A Psalm of Life | Multiple Choice Question | MCQ | +2 2nd Year | CHSE Odisha

 A Psalm of Life

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Multiple Choice Question and Answer

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1. What is Psalm?

a. A story
b. An instruction
c. A way of life
d. A hymn

2. Who does the poet address in the opening lines of the poem "A Psalm of life"?

a. The readers
b. His friends
c. Those who say life is unreal
d. Those who mourn

3. Who say in mournful numbers that life is but an empty dream?

a. Psalmist
b. Poets
c. Churches
d. Some people

4. How is a soul that is inactive?

a. Sluggish
b. Slow
c. Dead
d. Useless

5. According to the poet, things are not _________.

a. what they look
b. what they seem
c. how they feel
d. how they act

6. How is life?

a. Real and earnest
b. Real and adventurous
c. Real and full of suffering
d. Real and joyous

7. What is not the aim of life?

a. Earning money
b. Living like a dead man
c. Death
5. Working like a donkey

8. What is not life's goal?

a. Riches
b. Power
c. Religion
d. Grave

9. What does biblical expression "Dust thou art, to dust thou returnest" signify?

a. Human body is made of dust
b. Man is mortal
c. Man can live through good deeds
d. Man will lie in the earth after death

10. What is said for only the body and not for the soul?

a. Dust thou art, to dust thou returnest
b. And grave is not its goal
c. And things are not what they seem
d. Art is long and time is fleeting

11. How should a soul be?

a. Free from wordly desires
b. Full of life
c. Full of energy
d. Lost in religion

12. What shouldn't be our destines way or goal?

a. Earnest living
b. Fruitful life
c. Pleasure and grief
d. Future

13. How should a man act

a. To make his future better
b. To make his life better
c. To make his earnings useful
d. To lead a healthy life

14. tomorrowHow should be each ?

a. Better than yesterday
b. Better than today
c. Far away from today
d. Far away from yesterday

15. What is long?

a. Knowledge and Learning
b. Human evolution
c. Human history
d. Human art and craft

16. What does "Art is long, and Time is fleeting" imply?

a. Time is flying and art is very long to complete
b. Life is short to acquire enough knowledge
c. Human genius lasts long but time doesn't
d. Creative and learning are matters of time

17. How are our hearts?

a. Scared and shy
b. Brave and cheerful
c. Stout and brave
d. Stout and cheerful

18. What do you understand by "muffled drums"?

a. Gentle drums
b. Covered drums
c. Silent drums
d. Big drums

19. Why are heart beats compared to funeral marches?

a. Because they make similar sound
b. Because they remind us of death
c. Because with each beat, they inch us towards death
d. Because they tell us that we will die when they stop

20. What are the sounds of the beating heart compared to?

a. Funeral marches
b. War marches
c. War songs
d. Funeral hymnal

21. What does the poet compare the world with?

a. A great battle
b. a broad battlefield
c. A big graveyard
d. A temporary camp

22. What does the poet say about life?

a. A temporary camp b. A beautiful tale
c. A never-ending dream d. A fierce war

23. What does the word "bivouac" mean?

a. A psalm
b. A war
c. A catastrophe
d. A temporary camp

24. How should we be in the battle of life?

a. Sober
b. A hero
c. A legend
d. Like cattle

25. Who are dumb driven cattle?

a. Those who fight
b. Those who act sensibly
c. Those who don't act
d. Those who don't care for others

26. Which of the following means "conflict"?

a. Battle
b. Bivouac
c. Strife
d. Stride

27. What should we never trust?

a. Past
b. Present
c. Future
d. Life

28. The poet advises us not to trust _________ however pleasant or positive it may seem.

a. future
b. past
c. present
d. promises

29. What should we keep buried?

a. Future
b. Good deed
c. Selfish desires
d. Past

30. The poet advises us not to dwell in the _______.

a. day dreams
b. past
c. future
d. present

31. What should we do?

a. Live in the present
b. Believe in God
c. Trust no future
d. All of the above

32. Why should we live in the present?

a. Because this is what is correct
b. Because it will make the God happy
c. Because we have control over our past
d. Because we cannot change our future

