Which contemporary discussions on women’s rights did Tennyson’s The Princess address ?

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1. Which contemporary discussions on women’s rights did Tennyson’s The Princess address ?

   A. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
   B. the debate on women’s suffrage
   C. the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women’s college in London
   D. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power

2. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the …..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

3. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the …..: Man to command and woman to ____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

4. The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ is ?

   A. Queen Victoria’s coronation
   B. Industrial Revolution
   C. Women’s Education and Rights
   D. Rise of Democracy

5. I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be–while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! Awful injustice! ?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. William Apess

6. In ’In Memorium’, Tennyson mourns the death of ________________?

   A. Hugh Clough
   B. Arthur Hallam
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Keats

7. Complete the following sentence. Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Browning’s dramatic monologues can best be seen as combining neoclassicism with romanticism through their ?

   A. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.
   B. romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.
   C. romantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on social context.
   D. romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.

8. In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?

   A. The representative poet of Victorian Age
   B. The representative poet of Romantic Age
   C. The best nature poet
   D. None of these

9. In Memoriam by Tennyson is________________?

   A. an elegy
   B. a collection of elegies
   C. a lyric
   D. a dramatic lyric

10. Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria ?

    A. The Idylls of the kings
    B. Charge of the Light Brigade
    C. In Memoriam
    D. None of these