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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Coleridge describe as two counteracting forces?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Reality.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Coleridge describe man's spirit?

2. Coleridge describes the first ultimate end of poetry as which of the following?

3. What kind of language does Coleridge attribute to modern poets?

4. Whose theory of style does Coleridge say it is to use everyday language?

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

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