Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quiz 1 (19 MCQs)

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1. With which other poet did Samuel Taylor Coleridge founded the Romantic movement in English Literature?

Correct Answer: D) William Wordsworth.

2. With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ's Hospital, also called The Bluecoat School?

Correct Answer: C) Charles Lamb.

3. In which establishment Coleridge enlisted himself in December 1793 by using the false name "Silas Tomkyn Comberbache" ?

Correct Answer: D) Royal Dragoons.

4. What's the meter of "Kubla Khan" ?

Correct Answer: B) Iambic tetrameter.

5. When did Samuel Taylor Coleridge die?

Correct Answer: D) 25 July 1834.

6. The ode on which topic that Coleridge wrote while attending Jesus College, Cambridge won him the Browne Gold Medal?

Correct Answer: D) On the slave trade.

7. Which of the following is a major theme of "The Eolian Harp" ?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

8. What is the name of the short-lived journal that Coleridge established?

Correct Answer: D) The Watchman.

9. Who is the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

Correct Answer: A) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

10. In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature?

Correct Answer: C) 1795.

11. Who is Kubla Khan related to?

Correct Answer: D) Genghis Khan.

12. Which one is the famous prose work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

Correct Answer: D) Biographia Literaria.

13. Which poet was Coleridge friends with?

Correct Answer: C) William Worsworth.

14. Where did Coleridge go to college?

Correct Answer: D) Jesus College.

15. In which stanza of "The Eolian Harp" is there a shift?

Correct Answer: C) 5.

16. Coleridge's most famous poem

Correct Answer: B) "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

17. In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term 'willing suspension of disbelief' in 1817?

Correct Answer: A) Biographia Literaria.

18. What is "Kubla Khan" also known as?

Correct Answer: B) A Vision in a Dream.

19. Who is Coleridge addressing in "The Eolian Harp" ?

Correct Answer: D) His wife.