The Romantic Period (1798–1832) Unit Test (ANSWERS)
English 12 B Unit 1 Lesson 10
1. The rescue workers discovered the dog COWERING in the closet.
Answer - cringing
2. … In which the heavy and the weary weight/Of all this unintelligible world/Is lightened…”
Which of these is NEAREST in meaning to the word unintelligible as it is used in the lines above?
Answer - confused
3. His SPORTIVE personality delighted some and annoyed others.
Answer - playful
4. Which excerpt from Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse” BEST conveys compassion?
Answer - “Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!/Its silly wa’s the win’s are strewin’!”
5. For which of these is the title character a symbol in William Blake’s “The Lamb”?
Answer - Jesus
6. Which of these does William Wordsworth criticize in “The World Is Too Much with Us”?
Answer - modern life
7. Which line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” marks the point at which the dream it describes becomes nightmarish?
Answer - “A savage place! as holy and enchanted…”
8. Which excerpt from Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage MOST CLEARLY describes a state of alienation?
Answer - “But soon he knew himself the most unfit/Of men to herd with Man…”
9. Which excerpt from Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias” refers directly to the title character?
Answer - “…Two vast and trunkless legs of stone/Stand in the desert…”
10. In his “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” John Keats attempts to understand and describe
Answer - the nature of beauty
11. Which of these is LESS TYPICAL of odes than of other types of poetry?
Answer - heavy reliance on rhythm and word sounds
12. “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion…”
Which of these is exemplified by this line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”?
Answer - alliteration
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