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Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?
A. opium
B. dreams
C. childhood
D. A, Band C
In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
A. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein
B. William Worsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
C. John Keats’s “To Autumn”
D. all but C
Who exemplified the role of the “peasant poet” ?
A. John Clare
B. John Keats
C. Robert Burns
D. A and C only
Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
A. Fanny Burney
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
D. Jane Austen
Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
A. about half of middle class men
B. almost all working class men
C. all women
D. A, B and C
According to Samuel Johnson, No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
A. love.
B. honor.
C. money.
D. his party.
Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?
A. a spiritual autobiography written in an epic style
B. a lyric poem written in the first person
C. a comedy of manners
D. a political tract demanding labor reform
What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
A. Elephant and Castle
B. Grub Street
C. Covent Garden
D. Cheapside
With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre ?
A. the revenge tragedy
B. the Gothic romance
C. the epistolary novel
D. the comedy of manners
In which work do you read: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree…” ?
A. Kubla Khan
B. Hellas
C. The Phoenix and the Turtle
D. The Castaway
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