NCERT English Class 12 | Chapter 12 | A Thing of Beauty | MCQs |

1. Where does the ‘endless fountain’ get its immortal drink from?

A. The river banks

B. The tap

C. The waterfall

D. Heaven’s brink

Answer: (D) Heaven’s brink


2. What are we all doing every morning?

A. Brushing our teeth

B. Having breakfast

C. Wreathing a flowery band

D. Getting ready to go to work

Answer: (C) Wreathing a flowery band.


3. As per the poet, a thing of beauty is

A. Never joyful

B. Creates sadness

C. A joy forever

D. Horrible to look at

Answer: (C) A joy forever


4. What’s inhuman in life?

A. Human inside a river

B. Human inside caves

C. Human on trees

D. Self-centred tendency and inability to rise above shallow circles

Answer: (D) Self-centred tendency and inability to rise above shallow circles.


5. Endymion is

A. A worker

B. An office boy

C. A young child

D. A young shepherd

Answer: (D) A young shepherd.


6. The poet and Endymion lived

A. In a hut

B. On a hill

C. In a tree house

D. On mount Litmos

Answer: (D) On mount Litmos.


7. The poet talks about ‘grandeur’. Whose grandeur, is it?

A. Dooms of mighty dead

B. Tombs of our ancestors

C. Grand palaces

D. Grand towers

Answer: (A) Dooms of mighty dead.


8. ‘Sheep’ might also be a reference to

A. Mountainous animals

B. Human beings

C. Harmless creatures

D. Animals of prey

Answer: (B) Human beings


9. The message of the poem is

A. Beauty never fades

B. Beauty lifts spirits high

C. Beauty is a joy forever

D. All these

Answer: (D) All these.


10. When we are grief stricken, how does beauty help us?

A. By giving a ray of hope

B. Sprouting a shady boon

C. By giving daffodils

D. None

Answer: (A) By giving a ray of hope.


11. The effect of immortal drink is that

A. No one is thirsty

B. Everyone is happy

C. Immense joy and happiness

D. Beauty never moves away

Answer: (C) Immense joy and happiness.


12. The things that cause suffering to human beings are

A. Lack of virtues and inhuman acts

B. Withering flowers

C. Blooming flowers

D. Flowing streams

Answer: (D) Flowing streams.


13. What are the ‘Clear rills’?

A. Clean windows

B. Streams of clear water

C. Clear thoughts

D. Clear solutions

Answer: (B) Streams of clear water.


14. What do you understand by ‘sprout a shady boon for sheep’?

A. Human beings

B. Creepers

C. Trees new and young

D. Trees old and young

Answer: (D) Trees old and young.


15. Who is the poet of A thing Of Beauty?

A. John Donne

B. William Blakes

C. William Wordsworth

D. John Keats

Answer: (D) John Keats


16. Our spirits referred as dark because of

A. Dark clouds

B. Spirits around

C. Shady trees

D. Sadness and disappointments

Answer: (D) Sadness and disappointments.


17. Select 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

Answer: (A) Tales and grandeur.


18. The antonym of the word 'mighty' is

A. Enormous

B. Insignificant

C. Never dying

D. Immortal

Answer: (B) Insignificant


1. The Last Lesson MCQs

2. Lost Spring MCQs

3. Deep Water MCQs

4. The Rattrap MCQs

5. Indigo MCQs

6. Poets and Pancakes MCQs

7. The Interview MCQs

8. Going Places MCQs

9. My Mother  at Sixty-six MCQs

10. An Elementary School  Classroom in a Slum MCQs

11. Keeping Quiet MCQs

12. A Thing of Beauty MCQs

13. A Roadside Stand MCQs

14. Aunt Jennifer's Tigers MCQs

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