Q 01/05
A) Romanticism
B) Modernism
C) Metaphysical poetry
D) Augustan satire
Answer · why
He is counted among the greatest British poets, alongside fellow Romantics Shelley, Keats and Wordsworth.
Q 02/05
A) Aberdeen
B) London
C) Nottingham
D) Edinburgh
Answer · why
His birthplace on Holles Street is now supposedly occupied by a John Lewis department store; he spent part of his childhood in Aberdeen.
Q 03/05
A) Fighting Jack
B) Lucky Jack
C) Foul-Weather Jack
D) Iron Jack
Answer · why
He had survived a shipwreck as a teenage midshipman before earning the name in a stormy voyage during the American War of Independence.
Q 04/05
A) Six
B) Fourteen
C) Twenty-one
D) Ten
Answer · why
The abbey was in such disrepair that his mother leased it out rather than live there.
Q 05/05
A) Nottinghamshire
B) Derbyshire
C) Yorkshire
D) Lincolnshire
Answer · why
He sold it in 1817 while living in Venice, and is buried nearby at Hucknall.
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