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 Ballad

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

(A) Immortality

(B) OdeTintern Abbey

(C) The Prelude

(D) The Excursion

“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

(C) Immortality Ode

(D) Prelude

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 Ballad

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

(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

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

(A) Lancashire Region

(B) Lake Districts

(C) Wessex Region

(D) Waverly Region

Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on:

(A) Shakespeare

(B) Milton

(C) Sidney

(D) Ben Jonson

After whom Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate of England ?

(A) Robert Southey

(B) Walter Scott

(C) Coleridge

(D) Dryden

Who accused Wordsworth of being a ‘Lost Leader’?

(A) Shelley

(B) Browning
(C) Arnold

(D) Byron

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

When Eliot received the Nobel Prize for literature?

(a) 1948

(b) 1887

(c) 1930

(d) 1990

When T.S. Eliot, an American of a New adopted British citizenship?

(a) 1922

(b) 1934

(c) 1918

(d) 1900

Eliot became a director of the publishing firm of

(a) Oxford University Press

(b) Penguin Press

(c) Faber and Faber

(d) Orient Longman

When T.S. Eliot was born?

(a) 1586

(b) 1888

(c) 1988

(d) 1688

Which Indian religious book had the biggest impact on Eliot?

(a) The Bhagvad Gita

(b) The Puranas

(c) The Vedas

(d) The Mahabharata

“Gerontion” is a poem included in Eliot’s

(a) The Wasteland

(b) Hollow men

(c) Ash Wednesday

(d) Poems
Animula of Eliot was inspired by which of the followings?

(a) Arjuna

(b) Gita

(c) Dante

(d) Krishna

Which is the most popular as well as the obscurest of Eliot’s poem in English language?

(a) Four Quartets

(b) Hollow men

(c) Ash Wednesday

(d) The Wasteland

In which Eliot poem is the theme of Ash Wednesday repeated, continued and expanded?

(a) Ariel Poems

(b) Hollow Men

(c) Four Quartets

(d) Choruses from Rock

“The Waste Land” A Poem by T. S. Eliot was published in _____.

(a) 1900

(b) 1922

(c) 1934

(d) 1910
Eliot’s Journey of the Magi occurs in his

(a) The Wasteland

(b) Poems (1920)

(c) Ariel Poems

(d) Four Quartets

Magi of Journey of the Magi are

(a) Magicians

(b) Wisemen of the East

(c) Pilgrims

(d) Travellers

Wystan Hugh Auden was the leader of the _______ .

(a) Romantic poets

(b) Oxford poets

(c) Pre-Raphaelite poets

(d) None of these

Auden found the solution of all social and political ills in

(a) Pantheism

(b) Humanism

(c) Religion

(d) Left ideologies

When Auden immigrated to _______ in 1939, his poetry entered a second phase. (a) Russia

(b) Italy

(c) London

(d) U.S.A.

Which work of Yeats was written to honour his beloved Maud Gonne?

(a) The Countless Cathleen

(b) Deirdre

(c) Cathleen in Houlihan

(d) The Green Helmet

The story of which work of Yeats occupies in Irish literature much the same place as that of
King Arthur in English?

(a) Cathleen in Houlihan

(b) Deirdre

(c) The Hourglass

(d) The Green Helmet

Which is the period of French Revolution?

(a) 1880-1890

(b) 1784 1794

(c) 1794-1804

(d) 1789-1799

Slave trade was abolished in England in which year?

(a) 1787

(b) 1890

(c) 1785

(d) 1788

The trial of Warren Hastings took place in

(a) 1785

(b) 1786

(c) 1789

(d) 1787

American Declaration of Independence took place in

(a) 1775

(b) 1777

(c) 1776

(d) 1778
The war of Austrian succession took place in

(a) 1750

(b) 1745

(c) 1740

(d) 1755

When the conquest of India begins under General Clive?

(a) 1920

(b) 1772

(c) 1762

(d) 1767

When the George III succeeded the throne?

(a) 1750

(b) 1780

(c) 1760

(d) 1765

The cynical and corrupt practices of Walpole, the premier of the first Tory cabinet replaced
by the more enlightened policies of Pitt in which year?

(a) 1757

(b) 1820
(c) 1759

(d) 1761

The Town and Country Mouse is a creation of

(a) Oliver Goldsmith

(b) Samuel Richardson

(c) John Gay

(d) Matthew Prior

The treaty of Paris was signed in the year

(a) 1781

(b) 1782

(c) 1784

(d) 1783

Renaissance Period

Which is the first tragedy written in English?

(a) King Lear

(b) Gorboduc

(c) Hamlet

(d) Edward II

Queen Elizabeth had been reigning nearly years when William Shakespeare was born.

(a) Twelve

(b) Eight

(c) Ten

(d) Six

Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with which of
the following?

