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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII - IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The writings that gave Coleridge the most criticism regarded criticisms of which author?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Milton.
(c) Bowles.
(d) Shakespeare.

3. Which of the following examined the functioning of the mind, as mentioned by Coleridge?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Newton.

4. To Descartes, what was intelligence?
(a) The body.
(b) The soul.
(c) The heart.
(d) The brain.

5. In the example of the girl who was ranting and raving, what was Coleridge interested in?
(a) Who told the girl to rant and rave.
(b) Where the rants came from.
(c) Why the girl wanted others to understand what she was saying.
(d) How the girl knew what to say.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Coleridge, what has changed from the days of Chaucer and Gower?

2. Which description matches the relationship Coleridge and Wordsworth had?

3. Who sits as a critic, according to Coleridge?

4. What does Coleridge seem to be most impressed by?

5. Coleridge says that the only time he had the opportunity to anger anybody was when he was published in which medium?

(see the answer key)

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