Wordsworth – Tintern Abbey – Exam Based MCQs
1. “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” is written by: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) John Keats
B) P. B. Shelley
C) William Wordsworth
D) Lord Byron
Ans: C) William Wordsworth
2. The full title includes the phrase: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) “On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye”
B) “On Revisiting the Banks of the Thames”
C) “On a Grecian Urn”
D) “In Memoriam”
Ans: A) “On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye”
3. The poem’s date in the title is: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) July 13, 1793
B) July 13, 1802
C) June 1798
D) July 13, 1798
Ans: D) July 13, 1798
4. “Tintern Abbey” was published in: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) The Prelude
B) Lyrical Ballads (1798)
C) Songs of Innocence
D) Don Juan
Ans: B) Lyrical Ballads (1798)
5. The poem begins with the idea that _____ years have passed since the speaker’s last visit. (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) five
B) three
C) seven
D) ten
Ans: A) five
6. The poem is written mainly in: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) heroic couplets
B) Spenserian stanza
C) rhymed quatrains
D) blank verse
Ans: D) blank verse
7. “These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs” refers to the river: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Thames
B) Wye
C) Severn
D) Avon
Ans: B) Wye
8. The poem is often called a “conversation poem” because it includes an address to: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B) John Keats
C) Dorothy Wordsworth (the poet’s sister)
D) Mary Shelley
Ans: C) Dorothy Wordsworth (the poet’s sister)
9. “The still, sad music of humanity” suggests: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) a quiet awareness of human suffering in life
B) a literal church choir
C) only happiness and joy
D) a military marching song
Ans: A) a quiet awareness of human suffering in life
10. The poem’s central process is: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) a detective investigation
B) a comic satire of society
C) a war narrative
D) recollection and meditation on nature over time
Ans: D) recollection and meditation on nature over time
11. The speaker says that memories of the landscape have helped him in: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) courtroom arguments
B) “lonely rooms” and “mid the din of towns and cities”
C) sea voyages
D) royal ceremonies
Ans: B) “lonely rooms” and “mid the din of towns and cities”
12. The poet’s attitude to nature develops from youthful passion to: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) complete hatred of nature
B) scientific experimentation
C) mature, reflective love and moral insight
D) total indifference
Ans: C) mature, reflective love and moral insight
13. The phrase “a sense sublime” refers to: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) a market festival
B) a political slogan
C) a love affair
D) a deeper spiritual presence in nature and the mind
Ans: D) a deeper spiritual presence in nature and the mind
14. “Tintern Abbey” is most often studied as an example of: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) Romantic meditative lyric
B) Restoration comedy
C) epic mock-heroic
D) Victorian dramatic monologue
Ans: A) Romantic meditative lyric
15. The poem is organized in: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) rhymed stanzas only
B) verse paragraphs (not regular stanzas)
C) sonnets
D) limericks
Ans: B) verse paragraphs (not regular stanzas)
16. The line “Nature never did betray the heart that loved her” shows nature as: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) a cruel enemy
B) a meaningless object
C) faithful moral guide and comfort
D) only a beautiful painting
Ans: C) faithful moral guide and comfort
17. The speaker remembers his youth as a time when he bounded like: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) a lion
B) a serpent
C) an eagle
D) a roe (deer)
Ans: D) a roe (deer)
18. The poem contrasts the calm countryside with the: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) “din” of towns and cities
B) silence of deserts
C) storms at sea
D) noise of battlefields only
Ans: A) “din” of towns and cities
19. The poem’s final section is mainly addressed to: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) a king
B) a soldier
C) Dorothy (his sister)
D) a Greek muse
Ans: C) Dorothy (his sister)
20. “Wreaths of smoke” in the poem may suggest: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) only volcanic eruption
B) signs of human presence (cottages, hermit, industry/charcoal burning)
C) clouds from airplanes
D) a city on fire
Ans: B) signs of human presence (cottages, hermit, industry/charcoal burning)
21. The famous lines “I have felt / A presence...” point to: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) a ghost in the abbey
B) an enemy hiding
C) a political leader
D) a spiritual force immanent in nature
Ans: D) a spiritual force immanent in nature
22. The poem is commonly referred to simply as: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) “Tintern Abbey”
B) “Kubla Khan”
C) “Adonais”
D) “Ulysses”
Ans: A) “Tintern Abbey”
23. In the poem, nature is presented as capable of: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) only entertaining the eye
B) giving wealth and titles
C) shaping the moral being and calming the mind
D) writing laws and constitutions
Ans: C) shaping the moral being and calming the mind
24. The main structural movement of the poem is from: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) city satire → war story
B) present scene → memory → philosophy → address to Dorothy
C) dream → prophecy → apocalypse
D) biography → bibliography
Ans: B) present scene → memory → philosophy → address to Dorothy
25. The “language of the sense” in the poem refers to: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) legal language
B) political language
C) religious sermon language
D) physical sensation and bodily experience
Ans: D) physical sensation and bodily experience
26. Wordsworth’s belief in “emotion recollected in tranquility” is closely connected to: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) the poem’s reflective remembering of past feelings
