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Practice for English Literature - The Romantic Period

Name:_______________________________________Date: _____________________
1. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during
its early years? (e).
a
Tories
)
b
Republicans
)
c) Liberals
d
Radicals
)
e
both c and d
)
2. 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? (c)
a
economic independence
)
b
the Rights of Man
)
c) laissez-faire
d
enclosure
)
e
lazy government
)
3. Who applied the term "Romantic" to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830? (b)
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)
)
e
Harold Bloom
)
4. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _________.(e)
a
for their own sake; to merely describe natural phenomenon
)
b to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally
) associated with humans
c) as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking
d symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner, spiritual
) world
e
b, c, and d
)
5. How would "Natural Supernaturalism" be best characterized as a Romantic notion
introduced by Carlyle? (c
a
)
b
)

a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be


inhabited by spirits
a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with
a supernatural being

c)
d
)
e
)

a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are
made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when
taking opium
an oxymoron that nobody understood and that cannot be explained in the
context of a discussion of Romantic literature

6. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used
when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution? (b
a) snide indifference
b) biblical reverence
c) condemning censure
d) satirical derision
e) none of the above: Romantic writers had no interest in the French Revolution.
7. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text? (c
a) a spiritual autobiography written in an epic style
b) a lyric poem written in the first person
c) a comedy of manners
d) a political tract demanding labor reform
a novel written about the intellectual and emotional development of a monster
created by a scientist
8. Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business?
(e)
e)

Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for
an enlarged reading public.
Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial
b)
and public lending libraries.
A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for
c)
pleasure.
People had more leisure time to read and more disposable income to spend on
d)
reading materials.
a)

e) all of the above


9. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of
Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements?(e)
a) supernatural phenomenon
b) perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden's persecution
c) plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
d) secret passages, decaying mansions, gloomy castles, and dark dungeons
e) all of the above
10. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the
following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners
than it is to the writing of her own era? (d
a
Fanny Burney
)
b
Mary Wollstonecraft
)

c
Anna Letitia Barbauld
)
d
Jane Austen
)
e
Mary Shelley
)

Practice for English Literature - The Romantic Period


Name:_______________________________________Date: _____________________
1. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during
its early years?
a
Tories
)
b
Republicans
)
c) Liberals
d
Radicals
)
e
both c and d
)
2. 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
)
e
lazy government
)
3. 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)
)
e
Harold Bloom
)
4. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _________.
a
for their own sake; to merely describe natural phenomenon
)
b to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally
) associated with humans
c) as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking

d symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner, spiritual


) world
e
b, c, and d
)
5. How would "Natural Supernaturalism" be best characterized as a Romantic notion
introduced by Carlyle?
a
)
b
)
c)
d
)
e
)

a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be


inhabited by spirits
a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with
a supernatural being
a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are
made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when
taking opium
an oxymoron that nobody understood and that cannot be explained in the
context of a discussion of Romantic literature

6. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used
when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution?
a) snide indifference
b) biblical reverence
c) condemning censure
d) satirical derision
e) none of the above: Romantic writers had no interest in the French Revolution.
7. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text?
a) a spiritual autobiography written in an epic style
b) a lyric poem written in the first person
c) a comedy of manners
d) a political tract demanding labor reform
a novel written about the intellectual and emotional development of a monster
created by a scientist
8. Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business?
e)

Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for
an enlarged reading public.
Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial
b)
and public lending libraries.
A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for
c)
pleasure.
People had more leisure time to read and more disposable income to spend on
d)
reading materials.
a)

e) all of the above


9. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of
Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements?
a) supernatural phenomenon
b) perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden's persecution
c) plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes

d) secret passages, decaying mansions, gloomy castles, and dark dungeons


e) all of the above
10. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the
following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners
than it is to the writing of her own era?
a
)
b
)
c
)
d
)
e
)

Fanny Burney
Mary Wollstonecraft
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley

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