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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Coleridge say meter originates from?
(a) Truth.
(b) Diction.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Balance.

2. How does Coleridge describe man's spirit?
(a) Wholesome.
(b) Innocent.
(c) Sinful.
(d) Free.

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

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

5. Whose philosophy was it to collect and explain truth?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Plato.
(d) Kant.

6. Coleridge says that which kind of works feature nature and buildings?
(a) Lackluster works.
(b) Spanish works.
(c) Renaissance works.
(d) Italian works.

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

8. According to Coleridge, those living a rustic life have which of the following instead of language?
(a) Sounds.
(b) Music.
(c) Flow.
(d) Words.

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

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

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

12. Which thesis is described as an act of self-consciousness as a source of knowledge?
(a) Thesis III.
(b) Thesis II.
(c) Thesis X.
(d) Thesis I.

13. Wordsworth said that there was no difference between metrical composition and which of the following?
(a) Syntax.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Diction.
(d) Prose.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Coleridge investigates the genius of which of the following as it belongs to man in Chapters XII - XIII?

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

3. What does Coleridge think Wordsworth elevated?

4. According to Coleridge, what is the cornerstone of morality?

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

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