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History of English Literature – The Age of Tennyson – Exam Based MCQs
1. The Age of Tennyson broadly refers to the: (UGC NET / SET / PGTRB)
A) Elizabethan Age
B) Romantic Age
C) Victorian Age
D) Restoration Age
Ans: C) Victorian Age
2. The Age of Tennyson roughly covers much of the: (SET)
A) 14th century
B) 17th century
C) 18th century
D) 19th century
Ans: D) 19th century
3. The age is named after: (UGC NET)
A) Alfred Lord Tennyson
B) Robert Browning
C) Matthew Arnold
D) Thomas Carlyle
Ans: A) Alfred Lord Tennyson
4. Alfred Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in: (PGTRB)
A) 1800
B) 1832
C) 1850
D) 1892
Ans: C) 1850
5. Tennyson succeeded whom as Poet Laureate? (SET)
A) William Wordsworth
B) John Milton
C) Alexander Pope
D) Robert Southey
Ans: D) Robert Southey
6. Queen Victoria’s reign began in: (UGC NET)
A) 1789
B) 1837
C) 1850
D) 1901
Ans: B) 1837
7. The Victorian age is marked by: (PGTRB)
A) Feudal warfare
B) Industrial progress and social change
C) Purely pastoral simplicity
D) Medieval monastic life
Ans: B) Industrial progress and social change
8. One major scientific influence on the age was: (SET)
A) Darwinism
B) Epicureanism
C) Stoicism only
D) Medieval scholasticism
Ans: A) Darwinism
9. The publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species caused: (UGC NET)
A) Religious certainty only
B) Loss of interest in science
C) Intellectual and religious doubt
D) End of prose fiction
Ans: C) Intellectual and religious doubt
10. A major characteristic of Victorian literature is: (PGTRB)
A) Moral earnestness
B) Complete rejection of society
C) Pure classicism only
D) Absence of realism
Ans: A) Moral earnestness
11. Tennyson’s long elegy on the death of Arthur Hallam is: (SET)
A) Ulysses
B) In Memoriam
C) Maud
D) The Princess
Ans: B) In Memoriam
12. In Memoriam is notable for its treatment of: (UGC NET)
A) Political satire
B) Religious doubt and faith
C) Medieval romance only
D) Comic urban life
Ans: B) Religious doubt and faith
13. Arthur Hallam was Tennyson’s: (PGTRB)
A) Father
B) Friend
C) Brother
D) Publisher
Ans: B) Friend
14. “Nature, red in tooth and claw” occurs in: (SET)
A) Ulysses
B) In Memoriam
C) Locksley Hall
D) The Lotos-Eaters
Ans: B) In Memoriam
15. Tennyson’s dramatic monologue beginning “It little profits…” is: (UGC NET)
A) Ulysses
B) Tithonus
C) Crossing the Bar
D) Morte d’Arthur
Ans: A) Ulysses
16. Ulysses mainly expresses: (PGTRB)
A) Weariness of art
B) Desire for adventure and striving
C) Satire on politics
D) Rural poverty
Ans: B) Desire for adventure and striving
17. Tennyson’s line “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” occurs in: (SET)
A) Maud
B) The Princess
C) Ulysses
D) Break, Break, Break
Ans: C) Ulysses
18. Tennyson’s poem about weariness and escape is: (UGC NET)
A) The Lotos-Eaters
B) Dora
C) Mariana
D) Rizpah
Ans: A) The Lotos-Eaters
19. Tennyson’s poem based on Greek myth about endless old age is: (PGTRB)
A) Ulysses
B) Tithonus
C) The Charge of the Light Brigade
D) Lady of Shalott
Ans: B) Tithonus
20. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” is based on an event in the: (SET)
A) French Revolution
B) Crimean War
C) American Civil War
D) Boer War
Ans: B) Crimean War
21. “Theirs not to reason why…” occurs in: (UGC NET)
A) Ulysses
B) The Charge of the Light Brigade
C) In Memoriam
D) Morte d’Arthur
Ans: B) The Charge of the Light Brigade
22. Tennyson’s poems based on Arthurian legend are collected in: (PGTRB)
A) The Princess
B) Idylls of the King
C) Maud
D) English Idyls
Ans: B) Idylls of the King
23. Idylls of the King centers on: (SET)
A) Roman emperors
B) King Arthur and his knights
C) Victorian factory workers
D) Biblical prophets
Ans: B) King Arthur and his knights
24. “Crossing the Bar” is often read as a poem about: (UGC NET)
A) Political revolution
B) Death as a final voyage
C) Industrial labour
D) Social satire
Ans: B) Death as a final voyage
25. Another major poet of the age is: (PGTRB)
A) Robert Browning
B) Pope
C) Dryden
D) Byron
Ans: A) Robert Browning
26. Browning is especially famous for perfecting the: (SET)
A) Sonnet
B) Dramatic monologue
C) Heroic couplet
D) Ballad stanza
Ans: B) Dramatic monologue
27. Browning’s famous dramatic monologue is: (UGC NET)
A) My Last Duchess
B) Adonais
C) Tintern Abbey
D) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Ans: A) My Last Duchess
28. Another major poet of the age is: (PGTRB)
A) Matthew Arnold
B) Ben Jonson
C) Blake
D) Congreve
Ans: A) Matthew Arnold
29. Matthew Arnold is famous for poems like: (SET)
A) Dover Beach
B) Ulysses
C) Kubla Khan
D) The Rape of the Lock
Ans: A) Dover Beach
30. Arnold is important in criticism for his idea of: (UGC NET)
A) Touchstone method
B) Objective correlative
C) Negative capability
D) Dissociation of sensibility
Ans: A) Touchstone method
