A Thing of Beauty — Class 12 MCQs with Answers
Class 12 CBSE English · Chapter 11
20 practice questions · 20 Medium · Updated
Practise the most important Class 12 CBSE English questions from Chapter 11, "A Thing of Beauty". You get 2 timed quizzes made from 20 NCERT-based MCQs, with answers and explanations. The questions are split into 20 Medium. Warm up on the basics, then move on to the exam-level questions that top scorers in CBSE Board exams get right.
To score well in "A Thing of Beauty", focus on comprehension, grammar and writing skills. Each MCQ here is timed and uses exam-style marking (+4 correct, −1 wrong, 0 skipped). This helps you stay accurate when time is short, just as real papers need. Every question has a short explanation, so a wrong answer becomes a quick lesson. It is the fastest way to fix gaps before a test.
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A Thing of Beauty — important questions & MCQs with answers (Class 12 English)
1 solved question from this chapter's difficulty levels, each with its answer and explanation. Tap an option to check yourself.
- Q1Medium
Which of these does the poet list among the things that cause suffering?
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Answer: The dearth of noble natures
Explanation: The poem names 'the inhuman dearth / Of noble natures' — a scarcity of good people — among our sorrows.
Key concepts: A Thing of Beauty (Class 12 English)
An excerpt from Keats' 'Endymion: A Poetic Romance', built on one claim — that beauty is permanent and restorative — and then proved by a catalogue of ordinary beautiful things. The poem moves from statement, to the sufferings beauty works against, to the list itself, closing on an image of endless supply.
- Keats and the source
- John Keats (1795-1821), a British Romantic poet trained as a surgeon who gave himself wholly to poetry. The passage is an excerpt from 'Endymion: A Poetic Romance'.
- The Endymion legend
- Endymion, a beautiful young shepherd and poet living on Mount Latmos, has a vision of Cynthia, the Moon Goddess, and wanders away through the forest and down under the sea to seek her.
- The opening claim
- 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever / Its loveliness increases, it will never / Pass into nothingness.' Beauty does not merely last — it grows.
- What beauty gives us
- 'A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing' — rest, health and calm, not just pleasure.
- The flowery band
- 'on every morrow, are we wreathing / A flowery band to bind us to the earth.' Beauty is what ties us to life; the wreathing is renewed every single day.
- The catalogue of sufferings
- Despondence, 'the inhuman dearth / Of noble natures', gloomy days, and 'all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways / Made for our searching'.
- Moving away the pall
- 'Some shape of beauty moves away the pall / From our dark spirits.' A pall is the cloth over a coffin — the image is of gloom lifted like a covering.
- The things of beauty
- The sun; the moon; old and young trees 'sprouting a shady boon / For simple sheep'; daffodils with their green world; clear rills making 'a cooling covert' against the hot season; the mid forest brake rich with musk-rose blooms.
- Beauty that is not natural
- 'the grandeur of the dooms / We have imagined for the mighty dead' and 'All lovely tales that we have heard or read' — imagination and story are named alongside sun and moon.
- Glossary from the text
- 'rills' = small streams. 'brake' = a thick mass of ferns. Both are glossed in the NCERT text itself.
- The closing image
- 'An endless fountain of immortal drink, / Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink' — beauty as inexhaustible and divine in origin.
- Craft
- Rhyming couplets with consistent line length, and a balanced parallel structure — 'Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, / Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways'.
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What are the key concepts in Class 12 English A Thing of Beauty?+
An excerpt from Keats' 'Endymion: A Poetic Romance', built on one claim — that beauty is permanent and restorative — and then proved by a catalogue of ordinary beautiful things. The poem moves from statement, to the sufferings beauty works against, to the list itself, closing on an image of endless supply. Key ideas include Keats and the source, The Endymion legend, The opening claim, What beauty gives us, The flowery band, The catalogue of sufferings.
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It has 20 NCERT-based MCQs on "A Thing of Beauty": 20 Medium. Together they make 2 timed quizzes, and you never get the same set twice. Every question has an instant explanation. They help you prepare for CBSE Board exams.
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Start with the Easy quiz to check your basics, then try Medium to practise applying them. There are 2 timed quizzes on this chapter, so you can come back for a fresh set instead of one you have seen. Read each explanation, retry the questions you miss, and track your accuracy until it stays high.
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Yes. The timed quizzes use exam-style marking: +4 for a right answer, −1 for a wrong one and 0 for a skip. MHT-CET and CBSE board papers have no negative marking. Our mocks for those are scored their way.
What are the important questions from A Thing of Beauty (Class 12 English)?+
The questions that matter most test Keats and the source, The Endymion legend, The opening claim, What beauty gives us, The flowery band, The catalogue of sufferings. This page shows 1 solved important MCQs with answers and explanations. Sign in to practise all 20 questions on the chapter as timed quizzes.
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Yes — Class 12 English A Thing of Beauty has timed online quizzes at Medium levels, with instant scoring and a worked explanation on every question. The first quiz on the chapter is free.