Class -12th
Subject - English
MCQ - Test
Poem - 4 A Thing of Beauty
1. Which things of beauty is not mentioned in the poem 'A Thing of Beauty'?
a) the sun, the moon, the trees
b) the daffodils, the flowery bushes
c) the plays and the tales
d) bad painting, dull building
Answer: bad painting, dull building
2. What is the rhyme scheme of the following stanza ?
Stanza
.............................wreathing,
.....................................earth,
...................................dearth,
..................................... days,
.....................................ways
a) abbcc
b) bbaac
c) ccaab
d) dabcd
Answer: abbcc
3. Which one is not correct pair ? (as rhyming words)
a) wreathing - breathing
b) earth - dearth
c) despondence - despair
d) days - ways
Answer: despondence - despair
4. Keats was a/an .............poet ?
a) Indian
b) British
c) Canadian
d) Australian
Answer: British
5. 'A Thing of Beauty' is an excerpt of his long poem ? What is the name of that poem ?
a) Sanymion
b) Andymion
c) Endymion
d) Kandymion
Answer: Endymion
6. What will never pass into nothingness ?
a) Beauty
b) Furniture
c) Building
d) Money
Answer: Beauty
7. 'In spite of all' refer to ?
a) beauty
b) troubles
c) sprouting
d) splendour
Answer: troubles
8. What does the poet not talk of ?
a) great myths
b) tales of rogue
c) tales of olden days
d) tales of mighty dead
Answer: tales of rogue
9. Which things do not cause suffering and pain to us ?
a) malice and disappointment
b) unhealthy and evil ways
c) the lack of wrong qualities
d) the lack of noble qualities
Answer: the lack of wrong qualities
10. What is the storehouse of beauty ?
a) torture
b) nature
c) future
d) villages
Answer: nature
11. Which one is not correctly matched ?
a) despondence - despair
b) rills - streams
c) doom - death
d) boon - curse
Answer: boon - curse
12. What is a joy forever ?
a) a ring of beauty
b) a thing of duty
c) a thing of beauty
d) a thing of sweety
Answer: a thing of beauty
13. What dearth is the poet talking of ?
a) noble natures
b) gloomy days
c) bad days
d) dark days
Answer: noble natures
14. Where do daffodils live ?
a) in the city
b) in the village
c) in the green world
d) in the dark world
Answer: in the green world
15. Who has written the following lines ?
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;
a) Robert Frost
b) John Keats
c) Pablo Neruda
d) Mohan Keats
Answer: John Keats