2nd Sem Test 2

Question 1

Which two British heroes won significant victories at sea and on land against Napoleon?

Answer 1

Horatio Nelson

Arthur Wellesley

Duke of Wellington

Question 2

The Reform Act of 1832 accomplished all of the following except

Answer 2

that a secret ballot was established in voting procedures.

Question 3

Philosophical idealism promotes which of the following concepts?

Answer 3

A.Humanity is unable to fully or accurately observe reality

b. All knowledge = creation of the individual’s mind.

Both

Question 4

Rousseau, the promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by

Answer 4

society.

Question 5

Christians would agree with romantics on all the following points except that

Answer 5

intuition has some validity.

Question 6

London replaced which city as the hub of European civilization?

Answer 6

Paris

Question 7

Which two political parties dominated the Victorian era?

Answer 7

Conservative and Liberal

Question 8

Which two prime ministers dominated the Victorian era?

Answer 8

Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone

Question 9

T/F-A common dement in all areas of romantic thinking political, philosophical, and artistic is freedom from
limits.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

T/F-Within the context of romanticism, a nation’s literature is the primary instrument of transformative change
and improvement.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

T/F-Romanticism’s goal was to change society by addressing the group, not the individual.
Thic

Answer 11

False

Question 12

T/F-Steam power was a major factor in the communication revolution in England.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Steam power was a major factor in the communication revolution in England.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

The policy of laissez faire advocated what role for government?

Answer 14

Hands off

Question 15

What book embodied the most culturally si feant result of interest in natural science?

Answer 15

On the origins of species by Darwin

Question 16

Which colony of the British Empire was known as the “jewel in the crown?”

Answer 16

India

Question 17

Philosophical idealism promotes which of the following concepts?

Answer 17

• Humanity is unable to fully or accurately observe reality.
• All knowledge is in some way a creation of the individual’s mind

Question 18

Rousseau, the promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by

Answer 18

Society

Question 19

London replaced which city as the hub of European civilization?

Answer 19

Paris

Question 20

Which two middle-class and self-educated writers were ahead of their time and took their writing in entirely new directions

Answer 20

Robert Burns and William Blake

Question 21

According to your textbook, which two authors exhibited in their writings a transitional stage between neoclassicism and romanticism?

Answer 21

Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen

Question 22

Burns’s “To a Mouse” uses which of the following to communicate his perspective on man’s hopes and, more broadly, his nationalism and devotion to the common man and nature?

Answer 22

A rural dialect and colorful images

Question 23

Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” exhibits what literary device in the following excerpt?

Answer 23

Hyperbole

Question 24

Burns’s use of what literary device is evident in the following excerpt from “A Red, Red Rose”?
“O my luv’s like the melodie / That’s sweetly play’d in tune.”

Answer 24

Simile

Question 25

The following excerpt from Blake’s “The Lamb” illustrates what syntactical device?
“He is meek and he is mild.”

Answer 25

parallelism

Question 26

What device does Blake use in the following excerpt from “London”?
“In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.”

Answer 26

anaphora

Question 27

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

Answer 27

education.

Question 28

In the following excerpt from A Vindication, Wollstonecraft makes what kind of rhetorical appeal?
“Thanks to that Being who impressed them on my soul, and gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my own reason.”

Answer 28

ethos

Question 29

Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, argues that in both men and women, true virtue is preceded by

Answer 29

a life of service.

Question 30

In A Vindication, what does Wollstonecraft call for?

Answer 30

women to be considered equal with men and to have equal access to education

Question 31

In Pride and Prejudice, which of Lizzy’s characteristics does Mr. Bennet distinguish as setting her apart from
her sisters?

Answer 31

her intelligence

Question 32

Aside from the obvious focus on nature, what do “I wandered lonely as a cloud” and “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” have in common?

Answer 32

an emphasis on the memory of experiences with nature

Question 33

Beyond his work with poetry, what genre of literature is Coleridge best known for?

Answer 33

literary criticism

Question 34

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written in what poetic form?

Answer 34

ballad stanza

Question 35

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, how does the mariner kill the albatross?

Answer 35

with a crossbow

Question 36

What was the preeminent genre of Victorian literature?

Answer 36

novels

Question 37

The Byronic hero is characterized by all of the following except

Answer 37

remorse and repentance.

Question 38

Byron resurrected Spenser’s stanza form, Spenserian stanza, characterized by which of the following?

Answer 38

eight lines in iambic pentameter and one in iambic hexameter

Question 39

“Ode to the West Wind” uses which poetic form?

Answer 39

terza rima

Question 40

Which genre, popular among Romantic poets, is characterized by exaltations or meditations in which the speaker works through a problem in his mind?

Answer 40

ode

Question 41

“England in 1819” was inspired by which historical event?

Answer 41

the Battle of Peterloo

Question 42

VIn “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats lists all of the following that will not fade except

Answer 42

the lovers’ marriage.

Question 43

What do the sailors mean by hanging the albatross around the Mariner’s neck? What does the albatross symbolize?

Answer 43

Guilt as they blame him

Question 44

At what point does the mariner’s guilt subside? What happens as a result of his “confession”?

Answer 44

when the albatos falls due to the mariner confessing natures beauty

Question 45

Adonais is Shelley’s elegy on the death of whom?

Answer 45

Keats

Question 46

Fill in the blanks to complete this famous line from “Ode on a Grecian Urn” which encapsulates
Keats’s philosophy. “Beauty is
beauty.”

Answer 46

Truth