Top 50 MCQ on Alfred Lord Tennyson- Lord Tennyson was a victorian writer and famous poet of English literature. He has awarded many prestigious awards like Poet Laureate, chancellor gold medal, etc. It’s important for an English literature enthusiast to read the biography and literary works of Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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Top 50 MCQ on Alfred Lord Tennyson

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1- Which historical Age did Tennyson belong to?

A-The Victorian Age

B-The Early Victorian

C-The Romantic Age

D-Modern Age

2-Tennyson was appointed the Poet Laureate of Egland after

A-William Wordsworth

B-Robert Browning

C-Robert Southey

D-S.T Coleridge

3-In In Memoriam Tennyson mourns the death of

A-Arthur Hallam

B-Lord Byron

C-Hugh Clough

D-Keats

4-How many years did Tennyson take in completing In Memoriam?

A-Seventeen Years

B-Ten Years

C-Eleven Years

D-Six Years

5-Tennyson’s Queen Mary is a

A-Drama

B-Novelette

C-Play

D-Poetry

6-What is Tennyson’s Maud

A-A Monodrama

B-A Narrative

C-A play

D-None

7-The Cup is a drama written by Tennyson

A-A Tragedy

B-A Farce

C-A Tragic-Comedy

D-A Drama

8-”And my there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea”

A-Crossing the Bar

B-In Memoriam

C-Break, Break, Break

D-Ulysses

9-The theme of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King is

A-The story of King Arthur and His Round Table

B-Greek Kings And of Troy

C-Roman Emperors and their Victories

D-The Voyage of Hercules and his Adventures

10-Which of the following poems of Tennyson won him the Chancellor’s medal at Cambridge?

A-Timbuktu

B-Lotos-Eater

C-Crossing the Bar

D-None

11-”Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell, That mind and soul, according to well”

A-Compromise between knowledge and faith

B-Supremacy of faith over Knowledge

C-Supremacy of Religion over both knowledge and faith

D-None

12-When Tennyson died, a copy of Shakespeare play was found lying under the cover of his bed, Which was the play

A-Cymbeline

B-King Lear

C-Hamlet

D-The Tempest

13-Queen Guinevere is a character in one of the following poems of Tenyson. In which of the following

A-Passing of Arthur

B-Ulysses

C-The Coming of Arthur

D-Maud

14-Queen Guinevere falls in love with one of the following Knights. Which of the following?

A-Lancelot

B-Galahad

C-Merlin

D-Bedivere

15-Tennyson idealized married life in

A-The Millers Daughter

B-The Prince

C-Maud

D-Queen Mab

16-”That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one las one element, And one far-off divine event”

A-In Memoriam

B-Maud

C-Crossing the Bar

D-Sir Galahad

17-”Dear is the memory of our wedded lives, And dear the last embraces of our wives, and their warm terms”

A-THe Lotos-Eater

B-Passing of Arthur

C-Ulysses

D-Morte d’Arthur

18-Tennyson has written a poem on the Tomb of a Mughal Emperor. On whose Tomb?

A-Akbar

B-Shahan

C-Aurenzeb

D-Jahangir

19-Tennyson has written a poem on a city of India. Which city?

A-Lucknow

B-Delhi

C-Calcutta

D-Jhansi

20-The only knight of the Round Table who remains alive after the passing of Arthur is

A-Bedivere

B-Merlin

C-Lancelot

D-Galahad

21-Tennyson generally portrays women as

A-Gentle and Refined

B-A drama

C-A monologue

D-A Ballad

22-Tennyson’s Enoch Arden is

A-A Narrative Poem

B-A drama

C-A Monologue

D-None

23- ”For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever” This line comes from

A-The Brook

B-The Song of the Lotus

C-The Beggar Maid

D-A Dream of Fair Women

24-King Cophetua is a character in

A-The Beggar Maid

B-A Dream of Fair Women

C-Sir Galahad

D-The Sleeping Beauty

25- ”There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay, She has heard a whisper say,

A- The Lady of Shalott

B-Queen Mary

C-The Princes

D-Maud

26- ”Cannon to right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannons in from of them, this lins occur in

A-Charge of the Light Brigade

B-Mort D’Arthur

C-Ulysses

D-None

27-”We have but faith, we cannot know for knowledge is of things we see, And yet we trust it comes from thee’

A-In Memoriam

B-The Two Voices

C-The Promise of May

D-None

28-How many pats are there in Maud: A Monodrama?

A-Three

B-Four

C-Two

D-One

29-The old order Changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills Himself in many ways,

A-The Passing of Arthur

B-The Holy Grail

C-The Round Table

D-The Coming of Arthur

30-”Man for the field and woman for the hearth, Man for the sword, and for the needle she”

A-The Princes

B-Ulysses

C-Locksley Hall

D-The Lady of Shalott

31-When was Tennyson born

A-1809

B-1899

C-1877

D-1855

32-Which was Tennyson’s first book published

A-Poems by Two Brothers

B-Morte d’ Arthur

C-The Lady of Shallot

D-Ulysses

33-The Lady of Shallot published in

A-1833

B-1845

C-1899

D-1544

34-The Lady of Shallot published under the volume of

A- Poems

B-Poems by Two Brothers

C-Legends

D-Arthurian Poems

35-Who wrote In Memoriam

A- Tennyson

B-Wordsworth

C-Shelley

D-Keats

36-What was Shallot

A- An Island

B-A Book

C- A place

D- A tool

37- Which one of the following is a historical drama by Tennyson

A-Harold

B-Cenci

C-Medas

D-Cato

38-Tennyson started his career by publishing the first volume of the poem

A-Poetry by Two Brothers

B-Men and Women

C-Dramatic Romance

D-None

39-The Chancellor’s Medal for English verse his from

A-Timbuctoo

B-Maud

C-Enoch Aden

D-None

40-What is the message of Tennyson poetry

A-Faith and Trust

B-Love

C-Trust

D-None

41-Tennyson’s Lady Shallot is a

A-A Narrative Poem

B-An Epic

C-A Romance

D-None

42-Who was the author of Lady of Shallot

A-Lancelot

B-Ulysses

C-King Arthur

D-None

43-Most representative poet of the Victorian age is

A-Tennyson

B-Mathew Arnold

C- Both

D-None

44-Tennyson was born at

A-Lincolnshire

B-England

C-American

D-None

45- ‘Two Brother’ poems appear in

A-1827

B-1855

C-1875

D-1875

46-Tennyson became poet Laureate in

A-1850

B-1855

C-1899

D-1866

47-In Memoriam was published in

A-1850

B-1875

C-1895

D-1866

48- Who wrote the song Tears, Idler Tears

A-Tennyson

B-Byron

C-Southey

D-Arnold

49-Which is the best-known poem of Tennyson

A-In Memoriam

B-Enoch Arden

C-Idyll of the King

D-The Princes

50-Which age Tennyson belongs to

A- Victorian

B-Romantic

C-Chaucer

D-None

Famous Works of Lord Tennyson

The Princes
In Memoriam
The Lotos-Eater
The Two Voices
The Eagle
Maud
Enoch Arden
The Window
Crossing the Bar
Harold
Godiva
Ulysses
Mariana
Locksley

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Top 50 MCQ on Alfred Lord Tennyson

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