(A) admiration and elegiac sympathy

(B) bewilderment and visceral loathing

(C) nostalgia and ill-concealed envy

(D) bigotry and shallow triumphalism

The use of “whale-road” for sea and “life-house” for body are examples of what literary
technique, popular in Old English poetry?

(A) symbolism

(B) metonymy

(C) appositive expression

(D) keening

Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
(A) Geoffrey Chaucer

(B) Sir Thomas Malory

(C) Bede

(D) Caedmon

What was vellum?

(A) unrhymed iambie pentameter

(B) the service owed to a lord by his peasants (“villeins”)

(C) parchment made of animal skin

(D) a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious manuscripts

Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed
in:

(A) the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s

(B) the Peasant Uprising of 1381

(C) the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s

(D) the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476

What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?

(A) Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy

(B) Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible

(C) a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

(D) Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People

In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred of
blood vengeance?

(A) banishment to Asia

(B) conversion to Christianity

(C) everlasting shame

(D) being buried alive

Which statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry?

(A) Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.

(B) Its formal and dignified use of was distant from everyday use of language

(C) Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.

(D) Its idiom remained remarkably uniform for nearly three centuries.

Whose descriptive painting of social surroundings, is strong and vivid, rich in detail, of a less
intense quality than that of Dickens and more faithful to average truth?

(a) Thomas Hardy

(b) William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist)

(c) Jane Austen

(d) Eliot (English novelist)

Which novelist was well-acquainted with the psychology of the Utilitarianism and had readily
accepted the “Doctrine of Evolution”?

(a) Virginia Woolf

(b) Thomas Hardy

(c) Eliot (English novelist)

(d) Charles Dickens

(e) None of these

Who has the most famous tragic- comedies to his credit?

(a) William Shakespeare

(b) Alexander Pope (English poet)

(c) Christopher Marlowe

(d) Jonathan Dr Jonathan Swift

(e) None of these

About whom it is said that his “work is among those in which the men and women of our
time have found their own restlessness most accurately mirrored”?

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Thomas Hardy

(c) David Herbert Lawrence

(d) Leigh Hunt

(e) None of these

Wordsworth’s Prelude is a:

(A) Philosophical poem

(B) Autobiographical poem

(C) Metaphysical poem

(D) A Narrative poem

Question’s Answer: Autobiographical poem

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

(A) Duty

(B) Nature

(C) Soul

(D) Conscience

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

(C) Early Spring

(D) The Solitary Reaper

Which type of poem is Laodamia?

(A) An elegy

(B) A narrative poem

(C) An ode

(D) A sonnet

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

(C) Spenser’s

(D) 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

(C) Of Michael
(D) Of Lucy

Wordsworth’s planned “Lyrical Ballads” with Coleridge in:

(a) 1796
(b) 1800
(c) 1799
(d) 1797

Wordsworth’s poem “My Heart Leaps Up” was in:

(a) 1802
(b) 1801
(c) 1800
(d) 1803

Wordsworth was honoured with a visit by the Queen Dowager in:

(a) 1842
(b) 1841
(c) 1840
(d) 1843

Wordsworth recorded his impression of a manufacturing district of the

northern England in:
(a) Book III of The Excursion
(b) Book II of The Excursion
(c) Book VIII of The Excursion
(d) None of A, B, and C

The poem “Lucy” was written in the

(a) Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads
(b) First edition of Lyrical Ballads
(c) Third Edition of Lyrical Ballads
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth was appointed “Poet Laureate” in succession to Southey in:

(a) 1848
(b) 1845
(c) 1847
(d) 1843

Wordsworth’s poem “The Sparrow Nest” was published in which year?

(a) 1800
(b) 1802
(c) 1801
(d) 1803

Wordsworth pass away in:

(a) 1856
(b) 1854
(c) 1855
(d) 1850

Which is not a contemporary of Wordsworth?

(a) Shakespeare
(b) Scott
(c) Southey
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth’s Sonnet “I Thought of Thee” was published in which year?

(a) 1819
(b) 1822
(c) 1821
(d) 1820

Which is not a poem by Wordsworth?

(a) Departure and Arrival
(b) Daffodils
(c) To The Cuckoo

13. Wordsworth’s poem “The Excursion” belongs to the period between:

(a) 1790-1797
(b) 1790-1798
(c) 1791-1797
(d) None of A, B, and C

Which is not a poem by Wordsworth?

(a) Ode to Autumn
(b) The Prelude
(c) Solitary Reaper
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth was appointed distributor of stamps for his district in:

(a) 1812
(b) 1814
(c) 1813
(d) 1815
Wordsworth’s poem “The Prelude” was finished in:
(a) 1810
(b) 1806
(c) 1805
(d) 1811

Wordsworth’s Sonnet “Scorn Not The Sonnet” was published in which year?
(a) 1921
(b) 1923
(c) 1922
(d) 1924

Wordsworth’s Poem “The River Duddon” was published in which year?

