Question: Which of the following was a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry ?

• 1. Engagement with the natural world
• 2. Rationality
• 3. Emotional restraint
• 4. Political conservatism

Question: Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?

• 1. Lord Byron
• 2. Percy Shelley
• 3. John Keats
• 4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question: One of the central themes of Wordsworth’s “Peter Bell” is _________________?

• 1. How nature can render someone good
• 2. How nature can corrupt someone
• 3. Eternal youth
• 4. A dark voyage into madness

Question: The Romantic period is generally thought to have occurred between ________________?

• 1. 1800 – 1900
• 2. 1805 – 1827
• 3. 1798 – 1832
• 4. 1785 – 1825

Question: Which poet would most likely express an adherence to atheism in his writing ?

• 1. William Wordsworth
• 2. William Blake
• 3. John Keats
• 4. Percy Shelley

Question: Elizabeth Fey refers to which poet as “a sort of poet-king Arthur” ?

• 1. William Wordsworth
• 2. William Blake
• 3. Lord Byron
• 4. Percy Shelley

Question: Who referred to poets as “the unacknowledged legislators of the world” ?

• 1. Lord Byron
• 2. William Blake
• 3. William Hazlitt
• 4. Percy Shelley

Question: Which poet would have been most likely to compose a poem examining his own childhood ?

• 1. Percy Shelley
• 2. John Keats
• 3. William Wordsworth
• 4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question: Many romantic poets regarded the natural world with a feeling of ________________?

• 1. Awe and fascination
• 2. Disinterest and disregard
• 3. Resentment and disrespect
• 4. Fear and horror

Question: Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ?

• 1. Lord Byron
• 2. Percy Shelley
• 3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 4. William Blake