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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Coleridge, meter results from an interplay between which combination?
(a) Happiness and fruitfulness.
(b) Anger and fear.
(c) Freedom and innocence.
(d) Passion and will.

2. According to Coleridge, what did Wordsworth give to his poetry?
(a) Tone.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Meter.

3. Whose theory of style does Coleridge say it is to use everyday language?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Milton.
(d) Coleridge.

4. According to Coleridge, many reviews can be described with which of the following words?
(a) Helpful.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Odd.

5. Who does Coleridge quote to show that this author is rich in composition?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Gower.
(c) Milton.
(d) Chaucer.

6. Coleridge describes the first ultimate end of poetry as which of the following?
(a) Faithful.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Moral.
(d) Fearful.

7. Coleridge says that many reviews will condemn a work without doing which of these?
(a) Mentioning the author's skills.
(b) Citing it.
(c) Mentioning the beauty in the work.
(d) Being helpful.

8. Where did Coleridge continue his religious education?
(a) Portugal.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

9. What did Crowley mix?
(a) Metaphor and prose.
(b) Diction and syntax.
(c) Verse and prose.
(d) Juxtaposition and metaphor.

10. How does Coleridge describe the idea of poetry?
(a) Hope.
(b) Fear.
(c) Anger.
(d) Pleasure.

11. Which thesis states that truth must have corresponding reality?
(a) Thesis X.
(b) Thesis V.
(c) Thesis II.
(d) Thesis I.

12. What kind of poet does Coleridge say uses natural language?
(a) Modern poets.
(b) Older poets.
(c) Bad poets.
(d) Disadvantaged poets.

13. Who or what does Coleridge mention in reference to its literary criticisms?
(a) Edinburgh Review.
(b) People Magazine.
(c) New York Times.
(d) Shakespeare's works.

14. Which thesis is described as an act of self-consciousness as a source of knowledge?
(a) Thesis III.
(b) Thesis X.
(c) Thesis II.
(d) Thesis I.

15. What was the name of Wordsworth's experimental poem?
(a) Innocence.
(b) Honor.
(c) Fidelity.
(d) Faithful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Coleridge finds that quotable lines are known as such for which reason?

2. According to Coleridge, how did Wordsworth do on his experimental poem?

3. Whose meaning does Coleridge have the hardest time determining?

4. Coleridge says that Wordsworth experimented with his poems by using what kind of language?

5. How does Coleridge compare Wordsworth and Samuel Daniel in terms of diction?

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