Romantic and Victorian Poetry MCQs 2026

William Wordsworth is a central figure of

1. AMetaphysical wit✓
2. BRestoration comedy✓
3. CEnglish Romantic poetry✓
4. DTheatre of the Absurd✓

Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" reflects on

1. Aurban sales failure✓
2. Bnature's restorative power and memory over five years✓
3. Cphonetic wagers✓
4. Dcaretaker threats✓

In Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth addresses

1. ALady Wishfort✓
2. BLinda Loman✓
3. CHedda Gabler✓
4. Dhis sister Dorothy✓

Wordsworth's "emotion recollected in tranquillity" appears in

1. AParadise Lost✓
2. BThe Way of the World✓
3. CWaiting for Godot✓
4. Dthe Preface to Lyrical Ballads✓

Samuel Taylor Coleridge co-authored with Wordsworth

1. AThe Faerie Queene✓
2. BLyrical Ballads (1798)✓
3. CHarmonium✓
4. DAriel✓

Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" is presented as

1. Aa sales ledger✓
2. Ba fragment from an opium dream✓
3. Ca doll's house deed✓
4. Da caretaker contract✓

The pleasure-dome in "Kubla Khan" is decreed at

1. ABrooklyn✓
2. BDublin✓
3. COslo✓
4. DXanadu✓

The "sacred river" in Kubla Khan is

1. Athe Wye✓
2. Bthe Alph✓
3. Cthe Lethe only in Eliot✓
4. Dthe Hudson✓

Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" features

1. Aa rubber hose✓
2. Ba forged note✓
3. Can albatross shot by the mariner✓
4. Da phonograph✓

Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" ends urging

1. A"Be through my lips to unawakened earth / The trumpet of a prophecy!"✓
2. B"Attention must be paid"✓
3. C"Beauty is truth"✓
4. D"I will arise and go now"✓

Shelley's "Ozymandias" ironically depicts

1. Aa living king in London✓
2. Ba successful salesman✓
3. Ca waiting tramp✓
4. Da ruined colossus in the desert✓

John Keats's odes include

1. A"Kubla Khan" and "Tintern Abbey"✓
2. B"The Second Coming" and "Prufrock"✓
3. C"Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn"✓
4. D"Ulysses" and "My Last Duchess"✓

Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" concludes that

1. A"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"✓
2. B"Death shall die"✓
3. C"Attention must be paid"✓
4. D"Something is rotten"✓

"Ode to a Nightingale" contrasts the bird's song with

1. Ahuman mortality and weariness✓
2. Bsales commissions✓
3. Cphonetic drills✓
4. Dcaretaker keys✓

Keats coined "negative capability" to mean

1. Aabsolute comic closure✓
2. Bbeing in uncertainties without irritable reaching after fact✓
3. Cstrict Restoration wit✓
4. Dmandatory rhymed morals✓

Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" presents the hero

1. Awaiting passively for Godot✓
2. Bteaching Eliza speech✓
3. Crestless for new adventure despite age✓
4. Dblackmailing Torvald✓

The famous closing line of Tennyson's "Ulysses" is

1. A"Not with a bang but a whimper"✓
2. B"I shall be telling this with a sigh"✓
3. C"Do I dare to eat a peach"✓
4. D"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"✓

Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H. mourns

1. AEdward King only in Lycidas✓
2. BArthur Henry Hallam✓
3. CWilly Loman✓
4. DAndrew Marvell✓

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Tennyson commemorates

1. Athe Fall of Man✓
2. Ba Crimean War cavalry disaster✓
3. Ca phonetics exam✓
4. Da doll's house party✓

Robert Browning is master of the

1. Adramatic monologue✓
2. BSpenserian stanza only✓
3. Cabsurdist pause only✓
4. Dsales flashback only✓

"My Last Duchess" by Browning is spoken by

1. Athe Duke of Ferrara✓
2. BUlysses the sailor king✓
3. Cthe Ancient Mariner✓
4. DPrufrock the clerk✓

The portrait of the last duchess in Browning's poem is

1. Aburned like Lovborg's book✓
2. Bsold with rubber hose✓
3. Cleft on a country road✓
4. Dhidden behind a curtain✓

"Porphyria's Lover" by Browning ends with the speaker

1. Astrangling Porphyria and sitting with her corpse✓
2. Bdeparting a doll's house✓
3. Cwaiting for Godot✓
4. Dwinning a phonetic bet✓

Browning's "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's" satirizes

1. Aclerical vanity and Renaissance corruption✓
2. BPuritan plain style only✓
3. CCockney vowels only✓
4. Dcaretaker silence only✓

Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads aimed to use

1. ALatin epic only✓
2. Bcourtly French only✓
3. Cthe language of men in poetry✓
4. Dsales jargon exclusively✓

Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" celebrates

1. Arubber samples✓
2. Brubbish in Aston's room✓
3. Cdaffodils remembered with inward bliss✓
4. Dforged loans✓

Coleridge's Biographia Literaria theorizes

1. Aimagination primary and secondary✓
2. Bsales tragedy✓
3. CRestoration contracts✓
4. DIbsen's slam✓

Shelley's "To a Skylark" addresses the bird as

1. Aa salesman's brother✓
2. Ba doll's child✓
3. Ca caretaker tramp✓
4. Da "blithe spirit" unbodied joy✓

Shelley's Adonais is an elegy for

1. AJohn Keats✓
2. BArthur Hallam✓
3. CEdward King✓
4. DT.S. Eliot✓

Keats's "La Belle Dame sans Merci" draws on

1. ARestoration comedy plot✓
2. Bmedieval ballad tradition of fairy enchantress✓
3. Cnaturalistic sales dialogue✓
4. DPinter menace only✓