(a) 1823
(b) 1821
(c) 1822
(d) 1820

Wordsworth’s best work was done between:

(a) 1795 and 1806
(b) 1796 and 1808
(c) 1796 and 1807
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and Coleridge went to Germany in:

(a) 1798
(b) 1797
(c) 1790
(d) 1799

Wordsworth lived in close association with Coleridge during:

(a) 1797-1798
(b) 1799-1800
(c) 1797-1799
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth married his cousin in

(a) 1801
(b) 1802
(c) 1803
(d)

Wordsworth’s poem “The Excursion” was published in which year?

(a) 1815
(b) 1814
(c) 1816
(d) 1817

A young friend of Wordsworth Raisley Calvert left him a legacy of 900 in:
(a) 1790
(b) 1797
(c) 1796
(d) 1795
Wordsworth went on making changes in “The Prelude” between:
(a) 1805 and 1840
(b) 1805 and 1830
(c) 1805 and 1850
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth received an degree from the University of Durham in:

(a) 1841
(c) 1840
(b) 1839
(d) 1838

“The Prelude” was published in

(a) 1845
(b) 1861
(c) 1860
(d) 1850

“The Prelude” consists of:

(a) Ten Books
(b) Fourteen Books
(c) Thirteen Books
(d) None of A, B, and C

Which book of the Prelude deals with Wordsworth’s stay at Cambridge?

(a) Book III
(b) Book II
(c) Book I
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth’s poem “The White Doe of Rylstone” was published in which

year?
(a) 1817
(b) 1815
(c) 1816
(d) 1810

Wordsworth received another honorary degree from the University of Oxford

in:
(a) 1839
(b) 1837
(c) 1841
(d) 1842

“The Prelude” by Wordsworth was written between.

(a) 1799 and 1806
(b) 1798 and 1806
(c) 1799 and 1805
(d) None of A, B, and C

Which book of “The Prelude” deals with the French Revolution and
Wordsworth’s stay in France?
(a) III
(b) V
(c) IV
(d) LX

Who said Wordsworth was the “Historian of Wordsworthshire”?

(a) Lowell
(b) Raleigh
(c) Carlyle
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth regarded nature as:

(a) A moral teacher
(b) A loving mother
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(d) None of A, B, and C

“The Prelude” is:

(a) Autobiographical Poem
(b) Political Poem
(c) Biographical Poem
(d) Satire

Which book of “The Prelude” records the destruction of Wordsworth’s faith in

the arrival of a new dawn?
(a) X
(b) IV
(c) V
(d) XI

Wordsworth’s “Lyrical Ballads” (with Coleridge) was published in which year?

(a) 1796
(b) 1798
(c) 1797
(d) 1799

“Wordsworth’s Sonnets” were published in:

(a) 1841
(b) 1839
(c) 1840
(d) 1838

Which book of “The Prelude” is concerned with the first stage of nature’s role
in Wordsworth’s life?
(a) Book II
(b) Book I
(c) Book IV
(d) None of A, B, and C

When Wordsworth’s mother pass away he was:

(a) Eight years old
(b) Seven years old
(c) Nine years old
(d) None of A, B, and C

William Wordsworth was born in:

(a) 1760
(b) 1781
(c) 1780
(d) 1770

When Wordsworth’s father pass away he was:

(a) Thirteen Years old
(b) Twelve Years old
(c) Ten Years old
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth went to St. John’s College, Cambridge in:

(a) 1786
(b) 1789
(c) 1788
(d) 1787

Wordsworth made a trip to the Alps in

(a) 1780
(b) 1793
(c) 1792
(d) 1790

William Wordsworth was the:

(a) Second Son of John Wordsworth
(b) First son of John Wordsworth
(c) Third Son of John Wordsworth
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth’s “Peter Bell and Waggoner” was published in which year?

(a) 1817
(b) 1820
(c) 1819
(d) 1818

Wordsworth was placed on the civil pensions list in:

(a) 1842
(b) 1841
(c) 1843
(d) 1844

Wordsworth’s poem” An Evening Walk” was published in which year?

