32 Important MCQs on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses”. By PKG SIR

 32 Important MCQs on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses”. By PKG SIR

1. How is Ulysses described in the poem?

a) Brave sailor

b) Idle king

c) Fearless ruler

d) Mighty warrior

Answer: b) Idle king

2. What does the word ‘Ithaca’ symbolize in the poem?

a) Fertile land

b) City of dreams

c) Barren crags

d) Glorious empire

Answer: c) Barren crags

3. Penelope is referred to as:

a) Beautiful queen

b) Aged wife

c) Proud empress

d) Noble mother

Answer: b) Aged wife

4. How does Ulysses describe the people of Ithaca?

a) Noble race

b) Savage race

c) Gentle people

d) Religious folk

Answer: b) Savage race

5. The phrase ‘still hearth’ suggests:

a) A peaceful fire

b) Stagnancy in Ulysses’ life

c) Warm home

d) Retired life

Answer: b) Stagnancy in Ulysses’ life

6. ‘Rainy Hyades’ refers to:

a) A mountain

b) A war god

c) A Greek constellation

d) A storm

Answer: c) A Greek constellation

7. ‘Hungry heart’ implies:

a) Hunger for food

b) Greed for wealth

c) Desire for adventure

d) Passion for love

Answer: c) Desire for adventure

8. ‘My peers’ refers to:

a) The Gods

b) His enemies

c) The mariners

d) The people of Ithaca

Answer: c) The mariners

9. What are the ‘ringing plains’ symbolic of?

a) Peaceful fields

b) Battlefield of Troy

c) Desert land

d) Ulysses’ homeland

Answer: b) Battlefield of Troy

10. ‘Windy Troy’ is a reference to:

a) Greece

b) Roman Empire

c) Trojan War

d) Egyptian Myth

Answer: c) Trojan War

11. ‘Rust unburnish’d’ is a metaphor for:

a) A broken shield

b) Ulysses’ sword

c) A sword losing its shine

d) Dull old age

Answer: c) A sword losing its shine

12. ‘Eternal silence’ symbolizes:

a) Peace

b) Meditation

c) Death

d) Love

Answer: c) Death

13. ‘Three suns’ indicate:

a) Three planets

b) Three gods

c) Three years

d) Three sons

Answer: c) Three years

14. ‘Gray spirit’ means:

a) Ghost

b) Sorrow

c) Old age

d) Weakness

Answer: c) Old age

15. ‘Sinking star’ symbolizes:

a) Ulysses’ old age

b) A falling comet

c) Death of a friend

d) End of voyage

Answer: a) Ulysses’ old age

16. ‘My son’ refers to:

a) Hector

b) Achilles

c) Telemachus

d) Tiresias

Answer: c) Telemachus

17. ‘Rugged people’ are the:

a) Sailors

b) Greeks

c) People of Ithaca

d) Gods

Answer: c) People of Ithaca

18. ‘Offices of tenderness’ means:

a) Political duties

b) Filial duties

c) Military service

d) Worship

Answer: b) Filial duties

19. “He works his work, I mine” shows difference between:

a) Ulysses and Achilles

b) Telemachus and Ulysses

c) Gods and men

d) Past and future

Answer: b) Telemachus and Ulysses

20. ‘Seas’ symbolize:

a) Calm journey

b) Death

c) Adventure and danger

d) Riches

Answer: c) Adventure and danger

21. ‘Frolic welcome’ indicates:

a) A prayer

b) Joyful greeting of mariners

c) Ulysses’ sorrow

d) New kingdom

Answer: b) Joyful greeting of mariners

22. ‘Thunder’ in the poem symbolizes:

a) Ulysses’ voice

b) Natural disaster

c) Loss Ulysses endured

d) Zeus’ anger

Answer: c) Loss Ulysses endured

23. ‘Sunshine’ stands for:

a) Summer

b) Victory

c) Friendship

d) Light of knowledge

Answer: b) Victory

24. ‘Free hearts and free foreheads’ suggests:

a) Slavery

b) Fear

c) Freedom and open thought

d) Religious devotion

Answer: c) Freedom and open thought

25. Ulysses believes old age has:

a) No use

b) No strength

c) Glory too

d) Only weakness

Answer: c) Glory too

26. ‘Not unbecoming men’ refers to:

a) Kings

b) Slaves

c) Mariners

d) Ulysses and his companions

Answer: d) Ulysses and his companions

27. ‘Strove with Gods’ refers to:

a) Greek mythology

b) Trojan War

c) Journey to Hades

d) Divine punishment

Answer: b) Trojan War

28. ‘Long day wanes’ means:

a) Daylight

b) Ulysses’ old age

c) Sunset view

d) Nightfall

Answer: b) Ulysses’ old age

29. ‘Newer world’ reflects:

a) Rebirth

b) Ulysses’ search for knowledge

c) Colonization

d) Revenge

Answer: b) Ulysses’ search for knowledge

30. ‘Happy Isles’ refers to:

a) Heaven

b) Greek temple

c) Classical paradise

d) Island of Ithaca

Answer: c) Classical paradise

31. Achilles is:

a) Ulysses’ brother

b) A Trojan prince

c) A Greek hero

d) Ruler of Ithaca

Answer: c) A Greek hero

32. The line “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” is an example of:

a) Irony

b) Metaphor

c) Climax

d) Hyperbole

Answer: c) Climax