Keats's "When I have fears that I may cease to be" meditates on

1. AGodot's lateness✓
2. Bunfulfilled love and fame before death✓
3. CHiggins's vowels✓
4. DTorvald's promotion✓

Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" is based on

1. APeer Gynt's troll king✓
2. BWilly's Boston woman✓
3. CArthurian legend of a cursed weaver✓
4. DDavies's shoes✓

Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as

1. ADean of St Paul's✓
2. BLatin Secretary✓
3. CCaretaker of Mick's house✓
4. DPoet Laureate✓

Browning's Pauline was his

1. Ayouthful debut poem✓
2. Blast sales dialogue✓
3. Cfinal Beckett mime✓
4. DIbsen's last slam✓

Browning married

1. AElizabeth Barrett Browning✓
2. BMillamant✓
3. CNora Helmer✓
4. DEliza Doolittle✓

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese includes

1. A"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"✓
2. B"Beauty is truth"✓
3. C"Season of mists"✓
4. D"I have measured out my life"✓

Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" laments the

1. Arise of phonetics teaching✓
2. Bsuccess of rubber sales✓
3. Carrival of Godot✓
4. Debb of religious faith in the modern world✓

Arnold's cultural criticism urges

1. A"attention must be paid"✓
2. B"sweetness and light" against philistinism✓
3. C"better to reign in Hell"✓
4. D"do I dare"✓

The Romantic "sublime" often involves

1. Acomic marriage contracts only✓
2. Bawe mixing terror and grandeur in nature✓
3. Csales quotas only✓
4. Dsilent caretaker pauses only✓

Wordsworth's Prelude is a

1. ARestoration comedy of manners✓
2. BNorwegian problem play✓
3. Cautobiographical epic of the poet's mind✓
4. Dabsurdist road piece✓

Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight" addresses his

1. Asister Dorothy only✓
2. BDuke of Ferrara✓
3. Cinfant son Hartley✓
4. DDr Stockmann✓

Shelley's Prometheus Unbound is a

1. Asales tragedy in Brooklyn✓
2. Bdoll's house realism✓
3. Ccaretaker comedy✓
4. Dlyrical drama of liberation✓

Keats's Hyperion (and Fall of Hyperion) engages

1. ARestoration rakes✓
2. BTitanic overthrow by Olympian gods✓
3. CAmerican salesmen✓
4. DLondon tramps✓

Tennyson's Maud includes the line

1. A"I am the master of my fate"✓
2. B"Not with a bang"✓
3. C"That is no country for old men"✓
4. D"The fault was mine" in a passionate lyric sequence✓

Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi" defends

1. Ablank Puritan denial only✓
2. Babsurdist waiting only✓
3. Cphonetic snobbery only✓
4. Drealistic art and fleshly life against ascetic censorship✓

Browning's "Andrea del Sarto" is spoken by

1. AUlysses the sailor✓
2. Bthe Ancient Mariner✓
3. Ca Florentine painter regretting domestic compromise✓
4. DGodot's boy✓

The Victorian era in literature roughly spans

1. A1660–1700 only✓
2. B1914–1945 only✓
3. CQueen Victoria's reign (1837–1901)✓
4. D1558–1603 only✓

Romanticism reacted against

1. AMetaphysical wit only✓
2. BAnglo-Saxon alliteration only✓
3. CBeat spontaneity only✓
4. DNeoclassical emphasis on reason and decorum✓

Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems meditate on

1. Asales failure in Boston✓
2. Bidealized rural death and loss✓
3. Cphonetic class war✓
4. Dcaretaker eviction✓

Coleridge's "Christabel" is a

1. Acomic proviso scene✓
2. BGothic ballad fragment with supernatural Geraldine✓
3. Csales requiem✓
4. DIbsen slam✓

Shelley's "England in 1819" attacks

1. Aa young phonetics tutor✓
2. Ba doll's child✓
3. Ca waiting boy✓
4. Dan old, mad, blind, despised and dying king✓

Tennyson's Idylls of the King retells

1. AArthurian legends as Victorian moral allegory✓
2. BPeer Gynt's trolls✓
3. CGodot's road✓
4. DPygmalion's lab✓

Browning's The Ring and the Book is

1. Aa long novel-in-verse of a Roman murder case✓
2. Ba single sales monologue✓
3. Cone nightingale ode✓
4. Da 14-line sonnet only✓

The phrase "Victorian compromise" in poetry often refers to

1. Apure Restoration wit✓
2. Bpure absurdism✓
3. Ctension between science doubt and residual faith✓
4. Dpure fabliau✓

Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us" criticizes

1. Amaterialism and loss of wonder in nature✓
2. Brubber hose theft✓
3. Cforged promissory notes✓
4. Dcaretaker squabbles✓

Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" explores

1. Asales success in Omaha✓
2. Bparalysis of imaginative joy✓
3. Cphonetic victory✓
4. Ddoll's house freedom✓

Shelley's "Mont Blanc" contemplates

1. ABrooklyn apartments✓
2. BLondon slums✓
3. Cthe mountain's power and mind's relation to universe✓
4. DOslo banks✓

Keats's "Bright star" sonnet wishes to

1. Areign in Hell✓
2. Bstrive and not yield✓
3. Clive unchangeably like a star yet with head on lover's breast✓
4. Dwait for Godot✓

Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" metaphorically faces

1. Aa sales meeting✓
2. Ba phonetics test✓
3. Cdeath as a sunset voyage✓
4. Da shed completion✓

Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" reveals

1. Apastoral daffodils✓
2. Bnightingale music✓
3. Cskylark flight✓
4. Dmonastic hatred through grotesque detail✓