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ROMANTIC PERIOD
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1. Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain

Societies in London Relative to
that Event, published in 1790 was the work of
(a) Gibbon (b) Burke (c) Coleridge (d) Paine
2. The fall of the prison of Bacfille, that marks the beginning of the French
Revolution, occurred on
(a) June 14, 1789 (b) June 14, 1798 (c) July 14, 1789 (d) July 14, 1798
3. "Man is born free, but alas! he is everywhere in chains" - these are the
famous words of
(a) Plato (b) Socrates (c) Hobbes (d) Rousseau
4. Who wrote the Ode to France under the influence of the French Revolution ?
(a) Coleridge (b) Blake (c) Shelley (d) Byron
5. In which of his poems Shelley denounces > all the forces of .tyranny and
oppression
represented- by kings and priests ?
(a) Alaster (b) Queen Mab (c) Adonais (d) The Revolt of Islam
6. "O Wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind! These famous words of
Shelley have been taken from
(a) The Cloud (b) Ode to West Wind (c) Isabella (d) The Eve of St. Agnes
7. Though Keats was the least affected by the French Revolution directly, which
of his works has been said
to be bearing revolutionary implications?
(a) Ode to Autumn (b) Endymion (c) Hypehon (d) Psyche
8. GrongarHill, a piece of vigorous landscape painting, was written by the pre-
Romantic poet
(a) James Thomson (b)John Dyer (c) Lady Winchilsea (d) Thomas Paruel
9. Wordsworth has described various stages of his association with Nature. In
which stage did he hear "The
still sad music of humanity"?
(a) The boyish stage (b) The initial stage (c) The final stage (d) All the stages
10. In which of his poems Wordsworth tells the scholar to do away with books
and make Nature his teacher?
(a) Tables Turned (b) Tintern Abbey (c) The Solitary Reaper (d) The Prelude
11. Who uses the 'pansies' as the symbol of sad thoughts and 'violets' of
modesty and innocence in one of his
poems?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Keats (d) Shelley
12. "And it is my faith That every flower enjoys the air it breathes."
Who holds this faith?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Keats (d) Shelley13. What has been addressed
as a "cloud of fire", an "un embodied joy", "a golden
glowworm", "a rose empowered in green leaves" and a "poet hidden in the light
of thought"?
(a) West Wind (b) Pansy (c) Skylark (d) Nightingale
14. Who has been said to combine Pantheism and Platonism in his nature
poetry ?
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Byron (d) Coleridge
15. Shelley writes in Adonais, "A portion of the loveliness Which once he made
more lovely." Who does
"he" refer to in these lines?
(a) Himself (b) Keats (c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge
16. Which of the nature poets has been said to be endowed with "organic
sensibility"?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Shelley (d) Keats
17. Who wrote the "Isles of Greece", a fine appreciation of the great deeds done
by the Greeks in the past?
(a) Byron (b) Shelley (c) Keats (d) Leigh Hunt
18. Whom does the Greek god Pan fight with in Shelley's Hymn of Pan?
(a) Titans (b) Apollo (c) Zeus (d) All of the above
19. "Hallas", a frequent theme in Romantic Poetry is
(a) a Greek god (b) an ancient Greek sculptor (c) the oldest poet of Greece (d)
the ancient name of Greece
20. Which of the following poems of Keats bears the mark of Hellenism?
(a) Endymion and Hyperion (b) Lamia and Grecian Urn (c) Ode to Nightingale
and Psyche
(d) All of the above
21. The most important ballad collection of the eighteenth century was Reliques
of Ancient English Poetry.
Who made this admirable collection?
(a) Thomas Chatterton (b) Rowley (c) Bishop Percy (d) James Macpherson
22. The Ossianic Poems which explore the world of Celtic antiquity was written
by
(a) Bishop Percy(b) Byron (c) Macpherson (d) Coleridge
23. Porphyro and Madeline are the lovers in
(a) La Belle Dame Sans Merci (b) The Eve of St. Agnes (c) The Eve of St. Mark (d)
Isabella
24. Who was called by Keats as "The Egotistical Sublime" ?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley (c) Byron (d) Coleridge
25. Who has been referred to as "the high priest of romanticism" ?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Keats (c) Blake (d) Coleridge
26. In which of his poems coleridge wrote, "O Lady ! we receive but what we
give And in our life alone does
Nature Live" ?
(a) Kubla Khan (b) The Ancient Mariner (c) Christabel (d) The Dejection Ode
27. "Abundantly and enchantingly sensuous" -this phrase was attributed to
Keats by
(a) Shelley (b) Leigh Hunt (c) Arnold (d) Eliot
28. "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, that's all ye
need to know" These famous
lines have been taken from one of the famous odes of Keats. Name it.
