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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) Wordsowrth's writing.
(b) Wordsworth's relationships.
(c) Wordsworth's happiness.
(d) Wordsworth's attitude toward life.

2. Which of these is the third inner experience category Coleridge describes?
(a) Spontaneous.
(b) Illusive.
(c) Careful.
(d) Organized.

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

4. Coleridge's overall impression of Wordsworth is which of the following?
(a) He is ignorant and naive.
(b) He is a literary genius.
(c) He can't see why his career is so successful.
(d) He is skillful but has not reached his potential.

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

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

7. Which of the following does Coleridge admit he is unable to accept?
(a) Criticism.
(b) Fame.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Excitement.

8. How does Coleridge feel about William Bowles overall?
(a) He is impressed.
(b) He finds him in bad taste.
(c) He finds him ignorant.
(d) He finds him adequate.

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

10. What did Southey experiment with often?
(a) Form.
(b) Style.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Tone.

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

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

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

14. Since the days of Chaucer and Gower, what does Coleridge believe writing requires now?
(a) Fewer ideas.
(b) More talent.
(c) Less talent.
(d) More ideas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Coleridge, what does the chain result in?

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

3. How does Coleridge seem to view most reviewers?

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

5. According to Descartes, what had thoughts?

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