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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of Chapter XVII?
(a) Interplay between passion and will.
(b) Metrical composition.
(c) Wordsworth's objective truths.
(d) Rustic lifestyles.

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

3. How does Coleridge describe the idea of poetry?
(a) Fear.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hope.
(d) Pleasure.

4. What does Coleridge describe as the result of both the conscious and unconscious?
(a) Positive knowledge.
(b) Positive imagination.
(c) Negative knowledge.
(d) Negative imagination.

5. Coleridge says that there was a difference between the way Wordsworth used a word and which of the following?
(a) Connotation.
(b) The social use of a word.
(c) The spelling of a word.
(d) Denotation.

6. Coleridge investigates the genius of which of the following as it belongs to man in Chapters XII - XIII?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Faith.
(d) Philosophy.

7. Coleridge thinks that those who live a more rustic life have which of the following?
(a) High tolerance.
(b) High vocabulary.
(c) Low vocabulary.
(d) Low tolerance.

8. According to Coleridge, many reviews can be described with which of the following words?
(a) Odd.
(b) Helpful.
(c) Arbitrary.
(d) Exciting.

9. Which of the following writers does Coleridge attribute rhyme and meter to?
(a) Faulkner.
(b) Gellert.
(c) Milton.
(d) Shakespeare.

10. Whose meaning does Coleridge have the hardest time determining?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Milton.
(c) Crowley.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

12. Which thesis states that the truth must not be conditional?
(a) Thesis IV.
(b) Thesis III.
(c) Thesis X.
(d) Thesis II.

13. Which thesis states that truth must have corresponding reality?
(a) Thesis V.
(b) Thesis X.
(c) Thesis I.
(d) Thesis II.

14. Coleridge says that a reader should find a poet to be which of the following?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Ambitious.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Enjoyable.

15. According to Coleridge, meter results from an interplay between which combination?
(a) Anger and fear.
(b) Freedom and innocence.
(c) Passion and will.
(d) Happiness and fruitfulness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Coleridge says that many reviews will condemn a work without doing which of these?

2. What does Coleridge say appropriateness is an issue in?

3. Who does Coleridge state is so unique that he cannot be imitated?

4. Wordsworth's brilliance overcomes which of the following, according to Coleridge?

5. Which adjective does Coleridge use to describe Wordsworth's style?

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