Test: A Thing of Beauty- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Class 12 MCQ

Such the Sun, the Moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon. For simple sheep; and such are daffodils with the green world they live in; and clear rills. That for themselves a cooling covert make ‘Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake. Rich with the sprinkling of fair musk–rose blooms’

Q. Which phrase in the lines uses imagery as figure of speech?

Such the Sun, the Moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon. For simple sheep; and such are daffodils with the green world they live in; and clear rills. That for themselves a cooling covert make ‘Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake. Rich with the sprinkling of fair musk–rose blooms’

Q. Who is the poet of these lines?

Such the Sun, the Moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon. For simple sheep; and such are daffodils with the green world they live in; and clear rills. That for themselves a cooling covert make ‘Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake. Rich with the sprinkling of fair musk–rose blooms’

Q. How has the mid-forest brake become rich?

Its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness; but will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Q. Identify the phrase which says ‘it‘ is immortal.

Its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness; but will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Q. Why do we need sweet dreams, health and quiet breathing in our lives?

Its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness; but will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Q. Whose loveliness will keep on increasing?

Its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness; but will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Q. What is a ‘bower‘?

In spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth of noble natures, of the gloomy days, of all the unhealthy and o’er–darkened ways made for our searching : ‘yes, in spite of all, some shape of beauty moves away the pall from our dark spirits.’

Q. Why are we ‘despondent‘?

In spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth of noble natures, of the gloomy days, of all the unhealthy and o’er–darkened ways made for our searching : ‘yes, in spite of all, some shape of beauty moves away the pall from our dark spirits.’

Q. What does ‘inhuman dearth of noble natures‘ mean?

In spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth of noble natures, of the gloomy days, of all the unhealthy and o’er–darkened ways made for our searching : ‘yes, in spite of all, some shape of beauty moves away the pall from our dark spirits.’

Q. From which poem have these lines been taken?

And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead; All lovely tales that we have heard or read; An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink.

Q. Which word in the lines means ‘stories‘?

And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead; All lovely tales that we have heard or read; An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink.

Q. Which poetic device has been used in the lines ‘An endless––––––––– heavens brink‘?