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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Coleridge, what did Wordsworth write about mostly?
(a) Rustic life.
(b) Faithful life.
(c) City life.
(d) Hectic life.

3. Coleridge says that philosophy is not like which field?
(a) Geometry.
(b) History.
(c) Biology.
(d) English.

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

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

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

7. According to Coleridge, what did Wordsworth give to his poetry?
(a) Meter.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Tone.

8. What did Coleridge campaign against in his early years?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Religion.
(c) Language.
(d) Free speech.

9. Who does Coleridge quote to show that this author is rich in composition?
(a) Gower.
(b) Milton.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Chaucer.

10. According to Coleridge, what is man, both to himself and others?
(a) Sinful.
(b) Angry.
(c) Incomprehensible.
(d) Conditional.

11. Coleridge does not think that poetry lends itself to use in which scenario specifically?
(a) Moral language.
(b) Casual language.
(c) Formal language.
(d) Everyday language.

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

13. Coleridge says that Wordsworth experimented with his poems by using what kind of language?
(a) Casual language.
(b) Lower language.
(c) Fantastic language.
(d) Dull language.

14. Coleridge says that a poem should express the tone and spirit of which of the following?
(a) Literature.
(b) Peace.
(c) Fear.
(d) Unity.

15. What kind of poet does Coleridge say conveys trivial thoughts?
(a) Modern poets.
(b) Old poets.
(c) Good poets.
(d) Sanctimonious poets.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Coleridge describe man's spirit?

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

3. Coleridge describes the second ultimate end of poetry as which of the following?

4. Coleridge says that if poetry is from the poet's sensation, what does the work become?

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

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