Objective Type Questions

For each of the following questions, four alternatives are given for the answer. Only one of them is correct. Choose the correct alternative.

1. When was Tennyson born on?
(a) 1805
(b) 1809
(c) 1807
(d) 1812

2. The famous elegy 'Memoriam' was written in the memory of -
(a) Hallam
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Shelley

3. 'Memoriam' was published in -
(a) 1851
(b) 1845
(c) 1852
(d) 1850

4. Tennyson made his great friend at Cambridge to whom?
(a) Shelley
(b) Browning
(c) Hardy
(d) Hallam

5. 'Break, Break, Break was written by Tennyson on :
(a) Byron
(b) Shelley
(c) Hallam
(d) Keats

6. Whose death makes Tennyson to compose the poem 'Break, Break, Break' -
(a) Arthur Hallam
(b) Edward
(c) Alfred
(d) John

7. Who was not a victorian poet?
(a) Lardy
(b) Tennyson
(c) Shelley
(d) Browning

8. Which is the longest of all?
(a) Lyric
(b) Epic
(c) Elegy
(d) Ode

9. 'Break, Break, Break' was published in -
(a) 1824
(b) 1825
(c) 1842
(d) 1852

10. 'Uhysses' described in the poem is a
(a) Soldier
(b) Countryman
(c) Ruler
(d) Farmer

11. "Tennyson was before all things, a flawless artist" who said about Tennyson?
(a) R.C. Jebbs
(b) R.C. Brimley
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Hallam

12. The year of publication of Lotus Eater is -
(a) 1852
(b) 1853
(c) 1832
(d) 1842

13. When Tennyson met his Arthur Henry Hallam -
(a) in 1832
(b) in 1828
(c) in 1830
(d) in 1834

14. Where Tennyson met Arthur Hallam?
(a) Orford
(b) London
(c) France
(d) Cambridge

15. Tennyson was born at -
(a) Lincolnshire
(b) Hampshire
(c) Lankashire
(d) Menchestor

16. 'Dream of Fair Woman' was written by -
(a) Browning
(b) Hardy
(c) Thompson
(d) Tennyson

17. Tennyson's "Poems by Two Brothers" was published in -
(a) 1824
(b) 1827
(c) 1830
(d) 1832

18. Ulysses took part in which great battle -
(a) Battle Troy
(b) Battle of France
(c) Battle of Italy
(d) Battle of None

19. Ulysses was king of -
(a) Rome
(b) Troy
(c) Ithaca
(d) Greek

20. Telemachus was -
(a) Ulysses son
(b) Ulysser friend
(c) Commandor
(d) Sailor

21. The date and year when Tennyson died is -
(a) September 6, 1892
(b) October 7, 1890
(c) October 5, 1892
(d) October 6, 1892

22. Which of the following poem is not by Tennyson -
(a) In Memoriam
(b) Mand
(c) The Waste Land
(d) The princess

23. Ulysses was a man of -
(a) Liar
(b) Adventure
(c) Racing
(d) Gambling

24. Ulysses returns home after -
(a) Ten years
(b) Nine years
(c) Twenty years
(d) Sixteen years

25. Where did Ulysses decide to go?
(a) North
(b) East
(c) West
(d) South

26. What is the figure of speech in Break, Break Break / On thy cold gray stones, O sea! -
(a) Oxymoran
(b) Pesonification
(c) Onomatopoeia
(d) Allieteration

27. 'But O for the touch of a vanished hand,' refers to -
(a) The Prospice
(b) Break Break Break
(c) Ulysses
(d) None of these

28. Break Break Break is -
(a) a short lyric
(b) a short elegy
(c) a short ode
(d) None of these

29. Tennyson was a representative poet of -
(a) Elizabethan Age
(b) Modern Age
(c) Victorian Age
(d) Romantic Age

30. Tennyson expressed in his poetry, is called -
(a) Victorian compromise
(b) Victorian fashion society
(c) Victorian tradition
(d) None of these

