Q 01/05

Shelley was born at Field Place near Horsham in which English county?

A) Yorkshire

B) Cornwall

C) Sussex

D) Norfolk

Answer · why

C) Sussex

Sussex. He grew up heir to the family estates and, from 1806, a baronetcy, but his father outlived him by more than twenty years, so he never inherite...

Q 02/05

Shelley drowned after welcoming which friend?

A) William Hazlitt

B) Leigh Hunt

C) Thomas Love Peacock

D) Charles Lamb

Answer · why

B) Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt. He had come out with his family to edit The Liberal, a journal Shelley had planned with Byron, and Shelley was lost in a storm on the voya...

Q 03/05

Shelley's second wife wrote which famous novel?

A) Jane Eyre

B) Frankenstein

C) Wuthering Heights

D) Pride and Prejudice

Answer · why

B) Frankenstein

Frankenstein. Mary Shelley began it at 18, when Byron challenged his house guests to write a ghost story each during a summer of incessant rain.

Q 04/05

Shelley wrote Ozymandias in a friendly sonnet contest with which friend, a stockbroker and poet?

A) Leigh Hunt

B) Horace Smith

C) Edward Williams

D) Thomas Medwin

Answer · why

B) Horace Smith

Horace Smith. His rival sonnet ran in The Examiner three weeks after Shelley's and ends with a hunter of the future puzzling over the ruins of a vanis...

Q 05/05

Ozymandias is the Greek name for which Egyptian pharaoh?

A) Akhenaten

B) Thutmose III

C) Tutankhamun

D) Ramesses II

Answer · why

D) Ramesses II

Ramesses II. The Greeks turned his throne name, Usermaatre, into Ozymandias; far from vanishing, he reigned 66 years and left Egypt temples such as Ab...