The Victorian Age (1832-1901)

Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.

“And by the moon the reaper weary,/Piling sheaves in uplands airy…”

• bales of cotton

• bundles of grain

• stacks of kindling

• clusters of insects

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“Sometimes a curly shepherd lad,/Or long-haired page in crimson clad…”

• lady-in-waiting

• servant of royalty

• knight-in-training

• student of religion

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“Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole/Unequal laws unto a savage race…”

• collect

• give out

• sigh

• weep

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“This is my son, mine own Telemachus,/To whom I leave the scepter and the isle…”

• title

• wisdom

• royal baton

• robe and crown

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“One equal temper of heroic hearts,/Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will…”

• frame of mind

• plan for attack

• path to destiny

• degree of balance

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“Glory be to God for dappled things—/For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow…”

• crafted

• hushed

• spotted

• striped

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“All things counter, original, spare, strange…”

• embracing

• ignoring

• opposing

• uniting

Read these lines from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott.”

“Willows whiten, aspens quiver,/Little breezes dusk and shiver/Through the wave that runs forever/By the island in the river/Flowing down to Camelot…”

Toward whose home is the river flowing?

• Beowulf

• Grendel

• The Wife of Bath

• King Arthur

Read these lines from Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.”

“A heart – how shall I say? – too soon made glad,/Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er/She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.”

How is the poem’s speaker describing its subject?

• as loving and fearful

• as flirtatious and naive

• as beloved and flawless

• as beautiful and cunning

Read these final lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty.”

“Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)/With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;/He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:/Praise him.”

With which of these sentiments does Hopkins conclude his poem?

• Much in creation is imperfect, if not dangerous.

• All of creation serves as a reason to revere God.

• True beauty comes from things that remain constant.

• Everything has an opposite, and the right choices must be made.