Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - William WordsWorth Set 2

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This set of Literary Criticism Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - William WordsWorth Set 2

Q1 | Wordsworth feels that Poetry is the image of
  • human beings and nature
  • men and women
  • God and human
  • man and nature
Q2 | The language of every good poem can in no respect differ from that of good __.
  • Drama
  • Prose
  • Novel
  • Tragi- comedy
Q3 | Wordsworth said the poet should use the __ for removing what would otherwise bepainful or disgusting in the passion.
  • Principal of selection
  • Metrical composition
  • Personification of abstract ideas
  • Real language of men
Q4 | Who said that poetry is the most philosophic of all writing?
  • William Wordsworth
  • William Shakespeare
  • Aristotle
  • Matthew Arnold
Q5 | In what ways is Lyrical Ballads different from much of the poetry that was popular when it was published?
  • It calls for even more strict and rigid poetic forms
  • It features poems that focus on nature and rural communities
  • It contains poems that are more complicated and academic in tone.
  • It sought to stimulate the reader’s reasoning mind.
Q6 | According to Wordsworth, poetic diction has
  • Rules
  • No rules
  • Rustic language
  • Simple language
Q7 | According to Wordsworth, prose and poetry differs by
  • Style
  • Emotion
  • Preface
  • Metre
Q8 | only the best poetry according to Arnold is capable of performing its ___
  • duty
  • job
  • task
  • systems
Q9 | according to Arnold, poetry interprets life in ____ ways.
  • one
  • two
  • three
  • four
Q10 | the first great principle of criticism emancipated by Arnold is __________
  • Disinterestedness
  • Detachment
  • Discernment
  • Disaffectation
Q11 | Poetry according to Arnold, attaches its emotion to the
  • theme
  • style
  • idea
  • diction
Q12 | According to Arnold, the scantiest and frailest of classics in English poetry is
  • Gray
  • Pope
  • Burns
  • Milton
Q13 | Whom did Arnold regard as the high priest of prose and reason
  • Milton
  • Gray
  • Dryden
  • Pope
Q14 | In the study of poetry Arnold writes that we have to turn to poetry to
  • understand life and to sustain us
  • interpret life and to control us
  • interpret life and to console and sustain us
  • understand life and to strengthen us
Q15 | What confuses the distinctions between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound, true and untrue or only half-true in poetry?
  • Charlatanism
  • Philistinism
  • Estimates
  • High seriousness
Q16 | The definition of poetry as enunciated by Matthew Arnold in 'The Study of Poetry" is
  • A spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
  • A criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty
  • A just and lively image of human nature, to delight and instruct mankind
  • An imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of certain magnitude
Q17 | What has the power of forming, sustaining and delighting us as nothing else can?
  • Excellent prose
  • Criticism
  • The best poetry
  • Drama
Q18 | According to Matthew Arnold, Chaucer is not one of the great classics because
  • His poetry does not transcend and efface the poetry of Catholic Christendom
  • His verse lacks liquidness and fluidity.
  • his poetry lacks virtue of manner and movement
  • None of the above
Q19 | According to Matthew Arnold, poetry is –
  • a criticism of life
  • spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
  • an escape from personality
  • the sensuous way of expression
Q20 | Who, according to Arnold is the father of English poetry?
  • Shakespeare
  • Wordsworth
  • Chaucer
  • Dryden
Q21 | In The Study of Poetry, Arnold puts stress on _______________ in poetry.
  • bright humour
  • high seriousness
  • sensuousness
  • want of seriousness
Q22 | The ‘touchstone method’ was propagated by –
  • Matthew Arnold
  • T.S. Eliot
  • F.R. Leavis
  • William Wordsworth
Q23 | Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English __________.
  • fiction
  • poetry
  • prose
  • morals
Q24 | “The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and delightingus, as nothing else can” was said by –
  • William Wordsworth
  • Matthew Arnold
  • John Dryden
  • Alexander Pope
Q25 | Middleton Murry had criticized the critical work of –
  • Matthew Arnold
  • F.R. Leavis
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Samuel Johnson