Class 12 English Poetry Ch-5 An Epitaph MCQs Exam 2027

Topic 1: About the Poet (Walter de la Mare)

1. Walter de la Mare was born in the year— [BSEB, 2019A, 2020A]

   (A) 1853

   (B) 1867

   (C) 1873

   (D) 1889

2. Walter de la Mare belonged to the …… century. [BSEB, 2023A]

   (A) 19th

   (B) 20th

   (C) 18th

   (D) 17th

3. Walter de la Mare received the ‘Order of Merit’ in the year ……… .

   (A) 1951

   (B) 1952

   (C) 1953

   (D) 1954

4. Walter de la Mare received the ‘Order of Merit’ from —

   (A) Queen Elizabeth II

   (B) Queen Victoria

   (C) King George V

   (D) Queen Elizabeth I

5. ….. was honoured with the order of Merit in 1953. [BSEB, 2022A]

   (A) John Donne

   (B) William Wordsworth

   (C) Walter de la Mare

   (D) Percy Bysshe Shelley

6. Walter de la Mare lost his father at the age of —

   (A) four

   (B) five

   (C) six

   (D) seven

7. Walter de la Mare was born in the village of ……… in Kent, England.

   (A) Charlton

   (B) Hyde Park

   (C) Buckingham

   (D) Oxford

8. Walter de la Mare is known as a ……… poet.

   (A) War

   (B) Children’s

   (C) Nature

   (D) Metaphysical

9. ……… wrote a number of children-poems. [BSEB, 2025A]

   (A) T.S. Eliot

   (B) W.B. Yeats

   (C) D.H. Lawrence

   (D) Walter de la Mare

10. In Walter de la Mare’s songs, there is a note of:

    (A) surprise

    (B) excitement

    (C) melancholy

    (D) hope

11. Walter de la Mare’s works often show a world of ……… .

    (A) reality

    (B) dreams and imagination

    (C) politics

    (D) war

12. Walter de la Mare makes us aware of the— [BSEB, 2019A, 2020A]

    (A) inhuman conditions of modern life

    (B) poverty

    (C) dreams

    (D) London life

13. Which of the following is a famous work by Walter de la Mare?

    (A) Songs for Children

    (B) Leaves of Grass

    (C) The Waste Land

    (D) Lyrical Ballads

14. Walter de la Mare has written the poem —

    (A) The soldier

    (B) Fire-Hymn

    (C) Snake

    (D) An Epitaph

15. Walter de la Mare was a famous ……… poet.

    (A) Victorian

    (B) Modern

    (C) Romantic

    (D) Elizabethan

Topic 2: Poem Content & Important Lines

16. The lady mentioned in the poem belonged to the —

    (A) North Country

    (B) East Country

    (C) West Country

    (D) South Country

17. Who was the ‘Light of step and heart’?

    (A) a beautiful lady

    (B) an old man

    (C) a small child

    (D) a beggar

18. The lady, who is died, lies in the —

    (A) garden

    (B) grave

    (C) field

    (D) house

19. The line, ‘I think she was the most beautiful lady’ is from—

    (A) Snake

    (B) Fire Hymn

    (C) To Autumn

    (D) An Epitaph

20. “And when I crumble, who will remember this lady of the West Country?” — is taken from: [BSEB, 2024A]

    (A) Fire-Hymn

    (B) The Soldier

    (C) An Epitaph

    (D) Ode to Autumn

21. ‘However, rare-rare it be; And when I crumble ………’ is taken from—

    (A) Fire-Hymn

    (B) Ode to Autumn

    (C) Snake

    (D) An Epitaph

22. ‘Light of step and heart was she’ is taken from—

    (A) Fire-Hymn

    (B) Snake

    (C) An Epitaph

    (D) The soldier

23. The poet thinks that the lady was the most ……… lady ever born.

    (A) cruel

    (B) beautiful

    (C) ugly

    (D) smart

24. In which poem does the poet express his sad feeling for a beautiful lady? [BSEB, 2021A]

    (A) To Autumn

    (B) The Soldier

    (C) An Epitaph

    (D) Fire-Hymn

25. “And when I crumble, who will remember” is written by:

    (A) John Keats

    (B) John Donne

    (C) Rupert Brooke

    (D) Walter de la Mare

26. The poet feels that after his death, nobody will ……… the lady.

    (A) love

    (B) hate

    (C) remember

    (D) forget

27. Walter de la Mare Knew a ……… who is now dead.

    (A) girl

    (B) lady

    (C) boy

    (D) None of these

28. The lady mentioned in ‘An Epitaph’ lies in a ……… .

    (A) garden

    (B) house

    (C) grave

    (D) park

29. The poet expresses his sad feeling for a lady who is now ……… .

    (A) alive

    (B) dead

    (C) young

    (D) sleeping

30. “An Epitaph” is a poem about a lady who is ……… .

