The World is Too Much With Us - Practice Questions
📚 MCQs on "The World Is Too Much With Us"
✏️ Easy Level (1–8)
1. Who is the poet of "The World Is Too Much With Us"?
A) John Keats
B) William Wordsworth
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
D) Lord Byron
✅ Answer: B) William Wordsworth
2. What is the main theme of the poem?
A) Love and marriage
B) War and peace
C) People losing connection with nature
D) Adventure and travel
✅ Answer: C) People losing connection with nature
3. Which natural elements are mentioned in the poem?
A) Mountains and rivers
B) Sea and winds
C) Trees and deserts
D) Snow and rain
✅ Answer: B) Sea and winds
4. What does the poet wish to be in the poem?
A) A Christian saint
B) A king
C) A Pagan
D) A soldier
✅ Answer: C) A Pagan
5. What is the form of the poem?
A) Limerick
B) Ballad
C) Petrarchan sonnet
D) Free verse
✅ Answer: C) Petrarchan sonnet
6. How many lines are there in a sonnet?
A) 10
B) 12
C) 14
D) 16
✅ Answer: C) 14
7. What is the rhyme scheme of the octave (first 8 lines)?
A) ABABABAB
B) AABBCCDD
C) ABBAABBA
D) ABCDABCD
✅ Answer: C) ABBAABBA
8. What is the meter of the poem?
A) Trochaic tetrameter
B) Iambic pentameter
C) Anapestic trimeter
D) Dactylic hexameter
✅ Answer: B) Iambic pentameter
✏️ Medium Level (9–15)
9. In the line "This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon," the sea is:
A) Being personified
B) Compared using a simile
C) Described using a metaphor
D) Made fun of
✅ Answer: A) Being personified
10. Which Greek gods are mentioned in the poem?
A) Zeus and Hera
B) Apollo and Artemis
C) Proteus and Triton
D) Hades and Persephone
✅ Answer: C) Proteus and Triton
11. What does the word "sordid" in "a sordid boon" mean?
A) Beautiful
B) Shameful or dirty
C) Grand and noble
D) Sweet and kind
✅ Answer: B) Shameful or dirty
12. In the poem, "pleasant lea" refers to:
A) A mountain
B) A forest
C) A grassy meadow
D) A river
✅ Answer: C) A grassy meadow
13. What poetic device is used in the phrase "sleeping flowers"?
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Alliteration
D) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: B) Metaphor
14. "Getting and spending" mainly criticizes:
A) Laziness
B) Simple living
C) Materialism
D) Religious beliefs
✅ Answer: C) Materialism
15. Which figure of speech is used when the poet addresses nature and gods?
A) Apostrophe
B) Irony
C) Oxymoron
D) Pun
✅ Answer: A) Apostrophe
✏️ Difficult Level (16–20)
16. In the structure of the Petrarchan sonnet, the 'octave' is usually followed by a:
A) Another octave
B) Sestet
C) Couplet
D) Quatrain
✅ Answer: B) Sestet
17. Which of the following lines shows the poet’s emotional outburst?
A) "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;"
B) "Little we see in Nature that is ours;"
C) "It moves us not.—Great God! I’d rather be"
D) "This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;"
✅ Answer: C) "It moves us not.—Great God! I’d rather be"
18. What kind of rhyme scheme is used in the sestet (last six lines) of this poem?
A) Always CDCDCD
B) Always CDECDE
C) Flexible (commonly CDCDCD or CDECDE)
D) Fixed AABBCC
✅ Answer: C) Flexible (commonly CDCDCD or CDECDE)
19. Why does the poet mention ancient gods like Proteus and Triton?
A) To celebrate Greek mythology
B) To suggest that ancient people had a better connection to nature
C) To tell a mythological story
D) To mock religious beliefs
✅ Answer: B) To suggest that ancient people had a better connection to nature
20. Which feeling is most strongly expressed in the poem?
A) Happiness
B) Excitement
C) Nostalgia and sadness
D) Fear
✅ Answer: C) Nostalgia and sadness
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