Set-I Pre Romantics
1. Voltaire
2. Rousseau
3. Goethe
4. Thomas Gray
Answer: 2
Explanation: Rousseau’s ideas of liberty, fraternity, and equality inspired the Romantic spirit and opposed the rationality of Neo-classicism.
Q.2 Which of the following movements in Germany is considered proto-Romantic, flourishing between the late 1760s and early 1780s?
1. Sturm und Drang
2. Expressionism
3. Realism
4. Weimar Classicism
Answer: 1
Explanation: Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) was a proto-Romantic German movement emphasizing emotion and individualism, featuring Goethe and Schiller.
Q.3 Goethe’s statement “Classicism is health; Romanticism is sickness” expresses his later rejection of which movement?
1. Enlightenment
2. Realism
3. Romanticism
4. Neo-Classicism
Answer: 3
Explanation: Although Goethe was associated with the early Romantic Sturm und Drang movement, he later criticized Romanticism as emotional excess.
Q.4 James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730) is written in which poetic form?
1. Heroic couplet
2. Spenserian stanza
3. Blank verse
4. Sonnet sequence
Answer: 3
Explanation: The Seasons is a blank verse poem divided into four books, each named after a season, beginning with Winter.
Q.5 In which of the following poems, James Thomson reintroduced Spenserian stanza and inspired other poets, including Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Washington Irving and John Keats.?
1. The Seasons
2. The Castle of Indolence
3. Rule, Britannia
4. City of Dreadful Night
Answer: 2
Explanation: The Castle of Indolence (1748) was written in Spenserian stanza.
Q.6 Which poet bid farewell to Pope’s heroic couplet and used blank verse and Spenserian stanza instead?
1. James Thomson
2. George Crabbe
3. William Cowper
4. Thomas Gray
Answer: 1
Explanation: Thomson broke from the Neoclassical heroic couplet tradition and adopted blank verse and Spenserian stanza forms.
Q.7 The poem Grongar Hill (1726), noted for its vivid description of natural scenery, was written by—
1. John Dyer
2. William Collins
3. George Crabbe
4. Thomas Chatterton
Answer: 1
Explanation: John Dyer’s Grongar Hill celebrates nature and rural beauty, anticipating Romantic landscape poetry.
Q.8 “The Marvelous Boy” mentioned by Wordsworth in Resolution and Independence refers to—
1. Robert Burns
2. Thomas Chatterton
3. William Blake
4. James Thomson
Answer: 2
Explanation: Wordsworth called Thomas Chatterton “The Marvelous Boy” for his precocious genius; he committed suicide at 17.
Q.9 The Rowley Poems were attributed to a fictitious 15th-century monk created by—
1. George Crabbe
2. William Collins
3. Thomas Chatterton
4. William Cowper
Answer: 3
Explanation: Chatterton created the fictional monk “Thomas Rowley” as the supposed author of his medieval-style poems.
Q.10 “I paint the cot, as truth will paint it, and bards will not.” This line belongs to—
1. George Crabbe
2. William Cowper
3. Robert Burns
4. James Thomson
Answer: 1
Explanation: In The Village (1783), Crabbe realistically depicted rural poverty, countering the idealized village life of Goldsmith.
Q.11 William Cowper’s poem The Task (1785) is written in—
1. Heroic couplet
2. Blank verse
3. Spenserian stanza
4. Ottava rima
Answer: 2
Explanation: The Task, Cowper’s greatest poem, is written in blank verse and divided into six books, including “The Sofa” and “The Timepiece.”
Q.12 In which poem does the line “God made the country and man made the town” appear?
1. The Village
2. The Task
3. The Seasons
4. Grongar Hill
Answer: 2
Explanation: This line appears in the first book “The Sofa” of Cowper’s The Task, contrasting nature’s purity with urban corruption.
Q.13 Who told William Cowper the story that inspired his comic ballad John Gilpin?
