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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Coleridge says that Italian language used in poetry is that of which group?
(a) The skilled.
(b) The hopeful.
(c) The learned.
(d) The educated.

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

3. According to Coleridge, what did Wordsworth write about mostly?
(a) City life.
(b) Rustic life.
(c) Faithful life.
(d) Hectic life.

4. Coleridge says that a reader should find a poet to be which of the following?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Ambitious.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Enjoyable.

5. Coleridge says that meter comes from a state of which emotion?
(a) Fear.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Anger.
(d) Happiness.

6. What does Coleridge describe as the result of both the conscious and unconscious?
(a) Negative imagination.
(b) Positive knowledge.
(c) Positive imagination.
(d) Negative knowledge.

7. Who did Coleridge say he was ignorant of?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Milton.
(d) Aristotle.

8. Wordsworth said that there was no difference between metrical composition and which of the following?
(a) Prose.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Diction.
(d) Metaphor.

9. How does Coleridge compare Wordsworth and Samuel Daniel in terms of diction?
(a) Wordsworth and Daniel are not comparable in terms of diction.
(b) Wordsworth has better diction.
(c) Daniel has better diction.
(d) Neither Wordsworth nor Daniel were good at using diction.

10. What kind of language does Coleridge attribute to modern poets?
(a) Fantastic language.
(b) Natural language.
(c) Casual language.
(d) Dull language.

11. What does Coleridge say he used to write?
(a) Travel brochures.
(b) Government documents.
(c) Bibles.
(d) Pamphlets.

12. Coleridge says that Wordsworth's writing shows depth of which of the following?
(a) Feeling.
(b) Style.
(c) Faith.
(d) Prose.

13. Who was Coleridge in debt to?
(a) The bank.
(b) The church.
(c) The printer.
(d) The market.

14. According to Coleridge, who has the most quotable lines?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Byron.
(c) Southey.
(d) Milton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Coleridge states the idea of God involves which of the following?

2. Whose philosophy was it to collect and explain truth?

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

4. Which thesis states that the truth must not be conditional?

5. Coleridge describes the first ultimate end of poetry as which of the following?

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