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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