This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > William Wordsworth > William Wordsworth – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Wordsworth Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The flowers are "fluttering and dancing" and so are the waves. This is an example of what type of sensory language? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. What was the name of Wordsworth's wife? A) Annette Vallon. B) Ann Cookson. C) Catherine James. D) Mary Hutchinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mary Hutchinson. 3. What line does the speaker suggest that we are concerned with materials? A) The world is too much with us late and soon. B) We have given our hearts away a sordid boon. C) Little we see in nature that is ours. D) Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 4. When was William Wordsworth appointed poet laureate? A) 1839. B) 1861. C) 1847. D) 1843. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1843. 5. What does the quote "It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure" feature? A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Irony. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 6. What does "Pagan" mean? Choose the best answer. A) A snake. B) Strange. C) Non-Christian. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Non-Christian. 7. In the poem, why might the word, 'solitude' be used? To mean ..... A) Something of a striking or impressive kind. B) Cover, shelter, disguise; concealment. C) Being alone, secluded, lonely. D) Serious, solemn, sober. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Being alone, secluded, lonely. 8. What does the phrase "Sprightly dance" mean? A) Depressing. B) Lively and full of energy. C) Slow and cautious. D) Jumping up and down. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lively and full of energy. 9. "The World Is Too Much with Us" is a A) Haiku. B) Ballad. C) Sonnet. D) Free verse poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 10. What does the Sea give to the moon? A) Her bosom. B) Her light. C) Her body. D) Her place. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her bosom. 11. A sonnet has how many lines? A) 12. B) 7. C) 14. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 12. After the drowning of his brother, which poem did he write? A) Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle. B) Resolution and Independence. C) Ode:Intimations of Immortality. D) Lyrical Ballads. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle. 13. What imagery is used to show how the speaker feels empty without the friendship? A) A broken heart. B) A hidden well. C) A long and endless road. D) A prickly bush. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A hidden well. 14. Who did Wordsworth write "We Are Seven" with? A) John Milton. B) Dorothy Wordsworth. C) Samuel Coleridge. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Samuel Coleridge. 15. Where did the speaker see the daffodils A) In a playground. B) In the water. C) In the garden. D) Ore's the vales. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ore's the vales. 16. According to Wordsworth, ..... is not essential to poetry but it is only a source of pleasure A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Metre. D) Elements of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metre. 17. Name the figure of speech used in the first line of the poem? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 18. (I wandered as lonely as a cloud)What language technique is used? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 19. How many lines does the poem consist of? A) 4. B) 9. C) 8. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 20. We 'll give to idleness-This line means that ..... A) Both the poet and his sister should spend a day doing nothing. B) They will give something to a being called idleness. C) Both will work twice as hard to complete their work. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both the poet and his sister should spend a day doing nothing. 21. What does the writer mean by "Little we see in Nature that is ours;" ? A) The soil and trees. B) The reality of life. C) Wild and wilderness where people can recharge. D) The very connection we have with it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wild and wilderness where people can recharge. 22. In romantic view, feeling, sensibility and emotions are more important capacities than ..... A) Reason and logic. B) Nature and love. C) All. D) Time and action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reason and logic. 23. Which two words rhyme in the last two of the lines of the first stanza? A) Hills and daffodils. B) Trees and breeze. C) Fluttering and dancing. D) Beneath and dancing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trees and breeze. 24. What is meant by daffodils A) Wild animal. B) Flower. C) Bird. D) Domestic animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flower. 25. Who wrote ' The Solitary Reaper'? A) Tennyson. B) Wordsworth. C) Blake. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wordsworth. 26. What does the poem compare the wind to? A) Sleeping flowers. B) Screaming roars. C) Birds singing. D) Rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sleeping flowers. 27. With whom did Wordsworth form a powerful friendship while studying at Cambridge? A) Lord Byron. B) Samuel Coleridge. C) John Keats. D) Percy Shelly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Samuel Coleridge. 28. For the literary device, Personification, what object in the poem was "sprightly dancing" ? A) Daffodil. B) Couch. C) Sparkling waves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Daffodil. 29. The title, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is an example of what literary device? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 30. When the speaker uses the word "crowd" to refer to the daffodils, what literary term is applied? A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 31. What is the main theme of the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" ? A) Love. B) Beauty. C) Nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature. 32. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" what figure of speech in this line is ..... A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 33. Which writing piece started Wordsworth's literary career? A) Descriptive Sketches. B) Lyrical Ballads. C) Poems in Two Volumes. D) The Recluse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Descriptive Sketches. 34. They ..... in never ending lines A) Glee. B) Stretched. C) Jocund. D) Glazed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stretched. 35. Name of the park discussed in the poem is? A) Daffodils. B) Central park. C) Gobarrow park. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gobarrow park. 36. With whom did William Wordsworth launch his first book A) Alfred Tennyson. B) Mary Hutchinson. C) Samuel Coleridge. D) Robert Southey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Samuel Coleridge. 37. Meaning of 'Bliss of solitude' A) Vacant mood. B) Sadness when alone. C) Joyful. D) Happiness in Loneliness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Happiness in Loneliness. 38. Where was he walking? A) In a forest. B) In a hilly landscape. C) In a town. D) Through a field. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In a hilly landscape. 39. In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet? A) New Poetry. B) The Tatler. C) The European Magazine. D) The Rambler. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The European Magazine. 40. William Wordsworth wrote 'Lyrical Ballads' together with ..... A) Marry Shelley. B) John Keats. C) S. T. Coleridge. D) P. B. Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S. T. Coleridge. 41. According to Wordsworth, poetry is dependent on the ..... and ..... is vital to the development of the poet's mind. A) Meter and rhyme scheme. B) Habits of association and natural landscape. C) Lyrics and tone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Habits of association and natural landscape. 42. Which of the following quotes portrays the narrator as a confident person? A) "Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point". B) "Lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake". C) "It was an act of stealth". D) "My boat went heaving through the water like a swan". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point". 43. According to the speaker in "The World is Too Much With Us" , we "are out of ..... " A) Money. B) Tune. C) Time. D) Food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tune. 44. Who wrote "The World is Too Much with Us? " A) William Wordsworth. B) Stevie Smith. C) William Blake. D) Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Wordsworth. 45. According to Wordsworth and other romantics, what is the purpose of a poem A) Teach overtly. B) Shape thought, character and action. C) Express and produce powerful emotions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Express and produce powerful emotions. 46. What is the inspiration And source of all poetry according to the romantic view? A) Human interaction with natural world. B) Poet's interaction with others. C) Love stories and romance. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human interaction with natural world. 47. An important work in the English Romantic Movement. A) Lyrical Ballads in 1798. B) Sweet Melodies in 1750. C) Rhyming Ballads in 1798. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyrical Ballads in 1798. 48. Who was William Wordsworth A) Poet. B) Professor. C) Artist. D) Actor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 49. What happens to his heart whenever he sees a rainbow? A) Mad. B) Sad. C) His heart skips a beat. D) Emotional. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His heart skips a beat. 50. Which of these words describe the mood of the poem A) Relaxed. B) Lonely. C) Bored. D) Sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relaxed. 51. The poet is very ..... while writing the poem A) Nostalgic. B) Excited. C) Happy. D) Sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nostalgic. 52. A host, of golden daffodils. A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 53. What does this line mean? "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;" A) We absorb ourselves into the world. B) We keep on shopping and wasting our powers. C) Materialism. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 54. The first stanza of the poem tells us that the poet A) Was looking for a companion to end his loneliness. B) Was searching for the place where daffodils grew in plenty. C) Was moving about without any sense of purpose or direction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was moving about without any sense of purpose or direction. 55. Which one of this is a alliteration from the poem CUCKOO A) Wondering Voice. B) To the Cuckoo. C) New Comer. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wondering Voice. 56. Daffodils is a ..... A) Lyrical poem. B) Poetic Parable. C) Didactic poem. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyrical poem. 57. Continue: "And then my heart with pleasure fills, ..... " A) "I dance with the daffodils". B) "I dance with daffodils". C) "And I dance with the daffodils". D) "And dances with the daffodils". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "And dances with the daffodils". 58. The unofficial manifesto of romantic movement was published in the year? A) 1789. B) 1798. C) 1769. D) 1770. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1798. 59. "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" is an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 60. Who was the speaker comparing the daffodils from A) Mountains. B) Waves. C) The river. D) Trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Waves. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesWilliam Wordsworth Quiz 1William Wordsworth Quiz 3William Wordsworth Quiz 4William Wordsworth Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books