1. What is the source of the line “Trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, Who is our Home”?
(A) Excursion
(B) Tintern Abbey
(C) Immortality Ode
(D) Prelude
2. 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
(C) A separate supplement to the Lyrical Ballads
(D) The Preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads
3. Which poem of Wordsworth contains the line “We are laid asleep in body and become a living soul”?
(A) Immortality
(B) Ode Tintern Abbey
(C) The Prelude
(D) The Excursion
4. Why is the year 1798 taken to be 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
(C) Because it was the year in which Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads were published
(D) Because it was the year in which the French Revolution started
5. Wordsworth was popularly famous as the poet of which of the following?
(A) Lancashire Region
(B) Lake Districts
(C) Wessex Region
(D) Waverly Region
6. Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on:
(A) Shakespeare
(B) Milton
(C) Sidney
(D) Ben Jonson
7. Which poem contains the line “For Nature then to me was all in all”?
(A) Tintern Abbey
(B) The Excursion
(C) Education of Nature
(D) The World is Too Much with Us
8. After whom did Wordsworth become the Poet Laureate of England?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Walter Scott
(C) Coleridge
(D) Dryden
9. Who accused Wordsworth of being a “Lost Leader”?
(A) Shelley
(B) Browning
(C) Arnold
(D) Byron
10. 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
(C) Because he accepted the post of the Poet Laureateship of England
(D) Because he began refuting the established poetic theories
