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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Southey treated by critics?
(a) Positively.
(b) Encouraging.
(c) Harshly.
(d) Fairly.

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

3. What is Coleridge hoping to show the reader?
(a) How he and Wordsworth met.
(b) How Wordsworth's mind works.
(c) How Wordsworth writes with such ease.
(d) How friendly Wordsworth is.

4. Coleridge found there were endless ways to modify and combine which of the following?
(a) Bleak ideas.
(b) Vivid ideas.
(c) Writing.
(d) Poetry.

5. Coleridge states his name is popular in spite of which of the following?
(a) The fact that he is so unpopular.
(b) The problems he has failed to overcome.
(c) The world's hatred for him.
(d) The distance he places between himself and the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Coleridge feels it is natural to be jealous of who?

2. Since the days of Chaucer and Gower, what does Coleridge believe writing requires now?

3. Wordsworth was first published when Coleridge was doing which of the following?

4. How old was Coleridge when he read William Bowles?

5. How old was Coleridge when he met Wordsworth?

(see the answer key)

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