English Literature Multiple Choice Questions on Romantic Period
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Most Important Writers and their literary works in ROMANTIC PERIOD :
- The Prelude
- Upon Westminster Bridge
- Tinter Abbey
- Lyrical Ballads
- Biographia Literaria
- Rime of Ancient Mariner
- Kubla Khan
- Christabel
- Queen Mab
- Ode to the West Wind
- Ode to a Skylark
- To Night
- Defence of Poetry
- Endymion
- Hyperion
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode to Autumn
- Ode to Psyche
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- On Melancholy
- Northanger Abbey
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility
- Persuasion
- Mansfield Park
- Emma
- Sedition
MCQs Type Questions On Romantic Period | English Literature | 100 Top MCQs
1. Who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language?
A. James Boswell
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Richard Steele
D. William Blake
Ans. B
2. _____ wrote A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful.
A. Adam Smith
B. William Blake
C. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D. Edmund Burke
Ans. D
3. George III ascended the throne of England in _____.
A. 1760
B. 1775
C. 1780
D. 1789
Ans A
4. The French Revolution began in _____.
A. 1777
B. 1776
C. 1798
D. 1789
Ans. D
5. In 1819, British forces charged on a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester resulting in the _____.
A. Battle of Waterloo
B. Peterloo Massacre
C. Boer’s War
D. Putney Debates
Ans. B
6. William Blake was born in _____.
A. 1757
B. 1770
C. 1780
D. 1795
Ans. A
7. The Castle of Otranto was written by _____.
A. Mrs. Radcliffe
B. Jane Austen
C. Horace Walpole
D. Samuel Johnson
Ans. C
8. The origin of Gothic fiction is attributed to ____.
A. Agatha Christie
B. Horace Walpole
C. Ann Radcliffe
D. William Blake
Ans. B
9. The Songs of Innocence and the Songs of Experience were written by ______.
A. Keats B. Byron
C. Coleridge
D. Blake
Ans. D
10. Which of the following has child labour as its theme?
A. Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight
B. Blake’s The Chimney Sweeper
C. Wordsworth’s ‘Lucy’ poems
D. Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Ans. B
11. _____ begins with the following famous line: “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day”.
A. Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey
B. Blake’s Chimney Sweeper
C. Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight
D. Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Ans. D
12. The Romantic Movement was a reaction against _____.
A. the Sublime
B. the Pastoral ideal
C. the Medieval Age
D. the Age of Enlightenment
Ans. D
13. Ivanhoe was written by _____.
A. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
B. Sir Walter Scott
C. Dr. Johnson
D. Francis Bacon
Ans. B
14. William Wordsworth was born in _____.
A. 1760
B. 1770
C. 1757
D. 1775
Ans. B
15. John Keats died in _____.
A. 1795
B. 1819
C. 1821
D. 1825
Ans. C
16. Which of the following events triggered the French Revolution?
A. the storming of the Bastille
B. the Peterloo Massacre
C. Napoleon’s exile to St. Helena
D. the Seven Years’ War
Ans. A
17. Which of the following is true about the Romantics?
A. They believed in rationalism above all else. B. They discarded Hellenism as imaginatively sterile.
C. They criticized poetry and poets.
D. They highlighted the healing power of imagination.
Ans. D
18. _____ wrote the _____ in 1819 as a reaction of furious outrage at the Peterloo Massacre.
A. Keats; The Fall of Hyperion
B. Shelley; The Masque of Anarchy
C. Byron; Beppo
D. Goethe; The Sorrows of Young Werther
Ans. B
19. The Lyrical Ballads was a collaborative collection by _____ and was published, anonymously, in _____.
A. Wordsworth and Blake; 1790
B. Wordsworth and Coleridge; 1798
C. Coleridge and Shelley; 1802
D. Shelley and Keats; 1819
Ans. B
20. ‘The Thorn’ and ‘The Idiot Boy’ were written by _____.
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Blake
D. Gray
Ans. A
21. In _____, Blake emphasizes the injustice of late 18th-century society and the desperation of the poor.
A. ‘The Tyger’
B. ‘The Lamb’
C. ‘Auguries of Innocence’
D. ‘London’
Ans. D
22. A Walking Tour of Cumbria is associated with _____.
A. William and Dorothy Wordsworth
B. Keats and Shelley
C. Coleridge
D. Byron
Ans. C
23. A key idea in Romantic poetry is the concept of the _____ which conveys the feelings people experience when they see awesome landscapes, or find themselves in extreme situations which elicit both fear and admiration.