B) a strict rhyme scheme
C) a comic twist ending
D) a courtroom debate
Ans: A) the poem’s reflective remembering of past feelings
27. The poet hopes Dorothy will keep these “wild ecstasies” as: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) a reason to hate nature
B) a healing memory in future sorrow
C) a political weapon
D) a scientific theory
Ans: B) a healing memory in future sorrow
28. The poem belongs to which period of English literature? (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) Renaissance
B) Restoration
C) Romantic period
D) Victorian period
Ans: C) Romantic period
29. The poem is primarily set near: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) Lake District only
B) Dover cliffs
C) Highlands of Scotland
D) Tintern and the River Wye valley
Ans: D) Tintern and the River Wye valley
30. “Steep and lofty cliffs” in the opening section help create a mood of: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) deep seclusion and calm
B) noisy celebration
C) comic parody
D) violent terror
Ans: A) deep seclusion and calm
31. The phrase “anchor of my purest thoughts” shows nature as: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) a financial investment
B) a stabilizing moral/spiritual support
C) a political party
D) a military weapon
Ans: B) a stabilizing moral/spiritual support
32. Wordsworth’s youthful relation to nature is described as: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) purely intellectual
B) completely indifferent
C) more “thoughtless” and driven by sensory delight
D) purely scientific
Ans: C) more “thoughtless” and driven by sensory delight
33. The poem’s dominant mode is: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) detective narrative
B) epic battle
C) comic farce
D) meditation and reflection
Ans: D) meditation and reflection
34. “Tintern Abbey” is approximately: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) 162 lines
B) 14 lines
C) 50 lines
D) 500 lines
Ans: A) 162 lines
35. Which pair is most closely connected with Lyrical Ballads? (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Wordsworth and Tennyson
B) Wordsworth and Coleridge
C) Keats and Shelley
D) Pope and Dryden
Ans: B) Wordsworth and Coleridge
36. The “mind” in the poem is important because nature is valued for its: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) price in the market
B) ability to produce machines
C) power to shape consciousness and moral feeling
D) ability to create wars
Ans: C) power to shape consciousness and moral feeling
37. “Hermit’s cave” in the poem is mentioned as a possible explanation for: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) loud thunder
B) ocean waves
C) snowstorms
D) the “wreaths of smoke”
Ans: D) the “wreaths of smoke”
38. Wordsworth describes nature as “the guide, the guardian” of: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) my heart, and soul of all my moral being
B) the king’s empire
C) the city’s industries
D) the court’s judgments
Ans: A) my heart, and soul of all my moral being
39. The poem blends landscape description with: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) a detective clue trail
B) philosophical reflection on memory and growth
C) political election speeches
D) mythological battles only
Ans: B) philosophical reflection on memory and growth
40. Wordsworth’s “mature” vision includes compassion for: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) only animals
B) only kings
C) humanity and its sorrow (“still sad music”)
D) only warriors
Ans: C) humanity and its sorrow (“still sad music”)
41. The poem is NOT mainly an example of: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) lyric
B) meditation
C) Romantic nature poem
D) stage drama
Ans: D) stage drama
42. The poem suggests that remembered nature can bring: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) “tranquil restoration”
B) only fear
C) only boredom
D) only anger
Ans: A) “tranquil restoration”
43. The poem is notable for combining the outer landscape with the: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) stock market
B) inner landscape of the mind
C) science laboratory
D) courtroom debate
Ans: B) inner landscape of the mind
44. The poem’s closing wish for Dorothy mainly expresses: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) hatred of memory
B) rejection of nature
C) hope that nature will comfort her throughout life
D) desire for war glory
Ans: C) hope that nature will comfort her throughout life
45. The “language of my former heart” suggests: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) legal terminology
B) business vocabulary
C) political propaganda
D) the emotional intensity of youthful experience
Ans: D) the emotional intensity of youthful experience
46. “Tintern Abbey” is best known for its theme of: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) memory and the changing relationship with nature
B) city crime
C) satire of politicians
D) sea adventure
Ans: A) memory and the changing relationship with nature
47. The poem is an important Romantic text because it emphasizes: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) monarchy and empire
B) the imagination/mind shaping experience
C) strict classical rules
D) only formal rhyme patterns
Ans: B) the imagination/mind shaping experience
48. Which statement is TRUE? (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Tintern Abbey is the main character of the poem
B) The poem is a sonnet
C) The abbey itself is not directly described in detail; the focus is the Wye landscape and memory
D) The poem is an epic in twelve books
Ans: C) The abbey itself is not directly described in detail; the focus is the Wye landscape and memory
49. The poem’s final emotional tone is closest to: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) pure despair
B) comic mockery
C) violent rage
D) calm hope and blessing
Ans: D) calm hope and blessing
50. “Tintern Abbey” is widely taught for exams mainly because it is a key example of: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) Romantic reflective nature poetry and the poetry of memory
B) medieval allegory
C) modernist fragmentation
D) Restoration satire
Ans: A) Romantic reflective nature poetry and the poetry of memory
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