William Wordsworth Multiple Choice Questions
1 – Wordsworth was popularly known as the poet of:
- Mining districts
- Waverley region
- The Lake districts ✅
- Lancashire region
2 – The Romantic Age is also known as the:
- Age of Pope
- Age of Dryden
- Age of Johnson
- Age of Wordsworth ✅
3 – Wordsworth belonged to the period of:
- The Romantic Period ✅
- The Restoration Period
- The Modern Period
- The Victorian Period
4 – Who gave the Romantic Period the title of The Renaissance of Wonder in Poetry?
- Professor Herford
- William Wordsworth
- William Shakespeare
- Theodore Watts ✅
5 – Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on:
- Milton ✅
- Spenser
- Pope
- Ben Jonson
6 – Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was:
- A separate supplement to the Lyrical Ballads
- The preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads ✅
- The preface to the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads
- 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:
- the royalty paid to him by his publishers
- a pension granted to him by the British government ✅
- a gift given to him by the French Revolution aries
- An endowment given to him by a well-wisher
8 – A young friend of Wordsworth left his legacy of …….to him.
- £ 900 ✅
- £ 400
- £ 600
- £ 1200
9 – According to Wordsworth Rime of the Ancient Mariner was based on a dream of Coleridge’s friend:
- Robert Southey
- Wordsworth
- Dr. Geilman
- Cruishank ✅
10 – The Prelude by Wordsworth is a:
- Philosophical poem
- Metaphysical poem
- autobiographical poem ✅
- historical poem
