Question 1

According to Wordsworth the understanding of the reader must necessarily be in some degree…

Accepted Answer

A)  Enlightened
B)  Disheartened
C)  Motivated
D)  Contentment A

Question 2

"Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility". Who has defined poetry in these words?

Accepted Answer

A)  Shelley
B)  Matthew Arnold
C)  S. T. Coleridge
D)  Wordsworth D

Question 3

In the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth's purpose was to imitate and adopt the very language of

Accepted Answer

A)  the neoclassics
B)  metre
C)  men
D)  the classics C

Question 4

Which of the following is not true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Lyrical Ballads marked the beginning of the Romantic Age
B)  Wordsworth believed that simple language creates better poems than complicated language
C)  Nature is a savage force that needs to be conquered by technology
D)  Lyrical Ballads received mixed reviews when it was originally published in1798

Question 5

An Appendix on Poetic Diction was added to the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads in_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  1800
B)  1798
C)  1805
D)  1802

Question 6

The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was published in

Accepted Answer

A)  1798
B)  1799
C)  1800
D)  1801

Question 7

Wordsworth said that Poetry is the image of

Accepted Answer

A)  Man and Science
B)  Man and Society
C)  Man and Nature
D)  Nature and Science

Question 8

To Wordsworth, poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, emotions recollected in

Accepted Answer

A)  images
B)  tranquility
C)  simple life
D)  sensation

Question 9

Wordsworth's preface declares the dawn of

Accepted Answer

A)  English Romantic Movement
B)  British Romantic Movement
C)  European Romantic Movement
D)  Anglo-saxon Romantic Movement

Question 10

According to Wordsworth, poetic diction has

Accepted Answer

A)  Rules
B)  No rules
C)  Rustic language
D)  Simple language

Question 11

Who said that poetry is the most philosophic of all writing?

Accepted Answer

A)  William Wordsworth
B)  William Shakespeare
C)  Aristotle
D)  Matthew Arnold

Question 12

According to Wordsworth Poetry is the first and last of all…

Accepted Answer

A)  Wisdom
B)  Truth
C)  Inspiration
D)  Knowledge

Question 13

Wordsworth gives much importance to the ________ of poetry

Accepted Answer

A)  Fancy
B)  Language
C)  Feelings
D)  Imagination

Question 14

In what ways is Lyrical Ballads different from much of the poetry that was popular when it was published?

Accepted Answer

A)  It calls for even more strict and rigid poetic forms
B)  It features poems that focus on nature and rural communities
C)  It contains poems that are more complicated and academic in tone.
D)  It sought to stimulate the reader's reasoning mind.

Question 15

Wordsworth quoted ____________ who said, "Poetry is the most philosophical of all writings".

Accepted Answer

A)  Aristotle
B)  Horace
C)  Homer
D)  Virgil

Question 16

Poetry is "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" according to

Accepted Answer

A)  Arnold
B)  T. S Eliot
C)  Johnson
D)  Wordsworth

Question 17

In what ways is the Lyrical Ballads different from much of the poetry that was popular when it was published?

Accepted Answer

A)  It features poems that focus on nature and rural community
B)  It calls for rigid poetic forms
C)  It sought for poems that are more complicated
D)  It sought to stimulate the reasoning mind rather than produce an emotional response

Question 18

Wordworth's poet is a man speaking to

Accepted Answer

A)  everyone
B)  his readers
C)  men
D)  nature

Question 19

Poems of value are produced by a man who possess more than usual organic sensibility and had also thought

Accepted Answer

A)  in tranquility
B)  long and deep
C)  passionately
D)  calmly

Question 20

The language of every good poem can in no respect differ from that of good __.

Accepted Answer

A)  Drama
B)  Prose
C)  Novel
D)  Tragi- comedy

Exam 2: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth