1. Who is the ‘Lady’ referred to in the lines “O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!”?
(A) Dorothy, Wordsworth’s sister
(B) Mary Hutchinson, Wordsworth’s wife
(C) Jane Austen, the novelist
(D) Mary Godwin
2. In which poem does Coleridge refer to “My shaping spirit of Imagination”?
(A) Christabel
(B) Youth and Age
(C) Dejection: An Ode
(D) Kubla Khan
3. The Mariner in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner kills:
(A) An albatross
(B) A nightingale
(C) A penguin
(D) A golden fish
4. “Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.” This line is taken from which of the following poems?
(A) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(B) Dejection: An Ode
(C) Kubla Khan
(D) Christabel
5. Why were the Ancient Mariner and his companions so cursed?
(A) Because they were cursed for killing an Albatross
(B) Because an evil spirit had cursed them
(C) Because the sea-god had cursed them
(D) Because they had set out on an ominous voyage
6. How many parts are there in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
(A) Four
(B) Five
(C) Seven
(D) Six
7. Coleridge once said, “I have a smack of Hamlet myself.” Why did he say so?
(A) Because he suffered from Hamlet’s fits of depression on account of his addiction to opium-eating
(B) He had melancholy nature by birth like Hamlet
(C) He suffered from occasional fits of madness like Hamlet
(D) He had been disappointed in love like Hamlet
8. Which biographical-cum-literary study was written by Coleridge?
(A) Lives of the Poets
(B) Eminent Victorians
(C) Lives
(D) Biographia Literaria
9. Coleridge has written an Ode addressed to a country. Which country is addressed?
(A) England
(B) Greece
(C) Italy
(D) France
10. Into how many parts is Christabel divided?
(A) Four
(B) Three
(C) Two
(D) Five
11. “There she sees a damsel bright, Drest in a silken robe of white, That shadowy in the moonlight shone, The neck that made that white robe wan.” This line is taken from which of the following poems?
(A) Christabel
(B) Kubla Khan
(C) Dejection: An Ode
(D) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
12. What is the name of the sorceress in Christabel?
(A) Geraldine
(B) Morienti
(C) La Fayette
(D) Valentine
13. T. Coleridge belonged to the group of which of the following?
(A) Early Victorian poets
(B) Younger Romantic poets
(C) Older Romantic poets
(D) Later Victorian poets
14. The phrase “Willing suspension of disbelief” is applied to Coleridge’s:
(A) Poems on supernatural ideas/themes
(B) Poems on social ideas/themes
(C) Poetic plays
(D) Nature poems
15. Coleridge wrote some of his poetry in collaboration with which of the following?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Walter Scott
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Shelley
16. “Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.” This line is taken from which of the following poems?
(A) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(B) Frost at Midnight
(C) Christabel
(D) Kubla Khan
17. Why is Coleridge mainly famous?
(A) Concept of Imagery
(B) Concept of the level of Sub-Consciousness
(C) Concept of Imagination
(D) Concept of Emotional Depth
18. Coleridge has written a poem entitled The Destiny of Nations. He himself calls it:
(A) A Dream
(B) A Vision
(C) A Reverie
(D) A Hallucination
19. Coleridge has written an elegy on the death of:
(A) Keats
(B) Chatterton
(C) Shelley
(D) Byron
20. Coleridge’s poem entitled To A Friend is addressed to:
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) Charles Lamb
21. “I’m poor and of a low estate, The Mother of the Prince of Peace, Joy rises in me, like a summer’s morn: Peace, Peace on Earth! the Prince of Peace is born.” This line is taken from which of the following poems?
(A) The Eolian Harp
(B) Religious Musings
(C) A Christmas Carol
(D) Honour
22. “Friend of the wise! and Teacher of the Good! Into my heart have I received that Lay More than historic, that prophetic Lay.” To whom are these lines addressed?
(A) To Wordsworth
(B) To Walter Scott
(C) To Southey
(D) To Byron
23. What is Coleridge’s poem Fears in Solitude?
(A) An Ode
(B) A Sonnet
(C) A Narrative Poem
(D) A Fable
24. Coleridge has written a poem The Nightingale. He himself calls it a:
(A) Narrative poem
(B) Fragmentary poem
(C) Unconventional poem
(D) Conversation poem
