William Wordsworth Multiple Choice Questions

1- Wordsworth was popularly known as the poet of:

(A) Mining districts

(B) Waverley region

(C) The Lake districts ✅

(D) Lancashire region

2- The Romantic Age is also known as the:

(A) Age of Pope

(B) Age of Dryden

(C) Age of Johnson

(D) Age of Wordsworth ✅

3- Wordsworth belonged to the period of:

(A) The Romantic Period ✅

(B) The Restoration Period

(C) The Modern Period

(D) The Victorian Period

4- Who gave the Romantic Period the title of The Renaissance of Wonder in Poetry?

(A) Professor Herford

(B) William Wordsworth

(C) William Shakespeare

(D) Theodore Watts ✅

5- Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on:

(A) Milton ✅

(B) Spenser

(C) Pope

(D) Ben Jonson

6- Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was:

(A) A separate supplement to the Lyrical Ballads

(B) The preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads ✅

(C) The preface to the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads

(D) A rejoinder to Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria

7- “Just for a handful of silver he left us,

      Just for a riband to stick in his coat.”

Browning wrote these lines, about Wordsworth referring to a handful of silver meaning thereby:

(A) the royalty paid to him by his publishers

(B) a pension granted to him by the British government ✅

(C) a gift given to him by the French Revolution aries

(D) An endowment given to him by a well-wisher

8- A young friend of Wordsworth left his legacy of …….to him.

(A) £ 900 ✅

(B) £ 400

(C) £ 600

(D) £ 1200

9- According to Wordsworth Rime of the Ancient Mariner was based on a dream of Coleridge’s friend:

(A) Robert Southey

(B) Wordsworth

(C) Dr. Geilman

(D) Cruishank ✅

10- The Prelude by Wordsworth is a:

(A) Philosophical poem

(B) Metaphysical poem

(C) autobiographical poem ✅

(D) historical poem