Romantic Age Test:
Section One: Put these events in order as they occur in “The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner” using numbers 1-12.
_____ The ship is stranded on the hot, sunny ocean without any fresh
water.
_____ The Mariner’s shipmates die.
_____ The Mariner stops a Wedding Guest and begins to tell a tale.
_____ The crew hangs the dead albatross around the Mariner’s neck.
_____ The Mariner blesses the water snakes.
_____ The ship is surrounded by ice.
_____ The Wedding Guest turns to go home.
_____ A ship approaches with two figures on board; they play dice.
_____ The dead men arise and man their stations.
_____ The ship begins to move north with supernatural speed while the
Mariner
is unconscious.
_____ The Wedding Guest hears the wedding music as the bride enters
the
church.
_____ The albatross follows the ship for nine days.
Section Two:
List the 5 Key Characteristics of Romanticism That Everyone Should Know from
our handout:
___________________
_____________________
___________________
_____________________
___________________
Section Three: Who wrote what?
Keats
Wordsworth
Austen
Coleridge
Byron
Shelley
__________ “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
__________ “To Autumn”
__________ Pride and Prejudice
__________ “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”
__________ “Ozymandias”
__________ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
__________ “Kubla Khan”
__________ “The World is Too Much with Us”
__________ “Don Juan”
__________ “It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free”
__________ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
__________ “She Walks in Beauty”
Section Four: Fill in the blanks using the word bank below:
dulcimer
Grinch
piano
dream
drugs
monsters
life
moon
death
stars
outhouse
God
farm
Triton
church building
400
100
10
Xexes
Algonquin
Xanadu
Alph
Pride & Prejudice
Frankenstein
Don Juan
Ahab
violin
50
Xanax
Paolo
Hermit
children
henhouse
200
Amazon
Gulliver
Life-in-Death
Khan
Death
the Hermit
Satan
Kubla
guilt
happiness
death
war
peace
ten
five
eight
swear
Ancient Mariner
Wedding Guest
the Pilot
the Sun
the Moon
water snakes
sea serpents
boats
water spirits
pray
the
Coleridge claimed that the idea for his poem “Kubla Khan” came from a/an/the
________.
______________________ orders a “stately pleasure dome” built.
Kubla Khan hears voices that prophesy ____________________.
The setting of “Kubla Khan” is _______________.
The speaker in “Kubla Khan” saw a woman playing a ____________________.
The Ancient Mariner is rescued by the Pilot, the Pilot’s son, and
_______________.
_____________________ kills the Albatross.
The Albatross is symbolic of the Ancient Mariner’s _______________________.
The two beings on the phantom ship that gamble for the ship’s crew:
__________________
________________________
The Ancient Mariner is talking to _________________________.
__________ men die on the Ancient Mariner’s ship.
After the crew dies, the Mariner is unable to _________________________.
When the Mariner blesses the _____________________, he is finally able to
pray, and
the Albatross falls from his neck.
When he arrives home, the Mariner is met by the Pilot, the Pilot’s boy, and
_____________________.
Percy Shelley was married to the woman who wrote ___________________.
An “abbey” is a/an _______________.
In “It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free,” the “mighty Being” referred to in
line 6 is a/an/the _____________.
According to this same poem, _____________ have a natural holiness.
In “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal,” “slumber” might be a metaphor for
____________.
Section Five: Background Short Answers
1. Britain and ______________ were at war most of the time from 17931815, a period known as the _____________________ Wars.
2. __________________ was the key political figure in the world at this
time. The most influential philosopher in the world at this time was
________________.
3. England defeated Napoleon at the Battle of _______________ in 1815.
4. Name two Romantics who originally supported the French Revolution:
_______________________
_______________________
5. Name two Romantics who left England never to return again:
_______________________
_______________________
6. Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
_______________________________ produced the cornerstone of
English Romanticism, _______________________, in (date)________.
7. “All good poetry is the _______________ _______________of powerful
________________.” From the ____________ to Lyrical Ballads
8. Wordsworth believed in subjectivity, that poetry “takes its origin from
_________________ recollected in ___________________,” as readers
can see in his poem, ___________________________________
_______________________, in which he talks about memories as a
source of future comfort.
9. “He [__________________] focused on the natural and ordinary in an
attempt to explore the relationship between nature and our inner life.”
(394-95)
10. Coleridge’s poetry is about “persons and characters
____________________, or at least romantic”; he made these believable
by the “willing suspension of disbelief. . . . which constitutes poetic faith”
(408)
11. __________________________ led a romantic life, yet wrote some of the
least Romantic poetry—more neoclassical, really.
12. He was the most idealistic of the Romantic poets:
_______________________.
Part Six: Put an (N) by any terms/elements associated with Neoclassical writing
and an (R) by those generally associated with Romantic writing:
___ traditional rhythms and elements
___ lives of aristocrats
___ urban
___ rural
___ spontaneity
___ scientific
___ emotion
___ individual
___ reason
___ religious freedom
___ objective
___ subjective
___ compliance with authority
___ rebellion
___ primitive
___ cultivated
___ independent
people
___ lives of ordinary
___ conformist
___ joy of nature
Part Seven: True or False
_____ Coleridge opposed the French Revolution from its beginning.
_____ Coleridge developed an addiction to opium as a result of chronic pain.
_____ Coleridge primarily draws his subjects from everyday places which you
might find in any
English locale.
