CBSE Class 12 English A Thing of Beauty MCQs Set A

Question. Why do we need a flowery band?     
(a) to look beautiful
(b) to smile
(c) to be joyful
(d) to have strength and joy inspite of all sadness  

Answer : D

Question. Who is Endymion?   
(a) a worker
(b) a young shepherd
(c) an office boy
(d) a young child

Answer : B

Question. What are the things of beauty mentioned in the poem?    
(a) Sun and Moon
(b) Young trees and streams
(c) flowers
(d) All these

Answer : D

Question. What kind of a poet was John Keats?     
(a) a Realistic
(b) Religious
(c) Medieval
(d) A romantic

Answer : D

Question. What does Endymion do to seek goddess?    
(a) wanders through forests
(b) dances
(c) sings songs
(d) reads scriptures

Answer : A

Question. How is a thing of beauty joy forever?    
(a) because it is beautiful
(b) because it is nature
(c) because it is joyful 
(d) because its beauty never ends and leaves a lasting impact     

Answer : D

Question. What is the message of the poem?    
(a) Beauty never fades
(b) beauty lifts spirits high
(c) beauty is a joy forever
(d) All these

Answer : D

Question. What is the endless fountain and what is its effect?   
(a) Moving streams
(b) The Sunlight
(c) A thing of beauty is endless fountain and it gives happiness
(d) None 

Answer : C

Question. What does a thing of beauty is a joy forever mean?    
(a) joy is in memory
(b) joy is precious
(c) joy is not sold
(d) it will keep giving happiness for a longer time

Answer : D

Question. What is Beauty in Keats' opinion?     
(a) a suffering
(b) a cause of suffering
(c) a cause of pain
(d) a joy forever

Answer : D

Question. What is the concept of beauty? 
(a) a quality which always gives happiness    
(b) Beauty is a pleasure
(c) beauty is cause of all happiness
(d) beauty is nothing

Answer : A

Question. Do we experience things of beauty only for a short time ?     
(a) yes they are short lived
(b) yes beauty is a temporary thing
(c) it never lasts forever
(d) no, they make a lasting impression of happiness

Answer : D

Question. What is the effect of immortal drink?    
(a) no one is thirsty
(b) everyone is happy
(c) immense joy and happiness
(d) beauty never moves away

Answer : C

Question. Why do we need sweet dreams , health and quiet breathing?    
(a) to have a healthy mind and body
(b) to have sound sleep
(c) to have peace and happiness
(d) All these

Answer : D

Question. Who said that a thing of beauty is a joy forever?    
(a) John Millet
(b) Christopher
(c) John Keats
(d) a young shepherd

Answer : C

Question. How does a thing of beauty provide shelter and comfort?      
(a) By giving a sense of joy and happiness
(b) by removing pain and suffering
(c) like a bower
(d) All these

Answer : D

Question. Which things cause suffering to human beings?     
(a) lack of virtues and inhuman acts
(b) withering flowers
(c) blooming flowers
(d) flowing streams

Answer : A

Question. Whose loveliness will keep on increasing?     
(a) of rivers
(b) of mountains
(c) of nature
(d) of all beautiful things

Answer : D

Question. Write the phrase which means 'it is immortal'     
(a) it will never fade
(b) it will never pass into nothingness
(c) it will never cease
(d) it will keep giving happiness for a longer time

Answer : B

Question. What is inhuman in life?     
(a) human inside a river
(b) human inside caves
(c) human on trees
(d) selfcentred tendency and inacility to rise above shallow circles

Answer : D

Question. From where has this poem A Thing Of Beauty been taken?    
(a) From Keats work- Endymion- A poetic Romance
(b) Ode to a Nightingale
(c) Ode on Melancholy
(d) Ode on Indolenc

Answer : A

Question. Where did the poet and Endymion live?    
(a) in a hut
(b) on a hill
(c) in a tree house
(d) on mount Latmos

Answer : D

Question. What is the meaning of gloomy?    
(a) all the unhealthy things
(b) dark spirits
(c) dull and depressive
(d) none

Answer : C

Question. What is a bower?    
(a) a shady tree
(b) a river
(c) a stream
(d) a big tree

Answer : A

Question. What does immortal mean?    
(a) ever flowing
(b) evergreen
(c) never ending or endless
(d) forever beautiful

Answer : C

Question. What image does the poet use to convey that beauty is everlasting?   
(a) a bower quiet for us
(b) Some shape of beauty
(c) endless fountain of joy
(d) sprouting a shady boon

Answer : C

Question. Pick the words from the poem which mean: stories, magnificence.    
(a) tales and grandeur
(b) old,and young
(c) green world and clear rills
(d) sweet dreams and health

Answer : A

Question. What removes pall from our life?     
(a) dark spirits
(b) Trees old, and young
(c) all the unhealthy things
(d) Nature's beauty

Answer : D

Question. How does beauty help us when we are grief stricken?      
(a) By giving a ray of hope
(b) sprouting a shady boon
(c) by giving daffodils
(d) none

Answer : A

Question. Whom did the enchanted youth resolve to seek?   
(a) God
(b) nature
(c) Cynthia-the moon goddess
(d) mentor

Answer : C

Question. What does a thing of beauty do for us?     
(a) gives hope
(b) gives happiness
(c) removes pain and suffering
(d) All these

Answer : D

Question. What does poet mean by Some shape of beauty?     
(a) beauty has no shape
(b) beauty is abstract
(c) beautiful object that gives happiness
(d) All

Answer : C

Question. What is the endless fountain of immortal drink?     
(a) rivers
(b) flowing streams
(c) Sunlight
(d) All the things of beauty

Answer : D

Question. What does 'brink' mean?   
(a) roof top
(b) an edge at the top
(c) a rocky space
(d) mountain top

Answer : B

Question. Which figure of speech is used in the words-Some shape of beauty?     
(a) Alliteration
(b) simile
(c) metaphor
(d) all

Answer : C

Question. Why are our spirits referred as dark?     
(a) because of dark clouds
(b) because of spirits around
(c) because of shady trees
(d) because of sadness and disappointments

Answer : D

Question. What circumstances make man unhappy? 
(a) tendency of hopelessness   
(b) chilly cold waves on mountains
(c) moisture of flowing rivers
(d) crowded places

Answer : A

Question. What are 'mighty dead' in the poem?     
(a) dead people
(b) dead relatives
(c) dead plants
(d) great respectworthy ancestors specially dead emperors

Answer : D

Question. Who is the poet of A thing Of Beauty?   
(a) John Donne
(b) William Blakes
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) John Keats

Answer : D

Question. What does morrow mean?    
(a) morning time
(b) the next day
(c) present time
(d) noon time

Answer : B