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SALTEnglishLitQuiz4
Preparation for English Lit Quiz on Wordsworth/Romantic Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Identify five pre-Romantics of the late eighteenth century. | William Cowper, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, William Blake, Robert Burns |
| List three movements that had a tremendous effect on the creative activity of the Romantic Age. | Industrial Revolution, French Revolution, Wesleyan Revivals |
| What phenomenon made England the wealthiest country in Europe? | Industrial Revolution |
| Which nation was known as the Workshop of the World? | England |
| Who advocated the economic policy known as free enterprise? | Adam Smith |
| Name the three British monarchs during the first third of the nineteenth century. | George III, George IV, William IV |
| Name three outstanding prime ministers of the Romantic Age. | William Pitt, the Younter; the Duke of Wellington; and Robert Peel |
| Which general defeated Napoleon at Waterloo? | Duke of Wellington |
| Who founded the London police force? | Robert Peel |
| Which statesman warned against sympathy with France during the French Revolution? | Edmund Burke |
| Under which prime minister was the United Kingdom or Great Britain and Ireland formed? | William Pitt |
| Who was England's greatest naval hero? | Lord Nelson |
| What saved England from a revolution like the one suffered in France? | the preaching of John Wesley |
| Which evangelical committed himself to the ending of the slave trade? | William Wilberforce |
| Name the group of Christian men that included members of Parliament and prominent businessmen. | Clapham Sect |
| Which Christian earl was known for his efforts to help children and the mentally ill? | Lord Ashley, earl of Shaftsbury |
| Who was the first Protestant missionary to China? | Robert Morrison |
| Which man possessed the greatest mind of the Romantic Movement? | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Which essay was developed during the Romantic Age? | familiar essay |
| Name three types of novels produced during the Romantic Age. | Gothic, historical, novel of manners |
| Which author perfected the novel of manners? | Jane Austen |
| What is the false idea that God is not separate from nature but that nature is God? | pantheism |
| Name the three Lake Poets. | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey |
| What French Romantic writer influenced the views of many of the Romantics? | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Who was the greatest English poet since Milton? | William Wordsworth |
| What was one of the most important pieces of English literary criticism? | Preface to Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth |
| Who was the world's supreme poet of nature? | William Wordsworth |
| Who appointed Wordsworth poet laureate? | Queen Victoria |
| What is the term for poems characterized by sober meditations on death? | elegaic poems |
| What is the name for a poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme? | sonnet |
| Name the term that is defined as "the view which holds that there is a personal God Who is Creator and Ruler of the world"? | theism |
| Name the term that is defined as the view that "God created the universe" and "left it alone to run ... like a machine." | deism |
| Whom did Wordsworth memorialize in his elegaic poems? | Lucy |
| From what source did Wordsworth gain his comfort and joy? | Nature |
| In "This World is Too Much With Us," over what does Wordsworth express grief? | materialism |
| What form of poetry did Wordsworth call "an egregiously absurd form of composition"? | sonnet |
| In his lifetime, Wordsworth composed 500 of these types of poems: | sonnets |
| Whom did Wordsworth consider to be his poetic mentor? | John Milton |
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