WorksheetsIn Memoriam
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
What emotion dominates the opening line “Dark house, by which once more I stand”?
Grief
Joy
Anger
Relief
The phrase “long unlovely street” evokes which atmosphere?
A rich neighborhood
Desolation and bleakness
Celebration
Busy city life
The “hand that can be clasp’d no more” refers to:
A broken handshake
Tennyson’s mother
Hallam’s absence through death
A symbolic marriage
The repeated references to doors emphasize:
Locked houses in Victorian England
A threshold separating life from death
Expensive architecture
Poverty
The phrase “like a guilty thing I creep” suggests the speaker feels:
Sleepy
Confused
Proud
Ashamed and emotionally troubled
What sound pattern appears in “Here in the long unlovely street”?
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Alliteration
Internal rhyme
Why might the street seem “ghastly” to the speaker?
It is haunted
It is foggy
The street is crowded
His grief makes everything appear bleak
“Blank day” most directly symbolizes:
A day with no school
A day of celebration
Emptiness or emotional numbness
A holiday
The semicolon in line one of stanza three shows:
A new stanza is coming
Tennyson’s anger
A natural pause
His conflicted and divided feelings
The image of “drizzling rain” strengthens the poem’s:
Humor
Romance
Melancholy tone
Satire
In the poem, Hallam’s absence makes familiar places feel:
More lively
Irrelevant
Empty and drained of beauty
Exciting
The word “ghastly” most closely means:
Cheerful
Horrifying or ghostlike
Busy
Strange
The speaker’s return to the house shows:
His desire to move in
His inability to let go of the past
His anger toward Hallam
His need for sleep
The spondee stress in “Dark house” highlights:
The building’s size
The heaviness of death
Brightness and hope
A cheerful mood
Tennyson’s “creeping” in the morning shows:
He is spying
He is injured
He is cold
His emotional fragility
Which best describes the structure of this section?
Free verse with no rhyme
Quatrains following the ABBA rhyme scheme
Rhyming couplets
Blank verse
The plosive sounds in “breaks the blank day” mimic:
Whispering
Harsh emotional awakening
A lullaby
A quiet breeze
Tennyson’s grief makes him visit the house:
At noon
At earliest morning
At midnight
Never
The phrase “noise of life begins again” means:
People are partying
The poet is bored
Animals are loud
Life continues despite his mourning
Why does Tennyson compare himself to a “guilty thing”?
He committed a crime
He feels survivor’s guilt
He envies Hallam
He dislikes the house
In the poem, the speaker’s heartbeat once:
“Beat so quickly” in anticipation of seeing Hallam
Stopped entirely
Mirrored thunder
Followed a musical rhythm
Which theme is strongly present in this section?
The danger of war
The importance of wealth
Mourning and emotional paralysis
Romantic love
“He is not here; but far away” implies:
Hallam moved overseas
He is on holiday
The physical and spiritual distance created by death
A temporary journey
What effect do the commas in stanza one create?
They speed up the reading
They emphasize excitement
They slow the rhythm, conveying a heavy heart
They introduce humor
The indentation pattern in the poem may symbolize:
Wealth
Good handwriting
Emotional distance or separation
Musical rhythm
The mention of “earliest morning” symbolizes:
A new job
A funeral
A possible new beginning, though painful
A joyful moment
The repetition of grief-related imagery highlights:
A political message
A dream sequence
Tennyson’s inability to escape sorrow
A change of season
What does the “drizzling rain” contrast with?
Sunshine
The vibrancy that used to fill Tennyson’s life
Thunderstorms
A rainbow
The mood of the poem can best be described as:
Bright and hopeful
Sarcastic
Violent
Somber and reflective
The final effect of the stanza suggests Tennyson is:
Fully healed
Beginning, however slowly, to move toward acceptance
Ready to forget Hallam
Overjoyed
“In Memoriam” was written to mourn the death of:
Arthur Henry Hallam
Lionel Tennyson
Queen Victoria
Robert Browning
How many sections does *In Memoriam* contain?
25
7
133
50
Section 7 focuses on Tennyson visiting:
Hallam’s grave
His childhood home
A church
The house where Hallam once lived
“Dark house” is a metaphor for:
Loneliness
Poverty
Death / the tomb
A cold winter evening
The harsh rhyme “street/beat” reflects:
Excitement
Joy
Tennyson’s pain and grief
Sudden hope
The word “Doors,” emphasized by two commas, symbolizes:
Escape
Childhood memories
A boundary between life and death
Religious failure
Why does the speaker say he “cannot sleep”?
The room is noisy
He feels guilt
It is daytime
He is waiting for visitors
The “unclasped hand” symbolizes:
Reconciliation
A future reunion
Permanent separation from Hallam
Anger toward friends
The mention of “morning” contains wordplay on:
Marriage
Harvesting
Mourning
Music
How does Tennyson describe the street?
Bright and colorful
Busy and cheerful
Long and unlovely
Filled with flowers
The phrase “like a guilty thing I creep” suggests:
He has committed a crime
He wants to surprise someone
He is physically weak
He feels ashamed or troubled by guilt
In the third stanza, “blank day” can mean:
A day of celebration
A holiday
Emptiness or a new beginning
A missed opportunity
The semicolon in “He is not here; but far away” shows:
A grammatical error
A pause for suspense
A change in speaker
Tennyson’s complex, conflicting emotions
Why is half the stanza indented?
For visual decoration
To separate past and present tense
To symbolize emotional distance from Hallam
Because of printing limitations
“The noise of life begins again” suggests:
A party is happening
The poet is bored
People are arguing
The world continues despite his grief