(a) Ode to Nightingale (b) Ode on a Grecian Urn (c) Ode to Autumn (d) Ode to
Psyche
29. Prior to Keats who else was an endowment of what has been called the
"Negative capability"?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Milton (c) Spenser (d) Shakespeare
30. Regarding whom does Symonds write, "In none of his greatest
contemporaries was the lyrical faculty so
paramount"?
(a) Keats (b) Spenser (c) Shelley (d) Coleridge
31. Frankenstein, a proto-science fiction was written by
(a) P.B. Shelley (b) Mary Shelley (c) Charles Lamb (d) Mary Lamb
32. Who is Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's novel?
(a) A monster (b) An evil spirit (c) The feeling of irrational fear personified (d)
The scientist
33. In which of his poems Wordsworth records his impressions of a
manufacturing district of Northern
England?
(a) Prelude (b) Lyrical Ballads (c) The Excursion (d) The Ruined Cottage34. The
historic drama The Fall of Robespierre published in 1794 was written by
Coleridge and
(a) Crabbe (b) Southey (c) Wordsworth (d) Burns
35. Who is the author of The Book of the Church and Sir Thomas More?
(a) Priestly (b) Burns (c) Southey (d) Godwin
36. Which of the following is a pro-revolutionary poem by Southey?
(a) The Fall of Rabespierre (b) Joan of Arc (c) Walt Tylor (d) The Constitution of
Church and State
37. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria was published in
(a) 1801 (b)1808 (c)1817 (d)1827
38. Who introduces as a narrator a country parson exploring "the simple annals"
of his parish leafing, in his
poem The Parish Register (1807)?
(a) Southey (b) Burns (c) Crabbe (d) Austen
39. Lady Catherine is the famous character of Austen's
(a) Pride and Prejudice (b) Persuasion (c) Mansfield Park (d) Emma
40. Who wrote The Entail (1822), a tragic fiction?
(a) Scott (b) Ferrier (c) Edgeworth (d) Gait
41. Who is the author of The Absentee, Ormond and Castle Rackrent?
(a) Walter Scott (b) Edgeworth (c) Gait (d) Susan Ferrier
42. Marmion, The Lady of the Lake and Rokeby are the well-known poems of
(a) Raleigh (b) Hunt (c) Ferrier (d) Scott
43. The first two cantos of Childe Harold which made Byron instantaneously
famous were published in
(a) 1810 (b) 1811 (c)1812 (d) 1814
44. Sardanapalus and The Two Fosconi are the verse tragedies of
(a) Shelley (b) Byron (c) Keats (d) Southey
45. Who was expelled from the Oxford University for his undergraduate
pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism
(a) Byron (b) Keats (c) Shelley (d) Coleridge
46. Which of the following written in 1821 and published posthumously in 1840
bears Shelley's most
confidential proclamation of the social function of poetry and the prophetic role
of the poet ?
(a) A Defence of Poetry (b) The Triumph of Life (c) Hellas (d) The Mask of
Anarchy
47. "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." This was chosen as his own
epitaph by
(a) Shelley (b) Byron (c) Keats (d) Shakespeare
48. Who wrote An Essay on the Principles of Human Action (1805) from which
Keats drew considerably?
(a) Coleridge (b) Scott (c) Hazlitt (d) Hunt
49. Hazlitt presented a sharp and witty criticism of his literary and political
contemporaries in 1825, in his
compilation
(a) Spirit of the Age (b) Essays on the Principles of Human Action (c) New
Pygmalion
(d) None of the above
50. Who established his literary reputation as 'Elia', the author of a series of
essays mostly contributed to the
'London Magazine'?
(a) Hazlitt (b) Charles Lamb (c) De Quincey (d) Crabbe
51. Who is the author of the celebrated and once notorious work, The
Confessions of an English Opium
Eater, published in the London Magazine in 1821?
(a) Byron (b) Lamb (c) De Quincey (d) Coleridge
52. Maid Marion and The Misfortunes ofElphin are the novels written by
(a) De Quincey (b) T.L. Peacock (c) S. Glowry (d) Hazlitt
53. Who wrote a poem by the name The Shepherd's Calender that was
published in 1827?
(a) William Cobbet (b) Robert Bloomfield (c) John Clare (d) Hopkins
54. "But Europe at that time was thrilled with joy France standing on the top of
golden hours And human
nature seeming born again". These lines regarding the French Revolution are of
(a) De Quincey (b) Shelley (c) Wordsworth (d) Sir Walter Raleigh
55. "Liberty the soul of Life shall reign | Shall throb in every pulse, shall flow
through every vein." Who
wrote the above lines about the French Revolution?
(a) Thomas Paine (b)S.T. Coleridge (c) William Godwin (d) Robert Southey56.
"Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who Day ye low ? Wherefore
weave with toil and care
The rich robes you tyrants wear ?" These revolutionary thoughts hailed from
(a) Byron (b) Shelley (c) De Quincey (d) Walter Scott
57. John Murray and William Gifford were the publisher, and editor respectively
of
(a) Quarterly Review (b) The Edinburgh Magazine (c) The London Magazine (d)
New Monthly Magazine
58. About which magazine Scott had said, "No genteel family can pretend to be
without it" and Cariyle had
remarked that it was "a kind of Delphic Oracle and voice of the inspired for the
great majority of what is
called the intelligent public"?
(a) Edinburg Review (b) The London Magazine (c) Fraser's Magazine (d) The
West minister Review
59. In which chapter of the Biographia Literaria does Coleridge make a subtle
distinction between
imagination and fancy?
(a) Chapter I (b) Chapter VII (c) Chapter XIII (d) Chapter XX
60. Who in his critical work Specimens of English Dramatic poets who wrote
about the time of Shakespeare,
endeavoured to spread the knowledge of older English playwrights? (a) Hazlitt
(b) Coleridge (c) Leigh Hunt (d) Lamb
61. Who wrote the essays, Note on the knocking at the Gate in Macbeth and
Murder considered as one of the
Fine Arts?
(a) Charles Lamb (b) William Hazlitt (c) Thomas De Quincey (d) Leigh Hunt
62. Whose fame as an essayist rests on Imaginary Conversations ?
(a) De Quincey (b) Hunt (c) Scott (d) Landor
63. The credit of pioneering the historical novel is often attributed to
(a) Godwin (b) Scott (c) Austen (d) Southey
64. Which of the following attempts at historical fiction was made prior to
Scott's popularisation of the
genre?
(a) The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (b) The Castle of Otranto by Horace
Walpole
(c) Recess by Sophia Lee (d) All of the above
65. In which of his novels Scott represented that Shakespeare died in 1590
without writing his tragedies ?
(a) Kenilworth (b) Red Gauntlet (c) Woodstock (d) Abbot
66. In which one of Austen's novels Fanny visits her parents' home at
apartments after an absence of more
than 10 years?
(a) Emma (b) Persuasions (c) Pride and Prejudice (d) Mansfied Park
67. Where does Darcy propose Elizabeth in the Pride and Prejudice?
(a) Hunsford Parsonage (b) The village ball (c) Germany (d) None of the above
68. In which novel of Austen, John Dashwood, the henpecked husband,
appears?
(a) Northanger Abbey (b) Emma (c) Sense and Sensibility (d) Mansfield Park
69. Which work of Jane Austen is a satire directed against Gothic Romance and
stormy passions?
(a) Pride and Prejudice (b) Mansfield Park (c) Emma (d) Northanger Abbey
70. Who wrote blank-verse tragedies such as Cain, Manfred, Marino Faliero and
The Deformed
Transformed?
(a) Swinburne (b) Coleridge (c) Scott (d) Byron
71. Who wrote the tragedy John Woodvil, that was originally given the title
Pride's
Care' ?
(a) Lamb (b) Hazlitt (c) De Quincey (d) Hunt
72. "The churchyard school of poets" means
(a) the poets who wrote only about the church
(b) the poets who wrote poetry chiefly of melancholic strain
(c) the poets who wrote for the reformation of the church
(d) All of the above
73. Who among the following has been called a "Ploughman Poet"?
(a) Blake
(b) Gray(c) Thomson
(d) Burns
74. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was dedicated to
(a) Richardson
(b) Defoe
(c) G. Lyttleton
(d) Bishop Percy
75. Whom did T.L. Peacock satirise in his Nightmare Abbey?
(a) Shelley
(b) Keats
(c) Coleridge
(d) Both (a) and (c)
76. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a
good
fortune, must be in want of a wife". Which novel of Jane Austen begins with this
sentence?
(a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Sense and Sensibility
(c) Emma
(d) Mansfield Park
77. The Times which acquired this name in 1788 was earlier known as
(a) Daily Universal Register
(b) The Daily Digest
(c) The Tatler
(d) The Rambler
78. Who among the following had written, "Hell is a city much like London"?
(a) Byron
(b) Shelley
(c) Thomson
(d) Lamb
79. Many critics have hailed the publication of the Lyrical Ballads as the
beginning of the Romantic Period.
In which year was it published?
(a) 1796
(b)1797
(c) 1798
(d)1799
80. The Romantic writers were influenced by the idealism of German
philosophers such as
(a) Kant and Rousseau
(b) Rousseau and More
(c) More and Hegel
(d) Kant and Hegel
81. Who among the following had called Wordsworth, a 'Moral Eunuch'?
(a) Byron
(b) Browning
(c) Shelley
(d) Arnold82. Who emphasized the use of the "language really used by men" for
poetry?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Pope
83. The mariner in "The Ancient Mariner" kills a bird. Identify the bird among
the following,
(a) Albatross
(b) Swan
(c) Penguin
(d) Flemingo
84. Who made a scathing attack on the contemporary literary scene and the
'Edinburgh Review' through his
satire, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ?
