The Rime of the Ancient Mariner MCQs with Answers CBSE Class 10 English Communicative Chapter 10

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner MCQ

 

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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