Topic: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

_______1. Which of the following is Tennyson least likely to have read before 1850?


a) The Bible


b) Darwin’s on the Origin of Species


c) Lyell’s Geology


d) Chambers’s Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation


_______2. “The Apostles” was the name of:


a) Tennyson’s church youth group


b) Tennyson’s favorite band


c) Tennyson’s circle of friends at college


d) Tennyson’s father’s congregation


_______3. Which university did Tennyson attend as an undergraduate?


a) Oxford


b) Cambridge


c) Harvard


d) Yale


_______4. The inspiration for “Mariana” comes from which of the following Shakespearean plays?


a) Hamlet


b) A Midsummer Night’s Dream


c) Measure for Measure


d) Twelfth Night


_______5. Which of the following famous phrases did Tennyson pen?


a) Miles to go before I sleep


b) The best-laid schemes of mice and men


c) How do I love thee?


d) ‘Tis better to have loved and lost


_______6. For which of the following poems is classical mythology not the primary inspiration?


a) “Crossing the Bar”


b) “Ulysses”


c) “Tiresias”


d) “Tithonus”


_______7. Which of the following poems includes a choric song?


a) “In Memoriam”


b) “Mariana”


c) “Locksley Hall”


d) “The Lotos-Eaters”


_______8. “The Epic” was written as a frame for which of the following poems?


a) “The Lady of Shalott”


b) “Morte d’Arthur”


c) “Tithonus”


d) “In Memoriam”