Q 01/05

To which generation of Romantic poets did Keats belong, alongside Byron and Shelley?

A) The second

B) The first

C) The third

D) The Georgian

Answer · why

A) The second

His poems were in print for less than four years before he died at 25.

Q 02/05

Of what disease did Keats die at the age of 25?

A) Pneumonia

B) Tuberculosis

C) Cholera

D) Typhoid

Answer · why

B) Tuberculosis

It was his 'family disease'; his mother and both brothers also died of it.

Q 03/05

In which part of London was Keats born in 1795?

A) Southwark

B) Hampstead

C) Moorgate

D) Highgate

Answer · why

C) Moorgate

His father worked at the Swan and Hoop inn nearby; the Globe pub now occupies the site.

Q 04/05

What was Keats's father's job?

A) Curate of a country parish

B) Merchant in the wine trade

C) Master at a grammar school

D) Ostler at a coaching inn

Answer · why

D) Ostler at a coaching inn

He was an ostler and later ran the Swan and Hoop, owned by his father-in-law.

Q 05/05

How did Keats's father die in 1804, when the boy was eight?

A) A fall from his horse

B) A drowning in the Thames

C) A fever caught at sea

D) An outbreak of cholera

Answer · why

A) A fall from his horse

His mother died six years later, leaving the children in the care of their grandmother.