Ulysses MCQ PDF (One Liner Questions for Quick Revision) | Class 12 | Semester 3 | WBCHSE

1) The poem ‘Ulysses’ is a/an – dramatic monologue.

2) ‘Ulysses’ was composed in – blank verse.

3) Tennyson’s depiction of the character of Ulysses is based on – Homer’s “Odyssey” and Dante’s “Inferno”.

4) Ulysses was the king of – Ithaca.

5) ‘It little profits…’ – What little profits to the speaker – to lead a static domestic life without adventure.

6) ‘By this still hearth…’ – Here ‘hearth’ symbolizes – narrow boundary of domestic life.

7) ‘among these barren crags’ – it refers to – rocky and barren island of Ithaca.

8) ‘Match’d with an aged wife’ – Here ‘aged wife’ refers to – Penelope.

9) ‘a savage race’ – ‘savage race’ refers to – people of Ithaca.

10) The poet wishes to drink life to the – lees / dregs.

11) ‘I will drink / Life to the lees’ – Here life has been compared to – a glass of bottle of wine.

12) ‘Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades’ – Here the expression ‘scudding drifts’ means – the violent sea waves.

13) ‘I am become a name’ – Here ‘I’ refers to – Ulysses.

14) ‘Hyades’ were known as – rainers or rain-makers.

15) The shape of Hyades resembled – V

16) ‘I am become a name’ – The line suggests that – he became famous as a living legend.

17) ‘And drunk the delight of battle’ – Here the battle refers to – Trojan War.

18) Ulysses drank the delight of battle in the ringing plains of – Troy.

19) The war of Troy was fought between – the Greeks and the Trojans.

20) Ulysses compares knowledge and experience to – an arch.

21) What according to Ulysses, gleams through the arch of all attained knowledge or experience? – unexplored knowledge or experience.

22) “To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!” – In the quoted line life has been compared to – a sheathed sword.

23) “As tho’ to breath were life!” – The line suggests – only existence (mere breathing) without doing something worthwhile is not the true meaning of life.

24) “To rust unburnished, not to shine in use” – In the quoted line the figure of speech used is – Metaphor.

25) “For some three suns to store and hoard myself” – Here ‘three suns’ means – three years.

26) “And this gray spirit yearning in desire” – Here ‘gray spirit’ suggests – old age.

27) Ulysses wishes to follow knowledge like – sinking star.

28) “To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle” – Here ‘sceptre’ symbolizes – Kingship

29) “To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle” – Here ‘isle’ refers to – island of Ithaca.

30) “He works his work, I mine” – Here ‘he’ and ‘I’ respectively refer to – Telemachus and Ulysses

31) In the third stanza Ulysses addresses – his co-mariners / peers.

32) ‘The thunder and sunshine’ – Here ‘thunder’ suggests – perils of foul weather.

33) ‘The thunder and sunshine’ – Here ‘sunshine’ stands for – fair weather or happy state.

34) “you and I are old” – Here ‘you and I’ refer to – Ulysses and his companions.

35) “Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods” – The line alludes to – the Trojan War.

36) The light began to twinkle from the – rocks.

37) “the deep / Moans round with many voices” – Here the ‘deep’ suggests – the sea.

38) In the pursuit of knowledge Ulysses is determined to – to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of the western stars.

39) Happy Isles are also known as – Fortune Isles / Isles of the Blessed / Earthly Paradise.

40) Happy Isles were supposed to be a place of – perpetual bliss.

41) Ulysses anticipates that – (i) gulfs may wash them down, (ii) they may touch the Happy Isles, (iii) they may meet the great Achilles.

42) The Greek hero whom Ulysses expects to meet in Happy Isles is – Achilles.

43) The only vulnerable part in the body of Achilles was his – heels.

44) Ulysses confesses that he has been made weak by – time and fate.

45) ‘To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield’ – Which aspect or aspects of Ulysses’ character is / are revealed here? – eternal quest for adventure and exploration / granite determination to carry on even at the teeth of all adversities of life / spirit of Victorian Renaissance.

46) In Tennyson’s Ulysses, the speaker reflects on a life of – restless adventure.