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The Prelude
  • 1. What is the full title of the poem known as The Prelude?
A) The Recluse: An Autobiographical Journey
B) Growth of the Mind: A Study in Nature
C) The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem
D) The Life of William Wordsworth
  • 2. What poetic form is The Prelude written in?
A) Sonnets
B) Blank verse
C) Free verse
D) Rhymed couplets
  • 3. At what age did William Wordsworth begin writing The Prelude?
A) 30
B) 25
C) 28
D) 35
  • 4. Who gave The Prelude its present title after the poet's death?
A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B) Mary, his widow
C) Dorothy Wordsworth
D) Ernest de Sélincourt
  • 5. How many versions of The Prelude are identified in the text?
A) Four
B) Three
C) Five
D) Two
  • 6. When was the 1850 version of The Prelude published?
A) Three months after Wordsworth's death
B) Immediately upon his death
C) Ten years after his death
D) During his lifetime
  • 7. The Prelude was intended as an introduction to which larger, unfinished project?
A) The Excursion
B) Paradise Lost
C) The Recluse
D) The Growth of the Mind
  • 8. Who published the 1805 version of The Prelude in 1926?
A) Ernest de Sélincourt
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C) Dorothy Wordsworth
D) Mary Wordsworth
  • 9. How many books are in the 1850 version of The Prelude?
A) 2
B) 13
C) 14
D) 10
  • 10. How many books are in the 1805 version of The Prelude?
A) 2
B) 13
C) 12
D) 14
  • 11. What was the 1799 version of The Prelude commonly called?
A) The Two-Part Prelude
B) The Coleridge Draft
C) The Preliminary Version
D) The Early Fragments
  • 12. With which poet did Wordsworth originally plan to write The Recluse?
A) Ernest de Sélincourt
B) Dorothy Wordsworth
C) John Milton
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 13. Which existing epic poem did Wordsworth and Coleridge hope to surpass?
A) The Odyssey
B) Paradise Lost
C) The Faerie Queene
D) The Divine Comedy
  • 14. How old was Wordsworth when he died?
A) 75
B) 80
C) 28
D) 85
  • 15. What did Wordsworth do to the later parts of The Prelude during the end of his life?
A) Destroyed all early manuscripts
B) Translated it into French
C) Polished the style and qualified radical statements
D) Added thousands of new lines
  • 16. What was the initial working title Wordsworth used in letters to his sister?
A) The Growth of a Poet's Mind
B) The Prelude
C) Poem (title not yet fixed upon) to Coleridge
D) The Recluse
  • 17. Besides The Prelude, what was the only other part of The Recluse that Wordsworth finished?
A) Fragments of Nature
B) Paradise Lost
C) The Autobiographical Poem
D) The Excursion
  • 18. What is the primary subject of The Recluse according to Wordsworth's introduction?
A) A critique of John Milton's work
B) The history of the French Revolution
C) The divine nature of the afterlife
D) The sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement
  • 19. What event caused many people to lose hope in the amelioration of mankind, according to Coleridge?
A) The failure of the French Revolution
B) The industrial revolution
C) The Napoleonic Wars
D) The death of John Milton
  • 20. How long would The Recluse have been compared to Paradise Lost?
A) About three times as long
B) Exactly the same length
C) Half the length
D) Twice as long
  • 21. Which poet does the text mention by name in line 181 of Book One?
A) T. S. Eliot
B) Milton
C) Coleridge
D) Blake
  • 22. Which book of The Prelude features the crossing of the Alps?
A) Book XIV
B) Book I
C) Book X
D) Book VI
  • 23. In the context of the poem, what do literal journeys become?
A) A metaphorical vehicle for a spiritual journey
B) A critique of modern travel
C) An account of historical geography
D) A guide for political reform
  • 24. What is the climactic ascent mentioned at the beginning of the final book?
A) Snowdon
B) Cambridge Hill
C) The Vale of Grasmere
D) The Alps
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