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1. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years?
2. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?
3. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler's edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb 'bowdlerize.'What does it mean?
4. What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song: 'Men of England'and England in 1819?
5. Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period?
6. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
7. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
8. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition?
9. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era?
10. Who applied the term 'Romantic'to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830?
11. What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings?
12. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings'?
13. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux?
14. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798?
15. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are?
16. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the
17. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by 'legitimate'drama?
18. Wordsworth described all good poetry as
19. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?
20. Who exemplified the role of the 'peasant poet'?
21. Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary?
22. Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true?
23. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832?
24. Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution?
25. Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era?

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