33. What do lives of great men remind us?

a. How we can live in present
b. How not to dwell in the past
c. We can make our lives noble
d. We can be heroes of the battle

34. What do we leave behind when we die?

a. Our good deeds
b. Our past
c. Our mark
d. Our riches

35. Where do we leave our footprints?

a. On the sands
b. On time
c. In the history
d. Quicksand

36. Whom will our sublime lives inspire?

a. Those who progress on the path of sublimity
b. Those who live in present
c. Those who make their future good
d. Those who strive to success

37. Lives of great men also inspire those who have failed in life and feel ______.

a. hopeless
b. lost in the ocean of life
c. motivated
d. wrecked

38. How would the lives of noble men help those in distress?

a. By calming them
b. By showing them good future
c. By inspiring and making them optimistic
d. By telling them motivating tales

39. What does "With a heart for any fate" mean?

a. Ready to face any situation
b. Ready wholeheartedly
c. Ready to lead a hearty life
d. Ready for future

40. What does the poet advice the readers?

a. To work and progress
b. To labor and have patience
c. To learn and prosper
d. Have a fearless heart

41. What is fleeting?

a. Life
b. Time
c. Noble deeds
d. Death

42. What does "Still achieving, still pursuing" mean?

a. Continuously making progress and seeking improvement
b. Leading a successful and inspiring life
c. Never submit and fighting continuously
d. Always achieving and pursuing

43. Henry Wardsworth Longfellow is a/an ________ poet.

a. English
b. American
c. Irish
d. Scottish

44. Longfellow is the first American citizen to be honoured in ________ in London, England.

a. Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey
b. Literature
c. Noble literate
d. Poet's Foundation of Westminster Abbey

45. "A Psalm of Life" belongs to the genre of poetry called ________.

a. Capre Dein
b. Nobility
c. Capre Diem
d. Inspirational poems

46. "Carpe Diem" means ________.

a. Seize the day
b. Live long
c. Live noble
d. Live in the moment

47. What does "earnest" mean?

a. Sincere
b. Serious
c. Critiical
d. Vital

48. What does "a forlorn and shipwrecke brother mean"?

a. One who has failed in life
b. One who is distressed at his own moral
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. One who is deserted on a shipwreck

49. What does "Take heart again" imply?

a. Find courage to overcame difficulties
b. Be inspired
c. Be happy
d. Be optimistic

50. Which word in the poem "A Psalm of Life" means "Ocean"?

a. Solemn
b. Shipwreck
c. Main
d. Broad

51. "A Psalm of Life" means ______.

a. a story of life
b. a song of life
c. a journey of life
d. Some facts about life

52. "Life is earnest" means ________.

a. life is true b. life is beautiful
c. life is serious d. life is useless

53. "Dust you art" means ________.

a. you are dust
b. life is created from dust
c. life is useless
d. life is temporary

54. According to the poet, the soul is ________.

a. permanent
b. temporary
c. boring
d. created from dust

55. Future should not be trusted because _________.

a. it is not pleasant
b. it is uncertain
c. it is dead
d. it looks beautiful

56. Present should be trusted because _______.

a. it is not dead
b. it is real
c. earnest
d. it is living

57. "Foot prints" means _______.

a. good examples
b. departing the world
c. working hard
d. be humble

58. "A forlorn and ship wrecked brother" means ______.

a. a man failed in life
b. a man in distress
c. a man harassed in life
d. All of the above

59. "Learn to labour and to wait" means ________.

a. for sleep
b. for result of an action
c. for peace
d. for praise

60. Past should not be trusted because ________.

a. it is dead.
b. it is uncertain
c. it gives pain
d. it looks dark