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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Coleridge say he was ignorant of?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Milton.

2. What does Coleridge say appropriateness is an issue in?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Manners.
(c) Daily life.
(d) Grammar.

3. Coleridge says that Wordsworth's writing shows depth of which of the following?
(a) Prose.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Style.
(d) Faith.

4. Whose theory of style does Coleridge say it is to use everyday language?
(a) Coleridge.
(b) Milton.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Wordsworth.

5. Wordsworth's brilliance overcomes which of the following, according to Coleridge?
(a) Hopelessness.
(b) His lack of faith.
(c) Defects.
(d) Bad diction.

6. Who was Coleridge in debt to?
(a) The market.
(b) The church.
(c) The printer.
(d) The bank.

7. Who or what does Coleridge mention in reference to its literary criticisms?
(a) New York Times.
(b) Edinburgh Review.
(c) People Magazine.
(d) Shakespeare's works.

8. Coleridge finds that quotable lines are known as such for which reason?
(a) Logic.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Sensibility.
(d) Syntax.

9. According to Coleridge, how did Wordsworth do on his experimental poem?
(a) He was ignored.
(b) He failed.
(c) He succeeded.
(d) He neither failed nor succeeded.

10. Which of the following does Coleridge describe as a primary force?
(a) Agent of positivity.
(b) Agent of imaginations.
(c) Agent of perceptions.
(d) Agent of knowledge.

11. Who is not used by Coleridge as an example of uniform and logical English?
(a) Milton.
(b) Bowles.
(c) Byron.
(d) Shakespeare.

12. What does Coleridge say he used to write?
(a) Pamphlets.
(b) Travel brochures.
(c) Bibles.
(d) Government documents.

13. According to Coleridge, who has the most quotable lines?
(a) Southey.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Byron.
(d) Milton.

14. What religion does Coleridge say he observes?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Unitarian.
(c) Muslim.
(d) Christian.

15. What did Crowley mix?
(a) Juxtaposition and metaphor.
(b) Verse and prose.
(c) Diction and syntax.
(d) Metaphor and prose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Coleridge says that meter comes from a state of which emotion?

2. What did Coleridge write when living next to Wordsworth?

3. Which of the following writers does Coleridge attribute rhyme and meter to?

4. According to Coleridge, many reviews can be described with which of the following words?

5. What does Coleridge describe as the result of both the conscious and unconscious?

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