1 Who of the following was NOT a contemporary of John Clare? Silvia Plath Percy Shelly George Byron John Keats 2 What poetry movement does John Clare belong to? Gothic Romantic Modernist None of the above 3 When was John Clare born? Mid eighteenth century Early nineteenth century Early eighteenth century Late eighteenth century 4 Which of the following characteristics of Clare's poetry was typical of the Romantics? Celebrating the natural landscape Rejection of fantastical elements Working-class background Focus on the English countryside 5 Which of the following contemporary phenomena has drawn new attention to John Clare's writing? Environmental crisis Worsening wealth inequality Invention of the internet Migration to cities 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? Simple yet sophisticated verse Descriptions of vast and awe-inspiring landscapes Melancholy tone Close attention to the natural world 8 What is the meter of "Autumn"? Free verse (no fixed meter) Iambic hexameter (six pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable) Trochaic hexameter (six pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable) Iambic pentameter (five pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable) 9 What is the rhyme scheme of "Autumn"? ABAB AABC No fixed rhyme scheme AABB 10 What does the absence of a first-person singular suggest in "Autumn"? The poem is written from God's perspective The poem is written by a group of people The speaker has forgotten himself and needs the landscape to remember who he is The speaker has to forget himself to experience the sublime 11 What is "thistledown"? Floating thistle seeds akin to dandelion seeds Sheep's wool studded with thistle spines Cloth made from thistles The flowers of thistles 12 In the context of "Autumn," what is "gossamer"? Whispering Cobwebs A delicate fabric A kind of bird 13 What is the "greensward"? The manor house Grassy land Fields left empty Land designated for farming 14 Which of the following best describes the tone of the first stanza? Mournful Celebratory Matter-of-fact Awe-struck 15 Which line subtly blurs the boundaries between the landscape and the speaker? The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread Whoever looks round sees Eternity there On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run 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 Metaphor Juxtaposition Parallelism 18 What idea does the second stanza INTRODUCE? The autumnal landscape remains touched by heat It's worth looking closely at the natural world The human gaze can allow opposites to coexist The natural world can be awe-inspiring 19 Which line most emphatically emphasizes the disastrous impacts of the autumn on the landscape? The fallow fields glitter like water indeed, The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread, The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead. And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed. 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 gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run 21 Which two lines most closely resemble one another in their use of figurative language? Lines 3 and 11 Lines 3 and 5 Lines 5 and 7 Lines 3 and 9 22 Which literary device does NOT appear in line 11, "burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air" Syntactical inversion Metaphor Alliteration Parallel 23 Which of the following contains an example of alliteration? And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run; 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. 24 Which of the following best describes the significance of "Eternity" in the final line? A loss of the ordinary world in favor of the sublime A sense of something bigger than oneself in the ordinary world The presence of the Christian God A sense of one's own mortality in comparison to the natural world 25 What is the primary conflict of "Autumn"? Between the harshness of the autumnal landscape and its beauty Between the speaker and God Between the speaker's desire to find the landscape beautiful and the reality of its ugliness Between summer's heat and winter's cold
