Medieval scholars knew classical authors like Virigil and Cicero, but the works of Plato were not fully known throughout Western Europe until the Renaissance.
The Medieval period was also known as the dark ages, it was the time that knowledge were limited on the bible and the clergy. These clergymen serve as the teachers of the people. As the period progress the thirst for knowledge grew and this has led to the Renaissance, where people can freely read anything they want, much knowledge from the East were brought from Constantinople, where Ancient knowledge on the works of people like Plato was still preserved. <span />
In the two poems, the journey is a metaphor for life and passage into afterlife. In Ulysses Tennyson talks about how his life is nearing its end and how he's old now while in crossing the bar he talks about dying and going into afterlife. Both poems use the motif of journey on open seas to describe venturing into the unknown, that is, how life passes quickly as a journey does and the next stop on the journey is afterlife.
As Bookworm83 pointed out already, C nor D couldn't possibly correct, also due to the reason that he was able to come up with the 14 point plan. However, the real answer to your question would be A - he was very shy.
The shyness of Woodrow Wilson has been readily documented in variou sources and is also the reason why it's th ecorrect answer. Overcoming something like shyness was not an easy thing to do for him.
