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MCQs on Lake Poets of Romantic Age

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MCQs on Lake Poets of Romantic Age

Lake Poets Of Romantic Age (1798-1824)

The Lake Poets formed a ‘school’ in the sense that they worked in close cooperation, and their lives were spent partly in the Lake district. The Lake School, consisting of William Wordsworth, S.T Coleridge and Poet Laureate Robert Southey. Only Wordsworth was born there, but all the other Lake Poets lived there for a shorter or longer period. They held many of the poetic beliefs in common. Wordsworth and Coleridge lived together for a long time and produced the Lyrical Ballads by joint efforts in 1798. They had original genius and what they achieved in the realm of poetry was supported by Southey, who himself did not possess much creative imagination. All the MCQs on “The Lake Poets Of Romantic Age” Multiple Choice Questions are published according to the new study syllabus for academic year 2021-22.

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The Lake Poets Of Romantic Age MCQs [Quiz]

✒ William Wordsworth (1770-1850) A Poet Of Nature:

Q1. The credit of originating the Romantic movement goes to which Romantic poet?

  1. Coleridge
  2. Shelley
  3. Wordsworth

Answer: c

 

Q2. Who produced the “Lyrical Ballads” with Coleridge by joint efforts in 1798?

  1. Coleridge
  2. Wordsworth
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

Q3. The Literary revolution which is associated with Wordsworth and Coleridge was accomplished in:

  1. 1800
  2. 1802
  3. 1803

Answer: a

 

Q4. Who stood against many generations of great poets and critics, like Dryden, Pope and Johnson and made way for a new type of poetry?

  1. Keats
  2. Wordsworth
  3. Shelley

Answer: b

 

Q5. Who declared that “A poet is a man endowed with more lively sensibility , more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind”?

  1. Wordsworth
  2. Coleridge
  3. Southey

Answer: a

 

Q6. By defining poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”, who revolted against the dry intellectuality of his predecessors?

  1. Pope
  2. Wordsworth
  3. James Thomas

Answer: b

 

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Q7. From the Romantic poets ,who wrote a large number and variety of lyrics, in which he can stir the deepest emotions by the simplest means?

  1. Shelley
  2. Campbell
  3. Wordsworth

Answer: c

 

Q8. The sonnets wrote by Wordsworth are:

  1. To Milton
  2. Westminster Bridge, The World is too much with us
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

Q9. Odes written by Wordsworth are:

  1. Ode to Duty, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality
  2. Ode On a Grecian Urn, Ode To a Nightingale
  3. Both a and b

Answer: a

 

Q10. Among the Romantic poets, who was not merely a lyrical poet, but claims to be the poet of Man, of Nature, and of Human Life?

  1. Keats
  2. Shelley
  3. Wordsworth

Answer: c

 

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Q11. According to which Romantic poet, man is a part of Nature?

  1. Coleridge
  2. Wordsworth
  3. Pope

Answer: b

 

Q12. In which poem of Wordsworth, the old man and the surroundings make a single picture?

  1. Resolution and Independence
  2. Yew Trees
  3. The Simplon Pass

Answer: a

 

Q13. Wordsworth’s greatest Nature poems in which he describes his own spirit with the universe includes:

  1. Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
  2. Yew Trees and The Simplon Pass
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

Q14. The greater part of Wordsworth’s work includes:

  1. The Prelude
  2. The Excursion
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

Q15. Which work of Wordsworth was intended for a place in a single great poem, to be called “The Recluse”, which should treat of nature, man and society?

  1. The Prelude
  2. The Excursion
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

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Q16. Which is the second book of  “The Recluse” by Wordsworth?

  1. The Excursion
  2. The Prelude
  3. The Simplon Pass

Answer: a

 

Q17. According to whom, the Wordsworth’s poetry “uttered nothing base”?

  1. Dr. Johnson
  2. Goldsmith
  3. Tennyson

Answer: c

 

✒ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) As A Romantic Poet:

Q18. The genius of Coleridge was complementary to that of which Romantic poet?

  1. Southey
  2. Wordsworth
  3. Shelley

Answer: b

 

Q19. Coleridge as a Romantic poet, dealt with what special domain, which was an important aspect of Romantic movement?

  1. Supernaturalism
  2. Naturalism
  3. Both a and b

Answer: a

 

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Q20. In his youth Coleridge came under the spell of which which Revolution?

  1. American Revolution
  2. French Revolution
  3. None

Answer: b

 

Q21. In which works of Coleridge, he gave poetic expression to his political aspiration?

  1. Religious Musings
  2. Destiny of Nations, Ode to the Departing Year
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

Q22. Like Wordsworth, Coleridge also began to think differently after the excesses of the Revolution and this change of thought is shown in his which beautiful poem? 

  1. France
  2. Christabel
  3. The Ancient Mariner

Answer: a

 

Q23. For which poem, Coleridge himself called his ‘recantation’?

  1. Christabel
  2. The Ancient Mariner
  3. France

Answer: c

 

Q24. “France” by Coleridge is a/an:

  1. poem
  2. ode
  3. elegy

Answer: b

 

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Q25. Which poems of Coleridge represent the high watermark of supernaturalism?

  1. The Ancient Mariner
  2. Christabel
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

Q26. In Which poem of Coleridge, he has painted a gorgeous Oriental dream picture?

  1. Christabel
  2. Kubla Khan
  3. The Dark Ladie

Answer: b

 

Q27. “Dejection” an Ode is written by:

  1. Wordsworth
  2. Southey
  3. Coleridge

Answer: c

 

Q28. ‘Love’, ‘The Dark Ladie’ and  ‘Youth and Age’ were the poems written by which Romantic Lake Poet?

  1. Coleridge
  2. Wordsworth
  3. Shelley

Answer: a

 

✒ Robert Southey (1774-1843) Worst/Terrible Poet:

Q29. Unlike Wordsworth and Coleridge, which Lake poet lacked higher qualities of poetry?

  1. Shelley
  2. Southey
  3. Walter Scott

Answer: b

 

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Q30. Which poems of Southey nicknamed ‘the colossus of roads’, are based on mythology of different nations?

  1. Thalaba, The Curse of Kehama
  2. Madoc and Roderick
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

Q31. “My days among the Dead are past”, is a poem written by:

  1. Southey
  2. Coleridge
  3. Scott

Answer: a

 

Q32. “Life of Nelson”, is a prose work of which Lake poet? 

  1. Wordsworth
  2. Coleridge
  3. Southey

Answer: c

 

Q33. Poet Robert Southey became ‘Poet Laureate’ of England in:

  1. 1812
  2. 1813
  3. 1814

Answer: b

 

Q34. After the death of poet Robert Southey in1843, who held the title of ‘Poet Laureate’?

  1. Wordsworth
  2. Coleridge
  3. Shelley

Answer: a

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