English Literature Quiz 17

Whose death was the greatest sorrow of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's life? (Full name)

What poem did Tennyson request always be placed at the end of his works?

What poem by Tennyson has the lines:

"Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all”?

In Idylls of the King, who used the sin of Lancelot and Guinevere to disrupt

the Round Table for traitorous purposes?

What is a lyric poem that reveals “a soul in action” through

the conversation of one character in a dramatic situation?

What is a short work describing pleasant scenes of country or domestic life?

• madrigal

• idyll

• ballad

• essay

What poem describes a sailor who is lost for ten years and

then returns home to find that his wife has remarried?

• “Ulysses”

• Idylls of the King

• Enoch Arden

• “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After”

What poem has the theme of the war of sense with soul or the flesh with the spirit?

• “Ulysses”

• Idylls of the King

• Enoch Arden

• “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After”

In “The Passing of Arthur," who throws Excalibur into the lake?

• Sir Lancelot

• King Arthur

• Queen Guinevere

• Sir Bedivere

In "The Revenge," who leads the valiant but doomed English ship and sailors who fight against a Spanish force of fifty-three ships?

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Sir Richard Grenville

• Lord Thomas Howard

• Sir Philip Sidney