Collection of important MCQs on Alfred Lord Tennyson
What is Tennyson’s Maud ?
(A) A narrative poem
(B) A Monodrama
(C) A mythological tale
(D) A prose romance
Question’s Answer: A Monodrama
The Cup is a drama written by Tennyson.
What type of drama is it?
(A) A Comedy
(B) A Trag-Comedy
(C) A Farce
(D) A Tragedy
Question’s Answer: A Tragedy
“And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.”
These lines occur in Tennyson’s:
(A) Crossing the Bar
(B) Break, Break, Break
(C) In Memoriam
(D) Ulysses
Question’s Answer: Crossing the Bar
“Cannons to right of them. Cannons to left of them,
Cannons in front of them,
Which poems of Tennyson won him the Chancellor’s medal
at Cambridge?
(A) Charge of the Light Brigade
(B) Crossing the Bar
(C) Lotos-Eaters
(D) Timbuctoo
Question’s Answer: Timbuctoo
“Let knowledge grow from more to more,
But more of reverence in us dwell;
That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before.”
These lines are taken from Tennyson’s
In Memoriam. What do these lines imply?
(A) Compromise between knowledge and faith
(B) Supremacy of faith over knowledge
(C) Supremacy of knowledge over faith
(D) Supremacy of religion over both knowledge and faith
Question’s Answer: Compromise between knowledge and faith
When Tennyson pass away, a copy of a Shakespeare’s play was found lying under the cover
of his bed. Which was that play?
(A) The Tempest
(B) King Lear
(C) Hamlet
(D) Cymbeline
Question’s Answer: Cymbeline
Queen Guinevere is a character in which of the following poems of Tennyson. In which of
the following?
(A) Maud
(B) Ulysses
(C) Passing of Arthur
(D) The Coming of Arthur
Question’s Answer: Passing of Arthur
Tennyson idealizes married life in which of the following?
(A) Queen Mab
(B) The Princess
(C) Maud
(D) The Miller’s Daughter
Question’s Answer: The Miller’s Daughter
Tennyson belongs to which of the following historical Age?
(A) The Victorian Age
(B) The middle Georgian Age
(C) The later Georgian Age
(D) None of these
Question’s Answer: The Victorian Age
Tennyson was appointed the Poet Laureate of England after:
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Robert Southey
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Robert Browning
Question’s Answer: William Wordsworth
In Memoriam Tennyson mourns the death of _________ .
(A) Keats
(B) Arthur Hallam
(C) Hugh Clough
(D) Lord Byron
Question’s Answer: Arthur Hallam
How many years did Tennyson take in completing In Memoriam 7
(A) Two years
(B) Seven years
(C) Seventeen years
(D) Eleven years
Question’s Answer: Seventeen years
Example of ___ is Tennyson’s Queen Mary.
(A) Drama
(B) Novel
(C) Verse Tale
(D) Novelette
Question’s Answer: Drama
“That God, which ever lives and loves,
One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event
To which the whole creation moves.”
A poem of Tennyson’s closes with this stanza.
Which is this poem ?
(A) Sir Galahad
(B) Maud
(C) Crossing the Bar
(D) In Memoriam
Question’s Answer: In Memoriam
The idea/theme  of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King is:
(A) The Voyage of Hercules and his Adventures
(B) Greek Kings and Helen of Troy
(C) Roman Emperors and their Victories
(D) The story of King Arthur and His Round Table
Question’s Answer: The story of King Arthur and His Round Table
“For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.” This line is taken from which of the following poem?
(A) The Song of the Lotus
(B) Early Spring
(C) The Brook
(D) Break, Break, Break
Question’s Answer: The Brook
King Cophetua is a character in :
(A) Sir Galahad
(B) A Dream of Fair Women
(C) The Sleeping Beauty
(D) The Beggar Maid
Question’s Answer: The Beggar Maid
“There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay, She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay.” This line is taken from which of the following  poem?
(A) The Lady of Shalott
(B) The Princess
(C) Maud
(D) Queen Mary
Question’s Answer: The Lady of Shalott
“Dear is the memory of our wedded lives,
And dear the last embraces of our wives
And their warm tears: but all hath suffered change.”
This stanza is taken from Which poem?
(A) The Lotos-Eaters
(B) Ulysses
(C) Passing of Arthur
(D) Morte D’ Arthur
Question’s Answer: The Lotos-Eaters
Tennyson’s Enoch Arden is _______ .
(A) A Monologue
(B) A drama
(C) A narrative poem
(D) A ballad
Question’s Answer: A narrative poem
Volley’d and thunder’d” This line is taken from which of the following poem?
(A) Morte D’ Arthur
(B) Charge of the Heavy Brigade
(C) Charge of the Light Brigade
(D) Ulysses
Question’s Answer: Charge of the Light Brigade
“We have but faith: we cannot know;
For knowledge is of things we see;
And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness; let it grow.
This line is taken from which of the following poem?
(A) The Promise of May
(B) Queen Mary
(C) The Two Voices
(D) In Memoriam
Question’s Answer: In Memoriam
How many Parts are there in Maud: A Monodrama?
(A) Two
(B) Four
(C) Three
(D) Five
Question’s Answer: Three
Tennyson has written a poem on the Tomb of a Mughal Emperor.
On whose Tomb?
(A) Aurengzeb
(C) Akbar
(B) Shahjahan
(D) Jahangir
Question’s Answer: Akbar
Tennyson has written a poem on a city of
India. Which city?
(A) Jhansi
(B) Calcutta
(C) Delhi
(D) Lucknow
Question’s Answer: Lucknow
The only knight of the Round Table who remains alive after the passing of Arthur is:
(A) Galahad
(B) Bedivere
(C) Merlin
(D) Lancelot
Question’s Answer: Bedivere
Tennyson generally portrays women as:
(A) and refined
(B) Intelligent
(C) Coquettes
(D) Suppressed ones
Question’s Answer: and refined
The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
And God fulfils Himself in many Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”
which poem are these lines quoted?
(A) The Coming of Arthur
(B) The Holy Grail
(C) The Round Table
(D) The Passing of Arthur
Question’s Answer: The Passing of Arthur
“Man for the field and woman for the hearth,
Man for the sword, and for the needle she.. Man with the head and woman with the heart; Man to command and woman to obey.” This line is taken from which of the following poem?
(A) The Lady of Shalott
(B) Locksley Hall
(C) The Princess
(D) Ulysses
Question’s Answer: The Princess
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