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Mock 9 – Romantic Age (Part 1)

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

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Q1.

A quoted letter, written while its author was at work on Shirley, discusses the difficulty of drawing male as against female characters. Who wrote it, and to whom?

ACharlotte Brontë to James Taylor BJane Austen to Elizabeth Sewell CMargaret Oliphant to Isabella Blackwood DCharlotte Yonge to Felicia Skene

Q2.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Kind of poetry	List II: Example
A. Dub poetry	I. 'Tintern Abbey'
B. Bucolic poetry	II. Ariel
C. Confessional poetry	III. The Dread Affair
D. Topographical poetry	IV. Eclogues

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

Q3.

Assertion (A): Bacon's position as an essayist is peculiar. Reason (R): He bears no resemblance to essayists like Addison or Hazlitt.

ABoth A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A BBoth A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A CA is correct but R is not correct DA is not correct but R is correct

Q4.

Identify the poem in which these lines occur: 'My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart / With tender gladness, thus to look at thee'.

A'A Prayer for My Daughter' B'Frost at Midnight' C'Lucy Gray' D'Ode on Melancholy'

Q5.

Arrange the following poems in chronological order of publication:

A. 'The Tyger'
B. 'The Solitary Reaper'
C. Adonais
D. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
E. 'To Autumn'

AB, C, D, E, A BC, D, E, A, B CA, D, B, E, C DD, A, E, B, C

Q6.

Which of the following poems uses terza rima?

AKeats's 'Ode to a Nightingale' BShelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' CWordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' DTennyson's 'Ulysses'

Q7.

Which among the following novels is not written by Mary Shelley?

AThe Lost Woman BFrankenstein CFalkner DThe Last Man

Q8.

Arrange the following novels of D. H. Lawrence in chronological order:

A. Women in Love
B. The White Peacock
C. Sons and Lovers
D. The Rainbow
E. The Trespasser

AA, B, C, D, E BE, C, D, A, B CB, E, C, D, A DC, A, E, D, B

Q9.

Who wrote that poetry 'is not a branch of authorship: it is the stuff of which our life is made'?

AMary Shelley BCharles Lamb CWilliam Hazlitt DS. T. Coleridge

Q10.

'There is / One great society alone on earth: / The noble Living and the noble Dead' occurs in:

ABiographia Literaria BThe Prelude CThe Excursion DLyrical Ballads

Q11.

'France: An Ode' was written by:

AWilliam Wordsworth BS. T. Coleridge CWilliam Blake DRobert Southey

Q12.

Who was NOT one of the Lake Poets?

AS. T. Coleridge BRobert Southey CWilliam Blake DWilliam Wordsworth

Q13.

Who composed 'A Red, Red Rose'?

AJoanna Baillie BRobert Burns CWilliam Wordsworth DSamuel Taylor Coleridge

Q14.

In which year was Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty' composed?

A1788 B1824 C1815 D1814

Q15.

Who is the author of the pandemic fiction The Last Man?

AMary Shelley BJosé Saramago CAhmed Ali DGabriel García Márquez

Q16.

Arrange the following texts chronologically on the basis of date of publication:

A. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
B. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
C. Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
D. Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
E. Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

AC, B, A, D, E BC, A, E, B, D CC, B, E, A, D DA, E, B, C, D

Q17.

Which of the following is NOT among the 'positive evils' of Walter Scott as a novelist?

AHis great haste in the composition of his stories BHis haphazard financial methods, which tended to overproduction CHaste in the construction of his plots DHis sensitive ear for rhythm and melody

Q18.

According to Greek mythology, who is Psyche in Keats's 'Ode to Psyche'?

AA mortal woman BCupid CAn immortal woman DVenus

Q19.

Identify the poet of the following poems: 'The Skylark', 'The Badger', 'The Gypsy Camp', 'First Love'.

AP. B. Shelley BJohn Clare CLord Byron DRobert Burns

Q20.

Which of the following poems was not composed by P. B. Shelley?

A'To Wordsworth' B'Mutability' C'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' D'When We Two Parted'

Q21.

Which of the following is not a character in Jane Austen's Persuasion?

ASir Walter Elliot BLady Russell CMiss Crawford DFrederick Wentworth

Q22.

Which of the following were written by Thomas Love Peacock?

A. Headlong Hall
B. Nightmare Abbey
C. Imaginary Conversations
D. The Spirit of the Age
E. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets

AA and B only BB and D only CC and D only DD and E only

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