1. The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; ‘An Autobiographical Poem’ is an autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Intended as the introduction to the more philosophical poem ______?
A:) The Recluse
B:) The Excursion
C:) The Prelude
D:) The Solitary Reaper
springline- Correct option: A:) The Recluse
2. Wordsworth began The Prelude in 1798, at the age of 28, and continued to work on it throughout his life. He never gave it a title, but called it the ‘Poem to Coleridge’ in his letters to his______?
A:) friend
B:) sister
C:) widow Mary
D:) brother
springline- Correct option: B:) sister
3. The Prelude ;The poem was unknown to the general public until the final version was published three months after Wordsworth's death in 1850. Its present title was given to it by his____?",["A:) friend
B:) Son
C:) widow Mary
D:) Robert Peele
springline- Correct option: C:) widow Mary
4. The Prelude; The poem was intended as the prologue to a long three-part epic and philosophical poem, The Recluse. Though Wordsworth planned this project when he was in his late 20s, he went to his grave at 80 years old having written to some completion only The Prelude and the second part is _______?",["A:) The Excursion
B:) The Recluse
C:) Lamia
D:) The Lucy Poems
springline- Correct option: A:) The Excursion
5. Wordsworth initially planned to write this work together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, their joint intent being to surpass John Milton's Paradise Lost (Table Talk II.70–71; IG3). If The Recluse had been completed, it would have been about three times as long as Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost had 33,000 lines. How many versus in Paradise Lost?",["A:) 10,300
B:) 10,400
C:) 10,550
D:) 10,500
springline- Correct option: D:) 10,500
6. In 1838, Wordsworth received an honorary doctorate in Civil Law from the University of Durham and the following year he was awarded the same honorary degree by the University of Oxford, Who praised him as the ‘poet of humanity’?",["A:) Robert Burns
B:) John Keble
C:) John Keats
D:) John Peter
springline- Correct option: B:) John Keble
7. In his introduction to the version of 1850 Wordsworth explains that the original idea, inspired by his ‘dear friend’ Coleridge, was ‘to compose a philosophical Poem, containing views of Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled ________?",["A:) The Prelude
B:) The Excursion
C:) The Recluse
D:) London 1802
springline- Correct option: C:) The Recluse
8. Book I establishes Wordsworth’s sense of life as a journey, both literal – as the poet leaves the city for his beloved Lake District – and metaphorical, as he searches for a subject to write about that will justify his decision to become a poet: His vivid accounts of boyhood incidents – skating on frozen lakes in the winter twilight, flying kites, playing cards – give the poem an immediacy, justifying his description of his early years as the ____?",["A:) sow-time
B:) seed-time
C:) spring-time
D:) Swell-time
springline- Correct option: B:) seed-time
9. Coleridge's inspiration and interest is evident in his letters. For instance When he wrote to Wordsworth: ‘I am anxiously eager to have you steadily employed on 'The Recluse'... I wish you would write a poem, in blank verse, addressed to those who, in consequence of the complete failure of the French Revolution have thrown up all hopes of amelioration of mankind ?",["A:) 1799
B:) 1798
C:) 1797
D:) 1796
springline- Correct option: A:) 1799
10. Following the death of Robert Southey in 1843 Wordsworth became Poet Laureate. He initially refused the honour, saying that he was too old, but accepted when Robert Peel, assured him that ‘you shall have nothing required of you’. Robert Peel who was a________?
A:) President
B:) King
C:) Prime minister
D:) Friend
springline- Correct option: C:) Prime minister
11. According to Whom ‘Narrative Means to Lyric Ends in Wordsworth's Prelude’, ‘Much of the poem consists of Wordsworth's interactions with nature that 'assure[d] him of his poetic mission'?
A:) Monique R. Morgan's
B:) Umberto Eco
C:) Gianni Celati
D:) Harold Bloom
springline- Correct option: A:) Monique R. Morgan's
12. Wordsworth's youthful political radicalism, unlike Coleridge's, never led him to rebel against his religious upbringing. He remarked in 1812 that he was willing to shed his blood for the established Church of England, reflected in is Ecclesiastical Sketches of 1822. This religious conservatism also colours in ?",["A:) The Prelude
B:) The Recluse
C:) London,1802
D:) The Excursion
springline- Correct option: D:) The Excursion
13. The goal of the poem is to demonstrate his fitness to produce great poetry, and The Prelude itself becomes evidence of that fitness. It traces the growth of the poet's mind by stressing the mutual consciousness and spiritual communion between the world of _____?",["A:) religious and man
B:) nature and man
C:) nature and poet
D:) romanticism and nature
springline- Correct option: B:) nature and man
14. The Prelude; The work is a poetic reflection on Wordsworth's own sense of his poetic vocation as it developed over the course of his life. Its focus and mood present a sharp and fundamental fall away from the neoclassical and into the _______?",["A:) classical
B:) realism
C:) Romantic
D:) Age of reasons
springline- Correct option: C:) Romantic
15. Milton, who is mentioned by name in line 181 of Book One, rewrote God's creation and The Fall of Man in Paradise Lost in order to ‘justify the ways of God to men, Wordsworth chooses his own mind and imagination as a subject worthy of ______?",["A:) prose
B:) philosophical novel
C:) fiction
D:) Epic
springline- Correct option: D:) Epic
16. The Prelude opens with a literal journey [during his manhood] whose chosen goal [...] is the Vale of Grasmere. The Prelude narrates a number of later journeys, most notably the crossing of the Alps in Book VI and, in the beginning of the final book, the climactic ascent of ________?",["A:) snowfall
B:) highlands
C:) Snowdon
D:) polar
springline- Correct option: C:) Snowdon
17. Following the death of Wordsworth’s friend the painter William Green in 1823, Wordsworth also mended his relations with Coleridge. The two were fully reconciled by 1828, when they toured the Rhineland together. Dorothy suffered from a severe illness in 1829 that rendered her an invalid for the remainder of her life. Coleridge and Charles Lamb both died in______?
