This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > William Wordsworth > William Wordsworth – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Wordsworth Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the poet compare himself to? A) Clouds. B) Waves. C) Daffodils. D) Stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clouds. 2. What does the poem "The World is Too Much With Us"compare the wind to? A) Sleeping flowers. B) Rain. C) Screaming roars. D) Birds singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sleeping flowers. 3. From which year to which year that William Wordsworth served as the Poet Laureate of Britain? A) 1843-1850. B) 1842-1851. C) 1840-1855. D) 1833-1848. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1843-1850. 4. Wordsworth died in which year? A) 1855. B) 1860. 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) Donne. C) Bradstreet. D) Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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 Pope. C) Age of literature. D) Age of Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Age of Enlightenment. 9. Wordsworth can be called the poet of ..... A) Nature. B) Romanticism. C) Feelings. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 10. When was Wordsworth born? A) November 22, 1771. B) April 7, 1770. C) January 2, 1773. D) April 12, 1772. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) April 7, 1770. 11. Identify the figure of speech in the expression 'The waves beside them danced' A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. Wordsworth called you "friend" so you are? A) Friend zoned. B) His Bro. C) His Dog. D) His Sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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) 1769. B) 1798. C) 1778. D) 1792. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1798. 16. In "I wandered lonely as a cloud" who does "I" refer to? A) The Daffodils. B) The poet's sister. C) The cloud. D) The poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The poet. 17. Who is the poet? A) Michael Rosen. B) Roald Dahl. C) William Wordsworth. D) Mrs Speechley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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) Heart. B) Nature. C) Daffodils. D) Rainbow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature. 21. About what was Wordsworth tormented when war in France broke out? A) He longed to fight. B) He felt he had abandoned his lover and their child. C) He lost his poetic inspiration. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He felt he had abandoned his lover and their child. 22. Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.What is the figure of speech mentioned here? A) Personification. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 23. How was the speaker wandering like A) The tree. B) Golden daffodils. C) Waves. D) A lonely cloud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A lonely cloud. 24. Give a synonym for the word solitude. A) Anger. B) Loneliness. C) Pleasure. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loneliness. 25. What is the definition of 'ridge'? A) A secret departure or entrance. B) Rugged, harsh, rough. C) Long narrow elevation of land, a chain of hills or mountains. D) A circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Long narrow elevation of land, a chain of hills or mountains. 26. What does the word 'peak' mean? A) The pointed top of a mountain or ridge. B) Doing nothing. C) Boat. D) Noise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pointed top of a mountain or ridge. 27. What is the meaning of "pensive" A) Blissful. B) Lonely. C) Happy. D) Thoughtful, usually in a sad way. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thoughtful, usually in a sad way. 28. When did William Wordsworth die? A) 3 November 1852. B) 7 June 1849. C) 23 April 1850. D) 12 January 1842. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 23 April 1850. 29. What according to Wordsworth is a suitable language for poetry? A) English. B) Language of common man. C) One's mother tongue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language of common man. 30. Who is William Wordsworth? A) He is best known for Lyrical Ballads. B) He was an American poet. C) He was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England. D) He was an English playwright, poet, and actor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is best known for Lyrical Ballads. 31. ..... and ..... become the hallmarks of poetic creation. A) Feelings and ideas. B) Introspection and reflection. C) Creativity and feelings. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Introspection and reflection. 32. The poem Daffodils often entitled as ..... A) Lyrical ballads. B) Lake school. C) I wondered lonely as a cloud. D) Nature love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I wondered lonely as a cloud. 33. "I gazed and gazed" is a good example of what literary device? A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 34. What town was Wordsworth born in? A) Cumbria. B) Cambridge. C) Cockermouth. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cockermouth. 35. Continuous as the stars that shine ..... Which figure of speech is the above line? A) Onomotopia. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 36. What rhyme scheme does the poem follow? A) ABABCC. B) ABAB. C) ABBA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABABCC. 37. What term/word is used in the poem that is defined as "a valley" ? A) Jocund. B) Vale. C) Solitude. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vale. 38. "O blithe newcomer! "Who is the blithe newcomer? A) The cuckoo bird. B) The poet. C) The thrush. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The cuckoo bird. 39. How many daffodils were there? A) Lots. B) A thousand. C) Ten thousand. D) Millions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ten thousand. 40. Did William Wordsworth like writing about nature A) Maybe. B) Yes. C) No. D) I don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 41. 'The flash upon the inward eye' A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 42. How many stanza's does the poem consist of? A) 1. B) 2. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 43. What kind of sonnet is "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" ? A) Miltonic sonnet. B) Spenserian sonnet. C) Petrarchan sonnet. D) Shakespearean sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Petrarchan sonnet. 44. Wordsworth is more concerned with the relation between the ..... and the ..... A) Poet and poem. B) Poet and reader. C) Poem and nature. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet and poem. 45. Which idiom best relates to "My Heart Leaps Up" ? A) Every cloud has a silver lining. B) Stop and smell the roses. C) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. D) Making a mountain out of a molehill. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stop and smell the roses. 46. Which of the following is not a theme or motif in Wordsworth's work? A) Childhood. B) Nature. C) Memory. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love. 47. Who wrote poem 'World is Too Much With Us'? A) William Wordsworth. B) Robert Bridges. C) John Keats. D) Alexander Pope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Wordsworth. 48. What two words are rhymed in the final two lines of the poem? A) Sky and die. B) Be and Piety. C) Began and man. D) Behold and old. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Be and Piety. 49. Which of the choices below is the best summary of the theme or central idea of the poem? A) When you are feeling lonely, take a walk. B) Daffodils are the best dancers. C) The beauty of nature brings people happiness. D) Humans rarely appreciate the beauty of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The beauty of nature brings people happiness. 50. Does the poet admire the cuckoo A) No. B) Yes. C) None of these / Cant say. D) Maybe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 51. This poem "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" is an example of what poetry theme? A) Romantic. B) Spiritual. C) Tragedy and loss. D) Memories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romantic. 52. At what age was Wordsworth orphaned? A) 7. B) 3. C) 13. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 13. 53. They stretched in the never ending line ..Name the figure of speech. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 54. Wordsworth's preface to lyrical ballads articulated ..... worldview A) Supernatural. B) Romantic, philosophical and aesthetic. C) Feminist. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romantic, philosophical and aesthetic. 55. Where did Wordsworth attend college? A) Cambridge, England. B) Harvard University, USA. C) University of Pennsylvania, USA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cambridge, England. 56. In "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" , what does Wordsworth do to capture the reader to show how the city moved him? A) Use Petrarchan Rhyme Scheme. B) Uses weak imagery. C) Nothing. D) Uses strong imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uses strong imagery. 57. "The waves beside them danced." -What figure of speech is this? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoiea. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 58. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem? A) Ababac. B) Ababab. C) Ababcc. D) Ababaa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ababcc. 59. The inward eye of the poet is the poet's A) Bliss of solitude. B) Thoughtful mood. C) Imagination. D) Vacant mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagination. 60. What does the line "For this, for everything, we are out of tune" mean? A) We have incorrect pitch. B) Missing something in touch with nature. C) Not having humility and respect for Nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not having humility and respect for Nature. Next →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesWilliam Wordsworth Quiz 2William Wordsworth Quiz 3William Wordsworth Quiz 4William Wordsworth Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books