25 MCQs on the Romantic Period in English Literature with short explanations
1. Which year is commonly associated with the beginning of the Romantic Age?
a) 1789
b) 1798
c) 1800
d) 1818
Answer: b) 1798
Explanation: The publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads in 1798 is seen as the start of English Romanticism.
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2. Who wrote the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, often called the manifesto of Romanticism?
a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b) Percy Bysshe Shelley
c) William Wordsworth
d) John Keats
Answer: c) William Wordsworth
Explanation: Wordsworth emphasized the use of common language and subjects in poetry.
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3. Which poem begins with the line "It is an ancient Mariner"?
a) Kubla Khan
b) Ode to the West Wind
c) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
d) Tintern Abbey
Answer: c) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Explanation: Written by Coleridge, it is a famous ballad of supernatural adventure.
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4. Who is known as the high priest of beauty in Romantic poetry?
a) William Blake
b) John Keats
c) Byron
d) Shelley
Answer: b) John Keats
Explanation: Keats focused on beauty and aesthetic experience.
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5. Which Romantic poet is known for the concept of the "egotistical sublime"?
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Byron
d) Wordsworth
Answer: d) Wordsworth
Explanation: Wordsworth believed deeply in the importance of personal emotional experience.
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6. Who wrote Ode to the West Wind?
a) John Keats
b) Lord Byron
c) P.B. Shelley
d) William Blake
Answer: c) P.B. Shelley
Explanation: The poem expresses a desire for transformation and revolution.
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7. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is a famous line from which poem?
a) Ode to a Nightingale
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
c) The Eve of St. Agnes
d) Hyperion
Answer: b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Explanation: This line captures Keats's aesthetic philosophy.
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8. Which Romantic poet is most associated with political radicalism?
a) Wordsworth
b) Byron
c) Shelley
d) Blake
Answer: c) Shelley
Explanation: Shelley’s works often championed liberty and revolution.
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9. Lord Byron’s long narrative poem based on his own life is:
a) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
b) Don Juan
c) Manfred
d) The Giaour
Answer: a) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Explanation: The poem reflects Byron’s travels and melancholy.
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10. Which poet is considered a forerunner of Romanticism and wrote *Songs of Innocence and Experience*?
a) William Wordsworth
b) William Blake
c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d) John Keats
Answer: b) William Blake
Explanation: Blake's poems combine visionary imagination with social protest.
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11. Byron’s works often feature a brooding, rebellious hero known as the:
a) Romantic hero
b) Byronic hero
c) Gothic hero
d) Tragic hero
Answer: b) Byronic hero
Explanation: A figure marked by pride, cynicism, and melancholy.
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12. Shelley's unfinished long poem based on the Prometheus myth is:
a) Queen Mab
b) Adonais
c) Prometheus Unbound
d) The Revolt of Islam
Answer: c) Prometheus Unbound
Explanation: It reimagines the myth in a vision of human freedom.
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13. John Keats's first major work was:
a) Endymion
b) Hyperion
c) Lamia
d) Isabella
Answer: a) Endymion
Explanation: A long poem beginning with the famous line "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
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14. Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate in:
a) 1813
b) 1820
c) 1843
d) 1850
Answer: c) 1843
Explanation: He held the position until his death in 1850.
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15. Coleridge's theory of "willing suspension of disbelief" relates to:
a) Nature description
b) Mystical experiences
c) Reader's acceptance of the supernatural
d) Political revolution
Answer: c) Reader's acceptance of the supernatural
Explanation: It allows readers to engage with fantastical elements in literature.
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16. "We are Seven" is a poem by:
a) William Blake
b) William Wordsworth
c) John Keats
d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer: b) William Wordsworth
Explanation: It explores a child's innocent view of death.
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17. Byron died during:
a) The American Revolution
b) The Greek War of Independence
c) The French Revolution
d) The Indian Rebellion
Answer: b) The Greek War of Independence
Explanation: Byron fought for Greek freedom and died in 1824.
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18. Which poet was often referred to as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"?
a) Shelley
b) Byron
c) Keats
d) Coleridge
Answer: b) Byron
Explanation: Lady Caroline Lamb described Byron with this phrase.
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19. Blake’s "The Tyger" can be found in:
a) Songs of Innocence
b) Songs of Experience
c) Jerusalem
d) Milton
Answer: b) Songs of Experience
Explanation: It questions the nature of divine creation.
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20. Which of the following poets studied at Christ's Hospital?
a) Shelley
b) Keats
c) Coleridge
d) Wordsworth
Answer: c) Coleridge
Explanation: He later attended Cambridge University.
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21. "Tintern Abbey" was written after a visit to:
a) Scotland
b) Wales
c) France
d) Italy
Answer: b) Wales
Explanation: It reflects Wordsworth’s memories of his earlier visit.
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22. The poem *Kubla Khan* was inspired by:
a) A dream
b) A political revolution
c) A real travel experience
d) A love affair
Answer: a) A dream
Explanation: Coleridge claimed he wrote it after an opium-influenced dream.
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23. Shelley's elegy on the death of John Keats is titled:
a) Adonais
b) Alastor
c) Queen Mab
d) Epipsychidion
Answer: a) Adonais
Explanation: It mourns Keats's death and celebrates his poetic legacy.
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24. Which poet advocated the "imagination" as the supreme faculty in humans?
a) Wordsworth
b) Coleridge
c) Blake
d) Shelley
Answer: b) Coleridge
Explanation: He gave imagination a philosophical and creative role.
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25. The Romantic Period primarily emphasized:
a) Scientific reasoning
b) Emotional expression and nature
c) Religious orthodoxy
d) Political conservatism
Answer: b) Emotional expression and nature
Explanation: Romanticism reacted against the rationalism of the Enlightenment.
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