This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > William Wordsworth > William Wordsworth – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Wordsworth Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What felling did the speaker feel when he saw the daffodils A) Delight. B) Sad. C) Bored. D) Happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Delight. 2. At the end, the poet felt ..... when he remembered the view of the daffodils . A) Happy. B) Upset. C) Miserable. D) Disappointed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Happy. 3. What calmed Wordsworth down in "Ode to Intimations of Immortality? " A) Lambs playing and birds singing. B) Children playing. C) The nearby waterfalls and mountains. D) Himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The nearby waterfalls and mountains. 4. William Wordsworth was born in ..... A) Grasmere. B) Cambridge. C) London. D) The English Lake District. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The English Lake District. 5. Which work of William Wordsworth, with the joint publication with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature? A) The Excursion. B) The Prelude. C) Lyrical Ballads. D) Poems, in Two Volumes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyrical Ballads. 6. 'A Complaint' is about ..... A) A failed marriage. B) Nature turning ugly. C) A failed friendship. D) Someone losing their beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A failed friendship. 7. Who is Proteus and Triton? A) Greek gods of the sea. B) Normal people. C) Characters used by Wordsworth. D) Random names. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greek gods of the sea. 8. Fill in the blank: "Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing ..... A) In the mist". B) In the seas". C) In the breeze". D) In my dreams". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the breeze". 9. Which two words rhyme in the last two of the lines of the first verse? A) Hills and daffodils. B) Trees and breeze. C) Fluttering and dancing. D) Beneath and dancing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trees and breeze. 10. "I hear thee and rejoice"Why is the poet rejoicing? A) He is rejoicing because he hears the bird singing for the first time. B) He is rejoicing as there are no other birds except the cuckoo. C) He is rejoicing because he hears the song of the cuckoo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is rejoicing because he hears the song of the cuckoo. 11. Who called Wordsworth 'Poet of Nature '? A) Keats. B) Shelley. C) Coleridge. D) Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shelley. 12. How did the daffodils look like A) Rocks. B) Glitter. C) Stars. D) Gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stars. 13. What was one of Wordsworth's passions in his youth? A) Reading books. B) Sitting around. C) The outdoors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The outdoors. 14. Who went with William Wordsworth to Glencoyne bay? A) Dorthy his sister. B) John Wordsworth his father. C) Ann Cookson Wordsworth his mother. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dorthy his sister. 15. Who could the narrator be referring to when he says "led by her" in the first line? A) The water. B) His wife. C) The boat. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature. 16. What does the poet remember when he is in a pensive or a vacant mood? A) Remembers the sight of Golden Daffodils. B) The Milky way. C) Lonely cloud. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Remembers the sight of Golden Daffodils. 17. "Fluttering and dancing in the breeze" Extract a figure of speech from the line. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. Later in life how did the speaker feel A) Pensive. B) Thoughtful. C) Happy. D) Bored. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pensive. 19. What was the cuckoo called by the poet A) The Bird. B) Cuckoo. C) New comer. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New comer. 20. When was the second version of "Daffodils" published? A) 1815. B) 1804. C) 1806. D) 1791. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1815. 21. When was "Daffodils" published? A) 1804. B) 1807. C) 1805. D) 1806. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1807. 22. In the poem, what does the word 'grim' 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: D) Sinister or ghastly character, repellent. 23. What does the speaker says is the father of the man? A) Nature. B) Child. C) God. D) Tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Child. 24. Give a synonym for the word pensive. A) Satisfaction. B) Fiery. C) Contemplative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contemplative. 25. What is the genre of "Daffodils" ? A) Narrative Poetry. B) Lyric Poetry. C) Dramatic Poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric Poetry. 26. Who was defined as single cloud? A) Poet. B) Daffodils. C) A cloud. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 27. What led to "William and his three brothers [boarding] in the cottage of Ann Tyson" ? A) The bankrupting of his family. B) The eviction of his family from his childhood home. C) The death of his mother. D) The death of his father. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The death of his mother. 28. I wondered lonely as a cloud.What is the figure of speech used here? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 29. Was the cuckoo's song audible when it sang from the farway hill? A) Yes. B) No. C) When he was writing this poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 30. Wordsworth states that the poems of Lyrical Ballads presents a systematic theory of ..... and ..... set against a world of experience and material things. A) Ideas and thoughts. B) Poetic complexity and poetical limits. C) Feelings and thoughts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetic complexity and poetical limits. 31. Wordsworth collaborated with the poet? A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) Robert Browning. C) John Keats. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 32. What is one of the first flowers of spring? A) Tulip. B) Rose. C) Daffodil. