B. The relationship between truth and beauty

C. The French Revolution

D. The nature of death

43. Which contemporary fictional character can be understood as a Byronic hero ?
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A. Dr. House

B. Luke Skywalker

C. Superman

D. Yoda

44. Shelleys poem Mont Blanc can be best said to depict an encounter with _____________?
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A. Death

B. Childhood

C. A lost lover

D. The sublime
45. Many romantic poets regarded the natural world with a feeling of ________________?
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A. Resentment and disrespect

B. Fear and horror

C. Disinterest and disregard

D. Awe and fascination
46. Thomas Paines The Rights of Man argues that ________________?
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A. Revolution is inhumane

B. Revolution is proper when a government does not take care of its people

C. Revolution never succeeds

D. Every government should be revolted against

47. Which British philosopher of the Romantic era despised monarchies, believed that the best form of government was no government at all, and argued that change can only come from people treating each other with sincerity and benevolence ?
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. John Locke

C. William Godwin

D. Edmund Burke

48. Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey explores ________________?
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A. The beauty of the natural world

B. The way in which ones psychological state changes over time

C. The failures of Romanticism

D. Coleridges addiction to drugs

49. Shelleys Hymn to Intellectual Beauty suggests that _________________?
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A. The source of beauty cannot be known, and that beauty can only be felt

B. Anything that is intellectual cannot be beautiful

C. Beauty can be understood only through metaphysics

D. Beauty is missing from the world

50. The final line of We Are Seven is: And said, Nay we are seven. This line suggests that________________?
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A. The little girl is insane or delusional

B. The little girls siblings have not died

C. The little girl herself is dead

D. The little girl refuses to cast the dead out of her life.
51. Who refers to poetry as an imitation of nature ?
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. William Wordsworth

C. Percy Shelley

D. William Hazlitt
52. Shelleys Ode to Psyche is narrated by __________________?
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A. Cupid

B. The author of the poem

C. Shelleys childhood self

D. Psyche

53. Which long Romantic poem opens with the line oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze ?
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A. Don Juan

B. Childe Harolds Pilgrimage

C. The Prelude

D. Rime of the Ancient Mariner

54. Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem using the language of common, ordinary people ?
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A. Percy Shelley

B. Lord Byron

C. John Keats

D. William Wordsworth
55. The general tone and attitude of Byrons Don Juan would be best described as ______________?
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A. Ironic and satirical

B. Humorless and stark

C. Strange and haunting

D. Dramatic and dark

56. One of the central themes of Wordsworths Peter Bell is _________________?
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A. A dark voyage into madness

B. Eternal youth

C. How nature can render someone good

D. How nature can corrupt someone

57. Referring to poets as unacknowledged legislators of the world suggests that_____________?
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A. Most Romantic poets were politicians

B. Poets actually help the world grow and develop

C. Hardly anyone actually reads Romantic poetry

D. Poets have no actual effect upon the world

58. Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Lord Byron

C. John Keats

D. Percy Shelley

59. Which of the following was responsible for Samuel Taylor Coleridges mental decline ?
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A. His experiences during the French Revolution

B. The end of his friendship with Wordsworth

C. His addiction to opium

D. His physical battle with gout

60. A tortured, dark-spirited, wry, and intellectual protagonist would most likely be found in a poem by______________?
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A. John Keats

B. Lord Byron

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake