ENGL404-FinalExam-Answers

A neoclassical poet would be most likely to compose a poem celebrating which of the following ideals?

Choose one answer.

	a. Passionate love
	b. Emotional restraint
	c. Revolution against tyranny
	d. Communion with the natural world

Question 2

A Romantic poet would be LEAST likely to celebrate __________.

Choose one answer.

	a. The imagination
	b. Love
	c. The natural world
	d. Rationality

Question 3

During the 19th century, the term “middle class” described people who were:

Choose one answer.

	a. Workers
	b. Aristocrats
	c. Between workers and aristocrats
	d. Land owners only

Question 4

Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the French Revolution” ______________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Celebrates the French Revolution
	b. Encourages the United States to Support the French Revolution
	c. Attacks the ideals of the French Revolution
	d. Champions Napoleon’s political vision

Question 5

Many romantic poets regarded the natural world with a feeling of ___________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Awe and fascination
	b. Disinterest and disregard
	c. Resentment and disrespect
	d. Fear and horror

Question 6

Napoleon’s decision to ____ can be understood as representative of the French Revolutionary spirit because this decision served to radically reposition France in contemporary European political affairs.

Choose one answer.

	a. Engage in the Napoleonic Wars
	b. Change all aspects of French law
	c. Involve himself directly in affairs in the United States
	d. Offer landmark political writings calling for peace with other European nations

Question 7

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?

Choose one answer.

	a. “A Defense of Poetry”
	b. “The Rights of Man”
	c. “Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads”
	d. “An Essay on Dramatic Poetry”

Question 8

The Romantic period is generally thought to have occurred between ___________.

Choose one answer.

	a. 1800 – 1900
	b. 1805 – 1827
	c. 1798 – 1832
	d. 1785 – 1825

Question 9

The “Reign of Terror” refers to:

Choose one answer.

	a. France’s war with a foreign nation
	b. The mass execution of enemies of the revolution
	c. Napoleon’s rise to power
	d. The death of the king of France

Question 10

Thomas Paine’s “The Rights of Man” argues that _____________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Revolution is inhumane
	b. Revolution never succeeds
	c. Revolution is proper when a government does not take care of its people
	d. Every government should be revolted against

Question 11

Which action served to ignite the French Revolution?

Choose one answer.

	a. The rise of King William
	b. The execution of King Louis XVI
	c. The ruling of Bonaparte
	d. The madness of King George

Question 12

Which British philosopher believed that monarchs repressed citizens and that revolution is proper when a government does not protect its people?

Choose one answer.

	a. Thomas Paine
	b. James Mackintosh
	c. Edmund Burke
	d. John Locke

Question 13

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?

Choose one answer.

	a. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	b. Edmund Burke
	c. William Godwin
	d. John Locke

Question 14

Which event marked the defeat of Napoleon?

Choose one answer.

	a. The execution of the King of France
	b. The battle at Waterloo
	c. The Reign of Terror
	d. Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor of France

Question 15

Which of the following concepts are NOT elements of neo-classicism?

Choose one answer.

	a. Optimism
	b. A sense of man being imperfect
	c. Order and reason
	d. A belief that art is primarily intellectual

Question 16

Which of the following statements would you most likely NOT see in a Romantic poem?

Choose one answer.

	a. “Truth is beauty …”
	b. “Truth is stranger than fiction …”
	c. “Familure acts are beautiful through love …”
	d. “A little learning is a dangerous thing …”

Question 17

Which of the following was a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry?

Choose one answer.

	a. Engagement with the natural world
	b. Rationality
	c. Emotional restraint
	d. Political conservatism

Question 18

Which of the following was NOT a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry?

Choose one answer.

	a. Celebration of the imagination
	b. Engagement with nature
	c. The use of symbolism
	d. The use of allegory

Question 19

Which of the following was NOT a primary cause of the Industrial Revolution?

Choose one answer.

	a. The popularity of Romantic poetry
	b. The European economy shifting into a global economy
	c. The population increase in Europe
	d. Europe’s shift into being a manufacturing economy

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT considered a proper form of literary expression in the Neoclassical Period?

Choose one answer.

	a. The essay
	b. Satire
	c. Blank verse poetry
	d. The rhymed couplet

Question 21

Which of the following was responsible for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s mental decline?

Choose one answer.

	a. His addiction to opium
	b. His experiences during the French Revolution
	c. The end of his friendship with Wordsworth
	d. His physical battle with gout

Question 22

Which of the following would a neoclassical poet be most likely to use as a central theme in his or her poetry?

Choose one answer.

	a. The plight of common, ordinary people
	b. A celebration of the medieval
	c. A satirical representation of current events
	d. A warm remembrance of childish idealism

Question 23

Which of the following would probably NOT be the topic of a Romantic poem?

Choose one answer.

	a. The French Revolution
	b. Man’s relationship to nature
	c. The experience of common people
	d. A celebration of the aristocratic

Question 24

Who was the co-author of “Lyrical Ballads” with William Wordsworth?

Choose one answer.

	a. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	b. John Keats
	c. William Blake
	d. Lord Byron

Question 25

The French Revolution had a tremendous impact on which of the following aspects of British life?

Choose one answer.

	a. Politics
	b. Literature
	c. Relations with France
	d. All of the above

Question 26

According to Laura Smith, that which “affect[s] the human mind with a sense of overwhelming grandeur or irresistible power; calculated to inspire awe, deep reverence, or loft emotion, by reason of its beauty, vastness, or grandeur” is known as the:

Choose one answer.

	a. Beautiful
	b. Sublime
	c. Terrifying
	d. Romantic

Question 27

Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner could be said to be suffering from an overwhelming feeling of ______.

Choose one answer.

	a. Guilt
	b. Disbelief
	c. Hatred
	d. Love

Question 28

In “Mont Blanc,” Shelley likens the power of the mountain to the power of human imagination in order to ______.

Choose one answer.

	a. Demonstrate how the human imagination is fragile
	b. Demonstrate how the human mind comprehends and perceives truth
	c. Demonstrate the power of the French Revolution on the British Romantic consciousness
	d. Demonstrate the intrinsic connection between imagination and death

Question 29

In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” what kind of animal does the Mariner kill?

Choose one answer.

	a. A hawk
	b. A nightingale
	c. A dove
	d. An albatross

Question 30

In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” who is the “he” referred to in the lines “A sadder and a wiser man\He rose the morrow morn.”

Choose one answer.

	a. Life-in-Death
	b. The Ancient Mariner
	c. The Wedding Guest
	d. The ship’s captain

Question 31

John Keats would probably NOT have written a poem celebrating ___________.

Choose one answer.

	a. The beauty of the natural world
	b. The pains of love
	c. Political and philosophical conservatism
	d. The nature of artistic creation

Question 32

Keats was most famous for:

Choose one answer.

	a. His odes
	b. His wild lifestyle
	c. His popularity with readers
	d. His extensive writings

Question 33

One of the central themes of Wordsworth’s “Peter Bell” is __________.

Choose one answer.

	a. How nature can render someone good
	b. How nature can corrupt someone
	c. Eternal youth
	d. A dark voyage into madness

Question 34

Percy Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc” presents nature as ____________.

Choose one answer.

	a. A powerful, sublime force
	b. A peaceful force
	c. Depressing and miserable
	d. Controlled by gods

Question 35

Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc” can be best said to depict an encounter with:

Choose one answer.

	a. The sublime
	b. Death
	c. Childhood
	d. A lost lover

Question 36

Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” can be best understood as a poem about _________.

Choose one answer.

	a. The passion between a husband and wife
	b. The loss of innocence
	c. The horrors of the French Revolution
	d. How poets can bring about political revolution

Question 37

The dedication of Byron’s “Don Juan” can be best described as __________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Sincere and heartfelt
	b. Mocking and satirical
	c. Mournful and dark
	d. Polemic and dry

Question 38

The general tone and attitude of Byron’s “Don Juan” would be best described as:

Choose one answer.

	a. Dramatic and dark
	b. Ironic and satirical
	c. Strange and haunting
	d. Humorless and stark

Question 39

To whom does the Ancient Mariner tell his story in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Coleridge
	b. Dorothy Wordsworth
	c. The Wedding Guest
	d. Life-in-Death

Question 40

Which of the following sentiments would be LEAST likely in a poem by Lord Byron?

Choose one answer.

	a. An expression of love for common man.
	b. Mockery toward William Wordsworth.
	c. An expression of doubt and angst.
	d. Dark humor.

Question 41

Which of the following would probably NOT occur in a William Wordsworth poem?

Choose one answer.

	a. Use of common, everyday language
	b. Engagement with the natural world
	c. Mockery of political figures
	d. Psychological insight

Question 42

Which poet would be most likely to write a poem reflecting upon the psychological changes he has undergone since his youth?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Blake
	b. John Keats
	c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	d. William Wordsworth

Question 43

Which poet would be most likely to write about his time in revolutionary France?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Wordsworth
	b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	c. William Blake
	d. John Keats

Question 44

Which Romantic poet did Shelley consider a close friend?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lord Byron
	b. William Wordsworth
	c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	d. William Blake

Question 45

Which Romantic poet died relatively unknown but would become famous posthumously, in the 19th century?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Blake
	b. Lord Byron
	c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	d. William Wordsworth

Question 46

Which Romantic poet was famous for being “mad, bad and dangerous to know”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lord Byron
	b. Percy Shelley
	c. John Keats
	d. William Blake

Question 47

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?

Choose one answer.

	a. John Keats
	b. William Blake
	c. Lord Byron
	d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 48

With whom did John Keats have a love affair?

Choose one answer.

	a. Fanny Brawne
	b. Dorothy Wordsworth
	c. Mary Shelley
	d. Mary Keats

Question 49

“Don Juan” and “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” are broken into sections called:

Choose one answer.

	a. Cantos
	b. Stanzas
	c. Lines
	d. Chapters

Question 50

John Keats died from:

Choose one answer.

	a. Influenza
	b. Tuberculosis
	c. Fever
	d. Suicide

Question 51

A tortured, dark-spirited, wry, and intellectual protagonist would most likely be found in a poem by ___________.

Choose one answer.

	a. William Blake
	b. Lord Byron
	c. William Wordsworth
	d. John Keats

Question 52

Shelley’s “Ode to Psyche” is narrated by:

Choose one answer.

	a. Psyche
	b. Cupid
	c. The author of the poem
	d. Shelley’s childhood self

Question 53

The final line of “We Are Seven” is: “And said, ‘Nay, we are seven.” This line suggests that:

Choose one answer.

	a. The little girl refuses to cast the dead out of her life.
	b. The little girl is insane or delusional
	c. The little girl’s siblings have not died
	d. The little girl herself is dead

Question 54

The lines “The loveliest and the last\The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew\Died on the promise of the fruit” are from a poem honoring:

Choose one answer.

	a. Percy Shelley
	b. John Keats
	c. Lord Byron
	d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 55

The main thematic focus of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is ______________.

Choose one answer.

	a. The nature of death
	b. The French Revolution
	c. The relationship between truth and beauty
	d. The author’s childhood experience

Question 56

The poem “London” can be best understood as _______________.

Choose one answer.

	a. A celebration of the city’s beauty
	b. A protest against social inequality
	c. An examination of the city’s past
	d. An attack on William Wordsworth

Question 57

The primary subject of “Ode to Psyche” is ____________.

Choose one answer.

	a. The possibility of sudden death
	b. The expansion of consciousness
	c. The relationship between art and humanity
	d. The death of Byron

Question 58

Which contemporary fictional character can be understood as a Byronic hero?

Choose one answer.

	a. Superman
	b. Dr. House
	c. Luke Skywalker
	d. Yoda

Question 59

Which of the following authors would be most likely to use the supernatural in his poems?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Wordsworth
	b. John Keats
	c. Percy Shelley
	d. William Blake?

