1 Who of the following was NOT a contemporary of John Clare? Silvia Plath John Keats Percy Shelly George Byron 2 What poetry movement does John Clare belong to? Romantic Modernist Gothic 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? Focus on the English countryside Celebrating the natural landscape Working-class background Rejection of fantastical elements 5 Which of the following contemporary phenomena has drawn new attention to John Clare's writing? Migration to cities Worsening wealth inequality Invention of the internet Environmental crisis 6 How did John Clare's social status change over the course of his life? He gradually became well-known over the course of his career His first book was a runaway success, but then he faded into obscurity His first book made him famous and successful for life He never achieved success in his life 7 Which of the following is John Clare NOT known for? Melancholy tone Descriptions of vast and awe-inspiring landscapes Simple yet sophisticated verse 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"? AABC No fixed rhyme scheme ABAB 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"? Sheep's wool studded with thistle spines The flowers of thistles Floating thistle seeds akin to dandelion seeds Cloth made from thistles 12 In the context of "Autumn," what is "gossamer"? Cobwebs A delicate fabric A kind of bird Whispering 13 What is the "greensward"? Land designated for farming Fields left empty Grassy land The manor house 14 Which of the following best describes the tone of the first stanza? Mournful Matter-of-fact Awe-struck Celebratory 15 Which line subtly blurs the boundaries between the landscape and the speaker? 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 The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread 16 What is the mood of the second stanza? Cheerful Sublime 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? It's worth looking closely at the natural world The autumnal landscape remains touched by heat The natural world can be awe-inspiring The human gaze can allow opposites to coexist 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, And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed. The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead. 20 Which of the following does not suggest the power of the human gaze? The fallow fields glitter like water indeed And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run Whoever looks round sees Eternity there 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 9 Lines 3 and 11 Lines 3 and 5 22 Which literary device does NOT appear in line 11, "burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air" Alliteration Syntactical inversion Metaphor Parallel 23 Which of the following contains an example of alliteration? Whoever looks round sees Eternity there. The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead. The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot; 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 the speaker and God Between summer's heat and winter's cold Between the speaker's desire to find the landscape beautiful and the reality of its ugliness Between the harshness of the autumnal landscape and its beauty