31. What is thought of Tennyson behind his poem 'Ulysses'?
(a) Homer's Odyssey
(b) Virgil's Iliad
(c) Milton's Lycidas
(d) Kyd's Spanish Tragedy

32. The appeal of Tennyson's poetry is -
(a) Close to reality
(b) Close to relation
(c) Close to reformation
(d) None of these

33. The reason of the writing poem 'Break Break Break' was -
(a) Death of his wife
(b) Death of his beloved
(c) Death of his son
(d) Death of his friend

34. 'Ulysses' is a poem of -
(a) Disaster of youth
(b) Action in life
(c) Noble in action
(d) All of these

35. The subject matter of the poem was suggested to Tennyson by -
(a) Homer's Oyssey
(b) Virgil's Iliad
(c) Milton's Lycidas
(d) Dante's Infer no.

36. 'O well for the sailor lad,' what is the meaning of "the sailor lad" -
(a) Fisherman's boy
(b) The seamans' boy
(c) The joyous life
(d) His friend's hand

37. The main quality in Tennyson's Break Break Break is -
(a) Music and melody in the poem
(b) Sorrow and grief in the poem
(c) Grief and Nature's gaiety in the poem
(d) All of these

38. Which is not the creation of Tennyson -
(a) Windsor Forest
(b) In Memoriam
(c) The Gradener's Daughter
(d) The Dream of Fair Woman

39. Tennyson's pure lyric is -
(a) Break Break Break
(b) Ulysses
(c) Tears Idle Tears
(d) All of these

40. To whom it is said. "Every tiger madness muzzled, every serpen passion killed."
(a) Browning
(b) Crombell
(c) Dickens
(d) Tennyson

41. Tennyson's 'Harold' Published in -
(a) 1889
(b) 1886
(c) 1885
(d) 1876

42. For which poem Tenny got cambridge university chancell's gold medal?
(a) Oenone
(b) Queen Marry
(c) Timbuctoo
(d) Place of Art

43. "The cup and Falcon' is published in -
(a) 1890
(b) 1889
(c) 1883
(d) 1884

44. "Idyllus of the king" is published in-
(a) 1863
(b) 1860
(c) 1859
(d) 1864

45. Who comments about Tennyson."Tennyson was before all things, a flawless artist."
(a) R.C. Jebbs
(b) Rober Browing
(c) John Keats
(d) R.C. Brimley

46. Tennyson's 'Ulysses' is a -
(a) Elegy
(b) Dramatic Monologue
(c) Sonnet
(d) Drama

47. Lyric springs up straight from the -
(a) heart
(b) stomach
(c) mind
(d) kidney

48. Who was an ardent admiser of Tennyson?
(a) Robert Browning
(b) Dante
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Keats

49. Where did Ulysses decides to go -
(a) South
(b) North
(c) East
(d) West

50. Which is the longest of all-
(a) Lyric
(b) Ode
(c) Sonnet
(d) Epic

51. Who among the following stood for the Victorian compromise?
(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Carlyle
(d) Matthew Arnold

52. Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break" is written in:
(a) Two stanzas
(b) Three stanzas
(c) Four stanzas
(d) Five stanzas

53. In which stanza of "Break, Break, Break," does the following line occur?
"But o for the touch of the vanished hand."
(a) First
(b) Third
(c) Fifth
(d) Fourth

54. In which poem of Tennyson does the following famous line occur?
"Strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."
(a) The Lotos Eaters
(b) Break, Break, Break
(c) Ulysses
(d) None of the these

55. Tennyson won which prize for the poem "Timbuctoo" in Cambridge University?
(a) Noble Laureate
(b) The honorary degree of D.C.L.
(c) The Chancellor's Prize
(d) All of tha above

56. Which one is the representative poet of the Victorian Age?
(a) Robert Browning
(b) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(c) Thomas Gray
(d) Matthew Arnold

57. In the poem, "Break, Break, Break". Tennyson is lamenting the death of whom?
(a) Wife
(b) Son
(c) Friend
(d) Parents

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