(a) Shelley
(b) Byron
(c) Scott
(d) Hazlitt
85. "I awoke one morning and found myself famous" - who commented thus on
his sudden success as a poet?
(a) Milton
(b) Shelley
(c) Keats
(d) Byron
86. Regarding whom did Charlotte Bronte say, "The passions are perfectly
unknown to her: she rejects even
a speaking acquaintance with that stormy sisterhood." -
(a) Jane Austen(b) Lady Caroline Lamb
(c) Mary Shelley
(d) Emile Bronte
87. "For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die". Who has been quoted
here?
(a) Byron
(b) Coleridge
(c) Lamb
(d) De Quincey
88. Who hastened the death of Keats according to Shelley's Adonais?
(a) The Government
(b) The brutal reviewers
(c) His beloved
(d) Poetry
89. Who expressed his dislike for poetry "that has a palpable design upon us" in
one of his letters?
(a) Addison
(b) Arnold
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Keats
90. "It is no small thing to have so loved the principle of beauty as to perceive
the necessary relation beauty
with truth, and of both with joy". Who is Arnold talking about in this sentence?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Keats
(d) Tennyson
91. Who called Keats "a Greek" for his preoccupation with Hellenism in poetry ?
(a) Arnold
(b) Shelley
(c) Eliot
(d) None of the above
92. Which book, though not literature, exercised an enormous influence in
England during the beginning of
19th century?
(a) Communist Menifesto
(b) Robert Burns's Poems
(c) Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
(d) All of the above
93. Who formed "Pantisocracy on the banks of Susquehanna"?
(a) Coleridge & Southey
(b) Wordsworth & Southey
(c) Coleridge & Wordsworth
(d) Richardson & Steele
94. Who wrote : "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive | But to be young was very
heaven." ?
(a)ST. Coleridge
(b) William Wordsworth(c) Walter Scott
(d) Joseph Lancaster
95. Three of the following are called "Lake poets." Identify who is not.
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) Lord Byron
(c) ST. Coleridge
(d) Robert Southey
96. The age of Romanticism was
(a) 1800-1850
(b) 1770-1850
(c) 1760-1820
(d) 1771-1832
97. Name the woman novelist whose pictures of Irish life suggested to Walter
Scott the idea of writing
Scottish romances.
(a) Fanny Burney
(b) Hannah More
(c) Jane Porter
(d) Maria Edgeworth
98. Who writes novels of haunted castles, bandits, trapdoor and horror ?
(a) Maria Edgeworth
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Fanny Burney
(d) Mrs. Anne Radcliffe
99. Where do we meet Hermes, Lycious, Appolonius?
(a) Lamia
(b) Endymion
(c) Hyperion
(d) None of the above
100. The story of Lamia is taken from
(a) Plutarch
(b) Homer (Chapman's Homer) (c) Lemprier's Dictionary
(d) Philostratus
101. Keat's Endymion has
(a) 3,000 lines
(b) 4,000 lines
(c) 2500 lines
(d) 4,500 lines
102. Which is the pair of lovers Endymion does not meet in Keat's Endymion?
(a) Venus and Adonis
(b) Romeo and Juliet
(c) Glaucus and Scylla
(d) Arcthusa and Alpheus
103. Who wrote the famous Preface to the Lyrical Ballads?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Southey
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Byron
104. When were the Lyrical Ballads published?
(a)1797
(b)1798
(c)1800
(d) 1801
105. The Lyrical Ballads opens with
(a) Kubla Khan
(b) Ode to Duty
(c) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(d) Immortality Ode
106. The Lyrical Ballads closes with
(a) Kubla Khan
(b) Immortality Ode
(c) Christabel
(d) Lines Written above Tintern Abbey
107. Who was the third person with Coleridge and Wordsworth at Quantock
Hills when the Lyrical Ballads
were composed?
(a) Robert Southey
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Dorothy Wordsworth
(d) Mary Lamb
108. William Wordsworth was born in
(a) 1770
(b)1771
(c)1768
(d)1769109. Who of the following is known for his Hellenic Spirit ?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) P.B. Shelley
(c) Southey
(d) John Keats
110. Who wrote :
"Our Sweetest songs are those That tell our saddest thoughts"?
(a) P.B. Shelley
(b) Robert Southey
(c) Cardinal Newman
(d) ST. Coleridge
111. How do we classify Shelley's Prometheus Unbound? As
(a) an epic
(b) a legendary story
(c) mythological story
(d) a lyrical drama
112. Who wrote this: "He prayeth Well, who loveth well | Both man and bird
and beast"?