1. Lady Austen
2. Lady Winchilsea
3. Mary Unwin
4. Fanny Burney
Answer: 1
Explanation: Lady Austen narrated the humorous story of John Gilpin, which Cowper turned into a popular ballad.
Q.14 Which poem by Cowper begins with the line “I am monarch of all I survey”?
1. The Task
2. The Castaway
3. The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
4. The Sofa
Answer: 3
Explanation: The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk opens with “I am monarch of all I survey,” expressing isolation and independence.
Q.15 The phrase “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform” comes from which of Cowper’s works?
1. The Negro’s Complaint
2. Light Shining Out of Darkness
3. The Castaway
4. The Task
Answer: 2
Explanation: This line appears in Light Shining Out of Darkness, one of Cowper’s Olney Hymns, showing his deep religious sentiment.
Q.16 Who called William Cowper “The best modern poet”?
1. Coleridge
2. Wordsworth
3. Byron
4. Shelley
Answer: 1
Explanation: Coleridge described Cowper as “The best modern poet” for his sincerity and descriptive power.
Q.17 Which Scottish poet is known as the “Plowman’s Poet” and “Bard of Ayrshire”?
1. William Collins
2. Robert Burns
3. James Thomson
4. George Crabbe
Answer: 2
Explanation: Robert Burns, the national poet of Scotland, was called the “Plowman’s Poet” and “Bard of Ayrshire.”
Q.18 Robert Burns’s song “My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose” is an example of—
1. Epic poetry
2. Ballad
3. Lyric
4. Ode
Answer: 3
Explanation: The famous love song “My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose” is one of Burns’s finest lyrical compositions.
Q.19 Robert Burns’s Tam O’Shanter is a—
1. Tragic ballad
2. Folk verse in octosyllabic lines
3. Heroic couplet satire
4. Pastoral elegy
Answer: 2
Explanation: Tam O’Shanter is a humorous Scottish folk tale in octosyllabic couplets, recounting a farmer’s flight from witches.
Q.20 Burns Night is celebrated on which date?
1. 5 November
2. 25 January
3. 31 October
4. 23 April
Answer: 2
Explanation: Scots around the world celebrate Burns Night on 25 January, the birthday of Robert Burns.
Q.21 Who composed ‘Ode Written on the Death of Mr. Thomson (1749)’ is in response to the death of James Thomson?
1. Thomas Gray
2. William Collins’s
3. William Cowper
4. Robert Burns
Answer: 2
Explanation: Collins wrote this ode in memory of James Thomson, author of The Seasons, whom he called “a Druid.” The famous opening line, "In yonder grave a Druid lies," is indeed from this ode and is a direct reference to James Thomson.
Q.22 In which year was William Blake’s Songs of Innocence published?
1. 1783
2. 1789
3. 1794
4. 1791
Answer: 2
Explanation: Songs of Innocence was published in 1789, depicting childlike faith and purity.
Q.23 Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794) serves as a counterpart to Songs of Innocence and contains which famous poem?
1. The Lamb
2. The Shepard
3. The Tyger
4. Infant Joy
Answer: 3
Explanation: The Tyger is Blake’s most famous poem from Songs of Experience, exploring divine power and creation.
Q.24 The line “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” occurs in which of Blake’s poems?
1. The Lamb
2. The Tyger
3. The Fly
4. London
Answer: 2
Explanation: In The Tyger, Blake contrasts the creator of the fierce tiger with that of the gentle lamb.
Q.25 Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1794) famously states—
1. “Without contraries there is no progression.”
2. “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
3. “Energy is eternal delight.”
4. All the above
Answer: 4
Explanation: All these aphorisms come from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, expressing Blake’s philosophy of creative contraries.
Set-II Pre Romantics
Q.26 Blake described Milton as “of the Devil’s party without knowing it” in which work?
1. Jerusalem
2. Milton: A Poem
3. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
4. Vala or The Four Zoas
Answer: 3
Explanation: In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake praised Milton for sympathizing with rebellious energy in Paradise Lost.
