707. How would 'Natural Supernaturalism' be best characterized | PG TRB ENGLISH

707. How would "Natural Supernaturalism" be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle?
a) a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits
b) a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being
c) a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
d) the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium
e) an oxymoron that nobody understood and that cannot be explained in the context of a discussion of Romantic literature

708. Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing?
a) a field of daffodils
b) the "Orient"
c) a graveyard
d) a medieval castle
e) All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.

709. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?
a) William Blake
b) Alfred Lord Tennyson
c) Samuel Johnson
d) William Wordsworth
e) Mary Wollstonecraft

710. What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called "mesmerism," one of the "occult" practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness?
a) smoking opium
b) hypnotism
c) psychoanalysis
d) dream interpretation
e) Satanism

711. 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) all of the above
e) a and c only: Romantics were more interested in representations of humans as they were able to exceed their human limitations.

712. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution?
a) snide indifference
b) biblical reverence
c) condemning censure
d) satirical derision
e) none of the above: Romantic writers had no interest in the French Revolution.

713. 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
e) a novel written about the intellectual and emotional development of a monster created by a scientist

714. Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind?
a) Coleridge's Dejection: An Ode
b) Blake's "Prophetic Books"
c) Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
d) Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman
e) all but d

715. Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period?

a) Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of the working classes
b) Labor reform, improving working conditions for industrial laborers
c) Voting reform, extending suffrage to men and women
d) Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase in literacy
e) a and d only: Significant labor and voting reform would have to wait for the Victorian era and later.

716. Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business?