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Romanticism Trivia Quiz

This quiz deals with the period of romanticism in Britain. The questions are mainly about the chief authors of this period, i.e. the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.

A multiple-choice quiz by marienbart. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
marienbart

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
71,251

Updated
May 05 24

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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859

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Question 1 of 10

1. Let's start with a fairly simple question. Can you complete this famous line from 'Endymion: A Poetic Romance' by John Keats: 'A thing of beauty is a ... ... ...'?

Answer: (Three Words)

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Question 2 of 10

2. I was born in 1792. My grandfather was the richest man in Horsham. My father was a Member of Parliament. I was sent to be educated at Eton and Oxford. My closest friend in Oxford was Thomas Jefferson Hogg, with whom I wrote a pamphlet called 'The Necessity of Atheism'. In 1811 I was expelled from Oxford. Back in London I became a discipel of the radical social philosopher William Godwin. I married William's daughter, Mary, in 1818 and moved to Italy, never to return to the British shores again. I died on July 8, 1822 in a boat-accident on the Gulf of Spezia. Who am I?

Answer: (Surname suffices.)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which Pre-Romantic writer started one of his poems with the following stanza: 'Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victorie.'? Hint

Sir Walter Scott

Robert Burns

Joanna Baillie

John Clare

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who wrote 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'? Hint

Thomas de Quincey

William Hazlitt

Charles Lamb

Lord Byron

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Question 5 of 10

5. One of the following poets is NOT from the romantic period, but from the Victorian. Who is the odd one out? Hint

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Christina Rosetti

Joanna Baillie

Charlotte Smith

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?

Answer: (Surname suffices)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who wrote the following works: 'Songs of Innocence and Experience', 'The Book of Thel', 'A Vision of the Last Judgement' and 'Visions of the daughters of Albion'?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 8 of 10

8. Here's an easy one. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote what is probably the most famous gothic novel ever. It's a story about a doctor who creates a monster. What is the name of that doctor?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who wrote this stanza:'I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in the pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time'.? Hint

Sir Walter Scott

Walter Savage Landor

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who started his poem 'Lucy Gray (or Solitude)' with these gentle lines:'Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray: And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary child.'? Hint

William Blake

Robert Southey

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Let's start with a fairly simple question. Can you complete this famous line from 'Endymion: A Poetic Romance' by John Keats: 'A thing of beauty is a ... ... ...'?

Answer: joy for ever

Keats had some serious health problems and he knew that he wouldn't get very old. This is probably the main reason why he was obsessed with immortality. For Keats, immortality was only to be found in art, in a 'thing of beauty'.

Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Some of P.B. Shelley's major works are: {'Alastor;} or, The Spirit of Solitude', 'Mont Blanc', 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty', 'Prometheus Unbound' and 'Adonais', an elegy on the death of his good friend John Keats.

3. Which Pre-Romantic writer started one of his poems with the following stanza: 'Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victorie.'?

Answer: Robert Burns

The voice speaking in this poem is Robert Bruce, adressing the Scots who had gathered in Bannockburn in 1314.

4. Who wrote 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'?

Answer: Thomas de Quincey

5. One of the following poets is NOT from the romantic period, but from the Victorian. Who is the odd one out?

Answer: Christina Rosetti

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743 - 1825) wrote political pamphlets in the 1790s, defending dissenters, democratic government and popular education. Charlotte Smith (1749 - 1806) wrote the melancholic 'Elegiac Sonnets', which first appeared in 1784. Later she had considerable success as a novelist with 'Emmeline'(1788), 'Ethelinde'(1789), 'Celestina'(1791) and several others. Joanna Baillie (1762 - 1851) was primarily known as a dramatist, but she also wrote poetry, beginning with a volume of 'Poems' on nature and rustic manners in 1790. Like her contemporary Robert Burns, she wrote in the Scottish dialect. Christina Rosetti (1830 - 1894) was one of the two most famous Victorian woman writers (the other being Elisabeth Barrett Browning). Christina's most famous work is 'Goblin Market'.

6. Who wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?

Answer: Coleridge

No comment necessary really: this is a major classic.

7. Who wrote the following works: 'Songs of Innocence and Experience', 'The Book of Thel', 'A Vision of the Last Judgement' and 'Visions of the daughters of Albion'?

Answer: William Blake

True artists are always a bit weird. Blake didn't believe in monogamy, didn't like wearing clothes, hated institutionalised religion and revived an old literary genre with his mystic visions.

8. Here's an easy one. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote what is probably the most famous gothic novel ever. It's a story about a doctor who creates a monster. What is the name of that doctor?

Answer: Frankenstein

9. Who wrote this stanza:'I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true {one;} Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in the pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time'.?

Answer: George Gordon, Lord Byron

These were the opening lines of the famous poem 'Don Juan', Byron's masterpiece.

10. Who started his poem 'Lucy Gray (or Solitude)' with these gentle lines:'Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray: And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary child.'?

Answer: William Wordsworth

This poem was written in 1799, while Wordsworth was in Germany. He founded the story on a true account of a young girl who drowned when she lost her way in a snowstorm. The body however was found in the canal. Wordsworth noted:' The way in which the incident was treated and the spiritualizing of the character might furnish hints for contrasting the imaginative influences which I have endeavored to throw over common life with Crabbe's matter-of-fact style of treating subjects of the same kind'.

Source: Author marienbart

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