WorksheetsThe Victorian Age (1832-1901)
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“And by the moon the reaper weary,/Piling sheaves in uplands airy…”
bales of cotton
bundles of grain
stacks of kindling
clusters of insects
Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“Sometimes a curly shepherd lad,/Or long-haired page in crimson clad…”
lady-in-waiting
servant of royalty
knight-in-training
student of religion
Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole/Unequal laws unto a savage race…”
collect
give out
sigh
weep
Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“This is my son, mine own Telemachus,/To whom I leave the scepter and the isle…”
title
wisdom
royal baton
robe and crown
Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“One equal temper of heroic hearts,/Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will…”
frame of mind
plan for attack
path to destiny
degree of balance
Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“Glory be to God for dappled things—/For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow…”
crafted
hushed
spotted
striped
Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“All things counter, original, spare, strange…”
embracing
ignoring
opposing
uniting
Read these lines from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott.”
“Willows whiten, aspens quiver,/Little breezes dusk and shiver/Through the wave that runs forever/By the island in the river/Flowing down to Camelot…”
Toward whose home is the river flowing?
Beowulf
Grendel
The Wife of Bath
King Arthur
Read these lines from Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.”
“A heart – how shall I say? – too soon made glad,/Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er/She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.”
How is the poem’s speaker describing its subject?
as loving and fearful
as flirtatious and naive
as beloved and flawless
as beautiful and cunning
Read these final lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty.”
“Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)/With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;/He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:/Praise him.”
With which of these sentiments does Hopkins conclude his poem?
Much in creation is imperfect, if not dangerous.
All of creation serves as a reason to revere God.
True beauty comes from things that remain constant.
Everything has an opposite, and the right choices must be made.
Which excerpt from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Spring and Fall” describes grief as a self-centered act?
“It ís the blight man was born for,/It is Margaret you mourn for.”
"Now no matter, child, the name:/Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.”
“Áh! ás the heart grows older/It will come to such sights colder…”
“Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed/What heart heard of, ghost guessed…”
Which excerpt from Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” most plainly expresses awe for its subject?
“So little cause for carolings/Of such ecstatic sound…”
"I leant upon a coppice gate/When Frost was spectre-gray…”
“The tangled bine-stems scored the sky,/Like strings of broken lyres…”
"The land’s sharp features seemed to be/The Century’s corpse outleant…”
The macaroni and cheese ___ ready to eat now.
is
are
were
Neither the cars nor the trucks (has, have) new tires.
has
have
Which of these words has the same denotative meaning as, but a different connotative meaning than, the word buy?
get
obtain
purchase
splurge
Which of these words has the same denotative meaning as, but a different connotative meaning than, the word copious.
meager
abundant
lavish
sparse
Which of these is a collective noun?
automobiles
congregation
cattle
them
Which sentence contains a collective noun?
I saved my allowance to buy a video game.
One-eighth of my allowance goes into savings.
I earn my allowance by watching my baby sister.
I love spending my allowance on games.
An award is given every year to the student _________ has the highest grade-point average.
whom
who
which
that
