A Psalm of Life (MCQ)


1. Who is the poet of “A Psalm of Life”?
A) William Wordsworth
B) Robert Frost
C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D) John Keats
✅ Answer: C

2. What does the speaker reject in the first stanza?
A) Joyful life
B) Life as an empty dream
C) Hard work
D) Religion
✅ Answer: B

3. “Life is real! Life is earnest!” means:
A) Life is imaginary
B) Life is serious and meaningful
C) Life is boring
D) Life is short
✅ Answer: B

4. According to the poem, what is NOT the goal of life?
A) Happiness
B) Death (grave)
C) Work
D) Progress
✅ Answer: B

5. “Dust thou art, to dust returnest” refers to:
A) The soul
B) The body
C) Nature
D) Time
✅ Answer: B

6. What is the main aim of life according to the poet?
A) Enjoyment
B) Sorrow
C) Action and progress
D) Rest
✅ Answer: C

7. “Art is long, and Time is fleeting” suggests:
A) Art is short
B) Time is endless
C) Art lasts long but time passes quickly
D) Time stops
✅ Answer: C

8. The heartbeats are compared to:
A) Music
B) Bells
C) Muffled drums
D) Thunder
✅ Answer: C

9. What do the “funeral marches” symbolize?
A) Celebration
B) Life moving toward death
C) Happiness
D) War
✅ Answer: B

10. Life is compared to a:
A) Game
B) Battle
C) Dream
D) Journey only
✅ Answer: B

11. “Be not like dumb, driven cattle” means:
A) Be lazy
B) Be passive and obedient
C) Do not be passive or unthinking
D) Follow others blindly
✅ Answer: C

12. What should a person be in life?
A) A follower
B) A hero
C) A servant
D) A king
✅ Answer: B

13. What does the poet say about the future?
A) Trust it completely
B) Ignore it
C) Do not depend on it blindly
D) Fear it
✅ Answer: C

14. “Let the dead Past bury its dead” means:
A) Forget the past
B) Remember the past always
C) Live in the past
D) Study history
✅ Answer: A

15. What is emphasized in the present?
A) Thinking
B) Acting
C) Sleeping
D) Waiting
✅ Answer: B

16. “Heart within, and God o’erhead” suggests:
A) Fear
B) Confidence and faith
C) Doubt
D) Weakness
✅ Answer: B

17. Great men inspire us to:
A) Sleep
B) Be lazy
C) Make our lives noble
D) Follow blindly
✅ Answer: C

18. What do “footprints on the sands of time” symbolize?
A) Wealth
B) Achievements and legacy
C) Failures
D) Travel
✅ Answer: B

19. Who may benefit from these footprints?
A) Kings
B) A lost or hopeless person
C) Teachers
D) Soldiers
✅ Answer: B

20. “Sailing o’er life’s solemn main” refers to:
A) Traveling by sea
B) Life’s serious journey
C) War
D) Adventure only
✅ Answer: B

21. The “shipwrecked brother” represents:
A) A sailor
B) A defeated or discouraged person
C) A hero
D) A poet
✅ Answer: B

22. What should we do in life?
A) Sleep
B) Wait only
C) Be active and work
D) Dream only
✅ Answer: C

23. “With a heart for any fate” means:
A) Fear fate
B) Accept all situations bravely
C) Avoid fate
D) Change fate
✅ Answer: B

24. “Still achieving, still pursuing” suggests:
A) Stop working
B) Keep trying continuously
C) Rest
D) Give up
✅ Answer: B

25. What should we learn?
A) To rest
B) To enjoy
C) To labor and wait
D) To dream
✅ Answer: C

26. The tone of the poem is:
A) Sad
B) Romantic
C) Motivational
D) Humorous
✅ Answer: C

27. The poem encourages:
A) Laziness
B) Action and courage
C) Fear
D) Silence
✅ Answer: B

28. What kind of poem is this?
A) Narrative
B) Didactic (teaching)
C) Lyric only
D) Epic
✅ Answer: B

29. The poem mainly teaches:
A) Death is everything
B) Life is meaningless
C) Life is meaningful and requires action
D) Sleep more
✅ Answer: C

30. The message of the poem is:
A) Enjoy life only
B) Work hard, be brave, and live meaningfully
C) Avoid struggle
D) Depend on others
✅ Answer: B



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