Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 10 English Literature Reader (Communicative) Book Chapter 8

Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments MCQs of Class 10 English Chapter 8, by William Shakespeare  have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 10 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 8 Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments from CBSE Class 10 English Literature Reader (Communicative) Book. Each question has four options. 

For Correct Answers, see the answer key given at the end of the post.

 

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Q1. Who wrote “Not Marble, Nor the gilded Monuments?
A. PB Shelley
B. William Shakespeare
C. John Keats
D. None of these

Q2. What type of poem is it?
A. Ballad
B. Sonnet
C. epitaph
D. none of these

Q3. What does ‘marble’ mean?
A. statues
B. stones
C. buildings
D. pebbles

Q4. What is ‘sluttish’?
A. statues
B. monuments
C. poet
D. time

Q5. What does gilded mean?
A. covered with gold
B. covered with diamonds
C. engraved
D. None of these

Q6. What is powerful?
A. gilded monuments
B. marble statues
C. poetry
D. all of these

Q7. The reference to Mars is the device of-
A. Allusion
B. Anaphora
C. Asyndeton
D. Assonance

Q8. Why is time sluttish?
A. because it passes quickly
B. because it is limited
C. because it turns the marble and monuments to ruin
D. because it brings dirt

Q9. What does ‘unswept stone’ mean?
A. not clean
B. not cared for
C. Both A and B
D. None of these

Q10. What does broil mean?
A. boil
B. war
C. peace
D. festival

Q11. Mars is the God of ______
A. beauty
B. power
C. war
D. intelligence

Q12. What is the ‘living record’?
A. record book
B. diary
C. poetry
D. all of these

Q13. The living record will not be destroyed by –
A. war
B. sword of Mars
C. both A and B
D. None of these

Q14. What does ‘posterity’ mean?
A. posture
B. world
C. future generations
D. none of these

Q15. Identify the figure of speech used –
“So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.”
A. Anaphora
B. Allusion
C. Antithesis
D. All of these

Q16. Who is praised by the poet?
A. the brave men
B. the kings
C. the rich people
D. the priest

Q17. Identify the figure of speech used –
“That wear this world out to the ending doom”
A. Alliteration
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Antithesis

Q18. On the day of Judgement, the brave men will arise from _____
A. bed
B. grave
C. ground
D. none of these

Q19. What will happen on the day of Judgement?
A. Christ will judge and assign heaven or hell to the dead
B. The judges will announce judgement
C. The result of the war shall be declared by Mars
D. none of these

Q20. Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments is Sonnet __
A. 54
B. 50
C. 52
D. 55

Q21. Who builds gilded monuments?
A. brave men
B. princes
C. warriors
D. none of these

Q22. What is a work of masonry?
A. a poem
B. a monument
C. a software
D. none of these

Q23. Why is the record called ‘living’?
A. because it can breathe
B. because it eats
C. because it remains forever
D. none of these

Q24. What is war?
A. beneficial
B. productive
C. wasteful
D. none of these

Q25. Why is the rhyme ‘powerful’?
A. because the poet wrote it
B. because it remains forever
C. because it is not wasteful
D. none of these

Q26. What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza 1 of the poem?
A. ABAB
B. ABCB
C. AABB
D. None of these

Q27. What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza 2 of the poem?
A. ABABCDCD
B. ABCBEFEF
C. AABBCCDD
D. None of these

Q28. Where does the brave man live?
A. in his house
B. in the grave
C. in the powerful poetry written in his praise
D. in the gilded monument

Q29. What does ‘root out’ mean?
A. to uproot
B. to break
C. to damage
D. none of these

Q30. Who is the brave man’s lover?
A. the poet
B. the princes
C. the people
D. none of these

 

Answer key

1 B 16 A
2 B 17 A
3 A 18 B
4 D 19 A
5 A 20 D
6 C 21 B
7 A 22 B
8 C 23 C
9 B 24 C
10 B 25 B
11 C 26 A
12 C 27 A
13 C 28 C
14 C 29 A
15 B 30 A

 

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