Test Taker: MCQS

  In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success:    (a) Drama   (b) Epic Poetry   (c) Lyric Poetry  (d) The Essay   (e) The Novel    (e) The Novel 

 The Victorian age can be dated by which of the following events and years:    (a) Mills’s "on liberty’ (1859) to end of century (1900)  (b) Reform Bill (1832) to end of Boer War (1902)  (c) Birth of Tennyson (1809) to his death (1892)  (d) Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901)    (d) Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901) 

  Charles Lamb’s "Dream Children" is notable for its:    (a) Crushing tragedy   (b) Humor  (c) Whimsical Pathos   (d) Cynicism    (c) Whimsical Pathos    

  The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to:    (a) Objectify the issue in terms of a cause  (b) Advance a single system to the public  (c) Allow the writer to draw on his  (d) Be brooding and meditative. own personality    (a) Objectify the issue in terms of a cause 

  Shelley’s poetry used all of the following components for themes except:    (a) Worship of God  (b) Passion  (c) Narcissism   (d) Emotional self-indulgence    (a) Worship of God     

  The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was:    (a) Dante   (b) Shakespeare  (c) Wordsworth   (d) Shelley    (b) Shakespeare 

  Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects:    (a) The creation of abstract concepts  (b) An endorsement of the scientific tradition  (c) The creation of an original philosophy  (d) An examination of extraneous matters  (e) His belief in a world to come. 

 Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use?    (a) A "feathered chorister"  (b) A "member of the plumy race"  (c) A "bird"  (d) A "tenant of the sky"  (e) An "airy fairy"    (e) An "airy fairy

  Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from:    (a) Publication of "Intimations of Immortality"  (b) The beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign  (c) The Reform Bill of 1832  (d) Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface  (e) 1800 – 1801