A Thing of Beauty MCQ Question Answers Class 12 English Poem 4

A Thing of Beauty MCQ Question Answers

 

CBSE Class 12 English Poem 4 A Thing of Beauty MCQ Questions and Answers from Flamingo Book

 

A Thing of Beauty MCQ – CBSE Class 12 English Poem 4 A Thing of Beauty Summary by John Keats. Students of Class 12 can prepare the MCQs of Poem 4 from the Flamingo reader published by NCERT. Each question has four options followed by the correct answer. Students can also take a free test for Class 12.

 

 

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A Thing of Beauty MCQ Questions and Answers

 

Q1- What kind of a poet was John Keats?

A) a Realistic
B) Religious
C) Medieval
D) A romantic

 

Q2- Who is the poet of A thing Of Beauty?

A) John Donne
B) William Blakes
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Keats

 

Q3- 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) Ode on Indolenc

 

Q4- Who is Endymion?

A) a worker
B) an office boy
C) a young child
D) a young shepherd

 

Q5- Where did the poet and Endymion live?

A) in a hut
B) on a hill
C) in a tree house
D) on mount Latmos

 

Q6- Whom did the enchanted youth resolve to seek?

A) God
B) nature
C) mentor
D) Cynthia-the moon goddess

 

Q7- What are the things of beauty mentioned in the poem?

A) Sun and Moon
B) Young trees and streams
C) flowers
D) All these

 

Q8- Which things cause suffering to human beings?

A) lack of virtues and inhuman acts
B) withering flowers
C) blooming flowers
D) flowing streams

 

Q9- What does Endymion do to seek goddess?

A) dances
B) sings songs
C) reads scriptures
D) wanders through forests

 

Q10-How is a thing of beauty joy forever?

A) because it is beautiful
B) because it is nature
C) because it is joyful
D) because its beauty never ends and leaves a lasting impact

 

Q11- What is the message of the poem?

A) Beauty never fades
B) beauty lifts spirits high
C) beauty is a joy forever
D) All these

 

Q12- What does a thing of beauty do for us?

A) gives hope
B) gives happiness
C) removes pain and suffering
D) All these

 

Q13- 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

 

Q14- What does a thing of beauty is a joy forever mean?

A) joy is in memory
B) joy is precious
C) joy is not sold
D) it will keep giving happiness for a longer time

 

Q15- What is Beauty in Keats’ opinion?

A) a suffering
B) a cause of suffering
C) a cause of pain
D) a joy forever

 

Q16- What is the concept of beauty?

A) Beauty is a pleasure
B) beauty is cause of all happiness
C) beauty is nothing
D) a quality which always gives happiness

 

Q17- 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

 

Q18- Who said that a thing of beauty is a joy forever?

A) John Millet
B) Christopher
C)a young shepherd
D) John Keats

 

Q19- 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 these

 

 

 

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Q20- Whose loveliness will keep on increasing?

A) of rivers
B) of mountains
C) of nature
D) of all beautiful things

 

Q21- 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

 

Q22- What is a bower?

A) a river
B) a stream
C) a big tree
D) a shady tree

 

Q23- 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 these

 

Q24- What are ‘mighty dead’ in the poem?

A) dead people
B) dead relatives
C) dead plants
D) great respectworthy ancestors specially dead emperors

 

Q25- What is the endless fountain of immortal drink?

A) rivers
C) flowing streams
D) Sunlight
D) All the things of beauty

 

Q26- What does ‘brink’ mean?

A) roof top
B) a rocky space
C) mountain top
D) an edge at the top

 

Q27- What does immortal mean?

A) ever flowing
B) evergreen
C) forever beautiful
D) never ending or endless

 

Q28- What image does the poet use to convey that beauty is everlasting?

A) a bower quiet for us
B) Some shape of beauty
C) endless fountain of joy
D) sprouting a shady boon

 

Q29- 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

 

Q30- Pick the words from the poem which mean: stories, magnificence.

A) tales and grandeur
B) old,and young
C) green world and clear rills
D) sweet dreams and health

 

Q31- What removes pall from our life?

A) dark spirits
B) Trees old, and young
C) all the unhealthy things
D) Nature’s beauty

 

Q32- What is the meaning of gloomy?

A) all the unhealthy things
B) dark spirits
C) dull and depressive
D) none

 

Q33- 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

 

Q34- 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

 

Q35- Which figure of speech is used in the words-Some shape of beauty?

A) Alliteration
B) simile
C) metaphor
D) all

 

Q36- 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

 

Q37- What does morrow mean?

A) morning time
B) present time
C) noon time
D) the next day

 

Q38- 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

 

Q39- What is inhuman in life?

A) human inside a river
B) human inside caves
C) human on trees
D) selfcentred tendency and inacility to rise above shallow circles

 

Q40- What circumstances make man unhappy?

A) chilly cold waves on mountains
B) moisture of flowing rivers
C) crowded places
D) tendency of hopelessness

 

Q41. ‘Sheep’ could also be a reference to 

  1. mountainous animals
  2. human beings
  3. harmless creatures
  4. animals of prey
Q42. From our dark spirits’ is a reference to 

  1. our dampened and demoralized spirits
  2. dark coloured ghosts
  3. unhappy moments
  4. the happy side of our personality
Q43. ‘Spite of despondenc’ refers to –  not

  1. sadness and depression
  2. health and well-being
  3. suffering and pain
  4. hatred and greed
Q44. ‘Clear rills’ are the

  1. clean windows
  2. streams of clear water
  3. clear thoughts
  4. clear solutions

 

ANSWER KEY

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D
11
D
21
B
31
D
2
D
12
D
22
D
32
C
3
A
13
C
23
D
33
A
4
D
14
D
24
D
34
C
5
D
15
D
25
D
35
C
6
D
16
D
26
D
36
D
7
D
17
D
27
D
37
D
8
A
18
D
28
C
38
D
9
D
19
D
29
C
39
D
10
D
20
D
30
A
40
D
41
C
42
A
43
A
44
B

 

 

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