A. fancy
B. imagination
C. pastoral
D. sublime
Ans. D
24. The terms primary and secondary imaginations can be attributed to _____.
A. Wordsworth
B. S. T. Coleridge
C. Boswell
D. Johnson
Ans. B
25. Who, among the following, is a second-generation Romantic poet?
A. Blake
B. Byron
C. Coleridge
D. Wordsworth
Ans. B
26. In the suppressed Dedication to Don Juan (1819-1824) Byron criticized the Poet Laureate, _____.
A. William Wordsworth
B. Robert Southey
C. S.T. Coleridge
D. P.B. Shelley
Ans. B
27. The full name of Shelley is _____.
A. Percy Beecham Shelley
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. Pierce Bingham Shelley
D. Paul Brinsley Shelley
Ans B
28. The full name of S.T. Coleridge is ______.
A. Samuel Tailor Coleridge
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Solomon Taylor Coleridge
D. Solomon Tailor Coleridge
Ans. B
29. Although the Romantics stressed the importance of the individual, they also advocated a commitment to mankind. _____ became actively involved in the struggles for Italian nationalism and the liberation of Greece from Ottoman rule.
A. Southey
B. Wordsworth
C. Keats
D. Byron
Ans. D
30. Of whom did Lady Caroline Lamb famously declare that he was ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’?
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Byron
D. Blake
Ans. C
31. Who wrote: “If Poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all”?
A. Wordsworth
B. Keats
C. Byron
Ans. B
33. _____ was sent down from Oxford for advocating atheism.
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Byron
D. Hunt
Ans. B
34. _____ wrote ‘The Chimney Sweeper’s Complaint’.
A. Mary Shelley
B. Mary Alcock
C. Mary Robinson
D. William Blake
Ans. B
35. The ‘Rowley’ poems are associated with _____.
A. Thomas Chatterton
B. Mary Robinson
C. Robert Southey
D. Leigh Hunt
Ans. A
36. E´mile was penned by _____.
A. Hartley
B. Locke
C. Voltaire
D. Rousseau
Ans. D
37. Rousseau wrote _____.
A. Candide
B. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
C. On the Origin of Language
D. The Social Contract
Ans. D
38. _____ wrote Critique of Pure Reason.
A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B. William Wordsworth
C. Immanuel Kant
D. Charles Lamb
Ans. C
39. Who, among the following, retold the plays of Shakespeare in prose for a younger audience?
A. William and Dorothy Wordsworth
B. Charles and Mary Lamb
C. Wordsworth and Coleridge
D. P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley
Ans. B
40. In 1784, the Pitt’s India Act _____.
A. banned trade with India
B. introduced the Doctrine of Lapse in India
C. restricted the autonomy of the East India Company
D. banned commercial transactions in the Far East
Ans. C
41. _____ marked the Centenary of the Glorious Revolution.
A. 1688
B. 1700
C. 1800
D. 1788
Ans. D
42. ______ wrote The Book of Thel.
A. Sir Thomas More
B. William Blake
C. William Cowper
D. Mary Wollstonecraft
Ans. B
43. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was written by _____.
A. William Blake
B. P.B. Shelley
C. S.T. Coleridge
D. Sir Joshua Reynolds
Ans. A
44. A Vindication of the Rights of Men was written by ______ and was published in ______.
A. Mary Wollstonecraft; 1790
B. Felicia Hemans, 1792
C. Adam Smith; 1771
D. William Bowles; 1789
Ans. A
45. The narrative poem, ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ was written by _____.
A. John Keats
B. Robert Burns
C. Mary Alcock
D. William Cowper
Ans. B
46. In The Rights of Man, _____ explored the idea that government based on true justice should support not only mankind's natural rights (life, liberty, free speech, freedom of conscience) but also its civil rights (relating to security and protection).
A. Adam Smith
B. Charlotte Brooke
C. Charlotte Smith
D. Thomas Paine
Ans. D
47. _____ marked the trial and execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
A. 1789
B. 1793
C. 1798
D. 1800
Ans. B
48. _____ was associated with the ‘Reign of Terror’ in France and is an influential figure of the French Revolution.
A. Napoleon
B. Robespierre
C. Cromwell
D. Mary Antoinette
Ans. B
49. Keats dedicated his Endymion to the memory of _____.
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. Leigh Hunt
D. Thomas Chatterton
Ans. D
50. The line, “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” is associated with _____.
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Byron
D. Coleridge
Ans. A