Q.27 Blake’s unfinished prose satire An Island in the Moon was written in—
1. 1776
2. 1784
3. 1791
4. 1797
Answer: 2
Explanation: An Island in the Moon (1784) is a humorous and satirical prose work mocking London society.
Q.28 Blake’s prophetic book Vala or The Four Zoas refers to—
1. The fall of Albion and creation of four powers
2. The four seasons of man
3. The four stages of redemption
4. The four elements of poetry
Answer: 1
Explanation: In Blake’s mythology, The Four Zoas (Tharmas, Urizen, Luvah, Urthona) arose from the fall of Albion, representing aspects of human nature.
Q.29 Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden (1791) consists of two parts:
1. The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants
2. The Garden of Eden and The Seasons
3. The Harmony of Nature and The Virtues of Plants
4. The Anatomy of Plants and Flowers of Fancy
Answer: 1
Explanation: Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden (1791) combines science and poetry in The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants.
Q.30 Who was the first editor of The Quarterly Review, founded as a rival to The Edinburgh Review?
1. Robert Southey
2. William Gifford
3. Walter Scott
4. John Wilson Croker
Answer: 2
Explanation: William Gifford was the first editor of The Quarterly Review, launched in 1809 by Tory writers as a rival to The Edinburgh Review.
Q.31 Which Scottish writer is famous for translating the supposed ancient Gaelic epics of “Ossian”?
1. James Macpherson
2. Thomas Percy
3. Walter Scott
4. Robert Burns
Answer: 1
Explanation: James Macpherson claimed to have translated the Ossian poems, including Fingal (1762) and Temora (1763), from Gaelic originals.
Q.32 The full title of Fingal (1762) by Macpherson includes which phrase?
1. “An Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books”
2. “A Celtic Tale of Battle and Love”
3. “A Highland Ballad in Five Cantos”
4. “An Ancient Romance of the Gaels”
Answer: 1
Explanation: The complete title reads Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language.
Q.33 Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) is a collection of—
1. Gothic novels
2. Scottish and English ballads
3. French romantic lyrics
4. Latin odes
Answer: 2
Explanation: Percy’s Reliques (1765) is a collection of English and Scottish traditional ballads, including Sir Patrick Spens and Chevy Chase.
Q.34 Who is considered the “Father of the Gothic Novel”?
1. Clara Reeve
2. Horace Walpole
3. Ann Radcliffe
4. Matthew Lewis
Answer: 2
Explanation: Horace Walpole earned the title “Father of the Gothic Novel” for The Castle of Otranto (1764).
Q.35 The word “Serendipity” was coined by—
1. Mary Shelley
2. Horace Walpole
3. Samuel Johnson
4. William Godwin
Answer: 2
Explanation: Walpole coined “Serendipity” in 1754, inspired by the Persian tale The Three Princes of Serendip, meaning “fortunate discovery by accident.”
Q.36 The Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), about a man who sells his soul for 150 years of life, was written by—
1. Matthew Lewis
2. C.R. Maturin
3. William Beckford
4. Ann Radcliffe
Answer: 2
Explanation: Irish writer C.R. Maturin wrote Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), a Gothic masterpiece of nested narratives.
Q.37 The Old English Baron (1777) by Clara Reeve was originally published under which title?
1. The Gothic Hero
2. The Champion of Virtue
3. The Haunted Castle
4. The Noble Knight
Answer: 2
Explanation: Clara Reeve’s The Old English Baron (1777) was first published as The Champion of Virtue, a moralized Gothic novel.
Q.38 Who was called “the mighty enchantress” and “the Shakespeare of romance-writers”?
1. Ann Radcliffe
2. Clara Reeve
3. Mary Shelley
4. Frances Burney
Answer: 1
Explanation: Contemporary critics described Ann Radcliffe, author of The Mysteries of Udolpho, as “the mighty enchantress” of Gothic fiction.
