Tennyson’s Poems Quizzes

Tennyson's Poems Quiz 1

1 "Mariana" is based on a character from
Milton

Keats

Donne

Shakespeare
2 Mariana lives in
the city

a cabin

a palace

a grange
3 Mariana and her settings are characterized by
vitality

sweetness

decay

light
4 Mariana cannot stand to look at
the tree

the moon

the water

the sun
5 Mariana is waiting for
her father

a lover

her unborn child

death
6 The Lady of Shalott works on
a poem

a painting

a book

a magic web
7 The Lady of Shalott does not leave her tower because
she physically cannot

she fears the world outside

there is a curse on her

she hates the world outside
8 Who does the Lady of Shalott break her curse for?
Bedivere

King Arthur

Lancelot

Gareth
9 What breaks after the Lady looks out the window?
The tower

Her heart

The mirror

The necklace
10 What does the Lady do when she leaves her tower?
Speaks to Lancelot

Finishes her web

Floats down the river in a boat

Marries Lancelot
11 "The Lotos-Eaters" is based on a story from
Milton

Homer

Shakespeare

Keats
12 What effect(s) does the lotos plant have?
Hope and confidence

Energy

Rage

Dreaminess and peace
13 The sailors who eat the lotos plant
want to return home immediately

want to die

want to keep journeying forever

never want to go home
14 Whom do the sailors of "The Lotos-Eaters" work with or for?
King Arthur

Tithonus

Achilles

Ulysses
15 "The Lotos-Eaters" is renowned for
its heroic and epic tone

its evocation of atmosphere and mood

its religious imagery

its expression of grief
16 What is "breaking" in "Break, break, break?"
The sunshine through the clouds

A heart

The wind

The sea
17 The mood of the speaker in "Break, break, break" is
somber and grieved

lighthearted

energized

contemplative and hopeful
18 The speaker in "Break, break, break" observes all the following EXCEPT
children playing

a sailor boy singing

a lady in a tower

ships coming in
19 The speaker of "Break, break, break" cannot
hear

see

feel

speak
20 It is likely that "Break, break, break" is about the death of Tennyson's
father

sister

mother

friend
21 What has Tithonus been granted?
Eternal youth

Eternal life

Ultimate knowledge

Power
22 What does Tithonus beg for?
To be less wise

To be able to go home

To be allowed to look out of his tower

To be allowed to die
23 With whom was Tithonus in love?
Persephone

Demeter

Aurora

Hera
24 Images of the natural cycle of life and death in "Tithonus" include all of the following EXCEPT
a swan

flowers

men

the woods
25 Tithonus is a figure from which set of myths?
Anglo-Saxon

Norse

Greek

Roman