This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > William Wordsworth > William Wordsworth – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Wordsworth Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the poet compare himself to? A) Clouds. B) Stars. C) Daffodils. D) Waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clouds. 2. What does the poem "The World is Too Much With Us"compare the wind to? A) Screaming roars. B) Rain. C) Sleeping flowers. D) Birds singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sleeping flowers. 3. From which year to which year that William Wordsworth served as the Poet Laureate of Britain? A) 1843-1850. B) 1840-1855. C) 1842-1851. D) 1833-1848. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1843-1850. 4. Wordsworth died in which year? A) 1860. B) 1855. C) 1845. D) 1850. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1850. 5. "O blithe newcomer! "What is the meaning of blithe? A) Rejoice. B) Carefree and happy. C) Stressed and worried. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carefree and happy. 6. The failed friendship in the poem is based on Wordsworth's friendship with who? A) Byron. B) Coleridge. C) Bradstreet. D) Donne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge. 7. What was the name of Wordsworth's collaboration with Coleridge? A) "Lines Composed above Tintern Abbey". B) Lyrical Ballads. C) "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". D) Myth of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyrical Ballads. 8. The The critics and theorists from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir JoshuaReynolds broadly represent the thinking of the ..... A) Age of Wordsworth. B) Age of Enlightenment. C) Age of Pope. D) Age of literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Age of Enlightenment. 9. Wordsworth can be called the poet of ..... A) Nature. B) Love. C) Romanticism. D) Feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 10. When was Wordsworth born? A) April 7, 1770. B) November 22, 1771. C) April 12, 1772. D) January 2, 1773. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) April 7, 1770. 11. Identify the figure of speech in the expression 'The waves beside them danced' A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 12. Wordsworth called you "friend" so you are? A) His Bro. B) His Sister. C) His Dog. D) Friend zoned. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His Sister. 13. In this poem, the loneliness of the poet is contrasted with A) A cloud. B) Vales and hills. C) The daffodils. D) The lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The daffodils. 14. Poetry embodies the "breath and finer spirit of all knowledge" and is emblematic of a deep sympathy between ..... and ..... A) Man and nature. B) Man and emotions. C) Emotions and nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man and nature. 15. In which the the famous work Lyrical Ballads published? A) 1778. B) 1769. C) 1798. D) 1792. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1798. 16. In "I wandered lonely as a cloud" who does "I" refer to? A) The poet. B) The poet's sister. C) The Daffodils. D) The cloud. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The poet. 17. Who is the poet? A) Michael Rosen. B) William Wordsworth. C) Roald Dahl. D) Mrs Speechley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Wordsworth. 18. Which among the following is an example of personification A) As the stars that shine. B) Never-ending line. C) Ten thousand saw I at a glance,. D) Tossing their heads. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tossing their heads. 19. For Wordsworth, imagination is ..... A) Combining power. B) Creative faculty. C) All that are mentioned. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Combining power. 20. The poem was inspired by what? A) Nature. B) Rainbow. C) Daffodils. D) Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. Next →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesWilliam Wordsworth Quiz 2William Wordsworth Quiz 3William Wordsworth Quiz 4William Wordsworth Quiz 5William Wordsworth Quiz 6William Wordsworth Quiz 7William Wordsworth Quiz 8William Wordsworth Quiz 9William Wordsworth Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books