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) ST. Coleridge
(c) Leigh Hunt
(d) Cardinal Newman
113. Name the journal to which Southey contributed regularly.
(a) The Quarterly Review
(b) The Blackwoods Magazine
(c) The Edinburgh Review
(d) The Westminister Review
114. Sir Walter Scott collected Scottish ballads and published them along with
his own, ir
(a) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(b) Marmion
(c) Minstrelsy of The Scottish Border
(d) The Lord of The Isles
115. How old was Byron when he published Hourof Idleness, a collection of
poems in heroic couplet ?
(a) 19
(b)29
(c)18
(d)30
116. When Hours of Idleness was criticised by the Edinburgh Review, Lord Byron
retaliated by writing a
satiric piece. What was the title of this satire?
(a) The Vision of Judgement
(b) Mazeppa
(c) The Giaour
(d) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
117. How many cantos could Byron complete of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
during his two years tour of the
continent?
(a) All four
(b) First two
(c) One and three
(d) Only one
118. The first two cantos of Childe Harold take a reader to
(a) Spain
(b) Portugal
(c) Greece and Albania
(d) All of the above.
119. What is the tone of the ending of the second canto of Childe Harold?
(a)Joyous
(b) Melancholy
(c) Self-pitying
(d) Optimistic
120. In which canto does the description of the "Battle of Waterloo" appear?
(a) Canto I
(b) It is an independent poem
(c) Canto III
(d) Canto IV
121. Who is the hero of Childe Harold?
(a) Nature
(b) An unnamed traveller
(c) A legendary king
(d) The poet himself
122. "Michael", "The Solitary Reaper," "To a Highland Girl" - all these poems
depict
(a) the poet's joy at the beauty of nature
(b) simple common folk
(c) poet's awe at the spiritual presence
(d) deep sense of music
123. What was Wordsworth's professed aim in the Lyrical Ballads? (a) Purge
poetry of all conceit
(b) Simplicity of diction
(c) Make it intelligible to common people
(d) All of the above
124. Which work inspired Coleridge's Kubla Khan?
(a) Holinshed's Chronicle
(b) Plutarch's Lives
(c) Travels in Scotland
(d) Purchas's Pilgrimage
125. The name of the prisoner of Chillon was
(a) Beppo
(b) Giaour
(c) Francois de Bonnivard
(d) Pasha
126. The Vision of Judgment is
(a) an attack on Jeffrey, the editor
(b) satire on Southey
(c) satire on a young man of Seville
(d) satire on society
127. Don Juan has
(a) 5 cantos
(b) 15 cantos
(c) 16 cantos
(d) 20 cantos
128. Who is Haidee in Don Juan?
(a) Wife of Don Alfonso
(b) Daughter of an old pirate
(c) Princess of Constantinople
(d) A Duchess
129. Where do we find these lines? "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
"Tis woman's whole
existence...."?
(a) Don Juan
(b) Beppo(c) Childe Harold
(d) Lara
130. Where do we meet these characters ? Don Alfonso, Julia, Sultana ? In
(a) Lara
(b) Don Juan
(c) Childe Harold
(d) Beppo
131. When he wrote Queen Mab, Shelley was only
(a) 19
(b)18
(c) 21
(d) 22
132. Which of Shelley's poems has a story from Greek mythology ?
(a) Prometheus Unbound
(b) Alastor
(c) Queen Mab
(d) Julian and Maddalo
133. Which poem was inspired by the Greek proclamation of independence,
followed by Greek revolt against
Turkish rule?
(a) Epipsychidion
(b) Queen Mab
(c) Hellas
(d) Prometheus
134. Who is Adonais of the poem Adonais?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) John Keats
(c) Shelley himself
(d) None of the above
135. We meet characters such as Asia, Hercules, Jupiter in
(a) Hellas
(b) Prometheus Unbound
(c) Adonais
(d) Queen Mab
136. In which novel Scott projects Scotland under Robert Bruce, King and
national hero ?
(a) Quentin Durward
(b) Kenilworth
(c) Castle Dangerous
(d) St. Ronan's Well
137. Which of the following is not written by Walter Scott?
(a) The Black Dwarf
(b) The Legend Montrose
(c) The Talisman
(d) None of the above 138. What is the background of Ivanhoe?
(a) The first crusade of Constantinople
(b) Contemporary life in the Scottish span of St. Ronan's Well
(c) Enmity of Saxon and Norman
(d) Wales under Henry II
139. Who wrote the following:
Castle Rackrent, the Absentee, Ormond ?
(a) Fanny Burney
(b) Jane Poster
(c) Thomas Peacock
(d) Maria Edgeworth
140. This woman novelist wrote "Scotch" novels: Thaddeus of Warsaw and The
Scottish Chiefs. Who is she ?
(a) Jane Porter
(b) Susan Ferrier
(c) Marry Russell Mitford
(d) Maria Edgeworth
141. Who wrote Headlong Hall, Maid Marian, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey,
Misfortunes ofElphin,
Crotchet Castle and Gryll Grange?
