Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?

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1. Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?

   A. Prometheus
   B. Satan
   C. Cain
   D. George III

2. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?

   A. opium
   B. dreams
   C. childhood
   D. A, Band C

3. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?

   A. opium
   B. dreams
   C. childhood
   D. A, B and c

4. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?

   A. Charles Lamb
   B. Jane Austen
   C. William Hazlitt
   D. Oliver Goldsmith

5. 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” ?

   A. the lyric poem written in the first person
   B. the sonnet
   C. doggerel rhyme
   D. the political tract

6. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?

   A. the lyric poem written in the first person
   B. the sonnet
   C. doggerel rhyme
   D. the political tract

7. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?

   A. a spiritual autobiography written in an epic style
   B. a lyric poem written in the first person
   C. a comedy of manners
   D. a political tract demanding labor reform

8. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?

   A. Too many of its readers were women.
   B. It required less skill than other genres.
   C. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.
   D. all of the above

9. 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.

10. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?

    A. Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
    B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence
    C. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods
    D. A and C only