CBSE Class 12 English HOTs A Thing Of Beauty

Stanzas for comprehension

Stanza 1
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Question. Name the poem of the above lines
a) Keeping Quiet
b) A Thing of Beauty
c) A Roadside Stand
d) Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Answer : C

Question. Name the poet of the above lines –
a) Stephen Spender
b) John Keats
c) Robert Frost
d) Adrienne Rich
Answer : C

Question. What is a joy forever?
a) loveliness
b) thing of beauty
c) bower
d) sweet dreams
Answer : C

Question. What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
a) aabbc
b) abcabc
c) ababc
d) abcda
Answer : A

Question. What will never pass into nothingness?
a) a great building
b) beauty
c) a great social position
d) material things
Answer : B

Question. What is beauty associated with?
a) sleep with sweet dreams
b) a quiet bower
c) healthy state
d) all of the above
Answer : A

Question. This poem has been taken from John Keats’ long poem :
a) Endymion
b) A poetic Romance
c) Endymion: A Poetic Romance
d) Ode to Autumn
Answer : C

Question. Which word in the stanza means – ‘a cluster of trees’
a) bower
b) loveliness
c) quiet
d) increase
Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means –‘peaceful’
a) bower
b) breathing
c) quiet
d) forever
Answer : B

Stanza 2
yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,
Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils
With the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make
'Giants the hot season; the mid forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms.

Question. What moves away the pall?
a) a thing of beauty
b) the poet
c) the philosopher
d) the politician
Answer : A

Question. What does the phrase ‘in spite of all’ refer to?
a) troubles
b) inhuman dearth of noble natures
c) disagreement
d) all of the above
Answer : A

Question. What example does the poet give for ‘some shape of beauty’?
a) the sun
b) trees young and old
c) the moon
d) all of the above
Answer : D

Question. What is forest brake rich with?
a) A sprinkling of fair musk blooms
b) sheep
c) trees young and old
d) all of the above
Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means – ‘cover’?
a) pall
b) covert
c) boon
d) rills
Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means – ‘blessing’?
a) pall
b) spirit
c) boon
d) rills
Answer : B

Question. Which word in the stanza means – ‘Shelter’?
a) spite
b) covert
c) spirits
d) rills
Answer : C

Question. Which word in the stanza means – ‘Streams’?
a) covert
b) boon
c) shady
d) rills
Answer : D

Question. Which poetic device is used in ‘some shape’, ‘simple sheep’, and ‘cooling covert’?
a) Alliteration
b) Simile
c) Assonance
d) Metaphor
Answer : A

Stanza 3
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways
Made for our searching.

Question. What are we doing every morning?
a) we take bath
b) we feel bad
c) we wreathe a flowery band
d) all of the above
Answer : B

Question. What binds us to the earth?
a) joys and sorrows
b) a thing of beauty
c) sadness and gloom
d) all of the above
Answer : C

Question. Why do we wreathe a garland of flowers every morning?
a) to bind us to the beauties of earth
c) to bind us to God
b) to bind us to the wealth of earth
b) all of the above
Answer : A

Question. What dearth does the poet talk about?
a) of gloomy days
b) of pleasant days
c) of noble natures
d) of beautiful things
Answer : B

Question. Which of the following thing cause suffering and pain?
a) despair
b) misfortunes of life
c) lack of noble nature
d) all of the above
Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means – ‘shortage’
a) despondence
b) dearth
c) gloomy
d) band
Answer : C

Question. Which word in the stanza means – ‘despair’
a) despondence
b) unhealthy
c) gloomy
d) dearth
Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means – ‘sad’
a) morrow
b) dearth
c) gloomy
d) inhuman
Answer : B