1 Who of the following was NOT a contemporary of John Clare? George Byron John Keats Percy Shelly Silvia Plath 2 What poetry movement does John Clare belong to? Modernist Romantic Gothic None of the above 3 When was John Clare born? Late eighteenth century Early nineteenth century Mid eighteenth century Early eighteenth century 4 Which of the following characteristics of Clare's poetry was typical of the Romantics? Celebrating the natural landscape Working-class background Rejection of fantastical elements Focus on the English countryside 5 Which of the following contemporary phenomena has drawn new attention to John Clare's writing? Migration to cities Worsening wealth inequality Environmental crisis Invention of the internet 6 How did John Clare's social status change over the course of his life? He never achieved success in his life His first book made him famous and successful for life His first book was a runaway success, but then he faded into obscurity He gradually became well-known over the course of his career 7 Which of the following is John Clare NOT known for? Close attention to the natural world Melancholy tone Simple yet sophisticated verse Descriptions of vast and awe-inspiring landscapes 8 What is the meter of "Autumn"? Trochaic hexameter (six pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable) Iambic pentameter (five pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable) Free verse (no fixed meter) Iambic hexameter (six pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable) 9 What is the rhyme scheme of "Autumn"? ABAB AABB AABC No fixed rhyme scheme 10 What does the absence of a first-person singular suggest in "Autumn"? The poem is written from God's perspective The speaker has to forget himself to experience the sublime The poem is written by a group of people The speaker has forgotten himself and needs the landscape to remember who he is 11 What is "thistledown"? Floating thistle seeds akin to dandelion seeds Cloth made from thistles The flowers of thistles Sheep's wool studded with thistle spines 12 In the context of "Autumn," what is "gossamer"? Whispering Cobwebs A delicate fabric A kind of bird 13 What is the "greensward"? Land designated for farming The manor house Grassy land Fields left empty 14 Which of the following best describes the tone of the first stanza? Awe-struck Mournful Matter-of-fact Celebratory 15 Which line subtly blurs the boundaries between the landscape and the speaker? And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread Whoever looks round sees Eternity there 16 What is the mood of the second stanza? Sublime Cheerful Melancholy None of the above 17 In the context of the second stanza, the line "The fallow fields glitter like water indeed" is an example of what literary device? Irony Parallelism Metaphor Juxtaposition 18 What idea does the second stanza INTRODUCE? It's worth looking closely at the natural world The natural world can be awe-inspiring The human gaze can allow opposites to coexist The autumnal landscape remains touched by heat 19 Which line most emphatically emphasizes the disastrous impacts of the autumn on the landscape? And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed. The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread, The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead. The fallow fields glitter like water indeed, 20 Which of the following does not suggest the power of the human gaze? The fallow fields glitter like water indeed Whoever looks round sees Eternity there And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed 21 Which two lines most closely resemble one another in their use of figurative language? Lines 5 and 7 Lines 3 and 5 Lines 3 and 11 Lines 3 and 9 22 Which literary device does NOT appear in line 11, "burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air" Parallel Metaphor Syntactical inversion Alliteration 23 Which of the following contains an example of alliteration? The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot; The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead. Whoever looks round sees Eternity there. And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run; 24 Which of the following best describes the significance of "Eternity" in the final line? A sense of one's own mortality in comparison to the natural world The presence of the Christian God A sense of something bigger than oneself in the ordinary world A loss of the ordinary world in favor of the sublime 25 What is the primary conflict of "Autumn"? Between summer's heat and winter's cold Between the speaker and God Between the harshness of the autumnal landscape and its beauty Between the speaker's desire to find the landscape beautiful and the reality of its ugliness