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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Coleridge, people are concerned with problems of the _____?
(a) Will.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Heart.
(d) Mind.

2. What is the second task of the mind, according to Coleridge?
(a) Choose.
(b) Learn.
(c) Symbolize.
(d) Collect.

3. What does Coleridge admit openly about his poems?
(a) They are important.
(b) They make him wealthy.
(c) They are near perfect.
(d) They have faults.

4. Coleridge claims to owe what fraction of his reputation to critics?
(a) 2/3.
(b) 1/10.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 1/2.

5. What chain does Coleridge examine?
(a) Associations.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Delirium.
(d) Memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Descartes, what had thoughts?

2. How does Coleridge describe his master's job in giving him a classical education?

3. Coleridge refers to Poems of Various Subjects as being which of the following?

4. What did Southey experiment with often?

5. Coleridge thinks that pieces of recorded memory play, causing which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Coleridge describe delirium?

2. What is the ultimate result of poetry, according to Coleridge?

3. How does Coleridge describe the motives of men?

4. How does Coleridge feel about his education?

5. Describe two of the theses that Coleridge describes.

6. What does Coleridge say about the rustic life?

7. How does Coleridge compare the style of old and modern poets?

8. How does Coleridge compare Wordsworth and Crowley?

9. Describe Coleridge's campaign against religion.

10. Why is pedantry an issue in poetry?

(see the answer keys)

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