Objective Type Questions

For each of the following questions, four alternatives are given for the answer. Only one of them is correct. Choose the correct alternative.

1. William Wordsworth was born in ......
(a) 1768
(b) 1769
(c) 1770
(d) 1771

2. What was the name of his father?
(a) John Wordsworth
(b) Tom Wordsworth
(c) Peter Wordsworth
(d) None of these

3. His mother's name was ........
(a) Anne Hathaway
(b) Anne Cookson
(c) Anne Wordsworth
(d) None of these

4. Wordsworth fell in love with .......
(a) Fanny Browne
(b) Caroline
(c) Rosy
(d) Annette Valton

5. Wordsworth was greatly influenced by .......
(a) the French Revolution
(b) the English Revolution
(c) the Russian Revolution
(d) None of these

6. Who was reigning in France when Wordsworth was in France?
(a) Louis X
(b) Louis XII
(c) Louis XV
(d) Louis XVI

7. Wordsworth had a daughter named ........
(a) Fanny
(b) Caroline
(c) Rosalind
(d) Ruth

8. Where did Wordsworth meet Sir. Walter Scott?
(a) Scotland
(b) Whales
(c) Ireland
(d) England

9. Wordsworth is called .........
(a) Father of English Essays
(b) Prince of English Essays
(c) Father of the Romantic Revival
(d) None of these

10. Who collaborated Wordsworth in writing the 'Lyrical Ballads'?
(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Coleridge
(d) Milton

11. "Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." Who said this?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Drayton
(d) Shakespeare

12. Which is not the poem of Wordsworth?
(a) The Prelude
(b) Tintern Abbey
(c) The Milton
(d) Shakespeare

13. Which is the poem composed by Wordsworth?
(a) Mercy
(b) Education of Nature
(c) The True Beauty
(d) My Heaven

14. 'Lyrical Ballads' was published in ......
(a) 1796
(b) 1799
(c) 1797
(d) 1798

15. The publication of the 'Lyrical Ballads' marked the beginning of the .........
(a) romantic movement
(b) renaissance
(c) victorian age
(d) restoration age

16. While the Neo-classical poetry appealed to intellect, the Romantic poetry appealed to ......
(a) mind
(b) kidney
(c) body
(d) heart

17. In which year did Wordsworth die?
(a) 1848
(b) 1850
(c) 1857
(d) 1860

18. "Tintern Abbey' is all about Wordsworth and his attitude towards .........
(a) humanity
(b) human-beings
(c) sympathy
(d) nature

19. Wordsworth's longer poem "The Prelude' is.....
(a) autobiographical
(b) dramatical
(c) sociological
(d) None of these

20. How many poems had Wordsworth collected in the 'Lyrical Ballads'?
(a) 29
(b) 39
(c) 19
(d) 9

21. What is the rhyming scheme of the sonnet "The World is Too Much with Us"?
(a) abba, abba, cde, cde
(b) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(c) aaba, aaba, cde, cde
(d) None of these

22. "The World is Too Much With Us" is taken from ...........
(a) "Lyrical Ballads"
(b) "Miscellaneous Sonnets"
(c) "Education of Nature".
(d) None of these

23. "The World is Too Much With Us" was first published in .......
(a) 1804
(b) 1801
(c) 1802
(d) 1807

24. Wordsworth ........ the growing materialism in the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us".
(a) Praise
(b) Hate
(c) Condemn
(d) Love

25. Man is ........... to the gentle beauty of Nature.
(a) blind
(b) angry
(c) happy
(d) sad

26. Man is engaged in ........ earnings.
(a) futile
(b) important
(c) materialistic
(d) None of these

27. Man wastes his spiritual and moral power in gathering more and more ........
(a) fame
(b) wealth
(c) lame
(d) None of these

28. Man is ........... to sweet sounds.
(a) deaf
(b) dumb
(c) power
(d) blind

29. How old was William Wordsworth when his father died?
(a) eleven
(b) twelve
(c) thirteen
(d) fourteen

30. The mother of William Wordsworth died when he was ......
(a) five
(b) six
(c) seven
(d) eight

31. In which college did Wordsworth receive his higher education?
(a) St. John's College
(b) St. Peter's College
(c) Oxford
(d) None of these

