Question: Robinson Crusoe’s isolation on a deserted island allows Defoe to explore his development in which of the following ways ?

• 1. His relationship to God and Christianity
• 2. His understanding of the basis of economics
• 3. His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold
• 4. Both A and B

Question: Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?

• 1. its focus on his lost love.
• 2. its rejection of scientific progress.
• 3. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
• 4. its development of elements from national folklore.

Question: Complete the following sentence. Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to the idea that______________?

• 1. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.
• 2. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.
• 3. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.
• 4. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

Question: Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffe’s medieval settings______________?

• 1. indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.
• 2. suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.
• 3. is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.
• 4. implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience.

Question: Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?

• 1. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
• 2. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
• 3. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
• 4. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

Question: The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?

• 1. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems
• 2. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems
• 3. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works
• 4. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems

Question: Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?

• 1. demonstrate the importance of the topic.
• 2. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.
• 3. reveal the learnedness of the characters.
• 4. elicit the sympathy of elite readers

Question: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?

• 1. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination
• 2. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
• 3. The poet as special interpreter of the world
• 4. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world

Question: Which of the following directives was part of Queen Victoria’s moral crusade ?

• 1. There should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world.
• 2. Concerts in the parks that were attended by ordinary people should be banned.
• 3. Civil servants should talk more openly and publicly about their moral work.
• 4. Members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths should be excluded from public office.

Question: Which of the following best characterizes Wordsworth’s attitude towards the French Revolution ?

• 1. He thought it did not go far enough in granting women rights.
• 2. He opposed it in favor of supporting the king and the ancien régime.
• 3. He favored its democratic impulses but was appalled by its destructive nature.
• 4. He did not think it concerned him and his relationship to nature.