CBSE Class 12 English A Thing of Beauty MCQs Set B

Question. The ‘endless fountain’ gets its immortal drink from
(a) the river banks
(b) the tap
(c) the waterfall
(d) heaven’s brink

Answer : D

Question. ‘Immortal drink’ of the endless fountain is a reference to
(a) the continuous flow of sacred or holy water
(b) water of Ganges
(c) water from the Yamuna
(d) water from the tap

Answer : A

Question. What is ‘sprout a shady boon for sheep’?
(a) human beings
(b) creepers
(c) trees new and young
(d) trees old and young

Answer : D

Question. From our dark spirits’ is a reference to
(a) our dampened and demoralized spirits
(b) dark coloured ghosts
(c) unhappy moments
(d) the happy side of our personality

Answer : A

Question. According to the poet, a thing of beauty is
(a) never joyful
(b) creates sadness
(c) a joy forever
(d) horrible to look at

Answer : C

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

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

Answer : D

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

Answer : D

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. 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. 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 are the things that are read or heard by us?
(a) plays and classical music
(b) novels and songs
(c) lovely tales
(d) poetry and western music

Answer : C

Question. The poet talks about ‘grandeur’. Whose grandeur is he talking about?
(a) dooms of mighty dead
(b) tombs of our ancestors
(c) grand palaces
(d) grand towers

Answer : A

Question. ‘Spite of despondency’ refers to
(a) sadness and depression
(b) health and well-being
(c) suffering and pain
(d) hatred and greed

Answer : A

Question. Every morning, we all are
(a) brushing our teeth
(b) having breakfast
(c) wreathing a flowery band
(d) getting ready to go to work

Answer : C

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

Answer : D

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

Answer : D

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

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 of the options

Answer : C

Question. What makes for itself a cooling covert against the hot season?
(a) the sheep
(b) the daffodils
(c) the dogs
(d) the clear rills

Answer : D

Question. ‘Clear rills’ are the
(a) clean windows
(b) streams of clear water
(c) clear thoughts
(d) clear solutions

Answer : B

Question. Beautiful things never ‘pass into nothingness’ means that they
(a) never increase
(b) never fade away
(c) always bring unhappiness
(d) create unpleasantness between friends

Answer : B

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

Answer : D

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 of the options

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

Answer : D

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

Answer : C

Question. ‘Sheep’ could also be a reference to
(a) mountainous animals
(b) human beings
(c) harmless creatures
(d) animals of prey

Answer : B

Question. ‘Of all the unhealthy’ means
(a) ill-health
(b) pain
(c) neglect
(d) suffering

Answer : A

Question. ‘Full of sweet dreams’ means
(a) pleasant and peaceful sleep
(b) disturbed sleep
(c) nightmares
(d) wishes coming true

Answer : A

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

Answer : C

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 of the options

Answer : C

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) Odeon Indolence

Answer : A

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 of the options

Answer : A

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 of the options

Answer : D

Objective type Questions:

1. In 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: ‘yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits.

Question. From which poem the lines have been taken?
(a) Keeping quiet
(b) A Thing of Beauty
(c) Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger
(d) My Mother at Sixty-six

Answer : B

Question. Who is the poet of the poem?
(a) Kamala Das
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Pablo Neruda
(d) John Keats

Answer : D

Question. Why are we “despondent”?
(a) Unhealthy desires
(b) Lack of nobility
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. What does “inhuman dearth of noble natures” mean?
(a) Surrounded by beautiful people
(b) Lack of noble people
(c) Lack of beautiful objects
(d) Surrounded by beautiful objects

Answer : B

2. And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
All lovely tales that we have heard or read;
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink.

Question. Who are the ‘mighty dead’?
(a) People who fought for the independence of the country
(b) Persons who have died fighting for the country
(c) Martyrs who have died bravely for a cause
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. Why is ‘grandeur’ associated with the ‘mighty dead’?
(a) They will always be remembered for their sacrifice
(b) They will be buried with great pomp and show
(c) They will be buried in castle grounds
(d) There are chances of their returning back to life

Answer : A

Question. Which word in these lines means “stories”?
(a) Dooms
(b) Tales
(c) Immortal
(d) Brink

Answer : B

Question. Which word in these lines means “edge”?
(a) Grandeur
(b) Dooms
(c) Brink
(d) Fountain

Answer : C