A Thing of Beauty MCQs Mock Test of 12th Class Flamingo

Q1- Whose loveliness will keep on increasing?

A) of trees

B) of mountains

C) of nature

D) of all beautiful things

Q2.The ‘endless fountain’ gets its immortal drink from

(a) the river banks

(b) the well

(c) the waterfall

(d) heaven’s brink

Q3- Who said that a thing of beauty is a joy forever?

A) John Millet

B) Christopher

C)a young shepherd

D) John Keats

Q 4.‘Immortal drink’ of the endless fountain is a reference to

(a) the continuous flow of sacred or holy water

(b) water of Ganges

(c) water from the Yamuna

(d) water from the tap

Q5- 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

Q6. What are the things that are read or heard by us?

(a) plays and music

(b) novels

(c) lovely tales

(d) poetry and western

Q7- 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

Q8.The poet talks about ‘grandeur’. Whose grandeur is he talking about?

(a) dooms of mighty dead

(b) tombs of our ancestors

(c) grand palaces

(d) grand towers

Q9- What according to the poet does a thing of beauty do for people?

A) gives hope

B) gives happiness

C) removes pain and suffering

D) All these

Q10. What is the thing that makes for itself a cooling covert against the hot season?

(a) the sheep

(b) the daffodils

(c) the dogs

(d) the clear rills

Q11-In what way 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

Q12.What does the ‘Clear rills’ mean?

(a) clean windows

(b) streams of clear water

(c) clear thoughts

(d) clear solutions

Q13- What are the things that cause suffering to human beings?

A) lack of virtues and inhuman acts

B) withering flowers

C) blooming flowers

D) flowing streams

Q14. What could ‘Sheep’ also refer to?

(a) mountainous animals

(b) human beings

(c) harmless creatures

(d) animals of prey

Q15- Whom did the enchanted youth want to seek?

A) God

B) nature

C) mentor

D) Cynthia-the moon goddess

Q16.What is meaning of ‘sprout a shady boon for sheep’ here?

(a) human beings

(b) creepers

(c) trees new and young

(d) trees old and young

Q17- Who was Endymion?

A) a worker

B) an office boy

C) a young child

D) a young shepherd

Q18.What does ‘From our dark spirits’ refer to?

(a) our dampened and demoralized spirits

(b) dark coloured ghosts

c) unhappy moments

(d) the happy side of our personality

Q19- What is the name of poet of A thing Of Beauty?

A) John Donne

B) William Blakes

C) William Wordsworth

D) John Keats

Q20. What is the meaning of ‘Of all the unhealthy’?

(a) ill-health

(b) pain

(c) neglect

(d) suffering

Q21.What does ‘Spite of despondency’ refers to?

(a) sadness and depression

(b) health and well-being

(c) suffering and pain

(d) hatred and greed

Q22.Every morning, what do we do?

(a) brushing our teeth

(b) having breakfast

(c) wreathing a flowery band

(d) getting ready to go to work

Q23. What is the meaning of ‘Full of sweet dreams’?

(a) pleasant and peaceful sleep

(b) disturbed sleep

(c) nightmares

(d) wishes coming true

Q24.Meaning of ‘Beautiful things never’ pass into nothingness’ is that they

(a) never increase

(b) never fade away

(c) always bring unhappiness

(d) create unpleasantness between friends

Q25. A thing of beauty is-

(a) never joyful

(b) creates sadness

(c) a joy forever

(d) horrible to look at

Q26.What is meaning of ‘inhuman in life’?

(a) human inside a river

(b) human inside cavesx

(b) human inside caves (c) human on trees

(d) self centred tendency and inability to rise above shallow circles

Q27. What is meaning of ‘morrow’ here? (a) morning time (b) present time (c) noon time (d) the next day

(a) morning time

(b) present time

(c) noon time

(d) the next day

Q28. What is the figure of speech in ‘Some shape of beauty’?

(a) Alliteration

(b) simile

(c) metaphor

(d) all

Q29. How is beauty helpful to us when we are grief stricken?

(a) By giving a ray of hope

(b) sprouting a shady boon

(c) by giving daffodils

(d) none

Q30. What is the thing that removes pall from our life?

(a) dark spirits

(b) Trees old, and young

(c) all the unhealthy things

(d) Nature’s beauty

Q31. What according to the poet 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

Q32.What is the meaning of immortal mean?

(a) ever flowing

(b) evergreen

(c) forever beautifulx

(d) never ending or endless

Q33.What is the endless fountain of immortal drink?Q33.What is the endless fountain of immortal drink?

(a) rivers

(b) flowing streams

(c) Sunlight

(d) All the things of beauty

Q34.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

Q35. Write the phrase that 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

Q36. In what way 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

Q37.Do we experience things of beauty only for a short time, according to the poet?

(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

Q38. What is Beauty in John Keats’ opinion?

(a) a suffering

(b) a cause of suffering

(c) a cause of pain

(d) a joy forever

Q39. What, according to the poet, 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

Q40. What message does the poem give?

(a) Beauty never fades

(b) beauty lifts spirits high

(c) beauty is a joy forever

(d) All these

Q41. What does the young Endymion do to seek goddess?

(a) dances

(b) sings songs

(c) reads scriptures

(d) wanders through forests

Q42. What according to the poet are the things of beauty mentioned in the poem?

(a) Sun and Moon

(b) Young trees and streams

(c) flowers

(d) All these

Q 43. Where did the poet John Keats and Endymion live?Q 43. Where did the poet John Keats and Endymion live?

(a) in a hut

(b) on a hill

(c) in a tree house

(d) on mount Latmos

Q44. From which work 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) Odeon Indolence

Q45. What kind of a poet is Keats?

(a) a Realistic

(b) Religious

(c) Medieval

(d) A romantic

Q46. What are the circumstances that make man unhappy?

(a) chilly cold waves on mountains

(b) moisture of flowing rivers

(c) crowded places

(d) tendency of hopelessness

Q47. What is a need of a flowery band?

(a) to look beautiful

(b) to smile

(c) to be joyful

(d) to have strength and joy inspite of all sadness

Q48. Why according to the poet 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

Q49. What is the meaning of ‘Some shape of beauty’?

(a) beauty has no shape

(b) beauty is abstract

(c) beautiful object that gives happiness

(d) All

Q50. What does the gloomy mean?

(a) all the unhealthy things

(b) dark spirits

(c) dull and depressive

(d) none