Test Unit 6

Question 0

What was a major factor in the communication revolution in England?

Answer 0

Steam

Question 1

Adam Smith’s policy if “Laissez faire” advocated the role of the noninterference in _______by government.

Answer 1

Business

Question 2

According to Kant’s philosophy of transcendentalism, which replaced deism, God is said to be within both nature and mankind and is known as what?

Answer 2

World Spirit

Question 3

Utilitarianism evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of what?

Answer 3

Happiness

Question 4

The common element in all areas of romantic thinking- political, philosophical and artistic- is what?

Answer 4

Freedom

Question 5

Who was promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by society.

Answer 5

Rousseau

Question 6

Characteristics of romantic poetry include:

Answer 6

The poet himself as the primary subject
A highly individual perspective
An awe inspiring atmosphere

Question 7

The publication of what launched the second great era of English song?

Answer 7

Lyrical Ballads

Question 8

What are the years of the Romantic Period?

Answer 8

1784-1832

Question 9

Blake’s “London” condemns the following institutions of society:

Answer 9

Religion
Government
Family

Question 10

In “London” Blake associates ________ and _______, rather than ________ and _________, with marriage by using the unexpected word hearse.

Answer 10

death and mourning

joy and life

Question 11

According to Blake, obeying one’s imagination and feelings constitutes what?

Answer 11

Man’s salvation

Question 12

In his promotion of the idea that mankind is enslaved, Blake is espousing the tenet of who?

Answer 12

French philosopher, Roussau.

Question 13

In his work “Garden of Love” it is ironic that Blake includes a graveyard because why?

Answer 13

the garden is supposedly dedicated to love, but it produces death; Also, Blake’s defiance of God’s law will bring him only misery.

Question 14

The authors of lyrical ballads are who?

Answer 14

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

Question 15

Wordsworth credited what as being the major of formative influence on his writing?

Answer 15

nature

Question 16

The most poetic achievement of British romanticism is?

Answer 16

The Prelude

Question 17

Wordsworth uses the simile of what to describe the daffidils in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”?

Answer 17

Stars

Question 18

In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, the depiction of poetry’s “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” reflects what?

Answer 18

the romantic dislike of control.

Question 19

The redirection of what is the theme or focus of Wordsworth’s controbution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics?

Answer 19

poet’s attention to himself

Question 20

According to sonnet 1, the difference between the child and the adult is what?

Answer 20

the child communes with nature directly.

Question 21

According to the speaker in “The World is Too Much With Us” what have exchanged for our hearts?

Answer 21

Materialistic cravings

Question 22

According to Coleridge the immediate end of poetry is what? What is the ultimate end of poetry?

Answer 22

Pleasure

Truth

Question 23

In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the albatross brought about the directional change of what?

Answer 23

south to north in the ship’s course.

Question 24

What are associated with the time of the ancient mariner?

Answer 24

Stillness, heat and silence

Question 25

The sailors punish the Mariner by doing what?

Answer 25

hanging the dead albatross around his neck 

Question 26

The Mariner shot the albatross without any what?

Answer 26

provocation and offer no move or justification.

Question 27

The two crew memebers of the specter ship death are what?

Answer 27

death and Life-In- Death 

Question 28

Coleridge differs from Wordsworth in his view of what?

Answer 28

poetic diction. 

Question 29

Charles and Mary Lamb collaborated on what?

Answer 29

a children's version of Shakespeare's works. 

Question 30

What is the primary mood of Lamb's essays?

Answer 30

Nostalgic daydreaming

Question 31

Lamb decided to write under the name of what so that he would not embarrass his brother, an employee of the South Sea House.

Answer 31

Elia

Question 32

The major theme of "Old China" is what?

Answer 32

the superiority of the old days of the youth and poverty.

Question 33

Wordsworth admired Lamb's writing. He saw Lamb as what?

Answer 33

kindred spirit and his essays a literary word simliar to his own. 

Question 34

The Byronic hero is characterized by what?

Answer 34

arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will and rebellion.

Question 35

Who was the mock-heroic work that emphasized Byron's disillusionment with his own lifestyle?

Answer 35

Don Juan

Question 36

In his work "On This Day" the lines "then look around,and choose thy ground/and take thy rest" use the poetic device ________ as the speaker attempts to achieve a sense of finality and resignation. 

Answer 36

caesura

Question 37

In "She Walks in Beauty" the poetic device _______ governs the imagery in stanza 1

Answer 37

Simile

Question 38

What was written as a result of Byron's travels to the Mediterranean from 1809-1811?

Answer 38

"Childe Herold's Pilgrimage"

Question 39

"England in 1819" was inspired by what historical?

Answer 39

event of the Peterloo Massacre.

Question 40

William Godwin's position against matrimony is ironic why?

Answer 40

because of his displeasure when his own daughter ran off with Shelley.

Question 41

What is Shelley's elegy on the death of Keats?

Answer 41

"Adonais"

Question 42

Ozymandias" has the following absurdities:

Answer 42

Legs which support nothing  An empire which is now only desert  The highest part of the statue is now the lowest 

Question 43

Theme and most famous rhetorical question in english literature for "Ode to The West Wind"

Answer 43

if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Question 44

Section 4 of "Ode to the West Wind" reveals what?

Answer 44

Shelley's agreement with the romantic belief in the superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature. 

Question 45

Keats first unquestionably great poem was what?

Answer 45

"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

Question 46

In "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" the controlling imagery is what?

Answer 46

explorers

Question 47

In " the Eve of St.Agnes" who helps porphyro carry out his plan?

Answer 47

Angelo

Question 48

In "The Eve of St. Agnes" what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?

Answer 48

A storm

Question 49

Keat's brother and eventually Keats himself died of what English disease?

Answer 49

tuberculosis