(a) Thomas Peacock
(b) G.P.R. James
(c) George Meredith
(d) Charles Lever
142. One of the following was not associated with the 'Edinburgh Review'.
Identify him.
(a) Sidney Smith
(b) William Blackwood
(c) Henry Brougham
(d) Francis Jeffrey
143. One of the characters of Jane Austen remarks, "A lady's imagination is very
rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
Who said this and in which novel ?
(a) Mr. Woodhouse in Emma
(b) Darcy in Pride and Prejudice
(c) Catherine in Nothanger Abbey
(d) None of the above
144. His sonnet was rejected by a magazine Gem, on the plea that it would
"shock mothers". At this he wrote
to a friend, "I am born out of time,... When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed
'Hang the age, I will write
for antiquity.' Who is he?
(a) Thomas Peacock
(b) Hazlitt
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Leigh Hunt
145. This patriotic song is often prescribed for school anthologies in India :
"Breathes there the man, With
soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, 'This is my own, my native land."
Who is the poet?
(a) Robert Southey
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Lord Byron
(d) William Wordsworth
146. Where do we find Bingley ?
(a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Sense and Sensibility
(c) Mansfield Park
(d) Persuasion
147. When was the unfinished dream poem 'Kubla Khan' published?
(a) 1816
(b)1810
(c)1820
(d) 1821
148. Read the line: "About thirty years age, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon,
with only seven thousand
pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram......". This is
the beginning of a novel by Jane Austen. Which one?
(a) Mansfield Park
(b) Emma
(c) Sense and Sensibility
(d) Northanger Abbey
149. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a
good fortune, must be in
want of a wife." Which of Jane Austen's novels begins with these words?
(a) Sense and Sensibility
(b) Northanger Abbey
(c) Pride and Prejudice
(d) Emma
150. Which of Scott's novels depicts the conflict between the Puritans, the
Covenanters, and the royal forces
under Claverhouse"?
(a) Old Morality (b) Castle Dangerous
(c) Heart of Midlothian
(d) Talisman
151. "Which novel, begun in 1895, but put aside, is Walter Scott's first novel ?
(a) Ivanhoe
(b) Waveriey
(c) Kenilworth
(d) Peveril of The Peak
152. All, except one, of the following poems are written by Coleridge. Mark the
one which is not.
(a) "Frost at midnight"
(b) "Hymn Before Sunrise in The Vale of Chamouni"
(c) "Ode to Night"
(d) "Ode on Dejection"
153. Who wrote :
"My hopes are with the Dead; anon My place with them will be And I with them
shall travel on Through all
futurity; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust"? (a)
ST. Coleridge
(b) Robert Southey
(c) Lord Byron
(d) Shelley
154. Who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1813?
(a) Robert Southey
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) Lord Byron
(d)Lord Tennyson
155. Which of these ballads and short tales are written by Robert Southey?
(a) The Battle of Blenheim
(b) Bishop Hatto
(c) Inchcape Rock
(d) All of the above
156. Who wrote the popular nursery tale Three Bears?
(a) Sir Walter Scott
(b) Lord Byron
(c) Robert Southey
(d) Charles Lamb
157. What, according to Wordsworth, is the power of nature?
(a) To teach
(b) To elevate
(c) To soothe and console
(d) All of the above.
158. Name Wordsworth's spiritual autobiography.
(a) Tintern Abbey
(b) The Recluse
(c) The Prelude
(d) Immortality Ode
159. In which poem do these lines occur: "For oft when on my couch I lie In
vacant or in pensive mood They
flash upon that inward eye When is a bliss of solitude"?
(a) To Daffodils
(b) The Daffodils
(c) The Solitary Reaper
(d) None of the above
160. Who wrote Lectures on Shakespeare and Biographia Literaria?
(a) ST. Coleridge
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Alexander Pope
(d) Lord Byron
161. What is Coleridge's Anima Poeta ?
(a) A treatise on poetry
(b) Biographies of poets (c) Table-talk and notes
(d) Lectures
162. Following poems are written by Shelley, except one. Identify the one not
written by him.
(a) Ode to the West Wind
(b) To a Skylark
(c) Ode to the Nightingale
(d) The Cloud
163. Who is the author of Story of Rumini?
(a) John Keats
(b) Leigh Hunt
(c) George Darley
(d) Macaulay
164. Where were Lyrical Ballads written ? In
(a) Cumberland Hills
(b) Cambridge
(c) Quantock Hills
(d) Hawshead
165. Who wrote Frankenstein ?
(a) Mary Shelley
(b) Mary Wollstonecraft
(c) Miss Edgeworth
(d) Mrs. Radcliff
166. Who is Elia of Charles Lamb's Essays of
Elia?
