MCQs on the Lake Poets
1. Who are collectively known as the Lake Poets?
a) William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
b) John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron
c) John Milton, William Blake, and Alexander Pope
d) Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and Emily Brontë
2. In which region did the Lake Poets primarily live and find inspiration?
a) Lake District
b) Scottish Highlands
c) Cotswolds
d) Dartmoor
3. Which Lake Poet is often credited with launching the Romantic Age in English literature?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
4. Which work by William Wordsworth is considered a manifesto of the Romantic movement?
a) “Tintern Abbey”
b) “Kubla Khan”
c) “The Prelude”
d) “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
5. What is the title of the collaborative work by Wordsworth and Coleridge, published in 1798?
a) “Lyrical Ballads”
b) “The Prelude”
c) “The Excursion”
d) “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
6. Which Lake Poet served as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
7. What was the relationship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
a) Cousins
b) Brothers
c) Friends
d) Father and son
8. Which poem by Coleridge includes the famous lines “Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink”?
a) “Kubla Khan”
b) “Christabel”
c) “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
d) “Dejection: An Ode”
9. Robert Southey’s poem “The Battle of Blenheim” is a critique of which aspect of society?
a) War
b) Industrialization
c) Romanticism
d) Political corruption
10. Who wrote the sonnet sequence “Sonnets to the River Duddon”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
11. In which year did the Lake Poets form a literary circle?
a) 1789
b) 1802
c) 1815
d) 1830
12. What is the central theme of Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”?
a) Nature and memory
b) Love and betrayal
c) Political revolution
d) Industrialization
13. Who wrote the poem “The Idiot Boy”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
14. Which Lake Poet was known for his involvement in utopian socialism and his interest in pantisocracy?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
15. What is the subtitle of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?
a) A Tale of Two Cities
b) A Gothic Story
c) A Visionary Ballad
d) A Sea Odyssey
16. Who is often referred to as the “Third Lake Poet,” even though he was not a permanent resident of the Lake District?
a) John Keats
b) Lord Byron
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) Leigh Hunt
17. What type of meter is commonly used in Wordsworth’s poetry?
a) Iambic pentameter
b) Blank verse
c) Terza rima
d) Rhymed couplets
18. Which Lake Poet wrote the long autobiographical poem “The Prelude”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
19. Which poem by Wordsworth describes an encounter with a leech-gatherer?
a) “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
b) “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
c) “Resolution and Independence”
d) “To Autumn”
20. What is the setting of Coleridge’s poem “Christabel”?
a) A castle
b) A city
c) A village
d) A mountain
21. Which Lake Poet was a close friend and supporter of William Wordsworth?
a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b) Robert Southey
c) John Keats
d) Lord Byron
22. In which poem does Wordsworth describe the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility?
a) “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
b) “The Prelude”
c) “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
d) “The Excursion”
23. Which Lake Poet was known for his radical political views and involvement in the French Revolution?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
24. What is the title of Southey’s poem about the Norse hero who defeats the dragon?
a) “The Battle of Blenheim”
b) “Thalaba the Destroyer”
c) “The Idiot Boy”
d) “Sonnets to the River Duddon”
25. Which of the following is NOT a work by John Keats?
a) “Ode to a Nightingale”
b) “To Autumn”
c) “The Tyger”
d) “Endymion”
26. What is the literary term for a poem or song in praise of love or beauty?
a) Sonnet
b) Elegy
c) Ode
d) Ballad
27. In which year did William Wordsworth publish “Lyrical Ballads” with Coleridge?
a) 1789
b) 1798
c) 1805
d) 1817MCQs on the Lake Poets
28. What form of poetry did Wordsworth and Coleridge emphasize in “Lyrical Ballads”?
a) Epic
b) SonnetMCQs on the Lake Poets
c) Lyric
d) Haiku
29. Which Lake Poet wrote the play “Remorse”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John KeatsMCQs on the Lake Poets
30. What is the title of Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem, also known as “The Growth
of a Poet’s Mind”?
