This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > William Wordsworth > William Wordsworth – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Wordsworth Quiz 12 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The 'jocund company' referred to is the company of A) The daffodils. B) The dancing daffodils and the waves of the lake. C) The sparkling waves of the lake. D) The stars on the milky way. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dancing daffodils and the waves of the lake. 2. What are the daffodils compared to? A) Universe. B) Countless twinkling stars in the milky way. C) Cloud. D) Other flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Countless twinkling stars in the milky way. 3. The 'jocund company' the poet refers to is what? A) His couch. B) The daffodils and the waves. C) The trees. D) Clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The daffodils and the waves. 4. Wordsworth was born in ..... A) Stratford At Avon. B) London. C) Cockermouth. D) Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cockermouth. 5. What flashes on the poet's Inward Eye? A) Memory of Daffodils. B) Memory of Stars. C) Memory of Clouds. D) Memory of Waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Memory of Daffodils. 6. Fill in the blank:The world is too much with us; late and ..... A) Ours. B) Miserable. C) Soon. D) Hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soon. 7. Wordsworth is more concerned with the relation between the poet and the poem, he isn't interested in ..... of poetry A) Social impact. B) Moral effect. C) Materialism. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moral effect. 8. The daffodils were growing ..... A) Along the margin of a bay. B) Inside a river. C) On a tall tree. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Along the margin of a bay. 9. Who are the gods mentioned in the poem? A) Aphrodite and Hestia. B) Eros and Athena. C) Proteus and Triton. D) Kronos and Dione. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proteus and Triton. 10. Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Extract a figure of speech? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. What is the poem based upon? A) Flowers. B) Nature. C) A poet's love for daffodils. D) A poet's love for nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A poet's love for nature. 12. In poetry, Wordsworth focuses on examining ..... A) What a poem is. B) How it's made. C) Who makes it. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. The historical event which influenced Wordsworth's poetry? A) The Napoleonic Wars. B) The American Revolution. C) The French Revolution. D) The Russian Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The French Revolution. 14. Who wrote the poem CUCKOO A) I dont know. B) JK.Rowling. C) William Wordsworth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 15. Which of these quotes personifies the mountain? A) "The grim shape towered up between me and the stars". B) "As if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head". C) "Measured motion like a living thing". D) "But huge and mighty forms, that do not live". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "As if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head". 16. What is Wordsworth's main idea in "The World Is Too Much with Us" ? A) There are too many people in the world. B) People should get out in nature. C) We should go back to believing in Greek gods. D) Daffodils are the best flower ever. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People should get out in nature. 17. When the poet uses the phrase, 'opening of the year', he means that A) The boy and girl will celebrate New Year's Day twice a year. B) They are beginning anew and this will mark the way they will live in future. C) The poet wishes to talk about what happened in the beginning of the year. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are beginning anew and this will mark the way they will live in future. 18. William Wordsworth is a ..... poet A) Neo-classical. B) Romantic. C) Modern. D) Cavalier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romantic. 19. According to Wordsworth, ..... is not essential to poetry, but only an additional source of ..... A) Rhyme, happiness. B) Meter, pleasure. C) Meter, happiness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter, pleasure. 20. What poetic device is used in the line:"I wandered lonely as a cloud" ? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesWilliam Wordsworth Quiz 1William Wordsworth Quiz 2William Wordsworth Quiz 3William Wordsworth Quiz 4William Wordsworth Quiz 5William Wordsworth Quiz 6William Wordsworth Quiz 7William Wordsworth Quiz 8William Wordsworth Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books