English · UNIT 01 · MOCK TEST

Mock 10 – Romantic Age (Part 2)

Unit 1: British Literature · 22 questions · about 26 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

All 20 topic-wise mocks in this unit

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Q1.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Author	List II: Work
A. Charles Lamb	I. Imaginary Conversations
B. William Hazlitt	II. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
C. Walter Savage Landor	III. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
D. Thomas Love Peacock	IV. Gryll Grange

AA-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II BA-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV CA-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV DA-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

Q2.

Statement I: Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality' was published in 1807. Statement II: It sums up his philosophy of childhood.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are false BBoth Statement I and Statement II are true CStatement I is true but Statement II is false DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

Q3.

In which Jane Austen novel does Captain Frederick Wentworth appear?

AEmma BNorthanger Abbey CMansfield Park DPersuasion

Q4.

Who composed the lyrical drama Hellas?

ALord Byron BP. B. Shelley CWilliam Wordsworth DJohn Keats

Q5.

Of which Jane Austen novel did Somerset Maugham remark that the heroine is 'a little prig' and the hero 'a pompous ass', yet he did not care?

APride and Prejudice BNorthanger Abbey CSense and Sensibility DMansfield Park

Q6.

In which year was Jonathan Bate's The Song of the Earth published?

A2001 B1991 C2000 D1999

Q7.

Which of the following plays were written by Lord Byron?

A. Sardanapalus
B. Hellas
C. Cain
D. The Two Foscari
E. The Cenci

AA, B and C only BB, C and E only CA, B and D only DA, C and D only

Q8.

Who personifies Necessity in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound?

APrometheus BDemogorgon CJupiter DJesus

Q9.

Which poem by P. B. Shelley is incomplete?

AThe Triumph of Life B'Ode to the West Wind' CQueen Mab DThe Daemon of the World

Q10.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Movement writer	List II: Work
A. Donald Davie	I. 'Against Romanticism'
B. Philip Larkin	II. Hurry On Down
C. Kingsley Amis	III. The Shires
D. John Wain	IV. The North Ship

AA-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II BA-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III CA-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II DA-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV

Q11.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Author	List II: Play
A. Robert Browning	I. Queen Mary
B. S. T. Coleridge	II. The Second Mrs Tanqueray
C. A. W. Pinero	III. Remorse
D. Alfred Tennyson	IV. The Borderers
E. William Wordsworth	V. Strafford

AA-V, B-III, C-II, D-I, E-IV BA-II, B-IV, C-III, D-V, E-I CA-III, B-V, C-II, D-I, E-IV DA-IV, B-II, C-I, D-V, E-III

Q12.

What is the term for the nineteenth-century novel of fashionable high life?

ABrass-spittoon novel BSilver-fork novel CGolden-spoon novel DDiamond-jar novel

Q13.

Which fictional character is believed to be based on the fifteenth-century Vlad the Impaler?

AVictor Frankenstein BPeter Quint CCount Dracula DPrince Manfred

Q14.

Arrange the following lines in chronological order of composition:

A. 'An aged man is but a paltry thing'
B. 'The world is too much with us'
C. 'Daddy, I have had to kill you'
D. 'After great pain, a formal feeling comes'

AB, D, A, C BD, B, A, C CD, B, C, A DB, D, C, A

Q15.

In which magazine did Charles Lamb's essays under the pseudonym 'Elia' appear?

AThe London Magazine BThe Edinburgh Review CThe Quarterly Review DThe Athenaeum

Q16.

In which story does the narrator watch the consumptive Mr Shaynor recreate Keats's 'The Eve of St Agnes' in a trance?

AForster, 'The Eternal Moment' BKipling, 'Wireless' CMaugham, 'The Creative Impulse' DHuxley, 'The Bookshop'

Q17.

Who wrote Mazeppa, a narrative poem about a seventeenth-century Ukrainian leader?

AWilliam Cowper BLord Byron CP. B. Shelley DS. T. Coleridge

Q18.

Who wrote 'A Fragment' (1819), one of the earliest vampire stories in English?

AP. B. Shelley BLord Byron CBram Stoker DMary Shelley

Q19.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Author	List II: Work
A. John Keats	I. Alastor
B. William Wordsworth	II. Songs of Experience
C. P. B. Shelley	III. 'Comic' (sic)
D. William Blake	IV. The Excursion

AA-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II BA-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II CA-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II DA-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III

Q20.

Which two of the following are section titles in De Quincey's The English Mail-Coach?

A. The Glory of Mobility
B. The Vision of Sudden Death
C. The Glory of Motion
D. The Vision of Unexpected Truth

AA and B only BA and D only CB and C only DB and D only

Q21.

Which two of the following texts are associated with literary feminism?

A. Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
B. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
C. Jane Austen, Emma
D. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

AA and D only BC and D only CB and D only DA and C only

Q22.

The lives of which writers were the subject of novels by Anthony Burgess?

A. Milton
B. Marlowe
C. Shelley
D. Keats

AA and B only BA and D only CB and C only DB and D only

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