This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > William Wordsworth > William Wordsworth – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Wordsworth Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What shines as stars in the sky? A) Trees. B) Lake. C) Clouds. D) Daffodils. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Daffodils. 2. Which one of these was Wordsworth's autobiographical poem? A) The Prelude. B) Ode:Intimations of Immortality. C) The Solitary Reaper. D) Pizza:). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Prelude. 3. What does the word 'bark' mean? A) Boat. B) The pointed top of a mountain or ridge. C) Doing nothing. D) Noise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boat. 4. The word 'sprightly' means A) Playing. B) Happy. C) Blissful. D) Joyful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joyful. 5. What literary device adds to and shows the emotion of the poem, such as by using the word "never-ending" ? A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 6. Which of the following characterize Wordsworth's poetry? A) Love of capitalism. B) Love of nature. C) Love of independence. D) Love of materialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love of nature. 7. Wordsworth's autobiographical poem is? A) The Prelude. B) Lucy Gray. C) To The Skylark. D) The Solitary Reaper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Prelude. 8. Which month does the poet refer to in the poem? A) May. B) April. C) March. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) March. 9. Who wrote the poem A) William Blake. B) John Milton. C) Robert Louis Stevenson. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Wordsworth. 10. What could daffodils symbolize? A) Eternity. B) Old age. C) Spring, rebirth. D) Femininity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spring, rebirth. 11. The poet belongs to the school of ..... A) Tourism. B) Critisism. C) Romanticism. D) Rationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism. 12. What does the story focus on? A) Taking life for granted. B) The wind always howling. C) Giving our hearts away. D) The sea and her bosom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taking life for granted. 13. How did the French Revolution inspire Wordsworth? A) It offered a "glorious renovation" of society. B) He hoped to see similar revolution in England. C) It offered a new perspective into an outdated social structure. D) It inspired his poetic creativity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It offered a "glorious renovation" of society. 14. ..... is established as the central element of poetry according to Wordsworth A) Character. B) Feelings. C) Situation. D) Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feelings. 15. What is the main message in "The World is Too Much With Us" ? A) We are out of touch with nature. B) We appreciate nature too much. C) Paganism is the main way to be in touch with nature. D) Our souls and hearts belong to nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We are out of touch with nature. 16. What is the definition of 'craggy? 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: B) Rugged, harsh, rough. 17. Why was it such an important moment for the speaker? A) Because he wrote a poem about it. B) Because he has a memory that brings him happiness. C) Because he can go walking around that field again and again. D) Because they looked pretty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because he has a memory that brings him happiness. 18. The speaker's appreciation of the scene came A) Immediately. B) Later, when he reflected about what he saw. C) During his next walk in nature. D) Later, when speaking about it with friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Later, when he reflected about what he saw. 19. In the poem, why might the word, 'grave' be used? To imply ..... A) Something of a striking or impressive kind. B) Being alone, secluded, lonely. C) Serious, solemn, sober, possible connotations of danger and death. D) Cover, shelter, disguise; concealment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Serious, solemn, sober, possible connotations of danger and death. 20. How was the poet feeling at the beginning of the poem? A) Upset. B) In search of company. C) Quiet. D) Cheerful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quiet. 21. What is another word for 'crowd' in the poem? A) Cluster. B) Golden. C) Group. D) Host. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Host. 22. Who was also known as 'Nature Poet'? A) P. B. Shelley. B) John Keats. C) William Wordsworth. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 23. Choose the most relevant theme. A) Springtime is the best time of year. B) Strength of human imagination and memories. C) The ability of nature to heal. D) Clouds are fluffy and soft. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The ability of nature to heal. 24. "I gazed and gazed but little thought, what wealth the show to me had brought. "What does the poet mean by the word wealth here? A) Wit. B) Humour. C) Nature. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Happiness. 25. Why did the daffodils make the speaker think of stars? A) Because of their shape. B) Because they joined together in a long line. C) Because they were flowers. D) Because someone had planted them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because they joined together in a long line. 26. In the poem, why might the word, 'covert' be used? To mean ..... A) Serious, solemn, sober. B) Cover, shelter, disguise; concealment. C) Being alone, secluded, lonely. D) Something of a striking or impressive kind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cover, shelter, disguise; concealment. 27. What country did Wordsworth visit that inspired his poetry? A) Germany. B) France. C) Ireland. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) France. 28. I wondered lonely as a cloud.What is the image here? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 29. In his early work "Lyrical Ballads" , what did Wordsworth claim there was a greater need for in poetry? A) Love. B) Excitement. C) Common speech. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Common speech. 