Question: Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?

• 1. always fighting for good against evil.
• 2. fortunate in always coming out victorious.
• 3. nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight.
• 4. devoted to religion above all things

Question: Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?

• 1. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping England’s economy.
• 2. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.
• 3. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.
• 4. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience.

Question: Which of the following terms is NOT closely associated with the Gothic novel ?

• 1. Horror
• 2. The sublime
• 3. Suspense
• 4. Picaresque

Question: Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?

• 1. A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity
• 2. An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others’ pain and joy
• 3. A sense of awe in the power of the natural world
• 4. A parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the Enlightenment interest in reason

Question: Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?

• 1. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved
• 2. Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
• 3. The concluding lines of any poem
• 4. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners

Question: Complete the following sentence. According to Edmund Burke, the French Revolution was________________?

• 1. the ultimate expression of humankind’s ability to control its own destiny.
• 2. a misguided attempt to overthrow human nature by rejecting tradition.
• 3. a necessary change that was beginning to go astray.
• 4. an event that had little consequence to England

Question: “O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?

• 1. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
• 2. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
• 3. by emphasizing sexual morality.
• 4. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings.

Question: In which of the following ways did Hopkins revolutionize poetry ?

• 1. He created a radically new form.
• 2. He used unusual, arcane words.
• 3. He made obscure allusions.
• 4. All of these answers

Question: Complete the following sentence. Robert Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover” is_______________?

• 1. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.
• 2. a dramatic monologue spoken by a murderer.
• 3. a dramatic monologue spoken by Browning.
• 4. an epic describing a great romance.

Question: Complete the following sentence. Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Browning’s dramatic monologues can best be seen as combining neoclassicism with romanticism through their ?

• 1. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.
• 2. romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.
• 3. romantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on social context.
• 4. romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.