William Wordsworth quiz

When was William Wordsworth born?

• 8th April, 1770

• 7th April, 1770

• 7th April, 1772

• 6th April, 1771

Wordsworth was popularly known as the poet of:

• Lake District

• Wessex Region

• Lancashire Region

Wordsworth’s "Prelude" is a:

• Drama

• Philosophical

• Autobiographical

• Narrative Poem

"They flash upon that inward eye/ Which is the Bliss of solitude", are lines in which poem

• To The Child

• The Daffodils

• The World Is Too Much With Us

Wordsworth believed in the impressive relationship between nature and human life

• True

• False

"The world is too much with us" describes:

• A host of golden daffodils dancing in the breeze of Lake District

• The nature of "true service"

• The beginning of the industrial age

• The narrowness of the modern daily life

Wordsworth's readers consider him to be a humanist writer

• True

• False

Wordsworth would prefer to use ____ style in his poems

• Hedonistic

• Ostentatious and sophisticated

• Ascetic and unostentatious

Wordsworth was the first poet who fully recognized and deliberately practiced the beauties of ex­treme simplicity

• True

• False

According to Wordsworth, the job of a poet is to:

• Create emotional poems

• Examine is own self to recollect the powerful feeling of his life

• Open the minds of those who read his poems

• Potray things in his imagination