a) “The Prelude”
b) “Lyrical Ballads”MCQs on the Lake Poets
c) “Tintern Abbey”
d) “The Excursion”
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31. Who wrote the poem “To Autumn,” celebrating the beauty and abundance of the season?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
32. Which Lake Poet was a close associate of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
33. What is the famous opening line of Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”?
a) “To be or not to be, that is the question”
b) “It is a truth universally acknowledged”
c) “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
d) “Once upon a midnight dreary”
34. Which Lake Poet was appointed Poet Laureate in 1843, succeeding Wordsworth?
a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b) Robert Southey
c) John Keats
d) William Wordsworth
35. What is the central theme of Coleridge’s poem “Dejection: An Ode”?
a) Nature and memory
b) Love and betrayal
c) Melancholy and depression
d) Political revolution
36. Which Lake Poet was known for his interest in folklore and fairy tales?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
37. Who wrote the poem “The Thorn,” which tells the story of a mysterious woman named Martha Ray?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
38. What is the title of the collection that includes Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”?
a) “Lyrical Ballads”
b) “The Excursion”
c) “The Prelude”
d) “The White Doe of Rylstone”
39. Which Lake Poet was known for his interest in science and technology, particularly in his poem “The Steam Engine”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
40. Who is the speaker in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?
a) The Wedding Guest
b) The Mariner himself
c) The Albatross
d) Death
41. Which Lake Poet had a strong influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of 19th-century artists?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
42. In which year did Robert Southey become Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom?
a) 1805
b) 1813
c) 1825MCQs on the Lake Poets
d) 1837
43. What is the title of Coleridge’s unfinished poem, often considered a fragment, that begins with the line “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan”?
a) “Christabel”
b) “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”MCQs on the Lake Poets
c) “Kubla Khan”
d) “Dejection: An Ode”MCQs on the Lake PoetsMCQs on the Lake Poets
44. Which Lake Poet wrote “The Cuckoo” and “To the Cuckoo”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMCQs on the Lake Poets
c) Robert SoutheyMCQs on the Lake Poets
d) John Keats
45. What is the subtitle of Wordsworth’s “The Prelude”?
a) “An Epic of the Mind”MCQs on the Lake Poets
b) “A Poet’s Pilgrimage”
c) “A Prelude to Nature”
d) “A Study in Solitude”
46. Which poem by Coleridge describes the supernatural encounter between Geraldine and Christabel?
a) “Kubla Khan”
b) “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
c) “Christabel”
d) “Dejection: An Ode”
47. Which Lake Poet was known for his support of the abolitionist movement and his anti-slavery writings?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
48. What is the title of Southey’s poem that criticizes the glorification of war in “Rule, Britannia!”?
a) “The Battle of Blenheim”
b) “The Idiot Boy”
c) “Thalaba the Destroyer”
d) “Sonnets to the River Duddon”
49. Which Lake Poet is often associated with the term “Nature’s priest”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Robert Southey
d) John Keats
50. What is the title of the poem by John Keats that explores the idea of negative capability?
a) “Ode to a Nightingale”
b) “To Autumn”
c) “Endymion”
d) “The Eve of St. Agnes”
Answer
1. a) William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
2. a) Lake District
3. a) William Wordsworth
4. a) “Tintern Abbey”
5. a) “Lyrical Ballads”
6. c) Robert SoutheyMCQs on the Lake Poets
7. c) Friends
8. c) “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
9. a) WarMCQs on the Lake Poets
10. a) William Wordsworth
11. b) 1802
12. a) Nature and memory
13. b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
14. c) Robert Southey
15. c) A Visionary Ballad
16. b) Lord Byron
17. b) Blank verse
18. a) William Wordsworth
19. c) “Resolution and Independence”
20. a) A castle
21. a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22. a) “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
23. c) Robert Southey
24. b) “Thalaba the Destroyer”
25. c) “The Tyger”
26. c) Ode
27. b) 1798
28. c) Lyric
29. b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30. a) “The Prelude”
31. d) John Keats
32. a) William Wordsworth
33. c) “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
34. b) Robert Southey
35. c) Melancholy and depression
36. c) Robert Southey
37. c) Robert Southey
38. a) “Lyrical Ballads”
39. c) Robert Southey
40. a) The Wedding Guest
41. b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
