1. Who among the following poets has been called “the Romantic Paradox”?
(A) Byron
(B) Tennyson
(C) Shelley
(D) Keats
2. Sensuousness in Keats connotes:
(A) The cult of beauty
(B) The play of imagination
(C) The use of senses
(D) The return to nature
3. The Subjugation of Women (1969) is an important text of:
(A) G. Elliot
(B) Byron
(C) Hardy
(D) G. Mill
4. Which poem by Tennyson is a monodrama?
(A) Maud
(B) Break, Break, Break
(C) Ulysses
(D) Crossing the Bar
5. “Art for art’s sake” found its true adherent in:
(A) Wilde
(B) Byron
(C) Browning
(D) Wordsworth
6. Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Byron
(C) Blake
(D) Keats
7. Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley?
(A) Adonais
(B) Lycidas
(C) In Memoriam
(D) Thyrsis
8. The moral choice is everything in the works of:
(A) G. Eliot
(B) Dickens
(C) Hardy
(D) None of A, B, and C
9. Who, after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous?
(A) Shelley
(B) Browning
(C) Keats
(D) Byron
10. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” is the opening of Dickens’s:
(A) A Tale of Two Cities
(B) David Copperfield
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) Hard Times
11. The image of the femme fatale dominates the poetry of:
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Byron
(C) Keats
(D) Tennyson
12. Which is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy?
(A) The Seven Lamps
(B) The Stones of Venice
(C) Unto This Last
(D) None of A, B, and C
13. The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to write:
(A) Endymion
(B) Ode to Melancholy
(C) Lamia
(D) The Grecian Urn
14. Would you tell Sordello (Browning) as a:
(A) Dramatic Lyric
(B) Dramatic Monologue
(C) Tragic Drama
(D) None of A, B, and C
15. Which of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813:
(A) Tennyson
(B) Byron
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Southey
16. Which poet named the Romantic poets as the “pound poets”?
(A) Shelley
(B) Southey
(C) Keats
(D) Byron
17. Little Time is a character in Hardy’s:
(A) The Return of the Native
(B) Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) None of A, B, and C
18. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:
(A) The Boer War
(B) The Crimean War
(C) The Battle of Trafalgar
(D) None of A, B, and C
19. Which is a dramatist?
(A) Byron
(B) Ben Jonson
(C) Eliot
(D) None of A, B, and C
20. Which is not a play by Shakespeare?
(A) Dr. Faustus
(B) Macbeth
(C) Hamlet
(D) None of A, B, and C