Tithonus

Tithonus is written by ___.

• William Wordsworth

• Oscar Wilde

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Arthur Henry Hallam

The Goddess Tithonus fell in love with was ___.

• Aphrodite

• Artemis

• Apollo

• Eos

Eos is the goddess of what?

• Sun

• Dawn

• Noon

• Dusk

The audience of the poem is ___.

• The readers

• Tithonus

• Eos

• All Humans and Gods

Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote this poem in the form of a ___.

• Ballad

• Dramatic monologue

• Epic

• Lyric

Pick the one description of Tithonus that does NOT appear in the poem.

• withering wisp

• gray shadow, once a man

• white-hair'd shadow

• I earth in earth

What tone does the following line establish - "Of happy men that have the power to die, / And grassy barrows of the happier dead."

• joyful / happy

• envious / jealous

• cynical

• anxious

Which one of these did the "strong Hours" NOT do to Tithonus?

• maimed him

• marred him

• wasted him

• beat him

What was Eos' reaction/response to Tithonus' pleading and complaining?

• She was sad, felt remorse and cried before leaving.

• She was sad and apologized before leaving.

• She left him to do her job and lived happily.

• She locked him up in her palace and avoided him.

According to the myth, Eos finally turned Tithonus into a ___.

• grasshopper

• ant

• wasp

• beetle