    (A) forgotten by the world

    (B) famous everywhere

    (C) still alive

    (D) a queen

31. In the line ‘I think she was the most beautiful lady’, ‘I’ stands for —

    (A) The Lady

    (B) The Poet

    (C) A Child

    (D) A Stranger

32. Who will remember the lady when the poet dies?

    (A) Her family

    (B) The world

    (C) Nobody

    (D) Her friends

33. The lady of the West Country was very ……… .

    (A) Cruel

    (B) Beautiful

    (C) Ugly

    (D) Rich

Topic 3: Themes, Vocabulary & Meaning

34. The poet suggests that physical beauty is —

    (A) permanent

    (B) rare

    (C) short-lived/transitory

    (D) everlasting

35. In the poem ‘An Epitaph’, ‘vanishes’ means —

    (A) appears

    (B) dies/disappears

    (C) lives

    (D) shines

36. “But beauty vanishes; beauty passes” — Here ‘passes’ implies —

    (A) moves

    (B) ends/fades

    (C) stays

    (D) grows

37. “And when I crumble, who will remember this lady of the West Country?” — In this line, ‘crumble’ means — [BSEB, 2018A]

    (A) to die

    (B) to live

    (C) to walk

    (D) to sleep

38. What is an ‘Epitaph’?

    (A) a song for the dead

    (B) an inscription on a tomb

    (C) a praise for a king

    (D) a story about a lady

39. The tone of the poem ‘An Epitaph’ is —

    (A) Joyful

    (B) Humorous

    (C) Melancholy (Sad)

    (D) Aggressive

40. According to the poet, beauty is ……… .

    (A) eternal

    (B) short-lived

    (C) useless

    (D) never-ending

41. The poet thinks that ……… is not everlasting.

    (A) beauty

    (B) cruelty

    (C) ugliness

    (D) love

42. ‘Light of step and heart was she’ means —

    (A) She was heavy

    (B) She had no commitment or habit of moving here and there

    (C) She was a fast runner

    (D) She was very active

43. The poem ‘An Epitaph’ deals with the ……… of beauty.

    (A) Stability

    (B) Transitoriness

    (C) Growth

    (D) Creation

44. An ‘Epitaph’ is written in memory of a …………… .

    (A) Dead person

    (B) King

    (C) Soldier

    (D) Child

45. Who wrote the piece, ‘Why I am Not a Christian?’? [2021A, I.Sc.]

    (A) Bertrand Russell

    (B) Shiga Naoya

    (C) Dorothy L. Sayers

    (D) Pearl S. Buck

46. The poet feels that beauty is ……… .

    (A) Permanent

    (B) Transitory (not eternal)

    (C) Ugly

    (D) Common

47. Walter de la Mare makes us aware of the ……… conditions of modern life.

    (A) Inhuman

    (B) Peaceful

    (C) Religious

    (D) Ethical

48. In the poem, the poet expresses his ……… feelings for a lady.

    (A) Sad

    (B) Happy

    (C) Angry

    (D) Funny

49. ‘However, rare-rare it be’ implies that beauty is ……… .

    (A) Common

    (B) Exceedingly uncommon

    (C) Cheap

    (D) Everywhere

50. The word ‘Crumble’ in the poem refers to the poet’s ……… .

    (A) Failure

    (B) Death

    (C) Falling down

    (D) Old age

51. The poet believes that when he dies, the lady will be ……… .

    (A) Resurrected

    (B) Forgotten

    (C) Famous

    (D) Mourned by everyone

52. The lady mentioned lived in the ……… .

    (A) North

    (B) South

    (C) East

    (D) West

53. Walter de la Mare’s poetry is often described as having a note of ……… .

    (A) Optimism

    (B) Pessimism/Melancholy

    (C) Satire

    (D) Romance

54. The poet says ‘I think she was the most beautiful lady’ to show his ……… .

    (A) Dislike

    (B) Admiration

    (C) Indifference

    (D) Anger

55. The poet implies that mental qualities are more ……… than physical beauty.

    (A) Permanent

    (B) Short-lived

    (C) Useless

    (D) Transitory