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The Age of Romanticism was characterized by

a. A desire for personal and political liberties
b. The French Revolution
c. A desire to break away from 18th-century artistic and literary conventions
d. All of the above

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Which of the following events did not occur in 1789?

a. The storming of the Bastille
b. The invasion of Italy by Napoleon
c. The issuing of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
d. The publication of William Blake's Songs of Innocence

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The Romantic period (as it is commonly thought of in English Studies) lasted approximately

a. 125 years
b. 40 years
c. 75 years
d. 200 years

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A Jacobin was

a. A supporter of revolutionary ideals
b. Opposed to revolutionary ideals
c. A revolutionary leader
d. A revolutionary soldier

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Which of the following statements is not true of the Romantic poet?

a. The poet is preoccupied with the relationship between the natural world and the individual mind
b. The poet focuses on freeing the mind and soul
c. The poet believes that poetry can only be realized in an unconscious state
d. The poet desires to express the connection between physical experience and imagination

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Which poet wrote of the French Revolution: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!"?

a. William Blake
b. Lord Byron
c. William Wordsworth
d. John Keats

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The 1800 Act of Union

a. United Ireland and Scotland
b. Created a united France and marked the end of the Revolution
c. Created an alliance between the United States and England
d. Formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Wordsworth's reference in "Tintern Abbey" to "vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods" describes

a. Forest-dwelling soldiers of the French Revolution
b. Agricultural laborers, unemployed as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution
c. Homeless children whose parents died in the French Revolution
d. Romantic poets roaming the countryside for inspiration

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Which of the following statements regarding the Enclosure Acts is not true?

a. The process of enclosure had occurred in England since the late Middle Ages
b. The enclosure Acts increased the income of small independent farmers
c. The Enclosure Acts converted formerly common land into large, privately-held farms
d. Agricultural production was increased as a result of the Enclosure Acts

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What was the purpose of the Corn Laws?

a. To protect British grain producers (even at the cost of inflating the price of bread for the consumer)
b. To keep prices on corn (i.e., grain) low so that the poor could afford to at least buy grain
c. To tax farmers who produced too much grain thus encouraging imports from other countries and improved international relations
d. To increase grain production and thus create more jobs

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What does A Memoir of Robert Blincoe describe?

a. The conditions of farm-life during the Industrial Revolution
b. Life in Paris during the French Revolution, as seen by an English traveller
c. The experience of a child laborer during the Industrial Revolution
d. The life of a struggling author

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In an event later referred to as "The Peterloo Massacre," thousands of people gathered on St. Peter's Field

a. To protest against the Corn Laws
b. To protest against voting restrictions
c. To protest against a corrupt and antiquated parliamentary system
d. All of the above

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Which of the following was not considered to be a crime according to the Six Acts passed in 1819?

a. Government officials entering private residences to search for weapons
b. Organized meetings of more than 50 people (excluding parishes)
c. Making public, political demonstrations
d. Publishing "false" statements
e. None of the above

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The Whig party advocated which of the following?

a. Adhering to traditional laws and practices
b. Abolishing the slave trade
c. Curtailing the influence of the Catholic Church
d. Equal rights for men and women
e. b and d

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What do Byron's Eastern Tales and Percy Shelley's Alastor have in common?

a. They were both published in the same year
b. Each was written in four-line stanzas
c. Both discuss Eastern cultures
d. Both relate a mythical tale

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Which poet is associated with the best-known version of the famous song, "Auld Lang Syne"?

a. Robert Burns
b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c. William Blake
d. William Wordsworth

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What is the first line of William Wordsworth's "London 1802"?

a. Of inward happiness. We are selfish men
b. Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea
c. Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour
d. Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free

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The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act

a. Put an end to slavery in Britain and France
b. Made it illegal to own a slave in England
c. Did not allow a man to own more than one slave
d. Prohibited British vessels from participating in the trading of humans

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Which of the following texts does not deal with the issue of slavery?

a. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
b. The Grasmere Journal
c. "Beachy Head"
d. "Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce"
e. A Vindication of the Rights of Man

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Which of the following may explain Jane Austen's ten years of silence?

a. The death of her father
b. Her family's relocation, resulting in an interruption in her writing routine
c. The death of a close friend
d. All of the above

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To whom does the following description refer: "the most distinguished of English writers who never wrote a line for the general public"?

a. Joanna Baillie
b. William Taylor
c. Dorothy Wordsworth
d. Charlotte Smith

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William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience

a. Express Blake's obsession with children
b. Portray the poverty and exploitation of the Industrial Revolution
c. Are composed of thematic representations of Biblical stories
d. Explore the relationship between children, animals, and nature

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Fill in the blank from the first line of Blake's "The Little Black Boy." "My mother bore me in the southern ______"

a. Lands
b. Country
c. Wild
d. Shore

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Whom did John Clare often imagine himself to be?

a. William Shakespeare
b. Lord Byron
c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d. William Blake

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Which of the following statements is true of Mary Wollstonecraft?

a. She was the most recognized female political writer of her day
b. She was the first female writer to publish her work without using a pseudonym
c. She wrote about issues such as education for women, class distinctions, and human rights
d. All of the above
e. a and c

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Women writers during the Romantic period

a. Wrote very largely about the same topics as the male writers of the period
b. Wrote mostly about women's rights and issues
c. Had to use a pseudonym if they wanted to get published
d. Proudly called themselves "bluestockings," a term that celebrated literary achievement

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To the people of the Romantic period, the concept of sensibility often implied

a. Emotional excess
b. Intellectual strength
c. Refined manners
d. An abundant supply of what we would today call "common sense"

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How is the literature of the Romantic period paradoxical?

a. It can be both spontaneous and artificial
b. It often displays a passion for freedom but it is also often restrained
c. It is both "Romantic" and "Classical"
d. All of the above

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Which poet claimed to reject many of the impulses at the core of the Romantic Movement, and in "To Romance" (1807) vowed to leave the realms of romance "for those of truth"?

a. John Keats
b. Lord Byron
c. John Clare
d. William Wordsworth

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Which of the following best describes Gothic literature?

a. Gothic literature explores revolutionary themes
b. There is very little symbolism in Gothic literature
c. Gothic literature explores human responses to supernatural occurrences
d. Gothic literature explores the social nuances of everyday life

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In Mary Shelley's The Last Man, what extinguishes the human population?

a. War
b. A Bomb
c. No females have been born for over 100 years
d. A plague

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