31. The Victorian novel flourished through writers like: (PGTRB)
A) Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Hardy
B) Pope, Dryden, Swift
C) Marlowe, Jonson, Kyd
D) Donne, Herbert, Vaughan
Ans: A) Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Hardy
32. Charles Dickens is famous as a: (SET)
A) Novelist
B) Epic poet
C) Dramatist only
D) Metaphysical critic
Ans: A) Novelist
33. George Eliot wrote: (UGC NET)
A) Middlemarch
B) David Copperfield
C) Jane Eyre
D) Vanity Fair
Ans: A) Middlemarch
34. Thomas Hardy belongs to the later part of the Victorian age and wrote: (PGTRB)
A) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
B) Robinson Crusoe
C) Pamela
D) Tristram Shandy
Ans: A) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
35. Victorian prose often reflects: (SET)
A) Social criticism and realism
B) Only medieval fantasy
C) Complete rejection of morality
D) Pure classicism only
Ans: A) Social criticism and realism
36. Tennyson’s poetry is especially admired for its: (UGC NET)
A) Musicality and craftsmanship
B) Crude realism only
C) Satirical wit only
D) Blank prose style
Ans: A) Musicality and craftsmanship
37. A major feature of Victorian poetry is: (PGTRB)
A) Conflict between faith and doubt
B) Purely comic tone
C) Total absence of reflection
D) Medieval anonymity
Ans: A) Conflict between faith and doubt
38. The Victorian age also gave importance to: (SET)
A) Social reform
B) Only feudal values
C) Only classical myth
D) No moral concern
Ans: A) Social reform
39. Which pair is correctly matched? (UGC NET)
A) Tennyson — In Memoriam
B) Browning — The Prelude
C) Arnold — Ulysses
D) Dickens — Dover Beach
Ans: A) Tennyson — In Memoriam
40. Which statement is TRUE about the Age of Tennyson? (PGTRB)
A) It is mainly an age of heroic couplets and satire
B) It is an age of Victorian moral earnestness, doubt, realism, and poetic craftsmanship
C) It is the age of Restoration comedy
D) It rejects the novel form
Ans: B) It is an age of Victorian moral earnestness, doubt, realism, and poetic craftsmanship
41. The Age of Tennyson is important for the growth of the: (SET)
A) Victorian novel
B) Mystery play
C) Alliterative epic
D) Pastoral masque
Ans: A) Victorian novel
42. Victorian literature often combines: (UGC NET)
A) Realism with idealism
B) Only fantasy and myth
C) Only satire and wit
D) Only pastoral lyricism
Ans: A) Realism with idealism
43. Tennyson’s importance in English literature lies especially in his role as: (PGTRB)
A) Chief poetic voice of the Victorian age
B) First English dramatist
C) Only major critic
D) Lexicographer
Ans: A) Chief poetic voice of the Victorian age
44. Which literary quality best suits Tennyson? (SET)
A) Melodious expression
B) Harsh satire only
C) Purely colloquial realism
D) Dramatic fragmentation
Ans: A) Melodious expression
45. Which statement best suits Browning’s role in the age? (UGC NET)
A) He perfected the dramatic monologue and psychological insight
B) He rejected individuality completely
C) He wrote only epics
D) He wrote only novels
Ans: A) He perfected the dramatic monologue and psychological insight
46. Which statement best suits Arnold’s role in the age? (PGTRB)
A) He represented reflection, criticism, and spiritual unrest
B) He was only a dramatist
C) He rejected all criticism
D) He wrote only comic songs
Ans: A) He represented reflection, criticism, and spiritual unrest
47. Which statement best suits The Age of Tennyson? (SET)
A) It is an age of scientific progress along with moral and spiritual anxiety
B) It is purely medieval
C) It is the age of Shakespearean comedy
D) It is mainly an age of Augustan satire
Ans: A) It is an age of scientific progress along with moral and spiritual anxiety
48. Which statement best suits Victorian poetry? (UGC NET)
A) It is often reflective, serious, and technically refined
B) It rejects craftsmanship completely
C) It is only humorous
D) It avoids social issues entirely
Ans: A) It is often reflective, serious, and technically refined
49. Which statement best suits The Age of Tennyson? (PGTRB)
A) It is an age of realism, earnestness, and rich poetic variety
B) It is only an age of mock-epic satire
C) It is mainly an age of feudal romance
D) It rejects the prose novel
Ans: A) It is an age of realism, earnestness, and rich poetic variety
50. Which statement best describes The Age of Tennyson? (UGC NET)
A) It is the 19th-century Victorian age centered on Tennyson, moral seriousness, scientific doubt, poetic craftsmanship, and the flourishing of the Victorian novel
B) It is the medieval age of Chaucerian realism
C) It is the Restoration age of Dryden and satire
D) It is the Romantic age of Wordsworth and Coleridge
Ans: A) It is the 19th-century Victorian age centered on Tennyson, moral seriousness, scientific doubt, poetic craftsmanship, and the flourishing of the Victorian novel
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