A:) 1833
B:) 1834
C:) 1835
D:) 1836
springline- Correct option: B:) 1834
18. This spiritual autobiography evolves out of Wordsworth's ‘persistent metaphor [that life is] a circular journey whose end is 'to arrive where we started / And know that place for the first time' (T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, lines 241-42). The Prelude opens with a literal journey [during his manhood] whose chosen goal [...] is the Vale of Grasmere. The Prelude narrates a number of later journeys, most notably the crossing of the Alps in______?",["A:) Book IV
B:) Book III
C:) Book VI
D:) Book V
springline- Correct option: C:) Book VI
19. Wordsworth had for years been making plans to write a long philosophical poem in three parts, which he intended to call The Recluse. When he started an autobiographical poem, which he referred to as the ‘poem to Coleridge’ and which he planned would serve as an appendix to a larger work called The Recluse ?",["A:) 1796-99
B:) 1797-98
C:) 1795-96
D:) 1798–99
springline- Correct option: D:) 1798–99
20. The Prelude; The poet has, by his own account, been too long pent-up in London and only now has managed to return to the beloved Lake District where he spent his childhood and adolescence. The poem begin with a ‘It is a magnificent ______?",["A:) spring day
B:) autumn day
C:) summer day
D:) winter day
springline- Correct option: B:) autumn day
21. The Prelude; It is difficult to fix his age as the poem opens because time constantly shifts backward and forward throughout the narrative. The start of Book 1 finds Wordsworth speaking from a mature point of view. The body of the poem employs flashbacks to describe the development of the poetic mind during _______?",["A:) youth
B:) old
C:) Childhood
D:) poet
springline- Correct option: A:) youth
22. The Prelude Book I- Feelings of irresponsible freedom and lack of purpose quickly give way to a prevision of an impending period of optimism and creativity. In the delicious quiet, Wordsworth suddenly sees in his mind's eye the cottage of the landlady with whom he stayed as a ______?",["A:) schoolboy
B:) poet
C:) poet laureate
D:) Lake poet
springline- Correct option: A:) schoolboy
23. The Prelude Book I; His wish to create some profound work of art calls for a re-disciplining of his mind, which has recently been dulled by the artificiality of society. He mentions in passing the typical moodiness of the poet in likening him to a lover. In assessing his faculties, Wordsworth finds he has the three necessary ingredients for creativity: a vital soul; and______?",["A:) Truth
B:) Knowledge
C:) youth
D:) Childhood days
springline- Correct option: B:) Knowledge
24. The Prelude Book I; Wordsworth is searching instead for ‘some philosophic song that cherishes our daily life.’ He is next assailed by doubts about the maturity of his views. If such views change radically after he has recorded them, his analysis of them will be worthless. In his indecision, he feels that if he reviews the ideas he formed in childhood and traces their history up until early manhood, he will find whether they have had any lasting permanence and _____?",["A:) truth
B:) Knowledge
C:) youth
D:) trust
springline- Correct option: A:) truth
25. Wordsworth recollects some of his childhood activities, among them river-bathing (he sported like a naked savage) and climbing and robbing of birds' nests while wandering at night. In a discussion of simple education, he stresses the importance of reaction on the part of the child to every action upon it by its natural environment. In this way, nature develops morality in the child. Wordsworth sets the tone of the poem by speaking_______?",["A:) Man of nature
B:) god to nature
C:) religiously of nature
D:) religiously of man
springline- Correct option: C:) religiously of nature
26. Prelude Book I; In a more literal section, he tells of his youthful pastimes and mentions winter ice games with a group of companions and games of cards and tick-tack-toe in front of the peat fire. But above all, he tried to be outdoors at all times of the year so that nature could be unstinting in its education of him. He is particularly troubled when he remembers that certain vistas in Westmoreland — particularly the ________?",["A:) Sea
B:) River
C:) garden
D:) falls
springline- Correct option: A:) Sea
27. The Prelude Book I; Since beauty is eternal, he may have learned to love such sights during a previous existence of his soul. He then proceeds to develop a romantic theory of aesthetics. In a celebrated passage filled with much color, the poet describes how as a youth he stole a boat and rowed one night across _____?",["A:) Buttermere Lake
B:) Ullswater Lake
C:) Rydal Water
D:) Windermere Lake
springline- Correct option: B:) Ullswater Lake
28. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) is usually called the father of romanticism. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, his ideas were upon the lips of every educated person. A contemporary of the French Philosophs, he was one of the first to cry out at the stultification of the _______?",["A:) Age of Youth
B:) Age of Reason
C:) Renaissance
D:) Reformation
springline- Correct option: B:) Age of Reason
29. The most important event of the latter part of the eighteenth century was the French Revolution. It affected the lives of almost everyone, whether in France or elsewhere. Before it had run its course, it had effected changes throughout Europe and even in America. Because Wordsworth had a youthful enthusiasm for ____?",["A:) democratic movements
B:) romantic movements
C:) literary movements
D:) greatest movements
springline- Correct option: A:) democratic movements
30. The Prelude may be classed somewhat loosely as an epic; it does not satisfy all the traditional qualifications of that genre. The epic is customarily defined as a long narrative poem which recounts heroic actions, commonly legendary or historical, and usually of one principal hero (from whence it derives its unity). The Prelude takes its unity from the fact that the central ‘hero’ is its author. The poem is written in blank verse, unrhymed lines of______?",["A:) iambic trimeter
B:) hexameter
C:) iambic tetrameter
D:) iambic pentameter
springline- Correct option: D:) iambic pentameter