Unit 6

Question 1

Adam Smith’s policy of laissez faire advocated the role of what by government ?

Answer 1

Noninterference in business

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Steam

Question 3

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 3

World Spirit

Question 4

What does utilitarianism evaluates ?

Answer 4

The goodness or badness of an action based on its production of happiness

Question 5

Christians would agree with romantics on the following:

Answer 5

Human reasons has limitations (Christians recognize the fall of man and its consequences while the romantics reacted against the neoclassical emphasis on reason)
Intuition has some validity (both agree with self realization - a Christian measures his development according to Christ-likeness, the romantic measures his personal development according to his subjective self-evaluation)
The individual has value

Question 6

How do Christians and Romantics differ on their concepts of God ?

Answer 6

A Christian recognizes the deity of an eternal, omnipotent , omnipresent, omniscient God - the romantic transcendentalists consider God to be a World Spirit coexistent within His creation, both mankind and nature

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Freedom

Question 8

What did Rousseau, the promoter of primitivism, believe ?

Answer 8

Human misery was caused not by sin but by society

Question 9

Characteristics of romantic poetry include:

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Lyrical Ballad

Question 11

Who are the authors of Lyrical Ballad ?

Answer 11

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 12

What did Wordsworth created nature as ?

Answer 12

Being the major formative influence on his writing

Question 13

What is the most poetic achievement of British romanticism ?

Answer 13

The Prelude

Question 14

Wordsworth use the simile of stars to describe what in “II Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” ?

Answer 14

Daffodils

Question 15

In Wordsworth definition of the poetic process, what reflects dislike of control ?

Answer 15

The deception of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”

Question 16

What is the theme or focus of Wordsworth’s contribution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics

Answer 16

The redirection of the poet’s attention to himself

Question 17

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

Answer 17

The child communes with nature directly

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Materialistic cravings

Question 19

Lucy’s identity, of the Lucy poems, has never been what ?

Answer 19

Established and is probably fictional

Question 20

What did Charles and Mary Lamb collaborate on ?

Answer 20

A children’s version of Shakespeare’s work

Question 21

What is the primary mood of Lamb’s essays ?

Answer 21

Nostalgic daydreaming

Question 22

What was the name Lamb wrote under so he would not embarrass his brother, an employee of the South Sea House ?

Answer 22

Elia

Question 23

What is the major theme of “Old China” ?

Answer 23

The superiority of the old days of youth and poverty

Question 24

Wordsworth admired Lamb’s writing. How did he see Lamb ?

Answer 24

As a kindred spirit and his essays a literary world similar to his own

Question 25

The Byronic hero is characterized by what ?

Answer 25

Arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will and rebellion

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Don Juan

Question 27

In his work “On This Day” the lines “then look around, and choose thy ground, / and take thy rest” us what poetic device as the speaker attempts to achieve a sense of finality and resignation ?

Answer 27

Caesura

Question 28

In “She Walks in Beauty” the poetic device - simile governs what ?

Answer 28

Imagery in stanza 1

Question 29

In “She Walks in Beauty” this lyric is a compliment who ?

Answer 29

To the woman whose physical beauty is equaled by and indeed an expression of her beauty of soul

Question 30

“Childe Herold’s Pilgrimage” was written as a result of what ?

Answer 30

Byron’s travels to the Mediterranean from 1809-11

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Peterloo Massacre

Question 32

How is William Godwin’s position against matrimony ironic ?

Answer 32

HIs displeasure when his own daughter ran off with Shelly

Question 33

“Adonais” is Shelly’s elegy on death of what ?

Answer 33

Keats

Question 34

“Ozymandias” has the following absurdities:

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Theme and most famous rhetorical question in English Literature for “Ode to the West Wind” is what ?

Answer 35

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Question 36

What does section IV of “Ode to the West Wind” revel ?

Answer 36

Shelly’s agreement with the romantic belief in the superiority of childhood innocence and communism with nature