30. The poet's wealth from daffodils is A) His joyful heart. B) The bliss of solitude. C) Their dancing. D) Their bright colour. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The bliss of solitude. 31. When did William Wordsworth marry Mary Hutchinson? A) 1812. B) 1802. C) 1805. D) 1798. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1802. 32. Identify the poetic device:"Continuous as the stars that shine" A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 33. What type of language is "I wandered lonely as a cloud" ? A) Personification. B) Emotive language. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 34. This line most relates to which element of Romanticism? "Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn." A) Nature. B) Spirituality/supernatural. C) Emotion over reason. D) Youth/innocence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spirituality/supernatural. 35. Wordsworth added the 'Preface' because he felt that his poems were ..... A) Very relatable. B) Different in theme and style. C) Different in meter and rhythm. D) Very specific. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Different in theme and style. 36. I wandered lonely as a ..... A) Cloud. B) Daffodil. C) Star. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cloud. 37. When was Romanticism popular? A) Late 18th/early 19th century. B) Late 17th/ early 18th century. C) Late 16th/early 17th century. D) 18th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Late 18th/early 19th century. 38. How many daffodils does the poet say that he saw at a glance? A) Four hundred. B) Ten thousand. C) Twenty. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ten thousand. 39. What term/word in the poem is defined as "cheerful and lighthearted'? A) Solitude. B) Pensive. C) Jocund. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jocund. 40. Which quote marks a change in tone of the poem from carefree to serious? A) "The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge". B) "With trembling oars I turned". C) "Far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky". D) "And growing still in stature the grim shape". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge". 41. When was the poem first published? A) 1815. B) 1802. C) 1790. D) 1807. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1807. 42. How many siblings did Wordsworth have? A) 7. B) 8. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 43. What does the 'inward eye' represent? A) Pensive mood. B) The human mind and imaginationn. C) Daffodils. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The human mind and imaginationn. 44. How was the daffodils dancing A) By singing. B) By tossing their head. C) Dance by their feet. D) By shaking their leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By tossing their head. 45. "Ten thousand saw I at a glance." -What figure of speech is this? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 46. What does Wordsworth show in these lines? "For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God! I'd rather be" A) A solution. B) Cause and effect. C) A transition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A solution. 47. How long has it been since Wordsworth visited the abbey? A) 5 decades. B) 5 months. C) 500 years. D) 5 Years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5 Years. 48. Which among the following is an example of simile 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: A) As the stars that shine. 49. For Wordsworth the embodiment of divine spirit was? A) Nature. B) God. C) Beauty. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 50. What poetic form is The Prelude:Stealing the Boat written in? A) Free verse. B) Fixed verse. C) Blank verse. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blank verse. 51. When did William graduate? A) 8. B) 1790. C) 1791. D) 1795. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1791. 52. While wandering alone, the poet saw A) A crowd of people. B) Clouds floating over vales and hills. C) A lake. D) A host of golden daffodils. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A host of golden daffodils. 53. William Wordsworth was the founder of what movement? A) Poetry. B) Romantic. C) Modernism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romantic. 54. What view of nature is presented? A) Nature is unsettling. B) Nature is powerful. C) Nature is relied on to make people feel better. D) Nature can bring hatred, it can do things to the mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature is relied on to make people feel better. 55. The poem "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" focuses on? A) The exterior of London; architecture. B) The emotion in London. C) The interior of the London; Building interior. D) The people in London. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The exterior of London; architecture. 56. How many daffodils did the poet "see at a glance" ? A) Ten Thousand. B) Seven Thousand. C) Five Thousand. D) Two Thousand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ten Thousand. 57. In the poem, what does the word 'lustily' mean? A) Like an elf, small and charmingly spiritedly, merry or mischievous. B) Light sailing boat. C) Enthusiastically spirited. D) Sinister or ghastly character, repellent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enthusiastically spirited. 58. What does "sordid" mean? A) Pure. B) Clean. C) Dirty. D) Messy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dirty. 59. Who said that Wordsworth "communicated interest and dignity to the primal movements of the heart of man" ? A) His friend, Samuel Coleridge. B) William Hazlitt, writer of The Spirit of the Age. C) His lover, Annette Vallon. D) His sister, Dorothy Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Hazlitt, writer of The Spirit of the Age. 60. The ..... included in the 1798 edition shows Wordsworth's concern about the language of poetry and explains his various poetical concepts. A) Prelude. B) Advertisement. C) Lyrical Ballads. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Advertisement. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesWilliam Wordsworth Quiz 1William Wordsworth Quiz 2William Wordsworth Quiz 4William Wordsworth Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books