The Rime of the Ancient Mariner MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 10 English Literature Reader (Communicative) Book Chapter 10
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner MCQs of Class 10 English Chapter 10, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 10 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 10 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 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 is stopped by the mariner?
A. albatross
B. bride
C. wedding guest
D. all of these
Q2. How many wedding guests were there?
A. 3
B. 2
C. 1
D. none
Q3. Loon means –
A. old
B. mad
C. dear
D. respected
Q4. The mariner’s hand is ____
A. heavy
B. hard
C. rough
D. skinny
Q5. The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a __________
A. girl
B. woman
C. child
D. none of these
Q6. hath means –
A. hide
B. had
C. high
D. hot
Q7. Which adjective is used for the mariner?
A. big-eyed
B. bright-eyed
C. wide-eyed
D. all of these
Q8. Identify the figure of speech used-
“he sun came up upon the left,
Out of the sea came he!
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea.”
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. personification
D. anaphora
Q9. Identify the figure of speech used-
“The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk , below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.”
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. personification
D. anaphora
Q10. Identify the figure of speech used-
“He holds him with his glittering eye-
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years’ child:
The Mariner hath his will.”
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. personification
D. anaphora
Q11. What is a bassoon?
A. loud speaker
B. musical instrument
C. drum
D. none of these
Q12. What did the guest do when he heard the bassoon?
A. ran away
B. beat his breast
C. hit the mariner
D. fainted
Q13. Identify the figure of speech used-
“The bride hath paced into the hall,
Red as a rose is she;
Nodding their heads before her goes
The merry minstrelsy”
1. Metaphor
2. simile
3. Personification
4. Alliteration
A. 1, 4
B. 2, 4
C. 2, 3, 4
D. 1, 2, 3, 4
Q14. Who accompanied the bride?
A. her mother
B. her friends
C. her family
D. singers
Q15. The bride was red as a _____
A. blood
B. danger
C. rose
D. anger
Q16. What is a swound?
A. dream
B. engine
C. fainting fit
D. vehicle
Q17. Thee means-
A. me
B. she
C. you
D. we
Q18. fiends means –
A. friend
B. enemy
C. teacher
D. students
Q19. How did the mariner kill the bird?
A. with a stone
B. with a crossbow
C. with a dagger
D. none of these
Q20. What does the line mean-
It perched for vespers nine?
A. It prayed at the fixed time of church service
B. It flew away when it was the time of church’s prayer
C. it sought shelter at the church
D. it sat on the ship’s edge at the fixed time of church service
Q21. aye means –
A. no
B. yes
C. try
D. give
Q22. The colour of the ice has been compared to-
A. topaz
B. ruby
C. saphhire
D. emrald
Q23. How high was the ice?
A. till the sky
B. till the ship’s mast
C. till the god’s abode
D. till the deck
Q24. ken means –
A. knew
B. heard
C. see
D. none of these
Q25. The Albatross, at first, was considered –
A. a Christian soul
B. a bad omen
C. a pirate’s bird
D. none of these
Q26. Did the albatross eat the food they gave?
A. yes
B. no
C. not mentioned
D. it only drank the water they gave
Q27. hollo means –
A. hollow
B. follow
C. complain
D. call
Q28. The sun now rose upon the right:
Out of the sea came he,
Still hid in mist, and on the left
Went down into the sea.
Here, rose means –
A. a flower
B. to come up
C. both A and B
D. None of these
Q29. The sun now rose upon the right:
Out of the sea came he,
Still hid in mist, and on the left
Went down into the sea.
What is the rhyme scheme?
A. AABC
B. ABCB
C. ABAC
D. AABB
Q30. What does the line mean-
And it would work’ em woe?
A. it would be a wrong work
B. it would bring them unhappiness
C. it would end in happiness
D. it would be a tragic loss
Q31. averred means-
A. sang
B. said firmly
C. cried loudly
D. none of these
Q32. Identify the figure of speech used-
Nor dim nor red, like God’s own head,
The glorious sun uprist :
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
‘Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist
1. Metaphor
2. simile
3. Personification
4. Alliteration
A. 1, 4
B. 2, 4
C. 2
D. 1, 2, 3, 4
Q33. slay means –
A. pray
B. clever
C. prey
D. kill
Q34. Identify the figure of speech used-
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free;
A. Onomatopoeia
B. simile
C. alliteration
D. antithesis
Q35. What happened after the mariner killed the bird?
A. a good wind blew
B. the wind stopped
C. a storm came
D. none of these
Q36. Identify the figure of speech used-
All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody sun, at noon,
A. Onomatopoeia
B. metaphor
C. alliteration
D. antithesis
Q37. The ship has been compared to a ship in a ________
A. song
B. photo
C. painting
D. none of these
Q38. What does ‘slimy’ mean?
A. slippery
B. sticky
C. both A and B
D. None of these
Q39. reel and rout is a ____
A. song
B. dance
C. music
D. art form
Q40. the water burnt like _________
A. cook’s oil
B. witch’s oil
C. magician’s oil
D. none of these
Q41. Fathom is –
A. a unit of measuring time
B. a unit of measuring weight
C. a unit of measuring depth
D. none of these
Q42. Their tongues were withered _______
A. due to guilt
B. due to overwork
C. at the root
D. none of these
Q43. The dry tongues felt as if –
A. they had inhaled smoke
B. they had been choked with soot
C. they had eaten ash
D. none of these
Q44. What was hung around the mariner’s neck?
A. cross
B. chain
C. dead albatross
D. none of these
Q45. Why did they hang the dead bird around the mariner’s neck?
A. to remind him of the sin
B. to reward him
C. to seek revenge for the bird
D. all of these
Q46. Identify the figure of speech used-
Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young!
A. Onomatopoeia
B. metaphor
C. alliteration
D. antithesis
Q47. Identify the figure of speech used-
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
A. anaphora
B. metaphor
C. alliteration
D. antithesis
Q48. Who had followed the ship nine fathom deep?
A. a whale
B. the ghost of the albatross
C. god
D. crew of the ship
Q49. Who danced at night?
A. mariner and crew
B. bird’s ghost
C. death-fires
D. fishes
Q50. Identify the figure of speech used-
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
A. anaphora
B. metaphor
C. repetition
D. antithesis
Answer Key
| 1 | C | 26 | A |
| 2 | A | 27 | D |
| 3 | B | 28 | B |
| 4 | D | 29 | B |
| 5 | C | 30 | B |
| 6 | B | 31 | B |
| 7 | B | 32 | C |
| 8 | C | 33 | D |
| 9 | D | 34 | C |
| 10 | B | 35 | B |
| 11 | B | 36 | B |
| 12 | B | 37 | C |
| 13 | B | 38 | C |
| 14 | D | 39 | B |
| 15 | C | 40 | B |
| 16 | C | 41 | C |
| 17 | C | 42 | C |
| 18 | B | 43 | B |
| 19 | B | 44 | C |
| 20 | D | 45 | A |
| 21 | B | 46 | D |
| 22 | D | 47 | A |
| 23 | B | 48 | B |
| 24 | C | 49 | C |
| 25 | A | 50 | C |
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