Which of the following is not true?

Lyrical Ballads marked the beginning of the Neoclassical period of literature.

Wordsworth and Coleridge believed that simpler language creates better poetry than complicated
language.
Lyrical Ballads received mixed reviews when it was originally published in 1798.
Wordsworth and Coleridge believed that the forms of Neoclassical poetry are arbitrary and obstruct
true and free poetic expression.
2. How does Lyrical Ballads portray nature?
Nature is a savage force that needs to be conquered by technology and industry.
Nature is rarely, if ever, portrayed in Lyrical Ballads.
Nature improves as technology and industry improve.
A more natural lifestyle is part of solution to the problems introduced by the Industrial Revolution.
3.What type of language is "I wandered lonely as a cloud"?
SimileMetaphorPersonificationEmotive language
Q. What view of nature is presented?
Nature can bring hatred, it can do things to the mind
Nature is powerful
Nature is relied on to make people feel better
Nature is unsettling
Q. Which two words rhyme in the last two of the lines of the first verse?
Hills and daffodils
Trees and breeze
Fluttering and dancing
Beneath and dancing
Q. What was the poem inspired by?
Animals
Humans
Nature
Happiness
Q. What does the phrase "Sprightly dance" mean?
Depressing
Lively and full of energy
Jumping up and down
Slow and cautious
. The Lyrical Ballads opens with
(a) Kubla Khan
(b) Ode to Duty
(c) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(d) Immortality Ode
106. The Lyrical Ballads closes with
(a) Kubla Khan
(b) Immortality Ode
(c) Cristobel
(d) Lines Written above Tin tern Abbey
107. Who was the third person with Coleridge and Wordsworth at
Quantico Hills when the Lyrical Ballads were composed?
(a) Robert Southey
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Dorothy Wordsworth
(d) Mary Lamb
Who of the following is known for his Hellenic Spirit?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) RB. Shelley
(c) Southey
(d) John Keats
110. Who wrote:
“Our Sweetest songs are those that tell our saddest thoughts”?
(a) RB. Shelley
(b) Robert Southey
(c) Cardinal Newman
(d) S.T. Coleridge
111. How do we classify Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound? As
(a) an epic
(b) a legendary story
(c) mythological story
(d) a lyrical drama
112. Who wrote this: “He prayed well, who loved well both man and
bird and beast”?
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) S.T Coleridge
(c) Leigh Hunt
(d) Cardinal Newman
113. Name the journal to which Southey contributed regularly.
(a) The Quarterly Review
(b) The Backwoods Magazine
(c) The Edinburgh Review
(d) The Westminster Review
114. Sir Walter Scott collected Scottish ballads, and published them
along with his own, in
(a) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(b) Marion
(c) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
(d) The Lord of the Isles
115. How old was Byron when he published Hours of Idleness, a
collection of poems in heroic couplet?
(a) 19 (b) 29
(c) 18 (d) 30
116. When Hours of Idleness was criticized by the Edinburgh Review,
Lord Byron retaliated by writing a satiric piece. What was the title of
this satire?
(a) The Vision of Judgment
(b) Mazeppa
(c) The Giaour
(d) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
117. How many cantos could Byron complete of Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage during his two years tour of the continent?
(a) All four
(b) First two
(c) One and three
(d) Only one
118. The first two cantos of Childe Harold take a reader to
(a) Spain
(b) Portugal
(c) Greece and Albania
(d) All of the above.
119. What is the tone of the ending of the second canto of Childe
Harold?
(a) Joyous
(b) Melancholy
(c) Self-pitying
(d) Optimistic
120. In which canto does the description of the “Battle of Waterloo”
appear?
(a) Canto I
(b) It is an independent poem
(c) Canto III
(d) Canto IV
121. Who is the hero of Childe Harold?
(a) Nature
(b) An unnamed traveler
(c) A legendary king
(d) The poet himself
122. “Michael”, “The Solitary Reaper,” “To a Highland Girl” – all
these poems depict
(a) the poet’s joy at the beauty of nature
(b) simple common folk
(c) poet’s awe at the spiritual presence
(d) deep sense of music
123. What was Wordsworth’s professed aim in the Lyrical Ballads?
(a) Purge poetry of all conceit
(b) Simplicity of diction
(c) Make it intelligible to common people
(d) All of the above
124. Which work inspired Coleridge’s Kubls Khan?
(a) Holinshed’s Chronicle
(b) Plutarch’s Lives
(c) Travels in Scotland
(d) Purchas’s Pilgrimage
125. The name of the prisoner of Chillon was
(a) Beppo
(b) Giaour
(c) Francois de Bonnivard
(d) Pasha
126. The Vision of Judgment is
(a) an attack on Jeffrey, the editor
(b) satire on Southey
(c) satire on a young man of Seville
(d) satire on society
127. Don Juan has
(a) 5 cantos (b) 15 cantos
(c) 16 cantos (d) 20 cantos
128. Who is Halide in Don Juan?
(a) Wife of Don Alfonso
(b) Daughter of an old pirate
(c) Princess of Constantinople
(d) A Duchess
129. Where do we find these lines? “Man’s love is of man’s life a thing
apart, “Tis woman’s whole existence….”?
(a) Don Juan
(b) Bipod
(c) Childe Harold
(d) Lara
130. Where do we meet these characters? Don Alfonso, Julia, Sultana?
In
(a) Lara
(b) Don Juan
(c) Childe Harold
(d) Beppo
131. When he wrote Queen Mab, Shelley was only
(a) 19 (b) 18
(c) 21 (d) 22
132. Which of Shelley’s poems has a story from Greek mythology?
(a) Prometheus Unbound
(b) Alastor
(c) Queen Mab
(d) Julian and Maddalo
133. Which poem was inspired by the Greek proclamation of
independence, followed by Greek revolt against Turkish rule?
(a) Epipsychidion (b) Queen Mab
(c) Hellas (d) Prometheus
134. Who is Adonais of the poem Adonais?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) John Keats
(c) Shelley himself
(d) None of the above
135. We meet characters such as Asia, Hercules, Jupiter in
(a) Hellas
(b) Prometheus Unbound
(c) Adonais
(d) Queen Mab
136. In which novel Scott projects Scotland under Robert Bruce, King
and national hero?
(a) Quentin Durward
(b) Kenilworth
(c) Castle Dangerous
(d) St. Ronan’s Well
137. Which of the following is not written by Walter Scott?
(a) The Black Dwarf
(b) The Legend Montrose
(c) The Talisman
(d) None of the above
138. What is the background of Ivanhoe?
(a) The first crusade of Constantinople
(b) Contemporary life in the Scottish span of St. Ronan’s well
(c) Enmity of Saxon and Norman
(d) Wales under Henry II
139. Who wrote the following?
Castle Rackrent, the Absentee, Ormond?
(a) Fanny Burney
(b) Jane Poster
(c) Thomas Peacock
(d) Maria Edge worth
140. This woman novelist wrote “Scotch” novels: Thaddeus of
Warsaw and The Scottish Chiefs. Who is she?
(a) Jane Porter
(b) Susan Ferrier
(c) Marry Russell Mitford
(d) Maria Edge worth
141. Who wrote Headlong Hall, Maid Marian, Melincourt, Nightmare
Abbey, Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle and Gryll Grange?
(a) Thomas Peacock
(b) G.P.R. James
(c) George Meredith
(d) Charles Lever
142. One of the following was not associated with the ‘Edinburgh
Review’. Identify him.
(a) Sidney Smith
(b) William Blackwood
(c) Henry Brougham
(d) Francis Jeffrey
143. One of the characters of Jane Austen remarks, “A lady’s
imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love
to matrimony in a moment.” Who said this and in which novel?
(a) Mr. Woodhouse in Emma
(b) Darcy in Pride and Prejudice
(c) Catherine in Northanger Abbey
(d) None of the above
144. His sonnet was rejected by a magazine Gem, on the plea that it
would “shock mothers”. At this he wrote to a friend, “I am born out of
time …. When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed ‘Hang the age, I
will write for antiquity.’ Who is he?
(a) Thomas Peacock
(b) Hazlitt
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Leigh Hunt
145. This patriotic song is often prescribed for school anthologies in
India:
“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead who never to himself hath
said, this is my own, my native land.” Who is the poet?
(a) Robert Southey
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Lord Byron
(d) William Wordsworth
146. Where do we find Bingley?
(a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Sense and Sensibility
(c) Mansfield Park
(d) Persuasion
147. When was the unfinished dream poem ‘Kubla Khan’ published?
(a) 1816 (b) 1810
(c) 1820 (d) 1821
148. Read the line: “About thirty years age, Miss Maria Ward of
Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to
captivate Sir Thomas Bertram “. This is the beginning of a novel by
Jane Austen. Which one?
(a) Mansfield Park
(b) Emma
(c) Sense and Sensibility
(d) Northanger Abbey
149. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Which of Jane
Austen’s novels begins with these words?
(a) Sense and Sensibility
(b) Northanger Abbey
(c) Pride and Prejudice
(d) Emma
150. Which of Scott’s novels depicts the conflict between the Puritans,
the Covenanters, and the royal forces under Culverhouse”?
(a) Old Morality
(b) Castle Dangerous
(c) Heart of Midlothian
(d) Talisman
In which Wordsworth work is there a preface that describes poetry as the 'spontaneous overflow of
powerful feelings… recollected in tranquility'?

'The Prelude'
'Lyrical Ballads'
'Poems, in Two Volumes'
'Tintern Abbey'
'London, 1802'
2. What from Wordsworth's formative years inspired his appreciation of nature?

His time at Penrith

His studies in Cambridge
His birthplace in Northern England
Homeschooling with his mother
His father's extensive library
3. Who is the possibly fictitious woman at the center of a series of Wordsworth poems?

Dorothy
Annette
Caroline
Lucy
Mary
4. Which Wordsworth poem is about John Milton?

'Tintern Abbey'
'We are Seven'
'Strange fits of passion I have known'
'London, 1802'
'The Solitary Reaper'
5. All of the following were common themes of Wordsworth's poetry except:

Accessible language
Powerful emotion
Poor people
Nature
Christianity