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  1. "Ulysses" by Tennyson is written in the form of a —
    1. sonnet
    2. dramatic monologue
    3. pastoral elegy
    4. ballad
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    Answer: (B) dramatic monologue

    A single speaker who is not the poet addresses silent listeners — a dramatic monologue.

  2. The verse form of the poem is —
    1. heroic couplets
    2. blank verse
    3. terza rima
    4. ottava rima
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    Answer: (B) blank verse

    Blank verse — unrhymed iambic pentameter.

  3. Ulysses is the Roman name for the Greek hero —
    1. Achilles
    2. Agamemnon
    3. Odysseus
    4. Hector
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    Answer: (C) Odysseus

    He is Odysseus, king of Ithaca, hero of Homer’s Odyssey.

  4. To whom does Ulysses hand over his kingdom?
    1. Achilles
    2. Telemachus
    3. Penelope
    4. Laertes
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    Answer: (B) Telemachus

    His son Telemachus takes the sceptre and the isle.

  5. "I am a part of all that I have met" means that —
    1. he has travelled everywhere
    2. every experience has shaped him
    3. he is known to everyone
    4. he belongs to his people
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    Answer: (B) every experience has shaped him

    All he has seen and suffered has gone into making him who he is.

  6. The image "all experience is an arch" suggests that —
    1. experience is a burden
    2. each experience opens onto more beyond it
    3. experience is a prison
    4. experience is a bridge to death
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    Answer: (B) each experience opens onto more beyond it

    Through the arch gleams the untravelled world, whose margin fades as he moves.

  7. "To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use" compares a man to a —
    1. ship
    2. blade or tool
    3. star
    4. tree
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    Answer: (B) blade or tool

    Metal shines when used and rusts when idle — so does a man.

  8. The poem was written soon after the death of —
    1. Tennyson’s father
    2. Arthur Henry Hallam
    3. Lord Byron
    4. Tennyson’s son
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    Answer: (B) Arthur Henry Hallam

    It followed the sudden death of Hallam, as did In Memoriam.

  9. Which quality does Ulysses praise in Telemachus?
    1. His daring at sea
    2. His patient prudence in governing
    3. His skill in battle
    4. His gift for poetry
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    Answer: (B) His patient prudence in governing

    Telemachus is slow and prudent, fitted to civilise a rough people — work Ulysses cannot do.

  10. The final line of the poem is —
    1. Tho’ much is taken, much abides
    2. I am a part of all that I have met
    3. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
    4. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world
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    Answer: (C) To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

    Four stressed verbs in a row — the most quoted line Tennyson wrote.

  1. Besides Homer, which poet’s version of Ulysses did Tennyson draw on?
    1. Virgil
    2. Dante
    3. Ovid
    4. Milton
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    Answer: (B) Dante

    Dante’s Inferno imagines Ulysses sailing out past the known world and never returning.

  2. In the Happy Isles, Ulysses hopes to see —
    1. Penelope
    2. great Achilles
    3. his mother
    4. the gods of Olympus
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    Answer: (B) great Achilles

    He hopes they may reach the Happy Isles and see great Achilles, whom he knew.

  3. Which reading of Ulysses is also defensible?
    1. That he is simply a coward
    2. That he is a king abandoning his duty and his people
    3. That he never actually sails
    4. That he is speaking to his wife
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    Answer: (B) That he is a king abandoning his duty and his people

    The monologue lets us see his contempt for his people and wife, so he can be judged as a deserter.

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