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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Coleridge seem to be most impressed by?
(a) Wordsworth's happiness.
(b) Wordsworth's relationships.
(c) Wordsowrth's writing.
(d) Wordsworth's attitude toward life.

2. What school did Coleridge go to?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Oxford.
(c) University of Southern California.
(d) Cambridge.

3. According to Coleridge, who refined the mechanics of Kant's theories?
(a) Coleridge.
(b) Milton.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Kant's followers.

4. According to Coleridge, people are concerned with problems of the _____?
(a) Will.
(b) Heart.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Mind.

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

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

7. How does Coleridge seem to view most reviewers?
(a) Insignificant.
(b) Helpful.
(c) Not qualified.
(d) Unsafe.

8. How old was Coleridge when he met Wordsworth?
(a) 8.
(b) 18.
(c) 24.
(d) 15.

9. What did Coleridge publish first?
(a) A poem in a magazine.
(b) An anthology of short stories.
(c) A book of poems.
(d) A novel.

10. How old was Coleridge when he read William Bowles?
(a) 17.
(b) 23.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

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

12. Where was Kant from?
(a) Indonesia.
(b) Prussia.
(c) Mexico.
(d) United States.

13. What is the first inner experience category Coleridge mentions?
(a) Faithless.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Passive.
(d) Aggressive.

14. Coleridge feels it is natural to be jealous of who?
(a) Rivals.
(b) Colleagues.
(c) Fans.
(d) Family.

15. Coleridge describes which of the following as being a part of genius?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Language.
(c) Sensibility.
(d) Naivety.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Southey experiment with often?

2. Coleridge quotes Wordsworth to make a point about what?

3. How was Southey treated by critics?

4. What is the first emotion Coleridge says he does not understand toward him?

5. What does Coleridge credit Wordsworth with opening up?

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