1. Which version of the Lyrical Ballads was the first one to have the Preface by Wordsworth?
1. 1798
2. 1800
3.1802
4. 1804
ANSWER:2
2. What is being described by Wordsworth in the following lines from his poem, The Thorn?
I’ve measured it from side to side;
’Tis three feet long and two feet wide
1. Fallen bough
2. A cradle
3. A small cot
4. An Infant’s grave
ANSWER:4
3. Which of the following poets does William Hazlitt call ‘Don Quixote-like’ in his essay, My First Acquaintance with Poets?
1. William Wordsworth
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. William Cowper
4.lord Byron
ANSWER:1
4. In Book 5 of prelude, Wordsworth dreams of an Arab in the desert after reading which great work?
(1) Cervantes’s Don Quixote
(2) Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
(3) Euclid’s Elements
(4) Shakespeare’s The Tempest
ANSWER:1
5. The final version of Wordsworth’s The Prelude appeared in :
(A) 1798
(B) 1806
(C) 1850
(D) 1860
ANSWER:C
6. Assertion (A) : Dr Johnson’s The Lives of the Poets carries critical and biographical studies of poets he admired. It does not, however, carry a life of William Wordsworth.
Reason (R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets whom he not only admired but also adored. This explains his omission of Wordsworth.
(A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.
ANSWER:D
7. Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne
ANSWER:D
8. William Wordsworth’s statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrase. (Complete the phrase correctly).
“to choose incidents from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible, ______.”
(A) in a selection of language really used by men.
(B) in a relation to language really used by men.
(C) in a selection of language really used by common man.
(D) in deference to language actually used by men.
ANSWER:A
9. In Wordsworth’s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by
(A) Blindness
(B) Deafness
(C) Muteness
(D) Lameness
ANSWER:C
10. Who viewed Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge as representatives of a “sect of poets …. Dissenters from the established systems in poetry and criticism” who constituted “the most formidable conspiracy against sound judgement in matters political” ?
1. Henry Vaughhan
2. Francisco Franco
3. Ralph Vaughan
4. Francis Jerey
ANSWER:4
11. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ?
(1) Durham
(2) Glasgow
(3) Cambridge
(4) Oxford
ANSWER:3
12. A.R. Ammons parodies a famous poem in his “Swoggled”
I’d rather
be
suckled by
an
outworn pagan than
get my horn
wreathed in
an
old Triton.
Which poet, which poem ?
1. John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
2. John Milton, “On His Blindness”
3. William Wordsworth, “The World is Too Much with Us”
4. Elizabeth B. Browning, “How do I Love Thee…?”
ANSWER:3
13. An English poet couldn`t help the excitement that an historical event caused in his life-time:
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven
Which poet? What ‘dawn’?
1. W.H Auden; the Spanish Civil War
2. Lord Tennyson; the Jubilee of Queen Victoria`s reign
3. William Wordsworth; the French Revolution
4. William Blake; the Industrial Revolution
ANSWER:3
14. In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeremy coined the term ‘Lake School of Poets’ grouping…
(A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe
(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron
(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
ANSWER:D
15. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by…
(A) The Napoleonic Wars
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The French Revolution
(D) Poor Laws
ANSWER:C
16. “He is not fully recognized at home; he is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I rely believe that the poetical performance of __________ is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in our language.” To whom does Matthew Arnold refer in the above statement ?
A) Edmund Spenser
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) S.T. Coleridge
ANSWER:C
17. Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase ‘spots of time’ ?
(A) John Keats
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Lord Byron
ANSWER:B
18. In the opening book of The Prelude Wordsworth mentions famously that he was “fostered alike by __________ and __________”. Pick out the right pair.
(a) nature
(b) fear
(c) imagination
(d) beauty
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (d) and (b)
(3) (d) and (c)
(4) (a) and (d)
ANSWER:2
19. . William Wordsworth had a deep influence on Thomas Hardy. According to Hardy a particular poem by Wordsworth was his ‘best cure for despair’. Which is that poem?
(A) “Michael”
(B) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(C) “The Idiot Boy”
(D) “The Leechgatherer”
ANSWER:D
20. Identify the sonnet upon sonnet by William Wordsworth:
(A) “London, 1802”
(B) “The world is too much with us…”
(C) “Friend! I know not which way…”
(D) “Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room…”
ANSWER:D
21. Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling intellect, Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things : We murder to dissect- Wordsworth Which of the following best summarises the speaker’s position ?
(1) Nature is incomplete without a human witness to attest to its beauty
(2) Human endeavours will succeed only if the laws of nature are taken into account
(3) Nature yields a pleasure superior to that derived from intrusive human inquiry
(4) He was inherent in human nature are also evident in the natural world
ANSWER:4
22. Antagonised by what he considered to be the provinciality of the Lake Poets, Byron wrote the preface to which of his works as a rebuke to Wordsworth’s own introduction to “The Thorn”?
(1) The Prisoner of Chillon
(2) Don Juan
(3) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(4) The Vision of Judgement
ANSWER:2
23. Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William Wordsworth is/are not true ?
(a) The Prelude was published posthumously.
(b) In this poem, Wordsworth records his development as a poet.
(c) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.
(d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc. are the highlights of this volume.
(A) (a) to (d) are true.
(B) (a) is not true.
(C) (d) is not true.
(D) Only (c) is true.
ANSWER:C
24. “For nature then
The courser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal movements all gone by
to me was all in all”.
In these lines from “Tintern Abbey Revisited”, Wordsworth is talking about:
(A) The second stage in his relationship with Nature.
(B) The first stage in his relationship with Nature.
(C) Both the first and second stages in his relationship with Nature.
(D) The third stage in his relationship with Nature
ANSWER: B&C
25. In which of the following volumes do you find a charming appreciation of the Wordsworth household by Thomas de Quincey ?
(1)The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
(2)Lives and Letters, Far Away and Long Ago
(3)Notes on My Lake Country Evenings
(4)Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets
ANSWER:4
26. The opening lines of Wordsworth’s “Immortality Ode”:
“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
The earth , and every common sight, To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light The glory and freshness of a dream”,
closely resembles Coleridge’s lines :
“There was a time when earth, and sea, and skies, The bright green vale, and the forest’s dark recess,
With all things, lay before mine eyes In steady loveliness”.
Identify the Coleridge poem :
(1) “Fears In Solitude”
(2) “The Mad Monk”
(3) “To William Wordsworth”
(4) “Dejection : An Ode”
ANSWER:2
27. Which version of the Lyrical Ballads was the first one to have the Preface by Wordsworth?
1. 1798
2. 1800
3. 1802
4. 1804
ANSWER:2
28. What is being described by Wordsworth in the following lines from his poem, The Thorn?
I’ve measured it from side to side;
’Tis three feet long and two feet wide.
1. Fallen bough
2. A cradle
3. A small cot
4. An Infant’s grave
ANSWER:4