Q.39 The heroine Emily St. Aubert appears in which Gothic novel?
1. The Italian
2. The Mysteries of Udolpho
3. Melmoth the Wanderer
4. The Monk
Answer: 2
Explanation: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe features Emily St. Aubert as its central heroine.
Q.40 Matthew Gregory Lewis is famous for writing which sensational Gothic novel?
1. The Castle of Otranto
2. The Old English Baron
3. The Monk
4. The Italian
Answer: 3
Explanation: The Monk (1796) by Matthew Lewis, notorious for its themes of lust and corruption, earned him the name “Monk” Lewis.
Q.41 The Gothic novel originated with which writer’s The Castle of Otranto (1764)?
1. Ann Radcliffe
2. Horace Walpole
3. William Beckford
4. M. G. Lewis
Answer: 2
Explanation: Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) is regarded as the first Gothic novel, blending medievalism, mystery, and supernatural horror.
Q.42 The subtitle of The Castle of Otranto was—
1. “A Gothic Tale”
2. “A Medieval Story”
3. “A Tale of Terror”
4. “A Romance of the Castle”
Answer: 1
Explanation: Walpole added the subtitle “A Gothic Tale” in the second edition, thereby coining the term Gothic for this new form of fiction.
Q.43 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Gothic fiction?
1. Ruined castles
2. Supernatural elements
3. Psychological realism
4. Atmosphere of horror
Answer: 3
Explanation: Gothic novels focus on mystery and supernatural terror rather than psychological realism, which came later with Romantic and Victorian fiction.
Q.44 The Jacobin novel Caleb Williams is subtitled—
1. “Things as They Are”
2. “A Tale of Terror”
3. “The New Philosophy”
4. “The Radical’s Dream”
Answer: 1
Explanation: The full title Caleb Williams: Things as They Are emphasizes Godwin’s critique of social and political injustice.
Q.45 Which of the following Gothic writers introduced the “explained supernatural” technique?
1. Horace Walpole
2. Ann Radcliffe
3. M. G. Lewis
4. William Beckford
Answer: 2
Explanation: Ann Radcliffe used rational explanations for seemingly supernatural events, giving psychological depth to Gothic tales.
Q.46 The Jacobin novels of the late 18th century were inspired by—
1. The Industrial Revolution
2. The French Revolution
3. The American War of Independence
4. The Napoleonic Wars
Answer: 2
Explanation: Jacobin novels emerged from the radical political climate following the French Revolution, advocating liberty and social reform.
Q.47 Which novel by William Beckford features an Arabian setting filled with mysticism and fantasy?
1. Vathek
2. Zofloya
3. The Italian
4. Caleb Williams
Answer: 1
Explanation: Beckford’s Vathek (1786), written in French, combines Eastern exoticism, supernatural horror, and moral allegory.
Q.48 The poet who acted as a bridge between the Neoclassical and Romantic schools by writing Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard was—
1. William Collins
2. Thomas Gray
3. James Thomson
4. George Crabbe
Answer: 2
Explanation: Gray’s Elegy combines Neoclassical form with Romantic emotion, melancholy, and reflection on humble rural life.
Q.49 The line “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife” is from—
1. Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
2. Cowper’s The Task
3. Thomson’s The Seasons
4. Collins’s Ode to Evening
Answer: 1
Explanation: This famous line from Gray’s Elegy idealizes the simplicity and peace of rural life, contrasting it with worldly ambition. This phrase is best known as the title of one of Thomas Hardy’s most successful novels. Hardy took the title from Thomas Gray’s poem – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 1751
Q.50 A Man’s a Man for A’ That by Robert Burns is primarily a—
1. Love poem
2. Patriotic ballad
3. Satirical attack on social inequality
4. Religious hymn
Answer: 3
Explanation: The poem champions equality and human dignity, expressing the democratic ideals of the Romantic spirit.
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