_____ Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated on the English manifesto of
Romanticism, the
Lyrical Ballads.
_____ Coleridge describes supernatural places in realistic ways.
_____ Outside the dome of “Kubla Khan,” a savage place with a fountain
bursting from a chasm
is the source of the sacred river.
_____ The speaker in “Kubla Khan” wants to give form (the “dome”) to the
intangible contents
of his imagination by remembering the woman’s music.
_____ The setting of “Kubla Khan” is very similar to settings in Wordsworth’s
poems.
_____ Wordsworth initially collaborated with Coleridge on “The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner.”
_____ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is an account of a sea voyage to
distant places, with
crime, death, and inhuman suffering as parts of the ghastly
adventure.
Section Eight: Short Answer: 20 points (1 points per answer)
Ozymandias
1. By what name is Ozymandias better known? __________________
2. Describe the character of Ozymandias:
__________________________________
3. Of what flaw was the king apparently guilty? _____________
4. What attitude does this poem express towards its subject?
______________
5. What things (beyond the literal ruined statue) endure and are
important, according to the poet?
a.
______________
b. ______________
Don Juan
1. This poem is a(n) _______ ________ (2 words), a poem that imitates
epic style but
makes fun of the hero of society it portrays.
2. Who was the historical Don Juan?
__________________________________
Using the following poem, answer the questions which follow:
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Home ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
Looked at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
1. What form of poem is this? ___________
2. What does the octave (first eight lines) describe?
__________________________
3. What does the sestet (last six line) describe?
_______________________
4. According to lines 9-14, what events did the speaker’s experience
resemble?
_____________________________________________________
___
5. Who really discovered the Pacific Ocean? _______________
6. Name one thing written by Homer that you have read in this class:
______________
7. What are “bards” (line 4)? ________________
8. Name two distinctive qualities of Keats’ poetry:
a. ______________________________________________________
_________
b. ______________________________________________________
_________
9. Who was Chapman? ______________________
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch or earthy years.
No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course,
With rock, and stones, and trees.
1. The “she” of the poem has done what? ________________.
2. What consolation is implicit in the last two lines?
________________________________________________________
__________
Section Nine: Multiple Choice (30 points; 2 points per
question)
1. The speaker in “Kubla Khan” feels that if he could remember the music he
could
a. recapture the woman’s heart
dome
b. rebuild the pleasure
c. make a ton of money
d. move on with his life
2. The poet claimed that the idea for “Kubla Khan” came from
a. a dream b. a course he took in college
Wordsworth
c. a Greek poem
d.
Questions 3, 4, and 5 refer to “The World Is Too Much with Us”:
3. To the poet, what does “the world” in line 1 represent within the poem’s
context?
a. nature
b. the universe
c. urban life
d. war
4. With what does the poet intend his readers to associate the allusions to
classical
mythology at the end of the poem?
a. rationalism
mysteries
b. “the world”
c. science
d. nature’s
5. Which statement best expresses the poem’s theme?
a. The world pays too much attention to itself.
b. Ancient people appreciated nature as well as civilization.
c. People should be more attuned to nature than to the civilized
world.
d. Nature no longer matters to modern people.
6. Which statement best expresses the theme of “It Is a Beauteous Evening,
Calm and Free?”
a. Nature is divine.
b.
Children have a natural holiness.
c.
Children are untouched by solemn thought.
d.
The beauty of nature is overwhelming.
Questions 7-11 relate to “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern
Abbey”
7. The poet’s main purpose in addressing his sister in lines 121-146 is to
a.
b.
c.
d.
persuade her to take delight in nature
explain why young people should appreciate nature
describe how he reacted to nature when he was young
console her with the knowledge that even though she must grow
old, nature will amply reward her throughout her life
8.
The poet tells his sister that worship of nature will protect her from
a. fear
b. growing old
c. solitude
d.
society’s tribulations
9.
What spiritual union does the poet describe at the end of the poem?
a. He claims that he is spiritually joined solely to nature.
b. He claims that his experience would have been the same if he had
been alone.
c. He claims that his sister’s company has helped him experience
nature more fully and intensely.
d. He claims that his love for his sister is more important than his love
of nature.
10. Which statement can best be supported by evidence found in the poem?
a. A person’s spiritual response to nature deepens with age.
b. A person’s youthful response to nature is more satisfying than a
mature response.
c. People should no longer seek a youthful response to nature when
they are old.
d. Nature loses its charm as we grow older.
11. Which statement best expresses one of the poem’s major themes?
a. It is difficult to find God’s presence in nature.
b. Nature cannot console us adequately for the fact that we shall grow
old and die.
c. Nature restores and consoles us in various ways at different stages
in our lives.
d. The way nature restores us is unvarying throughout our lives.
Questions 12-15 relate to “She Walks in Beauty”
12. To what does the speaker compare the woman’s beauty?
a. the albatross b. cloudless climes and starry skies
c. Mona Lisa
d. caverns measureless to man
13. Where do “all that’s best of dark and bright” meet?
a. Xanadu
b. in the desert
c. in the woman’s face and
eyes
14. What color is the woman’s hair?
a. blonde like the desert sand
c. black like the raven
b. brown like the bark of a tree
d. red like a cardinal
15. How and where did Byron die?
a. In England, penniless and heartbroken.
b. In France, with his mistress at his side.
c. In Egypt, near the statue of Ozymandias.
d. In Greece, training troops to fight the Turks.