Q 01/05

Who wrote the long poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?

A) Percy Shelley

B) Samuel Coleridge

C) Lord Byron

D) William Blake

Answer · why

C) Lord Byron

Childe Harold made him a celebrity overnight; Don Juan was still unfinished when he died in 1824.

Q 02/05

Shelley's second wife, Mary, wrote which novel?

A) Dracula

B) Vathek

C) The Monk

D) Frankenstein

Answer · why

D) Frankenstein

She began it during the rain-soaked summer of 1816 at Byron's villa on Lake Geneva.

Q 03/05

Which bird does the Ancient Mariner shoot?

A) Albatross

B) Seagull

C) Pelican

D) Raven

Answer · why

A) Albatross

The crew hang the dead bird around his neck, which is where the expression comes from.

Q 04/05

Who wrote the sonnet 'Ozymandias'?

A) Lord Byron

B) Percy Bysshe Shelley

C) John Keats

D) William Blake

Answer · why

B) Percy Bysshe Shelley

It appeared in The Examiner in January 1818, under a pen name.

Q 05/05

Who wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?

A) John Keats

B) Percy Shelley

C) William Wordsworth

D) Samuel Coleridge

Answer · why

A) John Keats

Both belong to the run of great odes he wrote in the spring of 1819, two years before his death.