(a) His friend
(b) His patron
(c) An Italian clerk with whom he had worked in the South Sea House
(d) An imaginary figure
167. Essays of Elia first appeared in (a) London Magazine
(b) Gem
(c) Blackwood's Magazine
(d) Edinburgh Review
168. Tales from Shakespeare were written at the suggestion of
(a) Shelley
(b) Leigh Hunt
(c) Godwin
(d) De Quincey
169. Whom does Lamb describe as "an archangel a little damaged"?
(a) Shelley
(b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Keats
170. Who is not a member of the "cockney school" out of the following?
(a) Hazlitt
(b) De Quincey
(c) Lamb
(d) Leigh Hunt
171. Who wrote letter to Mr. Gifford, The Round Table, Table Talk, The Spirit of
the
Age?
(a) William Hazlitt
(b) Leigh Hunt
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) De Quincey
172. Which is Thomas De Quincey's best known work?
(a) Confessions of an Opium Eater
(b) The English Mail Coach
(c) Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power
(d) Surpiria De Profundis
173. Who is the author of Imaginary Conversations?
(a) De Quincey
(b)Landor
(c) William Cobbet
(d) Hazlitt
174. Who started and edited Political Register, a weekly newspaper?
(a) De Quincey
(b) Leigh Hunt
(c) William Cobbet
(d) Lamb
175. Who had said that he had "a smack of Hamlet" in himself?
(a) Byron
(b) Keats (c) Shelley
(d) Coleridge
176. Who is the author of Emile that had influenced the Romantic Movement ?
(a) Balzac
(b) Kant
(c) Diderot
(d) Rousseau
177. Who had said that "truth is always strange; stranger than fiction"?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Johnson
(c) Byron
(d) Hazlitt
178. Scott's novels are set in
(a) Scotland
(b) Italy
(c) England
(d) All of the above
179. Who wrote what are known as 'Waveley novels'?
(a) Hazlitt
(b) Hardy
(c) Scott
(d) Peacock
180. The Reform Bill was passed in the year
(a) 1812
(b)1832
(c)1820
(d)1840
181. Regarding which character did Jane Austen say that she was a "heroine
whom no one but myself will
much like "?
(a) Elizabeth Bennet
(b) Mrs. Bennet
(c) Emma
(d) None of the above
182. The celebrated twentieth century novelist Woolf had died by drowning
herself. Which Romantic poet
had died a similar death?
(a) Keats
(b) Byron
(c) Coleridge
(d) Shelley
183. Who had refused to accept the post of poet laureate in 1813 as a result of
which it had gone to Robert
Southey? (a) Wordsworth
(b) Scott
(c) Cowper
(d) Byron
In questions from Q. 184 to Q.197 match the lists by using the codes given
below
them.
184. List I List II
A. 1789 1. Flight of Louis XVI
B. 1791 2. Execution of Louis XVI
C. 1793 3. The fall of Bastille
Codes:
ABC
(a) 1 2 3
(b) 3 2 1
(c) 2 3 1
(d) 3 1 2
185. List I List II
A. The Rights of Man 1. Blake
B. The Marriage of Heaven 2. Burke and Hell
C. Political Justice 3. Paine
D. America 4. Godwin
Codes:
ABCD
(a) 3 2 4 1
(b) 3 4 1 2
(c) 1 3 4 2
(d) 1 2 4 3
186. List I List II
A. Camilla 1. Wollstonecraft
B. The Wrongs of 2. Burney Woman
C. Castle Reckrent 3. Edgeworth
D. The Lady of the Lake 4. Scott
Codes:
ABCD
(a) 1 2 3 4
(b) 2 1 3 4
(c) 1 2 4 3
(d) 2 1 4 3
187. List I List II
A. 1801 1. Restoration of Louis XVIII
B. 1814 2. Union of British and Irish parliaments
C. 1815 3. Battle of Waterloo
Codes:
ABC
(a) 3 1 2
(b) 3 2 1 (c) 2 3 1
(d) 2 1 3
188. List I List II
A. 1802 1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
B. 1809 2. Edinburgh Review
C. 1817 3. West minister Review
