When did Samuel Taylor Coleridge die ?

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1. When was Samuel Taylor Coleridge born ?

   A. November 12, 1762
   B. September 8, 1764
   C. January 10, 1789
   D. October 21, 1772

2. In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term ’willing suspension of disbelief’ in 1817 ?

   A. Kubla Khan
   B. Biographia Literaria
   C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
   D. Christabel

3. With which other poet did Samuel Taylor Coleridge founded the Romantic movement in English Literature ?

   A. Lord Byron
   B. Shelley
   C. William Wordsworth
   D. John Keats

4. Which one is the famous prose work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?

   A. Kubla Khan
   B. Christabel
   C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
   D. Biographia Literaria

5. Who is the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?

   A. Ralph Waldo Emerson
   B. Ernest Holmes
   C. John Locke
   D. John Locke

6. Which work of William Wordsworth, with the joint publication with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature ?

   A. The Excursion
   B. The Prelude
   C. Lyrical Ballads
   D. Poems, in Two Volumes

7. Which of the following was responsible for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s mental decline ?

   A. His addiction to opium
   B. His experiences during the French Revolution
   C. The end of his friendship with Wordsworth
   D. His physical battle with gout

8. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, why does the Mariner kill the albatross ?

   A. For revenge
   B. To change the weather
   C. To bring forth life-in-death
   D. It is never directly stated why he does so.

9. A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to ?

   A. Heroine
   B. Cocaine
   C. Alcohol
   D. Opium

10. What is the name of the short-lived journal that Coleridge established ?

    A. The Romantic Philosophy
    B. The Spectator
    C. The Explicator
    D. The Watchman