Short Answer Questions
Select 3 of the following and answer them using examples to support your points.
1. Describe the themes and ideas that are characteristic of work produced during the Romantic Period.
2. What social, political, and economic events prompted the growth of romantic ideals which led to the Romantic Period?
3. Identify one author for each of the following genres of literature: Romantic, Gothic, and Victorian. For each author, list two works for which they are known.
4. What social, political, and economic events influenced the literature produced during the Victorian Age?
6. Analyze the versions of William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” and “The Tyger” . How are they similar? How are they different. Use textual evidence to support your answer.
7. Elizabeth Barrett Browning often used her literary platform to advocate for social causes. List three of her works in which she does this, using text evidence to support your selections.
8. How did Victorian literature borrow from and progress beyond that of the Romantics?
Long Answer Questions
Choose 2 of the questions below.
1. How have social, political, and economic events influenced the literature composed during from the romantics to the Victorian? Use at least 3 authors and 3 of their texts to make your points.
2. Choose one of three poems and do a close reading of the work, analyzing the form, images, word choice, theme and its relevance to the period.
a. “Goblin Market”—Christina Rosetti
b. “Dover Beach”—Matthew Arnold
c. “The Eagle”—Gerard Manley Hopkins
3. How are Romantic and Victorian literature relevant to the modern world? Use at least 2 authors and their works from each period to support your points.
4. Discuss the impact of Charles Darwin on the Victorian period and its literature. Use specific examples to support your points.
