William Wordsworth MCQs [English Literature & Famous Authors]

Collection of important MCQs on William Wordsworth

“Trailing clouds of glory do we come from God,

Who is our Home!”

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) Excursion

(B) Tintern Abbey

(D) Prelude

Question’s Answer: Immortality Ode

Wordsworth’s famous Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was:

(A) The Preface to the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads

(B) A rejoinder to Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria

(D) The Preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballad

Question’s Answer: The Preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads

“We are laid asleep in body and become a living soul.” which poem of Wordsworth having this line?

(A) Immortality

(B) OdeTintern Abbey

(D) The Excursion

Question’s Answer: Tintern Abbey

Why is the year 1798 taken to be the year of the beginning of the Romantic Movement?

(A) Because it was the year of Wordsworth’s birth

(B) Because it was the year in which James Thomson’s Seasons was published

(D) Because it was the year in which the French Revolution started

Question’s Answer: Because it was the year in which Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads were published

Wordsworth was popularly famous as the poet of which of the following?

(A) Lancashire Region

(B) Lake Districts

(D) Waverly Region

Question’s Answer: Lake Districts

Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on:

(A) Shakespeare

(B) Milton

(D) Ben Jonson

Question’s Answer: Milton

“For Nature then

To me was all in all.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) Tintern Abbey

(B) The Excursion

(D) The World is Too Much with Us

Question’s Answer: Tintern Abbey

After whom Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate of England ?

(A) Robert Southey

(B) Walter Scott

(D) Dryden

Question’s Answer: Robert Southey

Who accused Wordsworth of being a ‘Lost Leader’?

(A) Shelley

(B) Browning

(D) Byron

Question’s Answer: Browning

Why was Wordsworth accused of being a ‘Lost Leader’?

(A) Because he gave up the reason of supporting the French Revolution

(B) Because he began disappointing the younger Romantic poets

(D) Because he began refuting the established poetic theories

Question’s Answer: Because he accepted the post of the Poet Laureateship of England

“Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband in his coat.” Browning writes these lines on Wordsworth in which of the following poem.

What is the title of the poem written by Browning?

(A) The Lost Leader

(B) The Patriot

(D) Memorabilia

Question’s Answer: The Lost Leader

“But Europe at that time was thrilled with joy

France standing on the top of golden hours,

and human nature seeming born anew.”

In these parts, Wordsworth referring to _______.

(A) The beginning of the Age

(B) The period of discovery of new lands

(D) The period of the new discoveries in science

Question’s Answer: The period of the French Revolution

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

But to be young was very heaven.”

What era of history do these lines refer to?

(A) To the period of French Revolution

(B) To the period of Renaissance in Europe

(D) To the period of Commonwealth in England

Question’s Answer: To the period of French Revolution

“They flash upon that inward eye,

Which is the bliss of solitude.”

These lines taken from Which poem?

(A) Rainbow

(B) Tintern Abbey

(D) The Solitary Reaper

Question’s Answer: Daffodils

“Nature never did betray

The heart that loved her.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) Written in Early Spring

(B) Prelude

(D) Daffodils

Question’s Answer: Tintern Abbey

“The child is father of the man

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) To Lucy

(B) To a Butterfly

(D) My Heart Leaps Up

Question’s Answer: My Heart Leaps Up

Who was or were the authors of the Lyrical Ballads?

(A) Wordsworth alone

(B) Wordsworth and Walter Scoti

(D) Wordsworth and Southey

Question’s Answer: Wordsworths and Coleridge

Wordsworth’s Prelude is a:

(A) Philosophical poem

(B) Autobiographical poem

(D) A Narrative poem

Question’s Answer: Autobiographical poem

“To me the meanest flower that grows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.” This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) Early Spring

(B) Immortality Ode

(D) The Rainbow

Question’s Answer: Immortality Ode

“O joy! that in our embers

Is something that doth live,

That nature yet remembers

What was so fugitive.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) The Prelude

(B) Tintern Abbey

(D) The Excursion

Question’s Answer: Immortality Ode

“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God !” Who is this ‘Stern Daughter’ ?

(A) Duty

(B) Nature

(D) Conscience

Question’s Answer: Duty

………….in his hand

The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew

Soul-animating strains…………”

In whose hand according to Wordsworth?

(A) Milton’s

(B) Shakespeare’s

(D) Dryden’s

Question’s Answer: Milton’s

The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) Daffodils

(B) To Lucy

(D) The Solitary Reaper

Question’s Answer: To Lucy

“Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows

Like harmony in music; there is a dark

Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles

Discordant elements.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) The Prelude

(B) Immortality Ode

(D) Tintern Abbey

Question’s Answer: The Prelude

Which type of poem is Laodamia?

(A) An elegy

(B) A narrative poem

(D) A sonnet

Question’s Answer: A narrative poem

“Me this unchartered freedom tires:

I feel the weight of chance-desires.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) Laodamia

(B) The Leech-Gatherer

(D) Michael

Question’s Answer: Ode to Duty

“Come, blessed barrier between day and day,

Dear mother of fresh thought and joyous health.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) To Sleep

(B) Immortality Ode

(D) Early Spring

Question’s Answer: To Sleep

Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.” Whose

soul Wordsworth is referring to in

the above line?

(A) Shakespeare’s

(B) Chaucer’s

(D) Milton’s

Question’s Answer: Milton’s

The Cottage which was named the ‘Evening Star”,

Is gone.”

Whose cottage is referred to ?

(A) Of the Highland Girl

(B) of the Leech-Gatherer

(D) Of Lucy

Question’s Answer: Of Michael

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life’s star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting

And cometh from afar.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(A) The Prelude

(B) Tintern Abbey

(D) The Immortality Ode

Question’s Answer: The Immortality Ode

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