WorksheetsRomantic Period
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which is NOT characteristic of the Romantic period?
a)
a. a return to nature
b)
b. appreciation of the individual
c)
c. love of philosophy
d)
d. turning against industrialization
2.
Which poet married Mary Shelley?
a)
a. Lord Byron
b)
b. John Keats
c)
c. William Wordsworth
d)
d. Percy Shelley
3.
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a . . .
a)
a. lyrical ballad
b)
b. a sonnet
c)
c. a long poem about the desert
d)
d. a treatise
4.
How is the Romantic period a lot like the time period we are living in?
a)
a. We are supporting a French Revolution.
b)
b. We celebrate the voices of individuals.
c)
c. They had electricity.
d)
d. Gothic literature is new.
5.
Robert Burns and Joanna Baillie wrote in which dialect?
a)
a. Dutch
b)
b. Irish
c)
c. Scottish
d)
d. Anglo-Saxon
6.
". . . the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions; it takes its origin from emotions recollected in tranquility . . ." is William Wordsworth's definition of:
a)
a. the Romantic Period
b)
b. Shakespeare's sonnets
c)
c. poetry
d)
d. the French Revolution
7.
Who are the two poets who collaborated on "The Lyrical Ballads"?
a)
a. William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge
b)
b. Shakespeare and Samuel Coleridge
c)
c. Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley
d)
d. The Lake Poets
8.
Which is an example of assonance?
a)
a. Come back, Mr. Quack Quack
b)
b. Little lamb, little lamb
c)
c. Go mow Joe Thrower's lawn before we close.
d)
d. Butter, jam, or chutney?
9.
Who made up the Byronic Hero?
a)
a. John Keats
b)
b. Lord Byron
c)
c. Joanna Baillie
d)
d. Yosa Buson
10.
Romantics favored ______________ instead of reason and science.
a)
a. sentiment and idealistic passion
b)
b. epics
c)
c. Geoffrey Chaucer
d)
d. tales of chivalry
11.
William Blake wrote about these opposing concepts a lot.
a)
a. love and hate
b)
b. war and peace
c)
c. science and religion
d)
d. innocence and experience
12.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
a)
a. Old West cough syrup brands
b)
b. characters from the famous Western epic, "A Handful of Gold."
c)
c. ethnic recipes
d)
d. persuasive techniques
13.
What do ethos, pathos, and logos stand for (in the right order)?
a)
a. ethics, emotions or sympathy), logic
b)
b. logic, ethics, emotions
c)
c. emotions, logic, ethics
d)
d. logic and more logic
14.
Where can you go online to get more information about MLA formatting?
a)
a. Purdue Turtle Website
b)
b. Purdue Owl Website
c)
c. Purdue Chicken Website
d)
d. Popeyes Chicken
15.
What did Mary Wollstonecraft write that supported educational rights for women?
a)
a. A Vindication of the Rights of Women
b)
b. On Making an Agreeable Marriage
c)
c. Woo'd and Married and A'
d)
d. Frankenstein
16.
Who wrote the famous Romantic period novels of manners, "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice."
a)
a. Sir Walter Scott
b)
b. William Hazlitt
c)
c. Dorothy Wordsworth
d)
d. Jane Austen
17.
The novel "Frankenstein" challenges ideas about science, technology, religion, ethics, and philosophy. Which discipline does Victor Frankenstein decide to devote his time to?
a)
a. biology
b)
b. physics
c)
c. chemistry
d)
d. optomology
18.
Which events inspire Dr. Victor Frankenstein to experiment with reanimating corpses?
a)
a. the death of his dog, Bruno, and his mother
b)
b. getting into the university at Geneva
c)
c. Elizabeth declaring her love for him
d)
d. Frankenstein (Prometheus) hears a man playing a fiddle
19.
Which time period did we study just before the Romantic period?
a)
a. The English Renaissance
b)
b. The Neoclassical period
c)
c. Old English and Medieval Periods
d)
d. The Victorian period
20.
"The Lamb" and "The Tyger" are William Blake's poems that explore:
a)
good and evil
b)
innocence and experience
c)
love and marriage
d)
happy and sad
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