Question 60

Which of the following is a love poem?

Choose one answer.

	a. John Clare’s “To Elia”
	b. Wordsworth “Peter Bell”
	c. Byron’s “Don Juan”
	d. Coleridge’s “Kubla Kahn”

Question 61

Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes?

Choose one answer.

	a. Arrogance
	b. Nihilism
	c. Good spirits
	d. Dark humor

Question 62

Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lord Byron
	b. Percy Shelley
	c. John Keats
	d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 63

Which of the following Romantic poets would have been most likely to write a poem celebrating the innocence of childhood?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lord Byron
	b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	c. William Blake
	d. William Wordsworth

Question 64

Which poet would be least likely to write about the beauty of nature?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Wordsworth
	b. John Keats
	c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	d. Lord Byron

Question 65

Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem using the language of common, ordinary people?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Wordsworth
	b. Lord Byron
	c. Percy Shelley
	d. John Keats

Question 66

Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lord Byron
	b. Percy Shelley
	c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	d. William Blake

Question 67

Which poet would most likely express an adherence to atheism in his writing?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Wordsworth
	b. William Blake
	c. John Keats
	d. Percy Shelley

Question 68

Which Romantic poet would be the least likely to write a piece of literary criticism?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lord Byron
	b. Percy Shelley
	c. William Hazlitt
	d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 69

Who is the narrator of “Don Juan”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lord Byron
	b. Bob Southey
	c. Don Juan
	d. A nameless narrator

Question 70

William Blake’s “Little Black Boy” advocates for _________

Choose one answer.

	a. The abolition of slavery
	b. The equality of all people
	c. The innate brilliance of children
	d. The beauty of common language

Question 71

William Blake’s “Song of Innocence” poems can be best described, in terms of style, as:

Choose one answer.

	a. Simple
	b. Violent
	c. Satirical
	d. Mythological

Question 72

William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” explores _________.

Choose one answer.

	a. The loss of childhood and discovery of the adult world
	b. The fall of Satan
	c. The life of Blake
	d. The history of London

Question 73

“Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey” explores ___________.

Choose one answer.

	a. The way in which one’s psychological state changes over time
	b. The failures of Romanticism
	c. The beauty of the natural world
	d. Coleridge’s addiction to drugs

Question 74

“Ode to a Nightingale” focuses on ______________.

Choose one answer.

	a. How pleasures are fleeting and life cannot continue forever
	b. The fall of man into sin
	c. The futility of artistic creation
	d. The unfortunate conclusion of the French Revolution

Question 75

Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” suggests that _____________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Beauty can be understood only through metaphysics
	b. Anything that is intellectual cannot be beautiful
	c. Beauty is missing from the world
	d. The source of beauty cannot be known, and that beauty can only be felt

Question 76

According to the essay “A Defense of Poetry,” which of the following is one of the two “classes of mental action”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Reason
	b. Fear
	c. Illogic
	d. Indifference

Question 77

Dr. Samuel Gladden believes Shelley’s agenda was to ___________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Revolutionize France
	b. Expose the nature of reality
	c. Expose how intimate relationships inform political realities
	d. Change sexual morals

Question 78

Dr. Samuel Gladden, in his essay “Shelley's Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant,” argues that Shelley’s “Oedipus-Tyrannus” is important because ______________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Shelley himself dismissed the poem
	b. The poem was incomplete
	c. Shelley recognizes the power of sexual transgression in it
	d. Shelley writes about Byron’s sexuality in it

Question 79

Duncan Wu discusses the presentation of “spots of time” in the poetry of:

Choose one answer.

	a. William Wordsworth
	b. William Blake
	c. Percy Shelley
	d. Lord Byron

Question 80

Duncan Wu rejects the assertion that Wordsworth’s Lucy poems were primarily about ________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Death
	b. Perception
	c. Exhaustion
	d. Love

Question 81

Elizabeth Fey refers to which poet as “a sort of poet-king Arthur”?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Wordsworth
	b. William Blake
	c. Lord Byron
	d. Percy Shelley

Question 82

In “A Defense of Poetry,” Percy Shelley argues that humans have an impulse to _______.

Choose one answer.

	a. Write stories
	b. Resist understanding poetry
	c. Reproduce rhythm and order
	d. Strive to express love

Question 83

In “Of Poetry in General,” William Hazlitt contends that good poetry comes from _______.

Choose one answer.

	a. The intellect
	b. The author’s personal pain
	c. Strong feeling
	d. Rewriting Homer

Question 84

Paul O’Brien argues that Shelley did not lose his passion for the French Revolution, but that ________ did.

Choose one answer.

	a. Lord Byron and John Clare
	b. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	c. John Keats and William Blake
	d. Lord Byron and William Blake

Question 85

Paul O’Brien contends that __________ make(s) Shelley a “radical.”

Choose one answer.

	a. Shelley’s political beliefs
	b. Shelley’s sexuality
	c. Shelley’s love of Shakespeare
	d. Shelley’s relationship with Byron

Question 86

Paul O’Brien’s essay on Shelley suggests that Shelley was ___________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Not an atheist
	b. In love with Lord Byron
	c. Suicidal
	d. Fiercely anti-war

Question 87

Percy Shelley can be understood as a poet with _______________.

Choose one answer.

	a. No sense of reality
	b. A desire to make the world into a better place
	c. A dark and twisted outlook on the world
	d. A strong dislike of women

Question 88

Referring to poets as “unacknowledged legislators of the world” suggests that:

Choose one answer.

	a. Most Romantic poets were politicians
	b. Poets have no actual effect upon the world
	c. Poets actually help the world grow and develop
	d. Hardly anyone actually reads Romantic poetry

Question 89

The line “fools are my theme, let satire be my song” demonstrates a sentiment that would likely appear in a poem by:

Choose one answer.

	a. William Wordsworth
	b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	c. William Blake
	d. Lord Byron

Question 90

Which long Romantic poem opens with the line “oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze”?

Choose one answer.

	a. “The Prelude”
	b. “Don Juan”
	c. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
	d. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Question 91

Which poem by Wordsworth examines writer’s block?

Choose one answer.

	a. “The Prelude”
	b. “We Are Seven”
	c. “Lines Written a few miles above Tintern Abbey”
	d. “Lines Written in Early Spring”

Question 92

Which poem is considered Wordsworth’s magnum opus?

Choose one answer.

	a. “Lyrical Ballads”
	b. “The Prelude”
	c. “We Are Seven”
	d. “Lines Written in Early Spring”

Question 93

Which poet defines poetry as “the expression of the imagination”?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Hazlitt
	b. William Wordsworth
	c. Percy Shelley
	d. Lord Byron

Question 94

Which poet would have been most likely to compose a poem examining his own childhood?

Choose one answer.

	a. Percy Shelley
	b. John Keats
	c. William Wordsworth
	d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 95

Which Romantic author is the subject of Paul O’Brien’s essay “Prophet of the Revolution”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lord Byron
	b. Percy Shelley
	c. William Blake
	d. William Wordsworth

Question 96

Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Blake
	b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	c. Lord Byron
	d. Percy Shelley

Question 97

Who does Shelley consider the true founders of civilized cultures and laws?

Choose one answer.

	a. Kings and queens
	b. Poets and artists
	c. Dictators and Tyrants
	d. All people equally

Question 98

Who referred to poets as “the unacknowledged legislators of the world”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lord Byron
	b. William Blake
	c. William Hazlitt
	d. Percy Shelley

Question 99

Who refers to poetry as “an imitation of nature”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Percy Shelley
	b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	c. William Hazlitt
	d. William Wordsworth

Question 100

In her essay “Wordsworth Balladry: Real Men Wanted,” Elizabeth Fey argues that the Romantics were interested in the medieval focus upon __________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Courtly love and modern-seeming emotion
	b. Violence
	c. Nature
	d. Death and disease