William Wordsworth Multiple Choice Questions

1 – Wordsworth was popularly known as the poet of:

1. Mining districts
2. Waverley region
3. The Lake districts ✅
4. Lancashire region

2 – The Romantic Age is also known as the:

1. Age of Pope
2. Age of Dryden
3. Age of Johnson
4. Age of Wordsworth ✅

3 – Wordsworth belonged to the period of:

1. The Romantic Period  ✅
2. The Restoration Period
3. The Modern Period
4. The Victorian Period

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

1. Professor Herford
2. William Wordsworth
3. William Shakespeare
4. Theodore Watts ✅

5 – Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on:

1. Milton ✅
2. Spenser
3. Pope
4. Ben Jonson

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

1. A separate supplement to the Lyrical Ballads
2. The preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads ✅
3. The preface to the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads
4. 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:

1. the royalty paid to him by his publishers
2. a pension granted to him by the British government ✅
3. a gift given to him by the French Revolution aries
4. An endowment given to him by a well-wisher

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

1. £ 900 ✅
2. £ 400
3. £ 600
4. £ 1200

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

1. Robert Southey
2. Wordsworth
3. Dr. Geilman
4. Cruikshank ✅

10 – The Prelude by Wordsworth is a:

1. Philosophical poem
2. Metaphysical poem
3. autobiographical poem ✅
4. historical poem

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