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Quiz about Ten Romantics
Quiz about Ten Romantics

Ten Romantics Trivia Quiz


This is my second quiz on the Romantics. This time, you'll get two clues for each person: a biographical fact, and a quote from a work.

A multiple-choice quiz by skylarb. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
skylarb
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
140,181
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
2470
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 174 (10/10), Guest 87 (4/10), Guest 172 (2/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. He spent six weeks in an asylum and wrote: "When maidens such as Hester die / Their place ye may not well supply, / Though ye among a thousand try / With vain endeavour." Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. The first time he asked his wife to marry him, she refused. He wrote: "My sister Adah. - All the stars of heaven, / The deep blue noon of night lit by an orb [. . . ] / All these are nothing, to my eyes and heart, / Like Adah's face: I turn from earth and heaven / To gaze on it."
Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. He was charged with uttering seditious statements, but he was acquitted. He wrote these lines: "Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; / Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain! / You throw the sand against the wind, /And the wind blows it back again." Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. He separated from his wife in 1805 and gave lectures on politics, history, Shakespeare, Milton, and poetry. He wrote: "The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. He worked as a lawyer's apprentice, a sheriff's deputy, and a Clerk of the Court. He wrote: "And said I that my limbs were old, / And said I that my blood was cold, / And that my kindly fire was fled, / And my poor withered heart was dead, / And that I might not sing of love?" Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. He succeeded Southey as poet laureate of England. He wrote: "I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility..." Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. After his expulsion from Oxford, his father demanded that he return home and profess conformity to the Church, or be cut off from all financial support. He wrote: "Monarch of Gods and Demons, and all Spirits / But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds / Which Thou and I alone of living things / Behold with sleepless eyes!" Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. He was born the son of a poor tenant farmer. He was the father of several illegitimate children, and he wrote: "O my Luve's like a red, red rose, / That's newly sprung in June: / O my Luve's like the melodie, / That's sweetly play'd in tune. " Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. One of his brothers died of tuberculosis, the other moved to America. He wrote: "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, / Sylvan historian, who canst thus express / A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme." Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. She grew up learning from her father's peers, including Hazlitt, Lamb and Coleridge. She began writing her greatest novel at the age of 18. She wrote: "I am by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counselors and syndics; and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation." Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. He spent six weeks in an asylum and wrote: "When maidens such as Hester die / Their place ye may not well supply, / Though ye among a thousand try / With vain endeavour."

Answer: Charles Lamb

Lamb is better known for his essays than for his poetry. This quote comes from "Hester." Lamb was in an asylum in 1795. The following year, his sister Mary murdered their mother with an axe.
2. The first time he asked his wife to marry him, she refused. He wrote: "My sister Adah. - All the stars of heaven, / The deep blue noon of night lit by an orb [. . . ] / All these are nothing, to my eyes and heart, / Like Adah's face: I turn from earth and heaven / To gaze on it."

Answer: Lord Byron

Anabella Milbanke eventually married Byron in 1815, but she separated from him in 1816. The quote comes from Byron's closet drama, "Cain: A Mystery." Cain is here speaking of his sister and wife Adah. (Cain's wife is not named in the Bible, and Byron takes the name from the first woman who, after Eve, is named in the Bible.) A year before he married Ms. Milbanke, Byron's half sister Augusta had a daughter, named Elizabeth Medora Leigh. Byron was the suspected father.
3. He was charged with uttering seditious statements, but he was acquitted. He wrote these lines: "Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; / Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain! / You throw the sand against the wind, /And the wind blows it back again."

Answer: William Blake

In 1803, John Schofield made these charges against Blake, but he was acquitted. The poem quoted in this question exhibits Blake's dissatisfaction with the atheism of his time.
4. He separated from his wife in 1805 and gave lectures on politics, history, Shakespeare, Milton, and poetry. He wrote: "The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM."

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge separated from his wife after becoming an opium addict (a result of his poor health). He lectured at the Royal London Institute, among other places. In addition to being a poet, Coleridge also wrote Christian theological works as well as a great deal of literary criticism. The quote comes from his "Biographia Literaria."
5. He worked as a lawyer's apprentice, a sheriff's deputy, and a Clerk of the Court. He wrote: "And said I that my limbs were old, / And said I that my blood was cold, / And that my kindly fire was fled, / And my poor withered heart was dead, / And that I might not sing of love?"

Answer: Sir Walter Scott

This quote comes from Scott's poem "Love." Scott always wanted to be known as a poet, but he paid his debts by writing historical novels such as "Ivanhoe" and "Rob Roy."
6. He succeeded Southey as poet laureate of England. He wrote: "I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility..."

Answer: William Wordsworth

The quote comes from the preface to "The Lyrical Ballads," which he co-authored with Coleridge. This has served as the primary definition of Romantic poetry ever since.
7. After his expulsion from Oxford, his father demanded that he return home and profess conformity to the Church, or be cut off from all financial support. He wrote: "Monarch of Gods and Demons, and all Spirits / But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds / Which Thou and I alone of living things / Behold with sleepless eyes!"

Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley was exposed for his part in authoring a pamphlet entitled, "The Necessity of Atheism." The quoted lines are spoken by Prometheus in the first act of his closet drama, "Prometheus Unbound."
8. He was born the son of a poor tenant farmer. He was the father of several illegitimate children, and he wrote: "O my Luve's like a red, red rose, / That's newly sprung in June: / O my Luve's like the melodie, / That's sweetly play'd in tune. "

Answer: Robert Burns

Burns is commonly called a Pre-Romantic and many of his Scottish songs are still sung today, including the famous "Auld Lang Syne." He later married Jean Armour, the mother of two of his illegitimate children.
9. One of his brothers died of tuberculosis, the other moved to America. He wrote: "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, / Sylvan historian, who canst thus express / A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme."

Answer: John Keats

Keats died at the young age of 25. He was most famous for his many odes, including the one quoted in this question, "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
10. She grew up learning from her father's peers, including Hazlitt, Lamb and Coleridge. She began writing her greatest novel at the age of 18. She wrote: "I am by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counselors and syndics; and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation."

Answer: Mary Shelley

The quote makes up the opening two lines of "Frankenstein," which she subtitled "The Modern Prometheus." It was published when Mary was 21. At the time, some thought the novel was actually written by Percy Shelley. In modern times, more than 50 films have been based (if only loosely) on the work.
Source: Author skylarb

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