(a) 1795
(b) 1791
(c) 1794
(d) 1793

The first edition of the “Lyrical Ballads” consisted of:

(a) Twenty poems
(b) Twenty-three poems
(c) Twenty-two poems
(d) Twenty-nine poems

Wordsworth is the greatest Sonnets’ writer in English Literature next after:

(a) Shakespeare
(b) Milton
(c) Keats
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Wordsworth’s first visit to France had been made in:
(a) 1789
(b) 1792
(c) 1791
(d) 1790

Which book of “The Prelude” describes the influence of nature on

Wordsworth?
(a) Book V
(b) Book II
(c) Book IV
(d) Book VI

Wordsworth visited France for the second time in:

(a) 1790
(b) 1798
(c) 1797
(d) 1791

The theme of “The Prelude” is:

(a) Contemporary politics
(b) Nature
(c) The Growth of Poet’s Mind
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth’s poem “I Wander Lonely as a Cloud” was published in which

year?
(a) 1802
(b) 1804
(c) 1805
(d) 1803

Wordsworth’s poem “The Affliction of Margaret” was published in which

year?
(a) 1807
(b) 1805
(c) 1806
(d) 1804

Wordsworth made friends with Coleridge in:

(a) 1326
(b) 1324
(c) 1323
(d) 1397

Wordsworth “Ode To Duty” was published in which year?

(a) 1805
(b) 1804
(c) 1806
(d) 1807

Wordsworth’s sonnet “It is a Beauteous Evening” was published in which

year?
(a) 1803
(b) 1802
(c) 1804
(d) 1805

Wordsworth’s love for nature can be stupass away under.

(a) Two Heads
(b) Three Heads
(c) Four Heads
(d) Five Heads

Wordsworth’s poem “Character of the Happy Warrior” was published in

which year?
(a) 1805
(b) 1808
(d) 1806
(c) 1807

Wordsworth’s love of nature consisted of:

(a) Four Stages
(b) Three Stages
(c) Five Stages
(d) None of A, B, and C

How many sonnets were written by Wordsworth in the series?

(a) Thirty-four
(b) Thirty-three
(c) Thirty
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth’s Sonnet “The world is too much with us” was composed in:
(a) 1802
(b) 1810
(c) 1808
(d) 1806

Wordsworth’s poem “Lines Composed About Tintern Abbey” was published in

which year?
(a) 1797
(b) 1800
(c) 1799
(d) 1798

Wordsworth’s poem “The Solitary Reaper” was published in which year?

(a) 1802
(b) 1804
(c) 1803
(d) 1805

Wordsworth’s Sonnets fall into:

(a) Six or Seven groups
(b) Five groups
(c) Two groups
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth’s political Sonnets were:

(a) Sixty
(b) Sixty-nine
(c) Sixty-four
(d) Seventy

Who is author of the Sparrow’s Nest?

(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Shelley
(d) Browning

“The Recluse” by Wordsworth was were published:

(a) After his death
(b) In 1849
(c) In 1848
(d) None of A, B, and C

Which is not a poem by Wordsworth?

(a) The Solitary Reaper
(b) To the Cuckoo
(c) Ode to Nightingale
(d) Both (b) & (c)
Wordsworth’s “Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood” was published in which year?
(a) 1805-6
(b) 1804-6
(c) 1803-6
(d) 1806-7

Many Sonnets of Wordsworth were written during:

(a) 1820-25
(b) 1820-35
(c) 1820-30
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth’s “Song At the Feast of Brougham Castle” was published in

(a) 1809
(b) 1808
(c) 1807
(d) 1810

The Second and enlarged edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in which
year?
(a) 1878
(b) 1800
(c) 1879
(d) 1900

How many ecclesiastical Sonnets were written by Wordsworth?

(a) One Hundred and Thirty Two
(b) One Hundred
(c) Two Hundred
(d) None of A, B, and C

How many poems were written by Coleridge in the first edition of the Lyrical
Ballads?
(a) Three
(b) Six
(c) Five
(d) Four

Who is the author of the, “The World is Too Much With Us”?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Southey
(c) Coleridge
(d) None of A, B, and C

How many poems were written by Wordsworth in the first edition of the
“Lyrical Ballads”
(a) Twenty
(b) Nineteen
(c) Twenty-one
(d) None of A, B, and C

“The Prelude” was commenced in

(a) 1797
(b) 1800
(c) 1799
(d) 1798

“The Prelude” was addressed to the:

(a) Keats
(b) Shelley
(c) Coleridge
(d) None of A, B, and C

Who is the author of the “Daffodils”?

(a) Robert Frost
(b) Browning
(c) Keats
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth’s poem the “Excursion” consisted of:

(a) Nine Books
(b) Eight Books
(c) Seven Books
(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed by the sea side, was published in

(a) 1805
(b) 1803
(c) 1804
(d) 1802

Wordsworth’s poem Laodamia was composed in:

(a) 1814
(b) 1812
(c) 1813
(d) 1811

Wordsworth’s poem “To The Cuckoo” was published in which year?

(a) 1802
(b) 1803
(c) 1805
(d) 1804

Wordsworth wrote his best Sonnets mostly in:

(a) 1802
(b) 1801
(c) 1800
(d) 1803

Wordsworth wrote approximately:

(a) Three Hundred Sonnets
(b) Four Hundred Sonnets
(c) Six Hundred Sonnets
(d) Five Hundred Sonnets