Ⅰ. Multiple Choices:
1. Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.
A. realism B. Renaissance C. Enlightenment D. feudalism
2. The main literary stream is ____.
A. poetry B. novels C. prose D. periodicals
3. ____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.
A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” B. “Tintern Abbey”
C. “Revolution” D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
4. Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.
A. Frost at Midnight B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria
5. Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.
A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage B. Hours of Idleness
C. Lara D. Don Juan
6. Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.
A. Wordsworth’s B. Byron’s C. Shelley’s D. Keats’
7. ____ lived the longest life.
A. Wordsworth B. Byron C. Shelley D. Keats
8. Keats’ first poem is ____.
A. O Solitude B. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
C. Poems D. Endymion
9. Keats’ best ode is ____.
A. “On a Grecian Urn” B. “To Autumn”
C. “To Psyche” D. “To a Nightingale”
10. The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.
A. The Spirit of the Age B. Table Talk
C. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays D. On the English Poets
11. The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.
A. “Tintern Abbey” B. Lyrical Ballads
C. Frost at Night D. “The Daffodils”
12. The Prelude has also been called _____.
A. The Last Brazil B. The First Impression C. Growth of a Poet’s Mind D. The Spirit of the Age
13. Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.
A. “The Solitary Reaper” B. “The Daffodils”
C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” D. “O Solitude”
14. _____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.
A. The Prelude B. Endymion
C. Don Juan D. Biographia Literaria
15. The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.
A. models of classicism B. familiar essay
C. rules of neo-romanticism D. ways of modernism
16. The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.
A. Keats B. Walter Scott C. Charles Lamb D. William Hazlitt
17. The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.
A. pride and prejudice B. the writer’s own personalities
C. love and marriage D. Both A and C
18. _____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.
A. Jane Austen B. Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D. Waler Scott
19. Lamb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.
A. romanticism B. conversations C. inspirations D. archaisms
20. Lamb is a romanticist of ______.
A. the city B. the countryside C. nature D. imagination
21. _____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.
A. Endymion B. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia 22. Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.
A. Keats B. Wordsworth C. Coleridge D. William
23. The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic Age from _____.
A. Dun Juan B. The Prelude C. Kubla Khan D. Isabella
24. Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.
A. individual heroism and pessimism B. love of nature and optimism
C. love of old writers D. hatred for the imperialism
25. One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.
A. Kubla Khan B. Frost at Night
C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria
26. Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.
A. Kubla Khan B. Frost at Night
C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria
27. ____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.
A. Zastrozzi B. The Necessity of Atheism
C. Queen Mab D. Prometheus Unbound
28. _____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.
A. John Woodvil B. Essays of Elia
C. Mr H D. Tales from Shakespeare
29. Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.
A. The Masque of Anarchy B. A Defence of Poetry
C. The Necessity of Atheism D. The Triumph of Life
30. ______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.
A. Zastrozzi; Eton B. The Necessity of Atheism; Italy
C. Queen Mab; Greece D. Prometheus Unbound; Italy
31. The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.
A. 17…1821 B. 1778…1823 C. 1798…1832 D. 1768…1819
32. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.
A. the first B. the second C. the third D. the forth
33. The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.
A. novel B. poem C. periodical D. newspaper
ⅡLiterary Terms:
1. Romanticism
2. Ode
3. Pastoral
4. Satire
5. Image
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB
16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA
31-33 CBC
Key to the literary terms:
1. A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in Western culture during most of the nineteenth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. The romanticist portrays people, scenes and events as they impress him or as he imagines them to be. A Romantic work has one or more of the following characteristics: an emphasis on feeling and imagination; a love of nature; a belief in individual and common man; and interest in the past, the unusual, the unfamiliar, the bizarre or picturesque, a revolt against authority or tradition. It expresses the ideology and sentiment of the classes
and strata that were dissatisfied with the development of capitalism. There have been many varieties of romanticism in many different times and places. Some ideas of English Romanticism were expressed by the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and some were showed by Shelley, Byron and Keats.
2. A long, stately lyric poem in stanzas of varied metrical pattern, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject. Odes are often written for a special occasion, to honor a person or a season or commemorate an event. Two famous odes are Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “ Ode to the West wind” and John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
3. From Latin pastor, a shepherd. The first pastoral poet was Theocritus, a Greek of the 3rd century B.C. The pastoral was especially popular in Europe from the 14th through the 18th centuries, with some fine examples still written in England in the 19th century. The pastoral mode is self-reflexive. Typically the poet echoes the conventions of earlier pastorals in order to put \"the complex into the simple,\" as William Empson observed in Some Versions of Pastoral (1935). The poem is not really about shepherds, but about the complex society the poet and readers inhabit.
4. A kind of writing holds up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general. The aim of satirists is to set a moral standard for society, and they attempt to persuade the reader to see their point of view through the force of laughter.
The most famous satirical work in English literature is Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
5. A concrete picture, either literally descriptive, as in \"Red roses covered the white wall,\" or figurative, as in \"She is a rose,\" each carrying a sensual and emotive connotation. A figurative image may be an analogy, metaphor, simile, personification, or the like. Impressionism, a literary style conveying subjective impressions rather than objective reality, taking its name from the movement in French painting in the mid-19th century, notably in the works of Manet, Monet, and Renoir. The Imagists represented impressionism in poetry; in fiction, writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce