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Daffodil. 33. Which of his poems did he collaborate on? A) "Lucy" Lyrics. B) Micheal. C) Lyrical Ballads. D) Squap De Bop Squap. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyrical Ballads. 34. What is the definition of 'horizon? 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: D) A circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky. 35. How does the mountain make the narrator feel? A) Amazed at its sheer size. B) Fearful about what may lay ahead. C) Guilty about stealing the boat. D) Insignificant over how small he is compared to the mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Guilty about stealing the boat. 36. Wordsworth defines a poet as a A) Nature speaking to men. B) Nature speaking to god. C) Man speaking to nature. D) Man speaking to men. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Man speaking to men. 37. The 'jocund company' referred to is the company of A) The daffodils. B) The dancing daffodils and the waves of the lake. C) The sparkling waves of the lake. D) The stars on the milky way. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dancing daffodils and the waves of the lake. 38. What are the daffodils compared to? A) Universe. B) Other flowers. C) Cloud. D) Countless twinkling stars in the milky way. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Countless twinkling stars in the milky way. 39. The 'jocund company' the poet refers to is what? A) His couch. B) The daffodils and the waves. C) The trees. D) Clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The daffodils and the waves. 40. Wordsworth was born in ..... A) London. B) Britain. C) Stratford At Avon. D) Cockermouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cockermouth. 41. What flashes on the poet's Inward Eye? A) Memory of Waves. B) Memory of Clouds. C) Memory of Daffodils. D) Memory of Stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Memory of Daffodils. 42. Fill in the blank:The world is too much with us; late and ..... A) Miserable. B) Hard. C) Ours. D) Soon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soon. 43. Wordsworth is more concerned with the relation between the poet and the poem, he isn't interested in ..... of poetry A) Social impact. B) Moral effect. C) Materialism. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moral effect. 44. The daffodils were growing ..... A) Along the margin of a bay. B) Inside a river. C) On a tall tree. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Along the margin of a bay. 45. Who are the gods mentioned in the poem? A) Aphrodite and Hestia. B) Eros and Athena. C) Proteus and Triton. D) Kronos and Dione. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proteus and Triton. 46. Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Extract a figure of speech? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 47. What is the poem based upon? A) Nature. B) A poet's love for daffodils. C) A poet's love for nature. D) Flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A poet's love for nature. 48. In poetry, Wordsworth focuses on examining ..... A) What a poem is. B) How it's made. C) Who makes it. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 49. The historical event which influenced Wordsworth's poetry? A) The Russian Revolution. B) The Napoleonic Wars. C) The French Revolution. D) The American Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The French Revolution. 50. Who wrote the poem CUCKOO A) I dont know. B) JK.Rowling. C) William Wordsworth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 51. Which of these quotes personifies the mountain? A) "The grim shape towered up between me and the stars". B) "As if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head". C) "Measured motion like a living thing". D) "But huge and mighty forms, that do not live". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "As if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head". 52. What is Wordsworth's main idea in "The World Is Too Much with Us" ? A) There are too many people in the world. B) People should get out in nature. C) Daffodils are the best flower ever. D) We should go back to believing in Greek gods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People should get out in nature. 53. When the poet uses the phrase, 'opening of the year', he means that A) The boy and girl will celebrate New Year's Day twice a year. B) They are beginning anew and this will mark the way they will live in future. C) The poet wishes to talk about what happened in the beginning of the year. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are beginning anew and this will mark the way they will live in future. 54. William Wordsworth is a ..... poet A) Neo-classical. B) Cavalier. C) Modern. D) Romantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romantic. 55. According to Wordsworth, ..... is not essential to poetry, but only an additional source of ..... A) Rhyme, happiness. B) Meter, pleasure. C) Meter, happiness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter, pleasure. 56. What poetic device is used in the line:"I wandered lonely as a cloud" ? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 57. Wordsworth was named the ..... in 1843. A) "best of all poets". B) Stamp distributor. C) National poet. D) Poet laureate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poet laureate. 58. When did the poet hear the twofold shout of the cuckoo? A) When he was walking in the beach. B) When he was lying on the grass. C) When he was writing this poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When he was lying on the grass. 59. 'A Complaint' is a ..... poem. A) Romantic. B) Metaphysical. C) War. D) Romantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romantic. 60. Who has written the Poem? A) William Wordsworth. B) William Shakespeare. C) William Henry Longfellow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Wordsworth. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesWilliam Wordsworth Quiz 1William Wordsworth Quiz 2William Wordsworth Quiz 3William Wordsworth Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books