The passage is a multiple choice test question about analyzing and summarizing details from poems by Romantic authors like Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Byron. The questions cover topics like themes in "Ode to a Nightingale" relating to mortality, main philosophical ideas in "The Lamb", how Shelley's "The Mortal Immortal" depicts rural life, and paraphrases lines from poems about weariness and wasting one's youth.

1. 41. Using the dialect found in "To a Mouse" what would be the best...
41. Using the dialect found in "To a Mouse" what would be the best translation of
"Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin"?
A. You should run from your house!
B. You ruin your own house too!
C. Your small house is also destroyed!
____ 42. In what way do lines 70-74 of Wordsworth's The Prelude relate to the
Romantic Movement?
A. the following of "Nature's way by outward accidents"
B. the acceptance of products of reason such as "precepts, judgments,
maxims, and creeds"
C. the questioning products of reason such as "precepts, judgments, maxims,
and creeds"
____ 43. "Ode to a Nightingale" expresses Keats' concerns about
A. the brief lifespan of the nightingale.
B. the concerns and pain in the life of men.
C. the death of his brother, Thomas.
____ 44. One of the most important ideas of "Ozymandias" is the
A. insignificance of physical death.
B. meaninglessness of earthly power.
C. permanence of sculpted monuments.
____ 45. "The Lamb" contains philosophical ideas. Which one of the following is the
main one?
A. The earth is beautiful.
B. God is kind.
C. Life is a mystery.
____ 46. One of the most important themes of "Ode to a Nightingale" can be seen at
the end of the poem, where the persona proves unwilling to die.
A. True
B. False
____ 47. How does Shelley's "The Mortal Immortal" demonstrate an interest in rural life
and the common people?
A. The alchemist makes a potion to help the common people.
B. Shelley's main character is an aristocrat attempting to help the poor.

2. C. The majority of the characters come from a "humble life."
____ 48. Unlike the Neoclassical poets, Wordsworth
A. utilized the heroic couplet.
B. focused on the common people and rural life.
C. wrote a number of occasion poems.
____ 49. What is the best way to paraphrase the following lines from "Ode to a
Nightingale:" ". . . forget / What thou among the leaves hast never known, /
The weariness, the fever, and the fret / Here, where men sit and hear each
other groan."
A. Forget the weariness, fevers, and worries of humans you have never
known.
B. Forget all your weariness, fevers, and worries and listen to the groans of
people.
C. Do not let your weariness, fevers, and worries overpower your joys.
____ 50. Which of the following statements best paraphrases the following lines from
Don Juan? "My heart is not much greener; and, in short, I / Have squander'd
my whole summer while 'twas May."
A. The narrator is a tree mourning the coming of fall.
B. The narrator is upset that he wasted his youth.
C. The narrator wishes he had spent more time with his love.