CBSE Class 12 English A Thing of Beauty MCQs Set 04

Question: Who composed the poem, ‘A Thing of Beauty’?
a) Kamala Das
b) Adrienne Rich
c) John Keats
d) Robert Frost
Answer: c

Question: This poem is based on _____ legend.
a) Indian
b) Greek
c) Chinese
d) Roman
Answer: b

Question: Why did Endymion wander through the forest?
a) To search for new grassland for his sheep
b) To look for water for his thirsty sheep
c) To seek out Cynthia, the Moon Goddess
d) To find a new way to a new country
Answer: c

Question: What does a thing of beauty do for us?
a) gives hope
b) gives happiness
c) removes pain and sufferings
d) all of these
Answer: d

Question: Name the figure of speech used in ‘endless fountain’.
a) metaphor
b) hyperbole
c) synecdoche
d) transferred epithet
Answer: b

Question: At what age did he die?
a) 50 years
b) 25 years
c) 80 years
d) 100 years
Answer: b

Question: How does a thing of beauty act as a source of good health for us?
a) it provides sound sleep
b) it gives you peace
c) it provides quiet breathing
d) all of these
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following does not make our spirits dark?
a) spite of despondence
b) inhuman dearth of noble natures
c) gloomy days
d) shape of beauty
Answer: d 

Question: According to Keats, what are the things that cause suffering to human beings?
i) Lack of nobility in human nature
ii) Death while trying to show heroism
iii) All the scary stories we have heard in childhood
iv) Gloomy days
v) Darkened way that we follow to pursue our goal
OPTIONS
a) i) , ii), iii)
b) i), iii), iv)
c) i), iv, v)
d) i), iii), v)
Answer: c

True False Questions

Question: Meaning of despondence is dependence.
Answer: False

Question: The world is full of frustrations, disappointments and inhuman noble nature.
Answer: False

Question: Daffodils and musk-roses mentioned by the poet are flowers that add to the list of the things of beauty.
Answer: True

Question: Artists, singers, musicians perceive different forms of beauty but in the same way.
Answer: False

Question: It is only the young and old trees which are a symbol of everlasting beauty.
Answer: False

Question: Mid-forest brake is made rich by blooming of the beautiful mask-roses. (T/F)
Answer: True

Question: John Keats is an American Romantic poet. (T/F)
Answer: True

Question: Old and young trees sprout prove a blessing for the simple sheep. (T/F)
Answer: True

Question: Malice born of disappointment in life is the cause of human suffering. (T/F)
Answer: True

Question: Nature is an endless fountain that provides us immortal drink. (T/F)
Answer: True

Case/Source Based Questions

Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,

Question: What are we doing every morning?
(a) Trying to be surrounded by beautiful things
(b) Trying to get the maximum benefit of earth bounty
(c) Crying for beauty
(d) Trying to save the beautiful things on earth
Answer: a

Question: The use of ‘therefore’ in the beginning of the extract is connected to a previous idea and also indicative of some previous cause. What is the idea/cause?
(a) That a thing of beauty is a joy for ever
(b) That a sleep gives sweet dreams and good health
(c) That we want to bind ourselves to earth
(d) Both options (a) and (c) above
Answer: a

Question: The poet has used ‘are we wreathing’ instead of ‘we are wreathing’ because
(a) He is posing a question
(b) He may lack the knowledge of grammar
(c) He knows that such errors are acceptable in poetry
(d) He is using a poetic device called inversion
Answer: d

Question: By the second line of the extract, the poet means to say that-
(a) Human beings live and die on earth
(b) Human beings should protect the beautiful things on earth
(c) Human beings are also a part of nature
(d) Human beings love to live on earth because of the beautiful things on earth
Answer: d

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.

Question: What move away the pall from our dark spirits?
a) The Sun and the Moon.
b) The lovely forests and rivers.
c) The inspiring stories of the great heroes and noble people.
d) All of the above.
Answer: d

Question: What is the rhyming scheme?
a) aabbc
b) abcab
c) abbca
d) aabcc
Answer: a

Question: The poetic device used in ” Trees old and young ” is
a) Alliteration.
b) Simile.
c) Antithesis.
d) Metaphor
Answer: c

Question: The poetic device used in” a bower quiet for us” is
a) personification
b) metaphor
c) hyperbole.
d) simile.
Answer: c

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 heaven’s brink

Question: Name the poem and the poet.
a) The Thing of Beauty, John Keats
b) A Thing of Beauty, Stephen Spender
c) A Thing of Grandeur, John Milton
d) A Thing of Beauty, John Keats
Answer: d

Question: What image does the poet use in these lines to show the eternity of the beautiful things?
a) Grandeur of dooms
b) Lovely tales
c) Heaven’s brink
d) Immortal drink
Answer: d

Question: What is the effect of this ‘immortal drink’ on us?
a) Gives us everlasting joy
b) Brings back mighty dead
c) Makes us endless fountains
d) Shows us grandeur of dooms
Answer: a

Question: Rhyme scheme of these five lines is
a) abcde
b) aabbc
c) abbcc
d) abbcd
Answer: c

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: grandeur of the dooms’ refers to
(a) Tales of great men heard or read
(b) Deeds of great men published
(c) Monuments erected for great men
(d) Biography of great men
Answer: c

Question: By ‘lovely tales’ the poet means the stories
(a) Of deeds of the heroic dead
(b) Of kings and queens
(c) Of natural beauty
(d) Of Gods and Goddesse
Answer: a

Question: The phrase ‘immortal drink’ means amrit which after drinking a living being never dies and lives forever. It is not possible. Here the poet is said to have used a figure of speech called-
(a) Metaphor
(b) Hyperbole
(c) Antithesis
(d) Oxymoron
Answer: b

Question: According to the poet, which of the following pours from heaven?
(a) Water in the form of rain
(b) Happiness in the form of nature
(c) Grandeur in the form of great deeds
(d) Blessing in the form of beauty
Answer: d