William Wordsworth Quiz 5 (20 MCQs)

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1. We 'll give to idleness-This line means that .....

Correct Answer: A) Both the poet and his sister should spend a day doing nothing.

2. What does the writer mean by "Little we see in Nature that is ours;" ?

Correct Answer: C) Wild and wilderness where people can recharge.

3. In romantic view, feeling, sensibility and emotions are more important capacities than .....

Correct Answer: A) Reason and logic.

4. Which two words rhyme in the last two of the lines of the first stanza?

Correct Answer: B) Trees and breeze.

5. What is meant by daffodils

Correct Answer: A) Flower.

6. Who wrote ' The Solitary Reaper'?

Correct Answer: B) Wordsworth.

7. What does the poem compare the wind to?

Correct Answer: C) Sleeping flowers.

8. With whom did Wordsworth form a powerful friendship while studying at Cambridge?

Correct Answer: D) Samuel Coleridge.

9. For the literary device, Personification, what object in the poem was "sprightly dancing" ?

Correct Answer: A) Daffodil.

10. The title, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is an example of what literary device?

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

11. When the speaker uses the word "crowd" to refer to the daffodils, what literary term is applied?

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

12. What is the main theme of the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" ?

Correct Answer: C) Nature.

13. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" what figure of speech in this line is .....

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

14. Which writing piece started Wordsworth's literary career?

Correct Answer: A) Descriptive Sketches.

15. They ..... in never ending lines

Correct Answer: C) Stretched.

16. Name of the park discussed in the poem is?

Correct Answer: C) Gobarrow park.

17. With whom did William Wordsworth launch his first book

Correct Answer: D) Samuel Coleridge.

18. Meaning of 'Bliss of solitude'

Correct Answer: A) Happiness in Loneliness.

19. Where was he walking?

Correct Answer: B) In a hilly landscape.

20. In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet?

Correct Answer: A) The European Magazine.