Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?

A. The bluestockings
B. The coteries of plenty
C. The pre-raphaelites
D. The tattlers and spectators

Who applied the term “Romantic” to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?

A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien régime, especially satire
B. English historians half a century after the period ended
C. “the satanic school” of byron, percy shelley, and their followers
D. Oliver goldsmith in the deserted village (1770)

Who wrote: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?

A. Lord byron
B. Percy bysshe shelley
C. William woodsworth
D. Emily dickinson

What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?

A. Wit
B. Sprezzatura
C. Naturalism
D. Gusto

In which work do you read: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree…” ?

A. Kubla khan
B. Hellas
C. The phoenix and the turtle
D. The castaway

Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?

A. A french revolutionary
B. A greek or roman mythological figure
C. A monster fabricated in a laboratory
D. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a romantic literary text.

How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?

A. 10
B. 16
C. 14
D. 22

What was the name of the Bronte sister’s only brother ?

A. Anderson
B. Branwell
C. Richard
D. Pearson

In the late seventeenth century, a \battle of the books\erupted between which two groups ?

A. Abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
B. Round-earthers and flat-earthers
C. The welsh and the scots
D. Champions of ancient and modern learning

Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?

A. Jane austen’s emma
B. Mary shelley’s frankenstein
C. William godwin’s caleb williams
D. Sir walter scott’s waverley