A. Industrial Revolution
B. French Revolution
C. Scientific Revolution
D. Technological Revolution
Related Mcqs:
- In “A Defense of Poetry,” Percy Shelley argues that humans have an impulse to ____________________?
A. Write stories
B. Resist understanding poetry
C. Reproduce rhythm and order
D. Strive to express love - Percy Shelley can be understood as a poet with _________________?
A. No sense of reality
B. A desire to make the world into a better place
C. A dark and twisted outlook on the world
D. A strong dislike of women - Percy Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc” presents nature as ________________?
A. A powerful, sublime force
B. A peaceful force
C. Depressing and miserable
D. Controlled by gods - Which of the following statements would Percy Shelley, author of “A Defense of Poetry”, agree with ?
A. Art serves a particular worldly purpose.
B. Art’s supreme function is to entertain the public.
C. Artists are dangerous to social order.
D. Artists serve to construct the foundations of culture. - What does Percy Shelley mean when he refers to poets as being the “unacknowledged legislators of the world” ?
A. He is suggesting that artists serve to develop culture.
B. He is suggesting that all artists are from high social classes.
C. He is suggesting that artists are repressed throughout society.
D. He is suggesting that the making of laws is itself an art. - What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?
A. the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England
B. the Battle of Waterloo
C. the Peterloo Massacre
D. the storming of the Bastille - Dr. Samuel Gladden, in his essay “Shelley’s Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant ,” argues that Shelley’s “Oedipus- Tyrannus” is important because a_______________?
A. Shelley himself dismissed the poem
B. The poem was incomplete
C. Shelley recognizes the power of sexual transgression in it
D. Shelley writes about Byron’s sexuality in it - Paul O’Brien’s essay on Shelley suggests that Shelley was______________?
A. Not an atheist
B. In love with Lord Byron
C. Suicidal
D. Fiercely anti-war - “Do we now live in an enlightened age? The answer is, ‘no,’ but we do live in an age of enlightenment.” ?
A. Immanuel Kant
B. John Locke
C. David Hume
D. Denis Diderot - Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I ?
A. Earl of Northumberland
B. Earl of March
C. Earl of Douglas
D. Earl of Worcester