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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Coleridge's example, why was the girl ranting and raving?
(a) She was anemic.
(b) She was schizophrenic.
(c) She had a fever.
(d) She was confused.

2. Which description matches the relationship Coleridge and Wordsworth had?
(a) Acquaintances.
(b) Lifelong friends.
(c) Family members.
(d) Rivals.

3. According to Coleridge, what demands greater attention than any other profession?
(a) Painter.
(b) Mathmatician.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Poet.

4. What is the second emotion Coleridge says he does not understand toward him?
(a) Helpfulness.
(b) Vindictiveness.
(c) Desire.
(d) Fear.

5. What does Coleridge credit Wordsworth with opening up?
(a) Lyrical ballads.
(b) Memoirs.
(c) Sonnets.
(d) Epic poems.

6. Coleridge refers to Poems of Various Subjects as being which of the following?
(a) Juvenile.
(b) Intelligent.
(c) Sophisticated.
(d) Horrible.

7. Coleridge claims that chaos involves first working with which of the following?
(a) Sights.
(b) Sounds.
(c) Tastes.
(d) Sensations.

8. Coleridge thought that genius could be seen through which literary device?
(a) Syntax.
(b) Diction.
(c) Figurative language.
(d) Irony.

9. Coleridge believes that envy and malevolence make it easy for writers to be which of the following?
(a) Enemies.
(b) Libelers.
(c) Conservatives.
(d) Liberals.

10. To Descartes, what was the body?
(a) Matter.
(b) Unintelligent.
(c) Naive.
(d) Intelligence.

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

12. Coleridge said that ideas are represented by which of the following?
(a) Music.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Sounds.

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

14. Wordsworth was first published when Coleridge was doing which of the following?
(a) Writing a novel.
(b) Attending high school.
(c) Researching poets.
(d) Attending college.

15. What do Coleridge's agents link?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is the third inner experience category Coleridge describes?

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

3. Who does Coleridge quote to praise his rivals?

4. What did Southey experiment with often?

5. What is Coleridge hoping to show the reader?

(see the answer keys)

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