MCQs - "Immortality Ode" by Wordsworth

1. Identify the correct title of the poem?

A. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

B. Ode- Intimations of Immortality and Recollections of Early Childhood

C. Ode to Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

B. Ode on Intimations of Immortality and Recollections of Early Childhood

 

2. “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” is also known as:

A. Immortality Ode

B. Great Ode

C. Ode

D. All the above

 

3. Ode: Intimations of Immortality was first published in the year ……….. 

A. 1802

B. 1807

C. 1815

D. 1820 

 

4. Which literary movement is "Immortality Ode" associated with?

A. Romanticism

B. Realism

C. Modernism

D. Postmodernism

5. Which of the following is NOT true about Immortality Ode

A. First 4 stanzas were completed in 1802, remaining poem completed in 1804

B. Coleridge wrote Dejection: An Ode in response to it

C. It was published in ‘Poems, in Two Volumes’ in 1810

D. The current title of the poem was given in 1815

 

6. Which of the following poems by Coleridge was written in response to the Immortality Ode?

A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

B. “Kubla Khan”

C. “Dejection: An Ode”

D. “Christabel” 

 

7. In "Immortality Ode," what is the central theme?

A. Death and immortality

B. Nature and beauty

C. Love and friendship

D. War and peace

8. What is the form of Ode: Intimations of Immortality? 

A. A regular Pindaric ode

B. An irregular Pindaric ode

C. A Horatian ode

D. A Petrarchan sonnet 

9. Who is addressed as "Thou" in the poem?

A. The speaker's friend

B. The speaker's child

C. The speaker's lover

D. The concept of immortality

10. Which literary device is prominently used in the line, “The Child is father of the Man”?

A. Metaphor

B. Paradox

C. Simile

D. Alliteration

 

11. The Epigraph of the poem "The child is father of the man" is taken from:

A. Tintern Abbey

B. My Heart Leaps Up

C. We Are Seven

D. The Prelude

 

12. According to the speaker, where does immortality reside?

A. In nature

B. In human memories

C. In physical objects

D. In religious beliefs

13. Wordsworth’s concept of Soul is partly inspired by?

A. Plato

B. Rousseau

C. Aristotle

D. Socrates

14. The phrase “humorous stage,” refers to

A. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

B. Shakespeare’s As You Like it

C. Coleridge’s Rime of Ancient Mariner

D. Spencer’s Faire Queen

 

15. Who said, “Immortality ode is a conscious farewell to his art and give the sung over his departing power”?

A. Lionell Trilling

B. Mathew Arnold

C. Walter Scott

D. T S Eliot

16. What is the opening line of Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations of Immortality?
A. "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
B. "The world is too much with us"
C. "There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream"
D. "Earth has not anything to show more fair"

17. What is the closing line of the Ode?
A. "To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts too deep for tears."
B. "The child is father of the man."
C. "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."
D. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive."

18. In the Immortality Ode, Wordsworth mourns the loss of:

A. Wealth and social status
B. Childhood's magical view of nature
C. Romantic love and passion
D. Religious faith in adulthood

19. The immortality is referred in the poem as

A. Heart

B. Mind

C. Soul

D. Body

 

20. In the Ode, the "imperial palace" metaphor refers to:
A. A king's abandoned castle
B. The soul's heavenly origin before birth
C. A school where children are disciplined
D. The beauty of mountain peaks

 

21. In the opening lines, Wordsworth believed that the child is under the influence of………….

A. Parents

B. Friends

C. Heaven

D. School

 

22. The "prison-house" in the Ode symbolizes:
A. A child’s fear of darkness
B. The loss of spiritual vision as we grow older
C. The cruelty of 19th-century orphanages
D. Wordsworth’s dislike of cities

23. Who said it about Immortality Ode: "There are certainly some pieces there which are good for nothing….”.

A. Emerson

B. Coleridge

C. Walter Scott

D. Lord Byron

 

24. Who praised this poem as: “It is the high-water mark of poetry in the 19th century”

A. Emerson

B. Francis Jeffery

C. Walter Scott

D. Southey

 

25.Who dismissed this poem as Wordsworth's "innocent odes"

A. Francis Jeffery

B. Coleridge

C. Emerson

D. Lord Byron

26. What is the "visionary gleam" that the speaker describes?
A. The light of the setting sun
B. children’s vision of nature
C. A flashlight beam at night
D. The light of imagination and creativity

27. What does the speaker mean by "trailing clouds of glory"?
A. The stormy clouds in the sky
B. The memory of great achievements
C. The beauty of nature
D. The joys of childhood

28. The phrase "Mighty Prophet, Seer Blest!" describes?

A. Nature

B. Death

C. God

D. Child

29. According to the speaker, how can one achieve immortality?
A. Through great accomplishments
B. Through religious devotion
C. Through love and friendship
D. Through the memories of childhood

30. What is the role of nature in "Immortality Ode"?
A. To provide a setting for the speaker's reflections
B. To represent the cycle of life and death
C. To inspire the speaker's creativity
D. All of the above

31. Which of these lines does NOT appear in Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations of Immortality?

A. "The sunshine is a glorious birth"
B. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting"
C. "The world is too much with us"
D. " The things which I have seen I now can see no more "

32. Which of the following is not a phrase in the poem?

A. The vision splendid
B. The immortal sea

C. fluttering in his breast
D. Nature never did betray

33. "Thou Child of Joy!" (Line 118) directly addresses the child, using:

A. Apostrophe

B. Personification

C. Hyperbole

D. Onomatopoeia

 

34.. The "celestial light" (Line 4) symbolizes:

A. Divine vision in childhood

B. Literal sunlight

C. Enlightenment philosophy

D. Fear of darkness

 

35. "Whither is fled the visionary gleam? / Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" (Lines 56-57) demonstrates:

A. End-stopping

B. Enjambment

C. Caesura

D. Hemistich

 

 

Answers: Immortality Ode
1. A	2.  D	3. B	4. A	5. C	6. C	7. A	8. B	9. D	10. B
11. B	12. B	13. A	14. B	15. A	16. C	17. A	18. B	19. C	20. B
21. C	22.  B	23. C	24.  A	25. D	26. B	27. D	28. D	29. D	30. D
31. C	32. D	33. A	34. A	35. B	36.	37.	38.	39.	40.