D. 1824 4. Quarterly Review
Codes:
ABCD
(a) 1 4 2 3
(b) 2 3 1 4
(c) 2 4 1 3
(d) 1 3 2 4
189. List I List II
A. Scott 1. Alastor
B. Byron 2. Guy Mannering
C. Shelley 3. The Shepherd's Calender
D. Clare 4. Trie Corsair
Codes:
ABcD
(a) 4 2 1 3
(b) 2 4 3 1
(c) 4 2 3 1
(d) 2 4 1 3
190. List I List II
A. The Antiquery and 1. Gait Old Mortality
B. Northanger Abbey 2. Ferrier
C. Marriage 3. Jane Austen
D. The Entail 4. Scott
Codes:
ABCD
(a) 3 4 2 1
(b) 4 3 2 1
(c) 4 1 2 3
(d) 3 4 1 2 191. List I List II
A. Annals of the 1. Gait Parish
B. Rob Roy 2. Cobbett
C. Manfred 3. Scott
D. Rural Rides 4. Byron
Codes:
ABCD
(a) 1 3 4 2
(b) 3 1 4 2
(c) 1 3 2 4
(d) 3 1 2 4
192. List I List II
A. Poetry 1. Sheridan
B. Drama 2. De Quincey
C. Essays 3. Cowper
Codes:
ABC
(a) 1 2 3
(b) 3 1 2
(c) 2 3 1
(d) 3 2 1
193. List I List II
A. Spiritualisation 1. Keats
B. Intellectualisation 2. Shelley
C. Sensualisation 3. Coleridge
D. Supernaturalisation 4. Wordsworth
Codes:
ABCD
(a) 4 1 2 3
(b) 1 4 3 2
(c) 4 2 1 3
(d) 1 3 4 2
194. List I List II
A. Dream Children 1. De Quincey
B. Table Talk 2. Charles Lamb
C. The English Mail 3. Hazlitt Coach
Codes:
ABC
(a) 1 2 3
(b) 3 2 1
(c) 2 1 3
(d) 2 3 1
195. List I List II
A. The Convalescent 1. Lamb
B. The Indian Juggler 2. Hazlitt
C. The Knocking at the 3. De Quincey Gate in Macbeth
Codes: A B C
(a) 1 2 3
(b) 2 3 1
(c) 3 1 2
(d) 2 1 3
196. List I List II
A. Lamb 1.1785-1859
B. Hazlitt 2.1778-1830
C. De Quincey 3.1774-1834
Codes: A B C
(a) 1 2 3
(b) 3 2 1
(c) 2 3 1
(d) 2 1 3
197. List I List II
A. Coleridge 1.1772-1834
B. Wordsworth 2.1788-1824
C. Shelley 3.1770-1850
D. Keats 4.1792-1822
E. Byron 5.1795-1821
Codes: A B C D E
(a) 1 3 2 4 5
(b) 3 2 4 1 5
(c) 3 1 4 5 2
(d) 1 3 4 5 2

ANSWERS
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (d) 4. (a) 5. (d)6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (a)11. (d) 12. (a) 13. (c) 14.
(b) 15. (b)16. (d) 17. (a) 18. (b) 19. (c) 20. (d)21. (c) 22. (c) 23. (b) 24. (a) 25.
(d]26.(d) 27. (c) 28.(b) 29. (d) 30. (c) 31. (b) 32. (d) 33. (c) 34. (b) 35. (c)36. (b) 37.
(c) 38. (c) 39. (a) 40. (d)41. (b) 42. (d) 43. (c) 44. (b) 45. (c)46. (a) 47. (c) 48. (c) 49.
(b) 50. (b)
51. (c) 52. (b) 53. (c) 54. (c) 55. (b)56.(b) 57. (a) 58. (a) 59. (c) 60. (d)61. (c) 62. (d)
63. (b) 64. (d) 65. (c)66.(d) 67. (a) 68. (c) 69. (d) 70. (d)71(a) 72. (b) 73. (d) 74. (c)
75. (d)76. (a) 77. (a) 78.(b) 79. (c) 80. (d)81. (c) 82. (b) 83. (a) 84. (b) 85. (d)86. (a)
87. (c) 88.(b) 89. (d) 90. (c)91 (b) 92. (c) 93. (a) 94. (b) 95. (b)96.(a) 97. (d) 98. (d)
99. (a) 100. (d)

101. (b) 102. (b) 103. (c) 104. (b) 105. (c)106. (d) 107. (c) 108. (a) 109. (d) 110.
(a)111.(d) 112. (b) 113. (a) 114. (c) 115. (a)116. (d) 117. (b) 118. (d) 119. (c) 120.
(c)121(d) 122. (b) 123. (d) 124. (d) 125. (c)126. (b) 127. (c) 128. (b) 129. (a) 130.
(b)131. (b) 132. (a) 133. (c) 134. (b) 135. (b)136. (c) 137. (d) 138. (c) 139. (d) 140.
(a)141 (a) 142. (b) 143. (b) 144. (c) 145. (b)146. (a) 147. (a) 148. (a) 149. (c) 150.
(b)

151(b) 152. (c) 153. (b) 154. (b) 155. (d)156. (c) 157. (d) 158. (c) 159. (b) 160.
(a)161. (c) 162. (c) 163. (b) 164. (c) 165. (a)166. (c) 167. (a) 168. (c) 169. (b) 170.
(b)171. (a) 172. (a) 173. (b) 174. (c) 175. (d)176. (d) 177. (c) 178. (a) 179. (c) 180.
(b)181. (c) 182. (d) 183. (b) 184. (d) 185. (a)186. (b) 187. (d) 188. (c) 189. (d) 190.
(b)191(a) 192. (b) 193. (c) 194. (d) 195. (a)196. (b) 197. (d)