32. Where did Wordsworth go on a walking tour after taking his degree at Cambridge University?
(a) Continent
(b) Asia
(c) Middle-East
(d) Europe

33. In which year did Wordsworth visit France?
(a) 1788
(b) 1789
(c) 1790
(d) 1791

34. Whose daughter was Annette Valton?
(a) Surgeon
(b) Merchant
(c) Astrologer
(d) None of these

35. When did Wordsworth return to England?
(a) 1791
(b) 1792
(c) 1793
(d) 1794

36. Pick the name of Wordsworth's sister?
(a) Caroline
(b) Anne
(c) Elizabeth
(d) Dorothy

37. What was the name of the cousin of Wordsworth?
(a) Caroline
(b) Mary Hutchinson
(c) Dorothy
(d) None of these

38. In which year did Wordsworth visit Scotland?
(a) 1801
(b) 1802
(c) 1803
(d) None of these

39. Wordswoth is known as a poet of......
(a) Love
(b) Nature
(c) Philosophy
(d) Materialism

40. Which is the works of Wordsworth?
(a) Lyrical Ballads
(b) The Prelude
(c) The Lucy Poems
(d) All of these

41. Which is not work of Wordsworth?
(a) To Milton
(b) Shakespeare
(c) The Rainbow
(d) Ode to Duty

42. The poet Wordsworth and his sister ...... are the worshippers of Nature.
(a) Caroline
(b) Anne
(c) Dorothy
(d) All of these

43. Wordsworth treated Nature as a ........
(a) living personality
(b) lifeless object
(c) non-living personality
(d) None of these

44. Where is the spirit according to Wordsworth?
(a) Mountains
(b) Rivers
(c) Worlds
(d) None of these

45. What, according to Wordsworth, is the highest religion?
(a) Worship of Nature
(b) Love
(c) Honesty
(d) Man

46. Nature is the religion and Wordsworth is the....
(a) King
(b) Knight
(c) Duke
(d) Prophet

47. What does Wordsworth want to be regarded?
(a) Worshipper
(b) Teacher
(c) Lecturer
(d) None of these

48. Who are called mystics?
(a) Poet
(b) Teacher
(c) Sages
(d) None of these

49. What does Pantheism mean?
(a) God is all and all is God.
(b) Everything is mortal.
(c) None can escape from time.
(d) All of these

50. What does Mysticism imply?
(a) Secrets of life
(b) Restlessness of human soul
(c) Understanding the mystery of the universe
(d) All of these

51. Who can read the meaning and purpose of the universe according to Wordsworth?
(a) Astrologers
(b) Scientists
(c) Poet
(d) Sages

52. Wordsworth is ...... mystic.
(a) space
(b) nature
(c) sociological
(d) None of these

53. What is Wordsworth not like Keats?
(a) Painter-poet
(b) Dramatist
(c) Sonneteer
(d) Lyricist

54. Who is the writer of 'Immortality' ode?
(a) Keats
(b) Yeats
(c) Larkin
(d) Wordsworth

55. What is superior to bookish learning according to Wordsworth?
(a) Experience
(b) Computer
(c) Education of Nature
(d) None of these

56. From where did Wordsworth get idea that education of nature is superior to bookish learning?
(a) Rousseau
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Thomas Hobs
(d) John Lock

57. What does Wordsworth find in trees?
(a) Branch
(b) Tongue
(c) Monkey
(d) Parrot

58. Where does Wordsworth find sermons in?
(a) Stones
(b) Trees
(c) Animals
(d) Houses

59. Wordsworth finds books in running
(a) horses
(b) library
(c) school
(d) brookes

60. To Wordsworth, a ........... of jungle breeze brings greater knowledge than the study of all the books taken together.
(a) Group
(b) Whiff
(c) Green
(d) Dry

61. What, according to Wordsworth, is the treasure of happiness?
(a) Money
(b) Wealth
(c) Nature
(d) Gold

62. Wordsworth never described the ....... nature.
(a) calm
(b) peaceful
(c) pleasant
(d) stormy

63. How many stages were in Wordsworth's Nature Philosophy?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four

64. Wordsworth read the hidden meaning of Nature in the ........ stage.
(a) third
(b) first
(c) second
(d) All of these

65. In which stage was Nature to Wordsworth all in all.
(a) First
(b) Second
(c) Third
(d) Fourth

66. When did Wordsworth feel animal joy in the company of Nature?
(a) In youth
(b) In old age
(c) In boyhood
(d) None of these

67. What is "The World is Too Much with Us?
(a) A sonnet
(b) A lyric
(c) An Elegy
(d) None of these

68. In the sonnet, "The World is Too Much with Us' Wordsworth ....... the fast growing materialistic attitude.
(a) praises
(b) admires
(c) condemns
(d) All of these

69. According to the sonnet, man has become too.....
(a) happy
(b) dejected
(c) honest
(d) materialistic

70. Whom has man lost touch with?
(a) Agner
(b) Hope
(c) Nature
(d) Money

71. Who has gone completely out of tune?
(a) Man
(b) Nature
(c) God
(d) Animal

72. The materialistic approach has made everybody........
(a) happy
(b) sad
(c) emotional
(d) blind

73. What does the poet wish to be?
(a) A Pagan
(b) A Merchant
(c) A King
(d) A Knight

74. Who is Porteus?
(a) God of Power
(b) God of Beauty
(c) Sea-God
(d) None of these.

75. Complete the line:
The world is too much with us .......
(a) Late and soon
(b) Soon and late
(c) Sooner or later
(d) Later or Sooner

76. Wordsworth ........ the growing materialism in the sonnet The World is Too Much With Us'. (a) Praises
(b) Hates
(c) Condemns
(d) Loves

77. Man wastes his energy is gathering more and more........... according to Wordsworth.
(a) Power
(b) Fame
(c) Wealth
(d) Status

78. William Wordsworth refers to :
(a) Romantic poetry
(b) Classical poetry
(c) Elegic poetry
(d) War poetry

79. Wordsworth is known as:
(a) Worshipper of Nature
(b) Worshipper of Liberty .
(c) Worshipper of God
(d) Worshipper of Nation

80. 'Prelude' is written by:
(a) Keats
(b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth
(d) P.B. Shelley

81. Which important political event influenced Wordsworth?
(a) Russian Revolution
(b) French Revolution
(c) Peasant Revolution
(d) War of Roses

82. Lyrical Ballads are composed by:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Byron
(c) Coleridge
(d) Coleridge and Wordsworth

83. In which poem of Wordsworth occurs the phrase: "We lay, waste our power in getting and spending"?
(a) Tables Turn
(b) Education of Nature
(c) The World is Too Much With Us
(d) None of these

84. Preface to Lyrical Ballads' is:
(a) Critical work
(b) Dramatic work
(c) Poetic work
(d) Social Documentary

85. "What oft was thought, but never so well exprssed" is a quality associated with :
(a) Romantic poetry
(b) Neo-classical poetry
(c) Renaissance poetry
(d) Victorian peotry

86. "Getting and spendig, we lay waste our powers, Little we see in Nature that is ours;"
The lines occur in the poem:
(a) Dover Beach
(b) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
(c) Elegy
(d) The World is Too Much With Us

87. Who wrote "Lucy Poems" and "Lyrical Ballads"?
(a) William Blake
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) S.T. Coleridge
(d) John Keats

88. "The sea that bares her bosom to the moon" is a line from the poem:
(a) Dover Beach
(b) By the Sea
(c) The World is Too Much With Us
(d) Ode to the West Wind

89. Who has been called the "high priest of nature"?
(a) P.B. Shelley
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) S.T. Coleridge
(d) John Keats

90. In which poem Wordsworth laments over the man's apathy towards ature in the wake of growing materialism?
(a) The World is Too Much With Us
(b) Lucy Poems
(c) Tintern Abbey
(d) The Daffodils

91. William Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads" were published in the year:
(a) 1898
(b) 1798
(c) 1717
(d) 1848

92. What is a "mute inglorious Milton" according to Thomas Gray?
(a) A materialistic person
(b) A dumb person
(c) A person of great literary talents
(d) All of the above

93. "The World Is Too Much With Us" is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. The poem was first published in the year:
(a) 1802
(b) 1801
(c) 1807
(d) 1805

94. In "The World Is Too Much With Us", Wordsworth:
(a) Criticizes men absorbed in materialism
(b) Criticizes men absorbed in politics
(c) Criticizes men absorbed in evil pursuits
(d) Feels blessed to enjoy the comforts of this world

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